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by Xixi 11y ago
The seat armrest is a property of the seats (which are chosen by the airline) rather than a property of the aircraft, so you should blame your choice of airline rather than the perfectly fine 777. I often fly on Air France's 777s betwe
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Embarcadero Unveils RAD Studio 10 Seattle(community.embarcadero.com)
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Over 1,000 parts of the A350XWB are 3d printed using a specific resin (called ULTEM 9085) with interesting properties for the purpose of building an airliner: it's light, strong, and FST (flame, smoke, and toxicity) compliant. [1] Repl
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by Xixi 11y ago
“This is the first 3D printing tech that really has the potential to break out of the prototyping realm that 3D printing has been relegated to until now” Nope. 3D printing has been there for quite a while already: it is being used quite mas
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by Xixi 11y ago
The state of France in my hometown recently sold a former military estate to a private company to build a hotel: I don't see what's funny about it, or what it has to do with sovereignty. I don't know where you are from, but I
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by Xixi 11y ago
Controlling is not really a matter of point of view. It's a matter of patrolling, and sending boats away if they are not allowed in the area, etc. Japan inherited this control from the US, and China is perfectly allowed to dispute owne
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by Xixi 11y ago
I quote you: "I predict Japan will try to push forward and claim the disputed islands with the support of uncle Sam." Which islands were you thinking about? Japan has three notable territorial conflicts: the Kuril islands with Rus
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by Xixi 11y ago
I'm not sure why you are bringing Japan into this: Japan doesn't have any claim on the Spartly islands, and it would be completely ridiculous for them to make such a claim. If Japan gets involved it will be through an alliance wit
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by Xixi 11y ago
You rarely have straight dependencies on fabric from your app though. Personally I simply treat it as a command line tool, and `pip install` it system wide. It just happened to have been written in Python 2, and to require script files writ
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by Xixi 11y ago
I would not say grossly exaggerated, especially for languages with stronger type systems than Java. But the worst bugs I've encountered definitely came from code behaving exactly as intended. The flawless implementations of terrible, t
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by Xixi 11y ago
I've had to deal with this exact same problem of unrelated UIs sharing UI layout & control flow logic, messily packaged deep in 8 layers of inheritance... A nightmare. It was a GWT + GXT codebase. The worst is that I did partake in
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by Xixi 11y ago
I will be the guy bringing Erlang (or more precisely BEAM -the Erlang VM- and the various languages that run on top of it) into this thread... But it's amazing how much Erlang got right so long ago. Erlang applications are effectively
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by Xixi 11y ago
It's true that our service, as is, is not geared towards Japanese expatriates. There may be a large market there... Do not hesitate to ask us anything about Tomotcha if you need more information about the service! Note that when you si
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by Xixi 11y ago
It's doing well, thanks :) Thinking of offering more products/different kind of plans. We are also still trying to figure out exactly the right price-point, so tweaking a bit the price/amount of tea. I have an Ask HN to do ab
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by Xixi 11y ago
CandyJapan has been a great source of inspiration for launching a business with a similar business model: Tomotcha ( https://tomotcha.com ), a Japanese green tea subscription service. Bemmu gave me a lot of advice at the last HN K
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by Xixi 11y ago
Playing game on your smartphone and learning a (new) language are not necessarily incompatible: I'm addicted to memrise, which is very much like a game in its mechanics, but is teaching me an awful lot of useful Japanese words...
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by Xixi 11y ago
A little known facet of German society is that it is (or rather was) extremely hostile to mothers working. Even if a German couple wanted to have children (desirability), the sacrifices were sometimes too great. Especially as raising a fami
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by Xixi 11y ago
Birth rate and fertility rate are not the same, so of course I distinguish. Though to be fair I think the correct term is total fertility rate, as sometimes fertility rate is defined as birth rate. Birth rate (technically, births/popul
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by Xixi 11y ago
Note that Japan fertility rate is not the worst out there: for instance Hong Kong (1.1), Singapore (1.2) and South Korea (1.2) are all bellow Japan (1.4).
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I also found the idea very interesting, but I don't necessarily agree with all the risks you have identified. - "at the condition that we suppress all other forms of benefits": mostly agree, except for benefits related to dis
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by Xixi 11y ago
I don't think Germany is less developed than US today by any meaningful measure, despite having been essentially destroyed and then cut in two for half a century. I would even argue that most of Northern Europe (Netherlands, Denmark, S
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by Xixi 11y ago
I didn't explain myself clearly: if China had a comparable GDP per capita as Japan, its GDP would be 3.5x bigger than that of US. But currently China GDP per capita is 10x smaller than that of Japan ($3600 vs $37500). $130B times ten w
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by Xixi 11y ago
You need to take into account the population of these countries. US is 319 million people, Japan 127 and China 1,368 (figures from 2014). South Korea and Taiwan are even smaller at 50 million and 23 million inhabitants. For China to be as d
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by Xixi 11y ago
Not the author, but if you read the code of the library (~35 LOC) you will understand exactly what it does: it spawns a process (an Erlang process, not a system process) for each of the task, and then gather the results in an array. Whether
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by Xixi 11y ago
Thanks for this clear explanation, the IO monad is starting to make sense to me now...
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by Xixi 11y ago
A lot of software engineers are wary of frameworks/tools with an emphasize on ease-of-use over security, or benchmarking over data integrity. Rightly so in my opinion. It leaves a "I should triple check everything again before g
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by Xixi 11y ago
This is a step in the right direction, sadly as of this writing only JPY are supported [1]. I'll be switching tomotcha.com as soon as it supports USD. And probably open a bottle of champagne to celebrate. I love you Stripe, keep up the
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by Xixi 11y ago
I've only done a handful of Haskell tutorial, I mostly do Elixir (and sometimes Erlang) when it comes to FP. Elixir/Erlang is most definitely not pure or side-effect free. I understand how IO can be made explicit, but I don't
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by Xixi 11y ago
I love FP, but it always seems a bit disingenuous to claim that it is "pure". Most programs raison d'être is to do IO (that is to say to have side-effects), so by construction most programs are impure. Bjarne Stroustrup has a
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by Xixi 11y ago
It is a taxman dream, of course. But I would not be surprised if it was seen as largely positive by most citizens, especially the honest ones (and most citizens are honest by virtue of being salaried, with little to no room for fraud). It d

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