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by happywolf 11y ago
I had a LG Nexus 4 and the battery got bloated after a year of use. When I tried to get help, LG just ignored me even though that was a safety issue. Thumbs down on it.
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by happywolf 11y ago
What this guy can take advantage will be victims don't check their bank statements carefully and he can get away with the money, or else he will be in pretty bad shape to handle all the charge-backs. I will say the chance of a stolen P
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by happywolf 11y ago
I had a bad experience with StartSSL using their free SSL cert. Basically they just treat you like a thief or scumbag trying to take advantage of their freebie. Eventually I found a company selling $10/year cert which I am happily payi
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by happywolf 11y ago
Would like to add Baidu isn't better, too. Example, try search proprietary software, say 'Autocad', first few results are always pirate sites, while google will show the Autodesk site and the wikipedia post. Recently Baidu al
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by happywolf 11y ago
Citing this example isn't very convincing. Would be more interesting to know what language he uses when he finishes his Ph.D.
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by happywolf 11y ago
It depends on where you are, and for some countries only certain % of the population will get it as it ramps up slowly. For some products, the new isn't ready so it falls back to the old stack. It could be due to the ramp, WIP, or just
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by happywolf 11y ago
BT has much less technical debt and thus more modern design. Most new merchants are encouraged to use v.zero (BT's xo product)
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by happywolf 11y ago
I agree with the first paragraph. The second paragraph hinges on the rationale that if customer data were available, then CS (Customer Service) agents would have made every effort to contact the ops/engineering team to retrieve those t
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by happywolf 11y ago
Nope, the only assurance you can get is you won't be access your data, I am not sure how one can come down with conclusion of "no way they have a copy or keep it in archive/deep backup" Having a backup and letting you to
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by happywolf 11y ago
Anyone here uses D? I recall it was kind of popular a few years back, and its features look very similar to Rust. Thoughts?
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by happywolf 11y ago
But the tone of the blog post implies this graph thingie is _the_ solution: "How graph databases stop fraud e-commerce frauds in real-time" - note the use of 'stop' and 'real-time'. "Fortunately, graph dat
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by happywolf 11y ago
The title is misleading because this is focused on Android, but the title seems to imply generic API design pitfalls
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by happywolf 11y ago
Agree. It is simplistic to conclude China's economy is slumping just because the demand for raw material is falling. There is a finite number of infrastructure a country can build and once these are completed, the demand for raw materi
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by happywolf 11y ago
Here I do see a business opportunity for a device that has: 1) adequate battery life (> 1 week standby) 2) focused on note-taking + sharing 3) enable plug-in/extension for future compatibility Unfortunately what I am seeing devices
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by happywolf 11y ago
Scrum retrospectives will no doubt help to address voids in work flow, product, or technology. However this seldom make one as manager. In fact, very likely once good programmers done all the work, some jokers (within the team or otherwise)
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by happywolf 11y ago
This practice can easily be abused or/and cause unintented consequences. For example, once employees know this is a short cut for promotion, they will focus a lot of their energy and attention to find 'the void' and try to fi
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by happywolf 11y ago
Thanks. I will send an email to you.
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by happywolf 11y ago
Actually I wasn't aware the difference either until the admin (she was my friend as well) complained about there was nothing left to 'optimize'... I must clarify i called it quit not because of the lack of 3-ply paper for my
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by happywolf 11y ago
I had a really relevant experience in my ex-company. It was a small company doing video analytics and monitoring. It did well in initial stage and the pantry was stocked with real bean coffee maker, beers, sodas, and pastries. Then its busi
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by happywolf 11y ago
No doubt there are good people in Baidu. This happens everywhere, including the now defuncting Nokia, however those people are not put in good use. To turn the question around: what makes you think they are technical competent? Can you prov
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by happywolf 11y ago
Simple. Did you actually use Baidu? I do, on a regular basis. Let me elaborate Andrew Ng no doubt is a famous researcher, but I am talking about a common user's experience, and no, I don't see anything that reminds of machine lear
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by happywolf 11y ago
I would treat anything from Baidu with a grain of salt, mainly Baidu is not the most technical competent company, even among Chinese companies. There are other researches on ghost cities using methods like at night counting the number of un
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by happywolf 11y ago
Amazon's arguments are flimsy at best, and it renews the focus back to this piece of news which most people have not talked about. Staying quiet or saying something more humble would dull the backlash a lot.
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by happywolf 11y ago
I think you are not comparing apple-to-apple. Sure, SV pays good money, but the rent is also much higher. In Texas the pay may be lower, so is the rent. I have a friend who works as full-time freelancer in a small town in Malaysia (Taiping,
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by happywolf 11y ago
View it another way: shaving seems to be a pain for many people, to the point people are willing to throw millions at a dubious (sorry if this word isn't the best adjective) claim of shaving with laser. What if one could invent a worki
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by happywolf 11y ago
Anything that heats a hair to the point it burns off, no matter what the heat source is, will give out a bad smell. Good luck if one has thick beard, and no, I am not convinced this will work cleanly.
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by happywolf 11y ago
I am a product manager in the financial sector and generally I agree with this list. What I want to add is "A good PM knows how to balance competing requests from stakeholders and know when to say no". You can't please everyb
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by happywolf 11y ago
I agree the google translate link above pronounces this character very close to 'Arr', however do note the Pinyin (Chinese phonetic system), 'Er' starts with 'E'. Just for the sake of discussion, here is charac
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by happywolf 11y ago
Would like to point out a caveat listed in that page, as follows. Don't convert all your photos in your drive (yet). "WARNING: FLIF is a work in progress. The format is not finalized yet. Any small or large change in the algorithm
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by happywolf 11y ago
No, it has 'er' instead of 'ar' sound. In fact, 'err' is a better word than 'earl'

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