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by byw 15y ago
Usually when they refer to the size of the economy they imply the leverage it has on the world stage because of its collective wealth. From the average individual's perspective, it's more about per capita GDP.
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by byw 15y ago
I think it's not really the size of the project per se but the proportion of domain complexity. For problems with low domain complexity but involve a lot of boiler plate code, a more expressive language wins out. Likewise, if you spend the
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by byw 15y ago
Thanks a bunch! wangbobby at gmail
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by byw 15y ago
Censorship is not the only problem - the filter also makes visiting foreign web sites intolerably slow, so people don't even bother. One solution is to host your stuff in Hong Kong (which is what Google did). It's fast for both foreign and
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by byw 15y ago
According to wikipedia, the city of Hangzhou, where his company is based, has per capita GDP of $14,972 USD. 14,972 / 12 / 20 = 62.83. A very rough figure, but gives some general idea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangzhou [edit] 2009 fi
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by byw 15y ago
Not directly related to this, but I made my first ever visit to an Apple Store last Sunday. For some reason I was expecting a quiet boutique shop, but ended up wading through a sea of people. The vast majority were waiting around to fidget
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Camera that lets you adjust focus after you take a picture(lytro.com)
3 points by byw 15y ago|3 comments
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by byw 15y ago
Apple's toggle button can be pretty confusing, even with the "on" and "off" labels. Are you suppose to turn it on, or is it already on? This is one instance where I think they should have stayed with the checkbox.
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by byw 16y ago
I think the fact that Cameron, Jackson, and Lucas are using it will make the transition much easier.
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Universal Property of Music Discovered(sciencedaily.com)
128 points by byw 16y ago|40 comments
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by byw 16y ago
My friend Billy worked on the app. They gave Cappuccino a try but eventually went with custom JS.
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by byw 16y ago
My friend is doing his residency right now. He says they make up their sleep with "power naps" during the day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_nap I don't have any personal experience with this though.
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by byw 16y ago
The funny thing is, Apple's CPUs are manufactured by Samsung. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A5
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by byw 16y ago
Oops. They didn't show up on searchyc for some reason. http://searchyc.com/submissions/who%2527s+hiring?sort=by_dat...
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by byw 16y ago
When I visited Boeing in Seattle a few years back they were working on a 747-400 without livery. They said it's for a private customer from the middle east. Apparently this is not uncommon.
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by byw 16y ago
It's still impressive that the airframe held up.
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by byw 16y ago
I really like the zero-downtime restart. Are there other servers beside Phusion Passenger 3 and Unicorn with this feature?
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by byw 16y ago
I went back to see it, and indeed it's there at around 0:32. It's right behind the grille, so it's probably a radiator or at least a fan.
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by byw 16y ago
Those sound like some solid advice. I'll bookmark it. Thanks! :) Approximately how much time do you spend in this planning phase? As for the specification, what kind of things do you include in it?
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by byw 16y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you define a solid scope ahead of time? What kind of details do you go into? What if the client asks you to tweak a feature that's within the scope, but ends up taking up significant amount time?
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by byw 16y ago
It's interesting to compare the original version in Classical Chinese with the vernacular Chinese one. The Classical Chinese version just sounds (err, reads) so much more awesome, like a smooth-talking wisecrack who can't be bothered to dis
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by byw 16y ago
It's a difficult look, but some people like difficult things.
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by byw 16y ago
>are you saying that science, math and music are areas where rote memorization is a problem? i think most definitely that these are three areas where creativity and critical thinking are far more important than learning a static corpus.
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by byw 16y ago
As a native speaker, I really don't feel character rote learning is that big of a deal. I was educated in China until the fifth grade - by that time I could read most newspapers and contemporary novels. I never felt the process as gruelli
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by byw 16y ago
Maybe in the modern world we've developed colour fatigue from over-exposure. Back then very few man-made objects were brightly coloured, so the vivid ones tend to stand-out. They also speak for the level of craftsmanship and thus value.
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by byw 16y ago
I get the impression that he's deeply discontent. He's always doing things to prove himself. Warren Buffett on the other hand I wouldn't mind, he seems to have things figured out.
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Imgur opens up API(api.imgur.com)
2 points by byw 16y ago|0 comments
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by byw 16y ago
Tone is not that important. Each dialect of Mandarin has its own set of tones, but they can understand each other most of the time. Most non-natives don't follow tones altogether. For the Chinese, getting the tones right usually means you
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by byw 16y ago
I think the classification of local Chinese tongues is a grey area. They are all based on the same writing system, but the variation in pronunciation and informal vocabularies make them unintelligible from each other. They are more like th
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by byw 16y ago
Isn't Spanish the most learned foreign language by far in the States? http://www.vistawide.com/languages/us_languages.htm

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