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by a_c 6y ago
Can anyone working in HK startups comment on how this law impact their business? Talent acquisition, morale, anything? I am working in one of the HK startup so am eager to learn what do you guys think
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by a_c 6y ago
1st rule is you don't need kafka. Second rule is don't forget about 1st rule.
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by a_c 6y ago
Writing proper/decent software specification is what, IMO, missing from most modern day software development. The idea is that, someone knowing deep enough what AND how to build, penning down vague ideas as concrete as needed, and hand
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by a_c 7y ago
> The mental model fallacy is that it’s worth it to read descriptions of mental models, written and aggregated by non-practitioners, in the pursuit of self-improvement and success. This is also why I think a project manager, if a project
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by a_c 7y ago
I actually don't know. There was this previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22324691 . Might be some gems there. For me, it is the 3rd normal form and the adage of "Normalize till it hurts, denor
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by a_c 7y ago
SQL stood the test of time. SQL is widely adopted. Once you get the hang of it, it can be applied on a wide range of RDBMS. I would argue that countless productivity has been lost to learning yet another query language for yet another NoSQL
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by a_c 7y ago
Learn about modelling. Database is more than just storing data. Drink less koolaid of NoSQL, any NoSQL. It is trading initial result with future development time. SQL has been battlefield tested. No amount of "convenience" is more
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by a_c 7y ago
Hey thanks for the project! I (thought I) know what regex is, and I (thought I) know what FAT32 is. But Bamm! putting the two together, the whole sentence makes no sense to me. This is genius.
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by a_c 7y ago
Oh, I was knee jerked into replying this thread and didn't realised the same comment was made!
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by a_c 7y ago
Reminds me a comment made by Rich Hickey https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15425632 Quoting top comment: “The presumption that everything is or ought to be a community endeavor is severely broken.” I believe in the BDFL
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by a_c 7y ago
Art has a long history of patronage, e.g. from da vinci to Jasper Johns. So it didn't come as a surprise to me
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by a_c 7y ago
And I think scale matters. We are living in an eavesdropping-on-steroid era
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by a_c 7y ago
Having known perhaps less than 20 colours for my whole life, this collection is eye popping. And the design of website is perfect too
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by a_c 7y ago
Looks like you are looking for an argument [1] [1] https://youtu.be/xpAvcGcEc0k?t=50
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by a_c 7y ago
So...when the insurance company profits, they are not lowering premium. when the lose money, the ramp up premium. Sounds like a solid business
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by a_c 7y ago
There is another type/layer of new grad - the kind without CS background and not being able to make a right solution (let alone balancing different concerns)
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by a_c 7y ago
While 25million in 8 weeks might be exaggerated, the number reported by chinese is not credible neither. The US flu death in 2018-2019 is estimated to be 34k. [1] China's flu death in the same year is 144. [2] China's population i
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by a_c 7y ago
> To keep reading this story, create a free account. Seriously medium? I just wanted to read
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by a_c 7y ago
I don't think the proliferation of fake news is due to the lack of gatekeeping. I think the issue is the ease of authoring fake content. Publishing a piece of news/article used to mean hosting a website, registering a domain, writ
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by a_c 7y ago
May I suggest to have some sample datasets in the demo. Am a bit confused as to what the tool can do as I don't mingle data frequently
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by a_c 7y ago
> I wonder of the same will be said for pandemics? It does. Hong Kong experienced SARS in 2003. The pandemics hit the city hardly [1], infected almost 2000, taking a hundred lives, of which several are medical practitioners. This time Ho
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by a_c 7y ago
Have been using DDG for a couple of years. Am satisfied with its english result. One area for improvement would be non-english search results. For me it's non-english results are largely irrelevant, compared to google
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by a_c 7y ago
On quick glance, it looks like a language with lots of battery included. Plus rpc, thrift, maybe?
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by a_c 7y ago
So instead of measuring number of feature delivered, measure time to delivery? Do we not have an implicit time constraint in "number of feature delivered"?
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by a_c 7y ago
Good design don't come from just asking question, it comes from understanding the need. Often time when dwelling in a problem space, an industry, a customer sector, there is a underlying common problem to be solved. But everyone articu
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by a_c 7y ago
For me the steps are taking smart notes are 1. Get started, doesn't matter how dumb your notes are 2. Use tiddlywiki for connecting ideas 3. Read the book How to Read a Book 4. Repeat
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by a_c 7y ago
Talking about interdisciplinary mashup, would be great if there is a gallery to show-case people the beauty of "crossing the dimension"
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by a_c 7y ago
HK has a dozen confirmed cases. Shenzhen, the city bordering HK, has a hundred confirmed cases. HK had experienced SARS, and the magnitude of the epidemic, in terms of number of infected globally, has already exceeded that of SARS. Together
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by a_c 7y ago
Beijing is notorious for its air pollution. It is a literal mask AFAICT, to block off pollutants
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by a_c 7y ago
I use django for my day to day. I understand its "migration" https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/migrations as a kind of bitemporal database. Would you mind providing more context about you

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