It was ubiquitous, everybody had a minitel at home since it was provided for free by France Télécom.
The white/yellow page service (3611) was free for the first three minutes and was widely used. My parents never had the (huge) yearly book version at home.
As mentioned in other comments it was also widely used to consult Baccalauréat (national exam like SAT) results.
The Wikipedia page on Holocaust victims (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims) has a list of the different groups targeted by the nazis.
In addition to what other commenters have written there was also: freemasons, spanish republicans from the 36 revolution, soviet prisoner of wars, slovene and romani.
Interesting to note that nazis killed as much ethnic poles as polish jews.
Some strange data appears on this site, the second most popular for the full-frame D600 is a 2004 DX (notably bad) lens. No mentally sane person would ever commit such as sacrilege.
Didn't go further to investigate but this puts a serious doubt on the representativity of the data.
Don't want to be the naysayer here, but this project is yet another 'I made smth already exisiting but with node.js and the original is still largely better'.
I think there are more interesting open source projects that should hit the HN frontpage. So let's start with this one, that computes Wikipedia Pagerank on a single node in less than 30 minutes :
https://www.nayuki.io/page/computing-wikipedias-internal-pag...
I'm not a lol player, but I'm amazed to see a similar bug that existed on early versions of Battle.net 15 years ago. However this didn't had many impact since we played top vs bottom with game assigned positions (starcraft).
Couldn't agree more. For universities, it is the dictature of the accountants. Every penny spent must be checked by an almost infinite hierarchy of accountants/manager who have no experience of the core tasks of a university (teaching/research).
More precisely, I don't know if the hierarchy is finite or not, or if there is a termination problem in the process. Sometimes penny checking finishes, sometimes not.
Sorry for using monkey coders term, just took it back from the original comment. My comment was not meant to be elitist at all. I know that Epitech/Epita produces lot of great coders, no problem with that.
The thing is that the french system lacks a proper CS education.
"Grandes Ecoles" has the best student but offers pretty limited courses in CS (except maybe TPT, not that sure) and not that much coding experience. Universities are the only offering deep theory education and sometimes good coding experience but their degree are not well recognized so they don't attract good students. As a consequence private schools try to fill the gap by offering a great education in programming, however lacking the CS foundation.
In my opinion the goal (as with Epita/Epitech) is to produce monkey coders. What is at least sure, is that these school give a very limited background in cs theory, which is very difficult to overcome to go beyond the monkey coder stage.
Because of the shortage of coders, big french consulting companies (Atos, Cap Gemini, ...) hire since decades graduates from every domain more or less related to science/technology and give them a six months training (in the best case) before sending them to the clients.
So I'm not that surprised that such a school will be successful as long there is a coder shortage. When the next bubble blows, these graduates will probably be the first to be layed off.
Couldn't agree much. Every time there is some advance in so called "AI", killer robot and others strike back.
These are just advances in doing things human can do, i.e. recognizing in pictures, driving a car. Deep learning is known since long, calculation were just too long.
Fundamentally nothing has changed, we're not closer to an "intelligent machine".
SIGMOD made an interesting move this year by accepting all papers reaching its standards. However not every paper will be given a presentation slot during the conference.
The white/yellow page service (3611) was free for the first three minutes and was widely used. My parents never had the (huge) yearly book version at home.
As mentioned in other comments it was also widely used to consult Baccalauréat (national exam like SAT) results.