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by gpetukhov 8y ago
Misleading title. It only lags behind in the US market.
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by gpetukhov 8y ago
I use Pleco dictionary for reading Chinese books (read 20% of 三体 so far). There is a built-in copy-paste reader in the app. You copy-paste any book (it's just text) you want and it's possible to look up any word and add it to flas
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by gpetukhov 8y ago
that's only in the US
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by gpetukhov 8y ago
Well designed "box-like" services and products allow people to save energy and time by not thinking too much. Brain takes a large portion of energy our body needs, so preferring these kinds of products is akin to preferring a moto
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by gpetukhov 8y ago
6 months ago made the move, and it's been great. Was working in an international corporation in the US but was looking to move to China, finally one day they had an open position in Shenzhen, I applied and easily got an offer. After th
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by gpetukhov 8y ago
I spent a couple hours setting up an OpenVPN server on AWS EC2 nano instance so it's going to be completely free for the first year. Speed is not great but enough to watch HD youtube videos, etc. I know have unrestricted internet on bo
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Agile tool Mingle is retiring(thoughtworks.com)
2 points by gpetukhov 8y ago|0 comments
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by gpetukhov 8y ago
Linting and code style guidelines. Easy to introduce, but makes a big positive difference.
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by gpetukhov 8y ago
It's also a (population density) x (per capita income) map.
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by gpetukhov 8y ago
not very interested
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by gpetukhov 8y ago
Embedded systems, compiler design, Rust, GraphQL. There are too many things I want to learn...
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by gpetukhov 9y ago
These are pretty hard questions for an average junior role. But depends on a company.
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by gpetukhov 9y ago
Have been using Dvorak for 6 years now. But only on my laptop/desktop. On the iPhone I continue using the standard Qwerty layout. I don't notice the context switch. Probably because switching to a mobile screen keyboard is an even
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DJI’s newest 4K folding drone costs $799(theverge.com)
14 points by gpetukhov 9y ago|3 comments
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How I went from programming with a Nokia phone to working for an MIT Startup(medium.freecodecamp.org)
11 points by gpetukhov 9y ago|0 comments
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Beijing enjoys best winter air quality in five years(scmp.com)
2 points by gpetukhov 9y ago|0 comments
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by gpetukhov 9y ago
I understand but in your comment above you mentioned that there are more Burmese at Google than at all the Chinese tech companies. I get that that was just an exaggeration.
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by gpetukhov 9y ago
Chris Hadfield's Rare Earth https://www.youtube.com/user/ColChrisHadfield/videos Very high-quality mini-docs about certain obscure topics, set in Japan or other East Asian countries, with some philosophy thro
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by gpetukhov 9y ago
Interesting information regarding Burmese. Do you have a source?
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by gpetukhov 9y ago
Maybe that person is the speaker of Arabic. For them, Korean and Spanish should be equally distant.
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by gpetukhov 9y ago
I have an e-twow scooter as well. Clocked 1200+ kilometers on it already. Not owning a car, so the thing saves me a lot of time and money.
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by gpetukhov 9y ago
I agree. They are designed to get as many views from kids. Them being traumatic may be a side effect, but not the goal.
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by gpetukhov 9y ago
人民的名义: A new and very popular show about corruption. 爱情公寓: I think it's like Friends in Chinese. But I haven't watched Friends. 欢乐颂: Follows the lives of several young women sharing an apartment in Shanghai. For the list of the mo
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by gpetukhov 9y ago
If we are talking about front-end, gradually migrating the Backbonejs/Marionettejs codebase to React/Redux/Webpack.
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by gpetukhov 9y ago
"GLOBAL fossil fuel subsidies"
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by gpetukhov 10y ago
What a great time to start learning linguistics and phonetics!
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by gpetukhov 10y ago
Using it about 10 mins per day. Hacker News is taking much more time.
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China’s Economy Grows 6.9%, Continuing Its Steady Rise(nytimes.com)
3 points by gpetukhov 10y ago|0 comments
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Turkey referendum: Erdogan camp set to win after most votes counted(bbc.com)
34 points by gpetukhov 10y ago|28 comments
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by gpetukhov 10y ago
What helped me make Git click was learning how to use SourceTree. It has intuitive UI (compared to GitHub Desktop) accompanied by a pretty graph of commits. Can't recommend it enough for "visual" type of people like me.

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