Pingdom troll

Il y a peu j'ai déménagé mon petit serveur de online.net (dedibox) vers OVH (kimsufi)... Je constate juste qu'en moyenne pour Pingdom, OVH a des temps de réponse un peu meilleurs ; ce qui est bien. :)

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Laziness, impatience, and hubris

Those are the free “virtues” of the programmer according to a well known book on the Perl programming language... Let's see what happens when I consider those virtues out of the computer context.

I know for a fact that I am lazy, pushing things to the last minute, and that is quite embarrassing sometimes. Procrastination is the word, it's become very popular among so-called geeks, and personal coaches.

I'm not sure if I am very much impatient, although I get easily bored at things, ideas, or people after a while. Most of the time in a very polite and quiet way ; meaning that if I can walk away I will, but I'm not in a hurry if I can daydream. Daydreaming is good, please do so, it's when you get your best/worse ideas. Like: hey, it's been a long time, let's blog!

Finally hubris... Now that's hard to admit. I'm sure I can be proud of stuff I made, but if you ask me to pick an example, then I can't... yet? The fact is (I hope) I'm just as much a human being as you are, then given a functional brain and some time anyone could come up with the same sh*t I did ; so why should I be proud of that? The only pride I take is in managing not to bother anyone (not easy).

That being said, hubris is also about self-confidence: a quality that I was born without. Damn.

Next time, we'll see three other qualities: “attention to details”, “thirst for blood”, and a “twisted mind”, the three virtues of the psychopath. Thank you for your time.

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Bear with me for a second.

update: There we are.

I'm with stupid

Note for later : you do not run freebsd-update install through ssh outside of screen. That is, unless you want to re-buildworld by hand after your ssh connection dies because of some untimely ACPI interrupt.

Ah si j'avais un Banier...

(...)Stéphane Guillon ou Didier Porte, lequel rejoindra Mediapart à la rentrée de septembre, auraient ainsi pu proposer que l'on ne compte plus désormais en milliard d'euros mais en «Banier», puisqu'il semble entendu que François-Marie Banier, par son seul talent courtisan, a bénéficié des largesses de Liliane Bettencourt pour un montant avoisinant le milliard. Dès lors, les 40 milliards de déficit des retraites, ce chiffre sur lequel le gouvernement a construit sa stratégie de la peur devant le futur, ne vaudraient plus que 40 « Banier », somme soudain à portée humaine d'une politique vigoureusement sociale.

Source: Mediapart <3

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i18n-ed

Apparently, when you start blogging stuff in english, you get a ton more comment-spam from bots.

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