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by gommm 17y ago
Careful with one of those tips [* x] does return x if x is an array and [x] otherwise except in the case where x is a hash in which case it transforms the hash to an array. Eg: x = {:a => 1, :b => 2} [* x] => [[:a, 1], [:b, 2]]
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by gommm 17y ago
The two greatest tech reviewers I've read are John Siracusa for OSX and Anand Lal Shimpi (love his series on SSDs).
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by gommm 17y ago
jhancock, you're based in Shanghai right? If you have time, I'd love to get a drink with you and talk... send me a mail at pm -squigly sign- gom-jabbar.org Also for any shanghai based hners here, feel free to contact me and let's meet up :-
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by gommm 17y ago
Yes but he still got $188,000 severance package... More than enough to find a good business idea and get the ball rolling...
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by gommm 17y ago
I fail to see the analogy...
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by gommm 17y ago
hmm... I could understand how you could defend something like Africans are, on average, less educated than Japanese or something like Africans have less opportunity from their environment to educate themselves and thus have less knowledge a
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by gommm 17y ago
I'm pretty sure I would have benefitted from that as a kid... It took me a long time to learn to stop talking (or monologuing) about books and computer games and start instead listening to others and talk about what they liked.
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by gommm 17y ago
When it come to anecdotes... I've got a powerbook and an ibook both still alive and kicking after close to 5 years and apart from the battery that I had to replace, they haven't had any problems (despite using them a lot)... On the other ha
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by gommm 17y ago
Yes and I love reading those... They are usually much more interesting and insightful
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by gommm 17y ago
Thanks, I'll have to check problem is that I bought it in Hong Kong and I'm in China right now....
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by gommm 17y ago
and I just bought a macbook pro 1 week ago :-( ... hopefully I can return it...
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by gommm 17y ago
yawn, I don't want to be the guy complaining about how relevant an article is to hacker news but this piece is just really devoid of content...
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by gommm 17y ago
Oh I do agree that it's hard to get it right for the first time and that there has been an improvement for the iphone.... But while there has been a lot of improvement feature wise (which makes complete sense by the way, release the simples
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by gommm 17y ago
I did about one year ago... Now with the debacle around the iphone app registration process and the tightening of warranty rules (with water detectors that set off in tropical countries and void the warranty), I'm not so sure... I think tha
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by gommm 17y ago
As a kid in France I found that starting high-school the bullying mostly stopped with most bullies going over to the technical high school... (and it never was as bad as what I've heard from american friends) Now I'm not so sure if the part
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by gommm 17y ago
Really? I know that one of the next step they list that I should do with my account is give them some paper to allow them to take money out of my bank account but I've never done that (I don't trust them and it seems a tad too risky). So wi
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by gommm 17y ago
It's true but most middle class can't afford to jump those lines (not many people I know can afford a maid..) ... so, as least, I guess only a few percentage of the richest can afford to skip the lanes...
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by gommm 17y ago
I don't know it depends on the price point but if it's 300$ I'll probably buy it... Seems like a fun piece of hardware...
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by gommm 17y ago
Between msn messenger, yahoo instant messenger and aim, my experience is that the connection with AIM is much more stable (meaning less dropped messages). MSN is the worst of all three since it drops messages without any indication of it...
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by gommm 17y ago
Any good books or resources you recommend on that?
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by gommm 17y ago
I often wish I had a toggle password visible option when it's late at night and I'm tired... As long as it's masked per default and I can unmask it when I'm sure it's not an important password and/or no one could see it I think it really ma
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by gommm 17y ago
Well I was waiting for the update so seeing it on HN front page was useful for me....
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by gommm 17y ago
People use landmarks for direction instead of addresses (since nobody can understand exactly where an address is). There are also small police stations (koban) everywhere in the city that are glad to help someone looking for direction: they
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by gommm 17y ago
That is actually not that cheap when you come from europe or japan (doctor + medecine would be about the same) But yes Bumrungrad is impressive and service is good...
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by gommm 17y ago
I've always thought that the only difference between microsoft and apple on the point of view of behavior when keeping a monopoly is that apple hadn't been successful enough to actually be as aggressive as microsoft
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by gommm 17y ago
True, but Joel's point is that a rewrite can actually be bad for the code not just the business, because you throw out years of real-world testing and bugfixes. I think that applies on project with multiple developers and whose developers
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by gommm 17y ago
I have lived for a year in Kyoto around the poverty level they were talking about (2 millions and an half yens/year) and I was definitely not hurting for money.... Now it's true that with such a salary I don't think it would be easy to foll
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by gommm 17y ago
I switched to bing as my main search engine 3 days ago to test it out (I like the idea of having more than one search engine with significant market shares so I had to give it a try). Now it's true I hadn't search any content that triggered
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by gommm 17y ago
Well it's simple I'm currently living in Malaysia if a search engine doesn't allow me to search for things I'm not going to use it... I'm not much pro-google either for the reason above... It's just that I think such action from MS is short
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by gommm 17y ago
Oh and I thought that I was going to give microsoft a chance and try using bing instead of google... But yes I can confirm it, here (in malaysia) searching for sex returns "THE SEARCH SEX MAY RETURN SEXUALLY EXPLICIT CONTENT." (and all in c

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