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by bfung 7y ago
Having played and playing a MMORPG where there are farming/fishing/shop points on a map, these types of things start to lose organization when it gets to around 70ish nodes. While a bit better than text, it's not 10x better.
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by bfung 7y ago
This reminds me of a project I worked on right after college, doing the initial implementation and research of something now called FLX ( https://books.google.com/books?id=DiOr9P2oA6YC&pg=PA115&lpg=... ) One of the is
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by bfung 7y ago
Did the colleagues code go through code review before it was accepted? And obviously, there wasn’t a review for the refactored code before check-in. Use a code review system, would e avoided a lot of this in the first place.
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by bfung 7y ago
In China, this already happened with smart cameras everywhere to monitor traffic and people. It’s only a matter of time other sensors are added. And only a small slippery slope away from a US city gov/municipality to think it’s a good
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by bfung 7y ago
A nuance here to tease out is that there are alternatives to github with low barriers of entry, unlike data analytic capabilities like google or FB. At worst, ICE can mail around zip archives as source control like the old days. It doesn’t
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by bfung 7y ago
This is an old pattern (like early 2000s MS SQL app development) and works wonderfully for the majority of applications. It does become complex and awkward in two case, 1) variable option selection and 2) at a certain "scale" &#x2
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by bfung 7y ago
My parents came to the US back in the 80s, and as a ethnically Chinese family, growing up, we actively avoided buying made in China products, especially food. The conventional wisdom at the time was that US has a FDA to scan for quality, C
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by bfung 7y ago
If one thinks about how that index is created underneath the covers, it's basically precomputing that column and using it as an index! =)
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by bfung 7y ago
It's not quite as simple as that. User boulos's comment below adds more to the estimate given and includes things that tech companies these days don't want to contend with / have flexibility towards. In general, you&#x27
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by bfung 7y ago
The function `Right(...)` is not indexable because... it's a function - we could apply infinite many types of function on column `SomeColumn` and it'd be unreasonable to create index for them all, with different arguments. It depe
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by bfung 7y ago
It doesn't have to be right from the get go. Hard is why it should get done. A free model doesn't really tell their business if there's actually demand and if people actually value it when supply is "infinite" when
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by bfung 7y ago
Been through both IPO and acquisition, but not life changing money. The IPO was a lot of fun. We were still in charge of our own company culture. I wasn't privy to all the financial information, but we were told the company was skirtin
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by bfung 7y ago
VPs are technically not executives. In a corporate structure, the Board of Directors and the their reports (CEO, Presidents, etc) are the ones actually making decisions and managing the company overall. For example, the CEO of PG&E bef
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by bfung 7y ago
It’s also one of few levers to hold executives accountable for their decisions and actions. The other being jail time.
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by bfung 7y ago
Inconclusive.(?) It's like saying - there's a trained neural net with inputs: opacity of screen = 1 with expected output of searching target box. When tested, similar neural nets with similar training expected output of target bo
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by bfung 7y ago
When someone wins an olympic event or whatever biking competition with this, we'll know if it's the real deal or not. For the normal consumer, probably more about price than anything else, unless it enables better electric/mo
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by bfung 7y ago
Disclaimer: I currently work at a company in the QSR+mobile ordering space It takes a TON of work to get the menus+availability, payments, local tax laws, security/privacy right for specific regions. Menus are not a solved problem - t
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by bfung 7y ago
It's true that the language enunciation is very close for Cantonese speakers, but it's the phrases used that are quite different. Mainland Mandarin vs. Taiwan Mandarin for example ~ there are a ton of phrases, especially for moder
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by bfung 7y ago
“Excuse me, that spicy pasta sauce (in their basket), have you tried it before, what do you think?” If no reply, move on. If they answer sheepishly, don’t be annoying. If they react with enthusiasm... “I love spicy”. Escalate. @wendyshu -
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by bfung 7y ago
And video version: The Complicated Chinese Family Tree [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCFRoILS1jY ]
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by bfung 7y ago
Excellently written, great topic, and done w/o flaming/too much bias. I'm amazed as many older folks in the industry would not be able to have this level of content and maturity to write an informative article.
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by bfung 7y ago
Somewhat agree. They can dominate simple things with shear quantity alone. “Big data” is truly big in China. Quality, however, is still suspect. For example, from 10 years ago: https://m.chron.com/news/nation-world&#
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by bfung 8y ago
yay for testing!
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by bfung 8y ago
ML family has "type inference", which means the compiler figured out the type even if not explicitly written into the code. However, the language spec is still statically typed - an int will not turn into a string and vice versa
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by bfung 8y ago
It’s not really gloating; I’m in the same situation as GP - I’ve worked enough with languages and their ecosystem to apply those skills to new languages and ecosystems. It takes me around 5-7 days to grok a new language and how to be prett
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by bfung 8y ago
The pay in software engineering, esp. in the bay area, is very high. Companies here never have enough engineers for one reason or other - the situation makes current engineers always looking for higher pay regardless of their skill level, a
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by bfung 8y ago
The reason files with numbers with different changes are kept is because when there are more than a handful of devs working on the same schema, who has the right magic 1 step "Dev schema"? Your migration tool is bad and you should
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by bfung 8y ago
The problem here is the author’s development process. There’s an “old” programmer adage in regard to version control: merge early, merge often. It addresses the author’s issue directly. So yes, it’s not the code that’s bad. It the develop
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by bfung 8y ago
Arrays are not special cases. They have a beginning and an end. Trying to expand the Array by prepending and appending to it shows lack of knowledge of memory, performance, and maintainability. If loop is refactored away from 'padded
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by bfung 8y ago
I total get the stress of getting funding or not - been there myself this past year. But axes and nooses are not normal. What kind of passive-aggressive childish behavior is this? How about sitting down and talk business like adults, state

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