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by gbog 13y ago
Yes, real size and real world examples are what counts. And then, as much as numerous examples of real world and big size problem (Google, Wikipedia, etc.) have been tackled with a mix of OOP glue code (Java, C++, Python) and declarative st
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by gbog 13y ago
I have been tempted by functional programming, and it is interesting, but I'm not sure how would be the result for highly complex code.
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by gbog 13y ago
Ok, I kinda misunderstood the GP's point, but even then, as Europeans our governments still have gone some lengths in protecting Europeans' privacy. For instance, something in the safe-harbor blabla says citizen data handled by pu
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by gbog 13y ago
If you are in Europe then you may have better enforced laws protecting you. If you are in Africa your government might not have the expertise and resources to spy on you. If you are in China, well...
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by gbog 13y ago
Well, ahem, you may be aware that in some places in the world some families have plenty of kids and no restrooms in their houses. Actually there is quite a lot of them. Restrooms is not the problem here, the problem is this focus on framele
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by gbog 13y ago
Here in HN we can elevate ourselves above these looped fashion styles. A way to do that is to find something that is old but not old-fashioned, or something that is new but not modernist. Examples abund in the domains of cars, music, book a
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by gbog 13y ago
No, your chances of success are extremely low whatever how you do it, so better do something you like. And the most relevant bias here is not selection bias, it's the one that makes every driver believe they are above average drivers.
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by gbog 13y ago
Another possible conclusion is that they selected a few possibilities, including other K-desserts (Kakao? no, too Cocoa; Kremlin Cake? too sovietic; Kaki jam? Weird, too Chinese; etc) and decided the less bad one was Kitkat. I'd say th
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by gbog 13y ago
Just tried it and it is like you say, thanks. Influenced by the previous version, I thought pressing back button would exit navigation. Then one more complain: in the previous version I could get a metric scale from the labs, which I think
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by gbog 13y ago
The New Android map app is bad too. Rip the menu button, no way to get other routes suggestions anymore, I didn't find a quick way to switch from navigate view to route view. All that is still the move toward less and less control for
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by gbog 13y ago
- in Google plus, scroll down the steam, then decide you want to use j k to navigate, pof! you are back on top. - in Google plus, you need to play maze to avoid the pop ups. - contacts takes ages to load, when I usually use it only for a li
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by gbog 13y ago
No, please, we have such hard time moving MS out of the hot field, don't bring them back! Remember when everyone feared MS? I mean, that was really terriying time for our industry. How forgetful is it to "wish" MS could gain
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by gbog 13y ago
No research in other languages than English? You crazy? Most research on Chinese art, history, literature is in Chinese. Same for French. I'd agree that some topics that are more detached from a given culture, like mathematics, are mos
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by gbog 13y ago
I'd like to offer a counter-point here. I work in a Chinese company with more than 200 Chinese programmers, I'm the only foreigner. It is obviously important for a software developer to "know English", and all my colleag
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by gbog 13y ago
I know that. But, without context, if you hear about someone that his "personal hygiene left much to be desired", it just means "he stinks", right? Then when you write about Middle-Age peasants who died for some lack of
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by gbog 13y ago
"His diet and personal hygiene left much to be desired." Does it means these poor people that happen to be our ancestors had a faint body odor surrounding them? Can we stop with this crasiness? We are animals, animals have "b
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by gbog 13y ago
Seen from China this debate becomes at the same time epic because of the proportion and in a way easily solved. Here if you have no salary you just borrow a few tools from a relative and choose a street corner where to fix passers by's
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by gbog 13y ago
"English is a prerequisite. If you haven't mastered it yet, learn it. You must be able to read, write, speak and understand English." On his list of things to learn for physics, that even comes before mathematics. You could
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by gbog 13y ago
Yes, for me listening to some west coast US accent is extremely tiring and even plain painful. I started playing some Google videos about topics I'm interested in and stopped after two sentences. Just to add some relativism to this hig
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by gbog 13y ago
> It's easy to delude yourself into thinking that it'll all be fine if you just work hard and have an open mind. Work hard? For travel? You mean work hard to learn foreign language etc.? For me that's not hard. There is no
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by gbog 13y ago
You love traveling but it is very stressful? Please tidy up your position. Obviously travel it not advised for those afraid of massive differences, and attached to homey comfort.
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by gbog 13y ago
> If you don't consistently apply it, it becomes worthless. Why? Having read Thinking Fast and Slow and been convinced by this book's many useful views, I would agree that a simple questionnaire-based ranking is actually better
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by gbog 13y ago
So even after dozens of centuries we are still in under Law of the Jungle, were the ones who have more can bully and look down on the ones who have less? If it is like so, we should go back to slavery, it made no sense to abolish it.
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by gbog 13y ago
The common standard exists already! It is international business English and my point is that German or Indian speakers are often much better at it than many Americans I have met. Weirdly enough, Americans who happen to also speak Chinese o
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by gbog 13y ago
> having understandable English accent Do you mean American mumbling accent or International English accent? If the later, I fully agree and this apply the most to US citizens. Last week I was having beer with two friend (one US one Cana
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by gbog 13y ago
> be proud Well, what if I am not US citizen? For people outside of the USA, a "Made in California" sign might be a mark of quality for gadgets, just like "Made in France" for wine, but why adding pride to this?
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by gbog 13y ago
> Stay as schemaless as possible. It makes it easy to add features. All you need to do is add new properties without having to alter tables. And at the same time they use and praise Postgres a lot, so it cannot be about NoSQL. I am wonde
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by gbog 13y ago
Well I certainly have no special authority in the matter, but maybe Kahnemann has? He got a Nobel after all. To be true he didn't say insurance was a scam, he equated it to lottery in the fact that it plays on the difficulty to evaluat
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by gbog 13y ago
Except if your entire wealth is at stake, being risk adverse is not rational. That is the whole point of Thinking Fast and Slow. Proof is easy: I give you the choice to play on the flip of a coin, one side you win $1200 other side you loose
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by gbog 13y ago
That's true for up to some level, but above that you arrive to some ether where rationality is useless or even dangerous. You see a little girl running toward a minefield, you jump and save her, there is no reasoning. For many who beli

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