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by franknine 7y ago
Yes, 26 domestic cases and 64 cases on Diamond Princess cruise, total 90 cases
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by franknine 7y ago
Before the cruise ship, Japan already got domestic transmission case which is a bus driver driving tour groups from WuHan. It is confirmed on 1/28. (Later the Japanese local tour guide on that bus is also confirmed infected) They barre
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by franknine 7y ago
Reuters (English) https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/... CNA (Chinese) https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cna.com.tw/amp/news/firstne.
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by franknine 7y ago
Mostly screen-scraped and shared on Twitter among Chinese people who live in the west
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by franknine 7y ago
We had a SARS outbreak in Taiwan since we trusted the statement from Chinese government back then. This time we assume coronavirus can do person to person transmission and blocked travel to WuHan back when CCP and WHO were downplaying its a
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by franknine 7y ago
The distinction between Simple and Easy Simple Made Easy by Rich Hickey https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/
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by franknine 7y ago
Central Taiwan is full of high mountains, tallest one is nearly 13,000ft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Shan
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by franknine 7y ago
May I have "Taiwan" option instead of "Chinese Taipei" for signing up an Epic account? Even Blizzard is not doing this.
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by franknine 7y ago
That's true. Integrating 10+ different billing API is expected if you want good coverage, which is totally not fun
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by franknine 7y ago
You have to constantly fighting Unity to get the performance you want, which is extremely frustrating. The time spent on figuring out "WTF are you doing Unity" and coming up with a workaround is huge. Inside had a talk about how t
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by franknine 7y ago
Something similar has been done. The Three Gorges Dam in China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam It caused huge ecological change and Chinese government force relocated numerous residents.
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by franknine 7y ago
For people who like this post, I highly recommend "Devs Play" S1E06 - Psychonauts "The SMK Speedrun" by Double Fine Production: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsDc1YVxHA0 They had a speedrunner running
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by franknine 7y ago
You know it's funny because you can use Internet freely. Chinese people behind GFW has nothing to fact check with. All the social network platforms require real name, trying to spread something you learned through VPN will result in po
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by franknine 7y ago
I haven't. Thank you very much.
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Ask HN: How to build a data authoring tool with spreadsheet interface
2 points by franknine 7y ago|3 comments
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by franknine 8y ago
It's a traditional Chinese mindset that people should own land properties or houses. A man who does not own a house would be deemed not worth marrying, thus making overhyping real estate price possible since some people would take it a
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by franknine 8y ago
This is definitely going for big AAA publishers. As Activision moved their latest Call of Duty from Steam to Battle.net, there are only Take-Two and Square Enix who haven't rolled their PC store.
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by franknine 8y ago
Maybe it's because hiring Taiwanese R&D people cost way less than hiring in the U.S. I live in Taiwan and I have friends with master degree in EE who work for TSMC for 5-10 years and none of them getting close to 100k a year.
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by franknine 8y ago
Praying Unity would fix their crashing bugs in the next weekly patch release so that you don't miss your App Store feature.
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by franknine 8y ago
Isn't it just like doing optimization without profiling?