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by eric-hu 11y ago
I'm glad you feel the same way I do. I find his opinions witty and incisive, but detracting from the meat of his content. I feel this way about his payment page too. It's involved to figure out the payment options and decide wha
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by eric-hu 11y ago
If you're an engineer with an employment contract in front of you, you're a good engineer. You can get a job elsewhere. I would dare say it's worth going into 1-2 months of debt to work where you're respected versus sta
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Ask HN: What are problems inappropriate for iterative solutions?
5 points by eric-hu 11y ago|7 comments
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by eric-hu 11y ago
I'm spending some time traveling in Thailand. While topping off my phone data package, I noticed that you can pay for a "Facebook and Line only" data package. [1] Locals have told me the role that Facebook and Instagram play
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by eric-hu 11y ago
When internet.org is made available to these people, won't their usage or lack thereof signal their preference?
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by eric-hu 11y ago
I think I agree with your view, but the sarcasm in your post threw me for a loop. I'm not sure what point you want me to walk away with.
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by eric-hu 11y ago
One recent real world example of "things [improving] by large numbers of people speaking out" is gay marriage in America. It took time and victory had some false starts (i.e. Prop 8 in California), but now gay people are equally e
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by eric-hu 11y ago
> My family, my friends, and my community. I coached HS and club swimming and water polo during college and it was so goddamned rewarding. I'd teach if it paid well. I don't have any outlet to give back to the community right
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by eric-hu 11y ago
Do you now do something professionally that's more fulfilling than coding--even if it doesn't exactly make you happy?
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Ask HN: Engineers, what brings meaning to your life?
9 points by eric-hu 11y ago|9 comments
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Ask HN: Where are the happiest engineers?
5 points by eric-hu 12y ago|4 comments
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by eric-hu 13y ago
What's your suggested alternative to html5?
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by eric-hu 13y ago
You mean burning man?
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by eric-hu 13y ago
I've found that meetup.com and a free night a week serve as a great alternative. programming meetups have given me deeper discussions about software engineering or given me a chance to work firsthand with people in languages or framewo
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by eric-hu 13y ago
My current company has engineers pair-programming full time. On first reaction, engineers and managers tend to think that results in 50% net productivity. My experience has shown that people tend to average each other out. There are days
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by eric-hu 13y ago
To expand ryanhuff's point, it seems like publishers are transitioning from cost-based pricing to value based pricing. Suppose publishers were to maintain profit margins and reduce prices by about 90%, as you suggest. I posit that the
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by eric-hu 13y ago
> If anything it's a pathological development among certain first-generation Asian immigrants I was thinking this throughout your comment. I've also observed that it's a trait much stronger among first generation families or those cl
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by eric-hu 13y ago
I'm thinking of making the switch. Are you able to port your vim plugins to emacs in evil mode?
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by eric-hu 13y ago
> As for the YC interview and later rejection, yes it was disappointing as all rejections are, and as a self confessed PR junkie it would have made that as well as fundraising all the much easier Speaking of figures of speech...after re
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by eric-hu 13y ago
%s/Mark Zuckerberg/Elon Musk/g 10 years ago, an electric car company would sound like objectively the worse idea to many. Tesla was founded in 2003, the same year that General Motors officially cancelled its EV1 program. Toyota stopped se
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by eric-hu 13y ago
Perhaps a better way of describing their point is "Be aware (and supress?) of your surprise." I'd add that the intent is pretty clear in the explanation. Surprise evokes fear of ignorance.
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Zombieland pilot on Amazon(amazon.com)
4 points by eric-hu 14y ago|2 comments
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by eric-hu 14y ago
Isn't this also a problem with the product that the PC vendors offer? That Mac comes with Facetime and iTunes. If the PC laptop comes packaged with software, it's generally not the PC manufacturer's own, and they can't guarantee your lap
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by eric-hu 14y ago
Many comments here discuss how easy it is to discover Satoshi if he moved any money out of these known accounts. Please point out the flaw in the following strategy: Satoshi (the man, the woman, the government, the organization, etc) progr
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by eric-hu 14y ago
It sounds like the data is unknown for the remaining 99.9%. In that case, no scientific conclusion should be drawn at all. I still appreciate his johnvschmitt's initial comment because it's an anecdote about how football has benefited him.
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by eric-hu 14y ago
Perhaps witch hunts were just performed under a different name. See also: the Medieval Inquisition (1184–16th century) the Spanish Inquisition (1478–1834) the Portuguese Inquisition (1536–1821) the Roman Inquisition (1542 – c. 1860) [1] h
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by eric-hu 14y ago
This is what China does. All time there is specified as UTC +08:00. I studied abroad in Beijing--the time felt "normal" there as the sun would rise around 7 AM and set around 5 PM in the winter. When visiting Lhasa, those times were shift
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Laser Beams to Protect US Navy From Drones(cbsnews.com)
1 points by eric-hu 14y ago|0 comments
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by eric-hu 14y ago
I wouldn't doubt it. On FF in OS X, it took about 30 seconds before I could use my trackpad scroll. Keyboard scroll worked fine, though.
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by eric-hu 14y ago
I would say it is. A hero animation carries much more information than a single image does.

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