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by NhanH 11y ago
Heroes of the Storm is nowhere near the popularity of Dota or Dota 2 yet, let alone the leading game in the genre (League of Legends). And it's still too early to say anything about Overwatch. I wholeheartedly agree that Blizzard has n
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by NhanH 11y ago
The statement that you quote does not seem to say the same things as your interpretation (it didn't say "only").
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It's some combination of survivor bias and sampling bias: people who are reasonably "rebellious" (in the good sense of the word) and ambitious are more likely moved to US in the first place, and successful people are of cours
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I think that's exactly the point I was trying to make. I know that whether something is dangerous or not depends entirely on the concentration, and/or the form of it (ie solid metal lead isn't too scary, any type of its compo
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by NhanH 11y ago
On the topic of chemical, how do you know if something is dangerous -- in the context of household item? Even with the MSDS and/or knowledge of the compositions, layman doesn't really have any sense on how dangerous something is (
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by NhanH 11y ago
> True, that is a good selling point -- in theory. Indeed BEAM's process isolation is better than the JVM's on paper. In practice, so many Erlang systems have so much C in them (because Erlang isn't fast enough for the dat
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by NhanH 11y ago
You're supposed to normalize the value of your range on all dimensions so that they are the same numerical magnitude/range (as the simplest normalization). The issue is definitely not specific to clustering, you would have the sam
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by NhanH 11y ago
Location: CA, US Remote: I'm looking for remote ONLY. Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Clojure, Java, PHP with the appropriate ecosystem for each languages. Also the usual SQL, redis, activeMQ etc. stuffs. Résumé/CV:
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by NhanH 11y ago
Rant time: I'm #1 engineering hire in the current startup I'm at for the past 2 years. I know more than half a dozen programming languages (ie I can read them, and reasonably tell if you're doing something horrific to the cod
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The article is pretty light on the exact mechanical execution of what "Uber of air travel" means. I'm also under the impression that unlike taxi and hotels, airlines actually operate with razor-thin marhin. And unless one has
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by NhanH 11y ago
Related essay from PG: http://www.paulgraham.com/todo.html . Quote from said essay: > So I inverted the 5 regrets, yielding a list of 5 commands: Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you thi
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by NhanH 11y ago
I'm Asian :-). Why are you asking?
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I used vim for a few years before switching to emacs. I don't think there is a definite reason, just multiple of small ones: - Vim script is ... very awkward to use, to say the least. - For any reason I'm not sure of, Emacs plugin
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That's an odd sentiment. Walmart is more distributed just because Sam Walton was dead. As the time he was alive, it's even more concentrated than Amazon has every been.
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Do you mind elaborate the part of culture that will wear one down?
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Amazon retailer still have competitors coming behind their back, albeit at a distance, but Walmart & co. is nothing to sneeze at. AWS have about ... zero competition where they are right now. Google CLoud, Azure and the like are not doi
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by NhanH 11y ago
Just a few corrections on the numbers on your post, the idea is correct: it's <55% for MS candiate, and <30% otherwise). Also OPT is 12 months + 15 months. The chance for getting H1B has been steadily decreased in the last few ye
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by NhanH 11y ago
> And BTW systems built "by hackers for hackers" are among the worst offenders (*nix clones in general and Linux distributions in particular are good examples.) Interestingly, I've found it to be the opposite. Most of syst
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If you don't mind, may I ask which firm is it?
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I was not one of those who downvoted you. And on further reading of your comments, it looks like you are commenting on the political climate of our society (no one cares about space/ science etc.), rather than specific engineering abil
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On HN, it's completely appropriate to use downvote for disagreement (this has came up over and over again, but I doubt it's gonna change). Generally, I tried not to downvote for just disagreement, but melling's comment is p
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Most likely then the bar for basic needs increases. If all needs are fulfilled regardless, then we have moved from scarcity economy to abundance economy, in which case capitalism breaks down (and that's the basis for communism/soc
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I really don't know the answer. But I just want to remark that it seems to be a terrible situation that more than one of us have to wonder about the legality of downloading the dataset (there was a comment thread below on the same topi
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by NhanH 11y ago
Since I don't know much about the topic, how much gambling is involved in fantasy sports? In other words, how much skill would be involved in all the drafting and picking etc, as opposed to just pure luck?
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When I first came to US, I didn't mind drinking public fountain. But one day, I walked by one and a dog was drinking from it, licking all over it in the process. From that day onward, I stopped. Still, I have to wonder: is that reasona
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Imaging tech is not the issue, we have plenty of ability to capture HD image (not movie level... but definitely internet level). Bandwidth, however, is a severe limitation.
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I understand the general appeal, what I was wondering is the specific mechanism that would work to help case like openSSL (if anything, I can see it hurting the effort, as you said, "stopping programmer from doing something stupid&quot
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How do you think labor union would have helped in the openSSl case?
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Asking the obvious question: What should I use that for? (The computer, and Forth too)
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I thought the whole premise of modern economics relies on the assumption that the economy has to grow. Time value of money implies that the money has to create value -- in more specific term, if bank lend out $100 and want $102 back, withou

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