chungleong

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by chungleong 8y ago
Meanwhile, people in Sub-Saharan Africa manage to feed themselves on less than a dollar a day. They must have a much more efficient food delivery system than our own.
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by chungleong 8y ago
Plastic that's been buried in a landfill won't show up in the ocean. Plastic that's been burnt in incinerators won't show up in the ocean. As this story shows, if plastic finds its way into the ocean, it's because p
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by chungleong 8y ago
An iterative process makes it impossible to hold the line on safety, I think. In each cycle it'd get compromised a bit, given how both the producer's and the client's overriding concern is cost. Waterfall is the natural model
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by chungleong 8y ago
This is already the case. Travelling across Europe, you would go back and forth between the current date and VG Day 1945.
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by chungleong 8y ago
Jesus, as though there isn't enough vain people working in the news business already. Society needs fewer trophies.
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Ask HN: Why do email clients display bogus addresses?
1 points by chungleong 8y ago|0 comments
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by chungleong 8y ago
Money will go even further in Lviv, Ukraine. $1500 is like 5x the median salary. One can live like a king. In a beautiful European city. Safety of the Polish border just an hour away.
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by chungleong 8y ago
I doubt you can live comfortably in Berlin off $1500. That's roughly my budget here in Krakow, Poland. Half goes to rent. Half goes to other costs. No way one can get by with that amount in more expensive Germany. Expats generally have
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by chungleong 8y ago
I agree that 1, 2, and 3 are poor options. If the OP believes he's in the right--that is, his expectations are the reasonable ones--then he should sue his partner for breach of contract. The goal is to force a settlement where the part
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by chungleong 8y ago
Your post reminds me of that Onion article where a plane crash was blamed on "the best-laid plans of mice and men". Shifting people's attention to some general, existential crisis is what you do when you want to dodge uncomfo
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by chungleong 8y ago
I often wonder how much of the plastic in the ocean actually came from "recycled" plastic being shipped to another country for burning and/or burial.
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by chungleong 8y ago
In an office, coffee consumption would be fairly constant, such that you can just buy it on a schedule.
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by chungleong 8y ago
Mine too. Frequent transfers of amounts below the $10000 reporting cap will definitely trigger an alarm at the bank.
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by chungleong 8y ago
I wonder if a lot of money is going into research on "spooky action at a distance".
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by chungleong 8y ago
I think putting "This project is used by X, Y and Z" on your website would still constitute trademark infringement. That it's a factual statement is irrelevant. The purpose of trademark laws is to prevent confusion in the mar
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by chungleong 8y ago
Your post calls to mind this passage from Ishiguro's the Remains of the Day: "As for myself, I cannot even claim that. You see, I trusted. I trusted his lordship's wisdom. All those years I served him, I trusted I was doing s
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by chungleong 8y ago
Forgot to close file handle. JavaScript-induced rotting of the brain :-p
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by chungleong 8y ago
The setup is more useful in a mobile situation, where latency is high and connectivity isn't so certain. Imagine you're travelling by metro and reading something on your phone.
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Show HN: Building a zero-latency WordPress front-end(github.com)
40 points by chungleong 8y ago|14 comments
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Ask HN: Do you consider the mentioning of SCRUM in a job ad to be a red-flag?
8 points by chungleong 8y ago|5 comments
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Show HN: Library for capturing video in a React app(github.com)
11 points by chungleong 8y ago|0 comments