SenHeng

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by SenHeng 4y ago
Sometime in the past 5 years, I’ve noticed more and more construction workers wearing these vests that have fans blowing into them here in Japan. https://kuchoufuku.com/
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by SenHeng 4y ago
It is an honest question. Is the poison bad for others or only because a pregnant woman or the foetus are exceptionally weak to it? If it is, why and how do people still live there?
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Reminds me of the story a couple years back where Honda Japan couldn’t hire any AI engineers because their high salaries wouldn’t fit into the company’s pay grades.
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Gitup, naive macOS git GUI. Use it for almost everything. Use terminal if I need to undo commits. Bear, macOS/iOS markdown note taking app. Trello, still nothing in the market that beats Trello’s UX for small project management. 1Passw
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by SenHeng 4y ago
What about non-pregnant people?
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Air New Zealand to install world-first economy bunk beds on long-haul flights(theguardian.com)
26 points by SenHeng 4y ago|0 comments
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Another reason for China, Japan and Korea has got to be the intense focus on education, and the belief that education has (financial) value. Singapore showcases this very well. The ethnic Chinese and the Indians are very much focused on pur
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Especially since this is a small company, give everyone else the day off too. It doesn’t alleviate the survivor guilt. But it lets them spend time with their friends. And no one is in any mood to anything productive that day.
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by SenHeng 4y ago
That’s only if your offspring wants their PR too. If they’re willing to leave Singapore after their childhood, they don’t have to serve.
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Is the tech talent pool really that good? I was there a decade ago and many foreign run startups were adamant about not hiring Singaporeans for creative or software engineering positions. Something something lack of initiative and free&#x2F
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How to avoid being a secretary for engineers (2018)(idratherbewriting.com)
106 points by SenHeng 4y ago|50 comments
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by SenHeng 4y ago
The Grand Tour has tried to answer that question. I thought the turnstiles idea was really good, especially if you place them in a building with heavy traffic. Though probably not really cost effective. https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by SenHeng 4y ago
I must have bought at least a dozen boats. I would park them somewhere secluded or near the mines/forests, then totally forget about it. By the time I got back, the boats had already decayed into nothingness, (or I forgot where I parke
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by SenHeng 4y ago
I’ve used Pixi.js together with React to build a canvas based white boarding app similar to Figma or Miro. Pixi for doing all the canvas stuff, React for the UI elements. It wasn’t very performant but for an early stage product knocked out
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by SenHeng 4y ago
What about drivers licenses? Surely they issue those to foreigners and it should be considered a valid form of government ID?
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Cider in Japan is often just some kind of soda. Unless it’s a restaurant run by Aussies, then you unknowingly get drunk, and risk a DUI because you live in the middle of bumfuck no where and driving home is the only option.
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by SenHeng 4y ago
You mean like AMP?
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by SenHeng 4y ago
I personally believe we need to remove all agricultural subsidies, while at the same time raise the price of food to reflect their real value, including the farmers’ labour. But I always get pushback saying that farm work is not valuable be
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by SenHeng 4y ago
The days before lock files were a thing and 'it works on my machine!' was rampant.
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Remember back when people recommended commiting node_modules into git?
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by SenHeng 4y ago
I just happened to be reading up on Readme Driven Development[0] last night and the HN thread[1] had a few mentions of Donald Knuth's Literate Programming[2]. Fascinating read. [0]: https://tom.preston-werner.com/2010&#
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by SenHeng 4y ago
I’m reminded of a Steve Jobs quote I found buried deep in some notes I was cleaning out. > Steve Jobs : "When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll
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by SenHeng 4y ago
I used to post on various forums related to my hobbies but as I’ve aged, I’ve found myself more content being a lurker than engaging with other users. This is particularly exacerbated by the megaforums like Reddit and this site, because wha
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by SenHeng 4y ago
- you don’t have to learn how to make all the variations of drinks each of your friends like - you don’t have to stock ingredients for food/drinks you may not like or prepare often - you can’t make a din without annoying the neighbours
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Hong Kong NETs – foreign teachers of English – forced to take allegiance oath(theguardian.com)
1 points by SenHeng 4y ago|0 comments
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by SenHeng 4y ago
For the latter bit, I've noticed many tech blogs use a 'comment on HN' link. I don't really care for discoverability and don't want to deal with comments anymore so I don't do anything. Maybe one day I'll
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by SenHeng 4y ago
I started off in the late noughties with Wordpress and my own domain. Medium came out and was actually good so I and pointed my domain at it and shifted over. Then Medium started going to shit so I moved to GitHub Pages and hugo, but buildi
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by SenHeng 4y ago
> The independence notion only came into existance relatively recently. ie. The original generation that considered themselves Chinese has mostly died off, and now the younger generation who consider themselves Taiwanese are slowly tak
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by SenHeng 4y ago
I believe South Korea and Singapore still criminalise drug use even when out of the country. Make sure to flush it out of your system before returning home.
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by SenHeng 4y ago
I’ve had the same conclusion [0] as the title though not as the article. I want to have max RAM but I’m actually totally fine with only 256GB. I’ve been using the 12” MacBook since 2017 with 256GB storage and it’s only half full, mostly bec

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