Umofomia

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Airbnb will pay hosts $250M to help cover cancellations due to Covid-19(techcrunch.com)
2 points by Umofomia 7y ago|0 comments
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Saying Goodbye to My Favorite 5 Minute P1(allysonomalley.com)
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Building Secure Reliable Systems: Book Early Release(landing.google.com)
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Zynga to sell, lease back SF headquarters for $600M(sfchronicle.com)
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by Umofomia 8y ago
I don't know whether this is necessarily the cause of your issue, but I discovered one reason why it doesn't always work. On mobile Safari, iOS ends up inserting smart quote characters rather than straight quotes when you type the
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Software developers need confidence, too(qz.com)
2 points by Umofomia 8y ago|0 comments
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by Umofomia 8y ago
It's not too different from having a C compiler written in C. Once you bootstrap[1] the first version, you can create subsequent versions from the first one. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28compi
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by Umofomia 8y ago
There's also the OpenID Financial API initiative, which aims to get financial institutions to provide exactly this need using a common API: https://openid.net/wg/fapi/
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by Umofomia 8y ago
> Chinese writing to this day doesn't indicate the sound of the word at all. A fortiori, it doesn't indicate vowels. That's not true. The vast majority of Chinese characters (estimated at around 90% or more) are phono-sema
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by Umofomia 9y ago
> I think it should be pointed out that Hong Kong never had democracy. The British ruled the country with the same iron fist the Chinese do Note that it's not because the British never tried to introduce democracy. In fact they were
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Up to 70 Percent of Global Internet Traffic Goes Through Northern Virginia(m.nextgov.com)
11 points by Umofomia 11y ago|2 comments
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YC Alum FutureAdvisor (S10) Is Now Managing $600M in Assets(techcrunch.com)
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Is the New Raspberry Pi 2 Camera Shy?(makezine.com)
2 points by Umofomia 12y ago|0 comments
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by Umofomia 12y ago
Indeed, they were popularized in Hong Kong via Macau: Custard tarts derived from the Portuguese pastry were introduced in Hong Kong in the 1940s by cha chaan tengs via the Portuguese colony of Macau. https://en.w
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by Umofomia 12y ago
English has intonation, which is different from the "tones" that tonal languages such as Chinese have. Intonation is the use of pitch to convey additional information regarding emotion or attitude. Tones, on the other hand, are us
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by Umofomia 12y ago
I also wanted to add a note that this effects how various Chinese speakers think of Chinese as a language. Many Mandarin speakers see Mandarin as being equal to "the Chinese language" and often think of Cantonese as being "me
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by Umofomia 12y ago
I could see this having an effect on the ongoing development of each language in a way that might leave them closer together than they would otherwise be. Yes, since Mandarin had been established as the Standard Chinese in
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by Umofomia 12y ago
It's like us learning regular English in school but everyone speaks Shakespeare or something (of course it's not that dramatic of a difference). Actually it is a pretty dramatic difference. Cantonese and Mandarin
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The dirty secret behind ball lightning is dirt(arstechnica.com)
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by Umofomia 13y ago
> even though one or two transatlantic flights can emit as much carbon dioxide per person as an entire year of driving Are you sure about that? http://www.businessinsider.com/driving-is-actually-less-ener...
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Ex-Googler Tells Us What It's Like To Be An American In North Korea(businessinsider.com)
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by Umofomia 13y ago
Excellent! Unless I'm missing it, it would be nice if there were a way to enforce a policy that members of an organizational team must have two-factor authentication enabled on their accounts.
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Tech Startups Making Millions Off The Presidential Race(bloomberg.com)
2 points by Umofomia 14y ago|0 comments
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by Umofomia 14y ago
While that's true, it is also reliant on the fact that the manager of your immediate team be able to effectively argue for your team members during the stack-ranking meeting. If you happen to have a manager that ends up being too reticent,
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The unreasonable Tevatron: Calculating the economic impact of basic science(symmetrymagazine.org)
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Can You Patent A Steak?(npr.org)
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by Umofomia 14y ago
If you want to see how basically meaningless these teacher evaluations really are, check out the graphs in these posts: http://garyrubinstein.teachforus.org/2012/02/28/analyzing-re... The evaluations of the same teachers teaching the same
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by Umofomia 14y ago
I haven't seen this mentioned yet, but Sun in the past had sued Microsoft due to Microsoft's own JVM implementation, which they asserted was not fully compatible (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine ). Microsof
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by Umofomia 15y ago
Holmes did know martial arts in the original stories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartitsu
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by Umofomia 15y ago
This brings up an interesting question; since by default on iOS the hostname is based on the user's name, what will happen when two people with the same hostname (e.g., john-smith-iphone.local) both connect to a public WiFi network? Is the

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