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Give me back the metric system!

January 23rd, 2011 by Melaneum

After living in the US for 3 months, I still don’t get it: how is it possible that this country is still not using the metric system? According to wikipedia US is among only 3 countries in the world where this is not the official system of measurement. The other two are Burma and Liberia. No comment.

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Open source, licenses, patents et cetera

April 19th, 2010 by Melaneum

Recently, I got more interested in the subtleties of different open source licenses. Luis Ibáñez pointed be to some books about that.

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Perfection

September 18th, 2009 by Melaneum

Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n’y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n’y a plus rien à retrancher.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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