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by happywolf 11y ago
Just in case you wonder how to pronounce the Chinese word 'fuerdai', it sounds like 'foo-earl-die', which literally means 'rich second generation'
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by happywolf 11y ago
The car must be reasonably air-tight by itself to make this work, and I imagine there should be a warning signal/siren to driver if someone tries to open a window when this mode is enabled.
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by happywolf 11y ago
Guess what. I used to be a Linux zealot for over ten years, my hobby was to custom-build my kernel and rewrite device drivers for some of my devices. But Linux had some minor issues that I couldn't quite put up with, while Apple so far
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by happywolf 11y ago
Yes, I feel this is a fair deal.
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by happywolf 11y ago
I use Apple products, including the MBP on which I am typing this post. I paid big bucks and my expectation is Apple should respect my privacy. Services like Google I use them for free, and as such, monetization is fair. Not for Apple, and
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by happywolf 11y ago
Real world has taught me 'magic' only works in some specific cases and mine usually isn't one of those. That is why anything that claims to be smart gets to my nerve. Instead, I prefer tools that are clearly scoped, do their
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by happywolf 11y ago
Kill-switch to me sounds like something pressed in emergency. Use cases cited here should be called 'hardware switches'
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by happywolf 11y ago
Thanks. Very insightful and informative. Great input.
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by happywolf 11y ago
Minor clarification: what i meant below is I plan to build a portal with major feature being CMS, not planning to rewrite an CMS from scratch, instead I will source in Github for the module that can be ported/plugged in right away with
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by happywolf 11y ago
MS technically has ability to shut off and cripple any pirated Windows over the wire if it wants to. But in this case, it has chosen not to for a lot of Asian countries. The reason? Market share. It wants users to get used to how Windows wo
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by happywolf 11y ago
That company can easily deny had ever hired the author as an employee, because technical he was never on the payroll and his pay had been disguised as company expenses. Due to family reason I had worked in China for sometime and had my fair
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by happywolf 11y ago
As a hiring manager myself, I would say those kudos/recommendations are nice-to-have and I am not paying too much attention to the contents. However these testimonials tell me a candidate has basic social skill, talks to colleagues, an
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by happywolf 11y ago
I find it equally disturbing to push all responsibilities to PayPal for one's greed and 'naivety' (for lack of better words).
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by happywolf 11y ago
That isn't fair to PayPal, it just processes transactions and in this case, the transaction was done _willingly_ by the account owners.
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by happywolf 11y ago
You are right, it depends on the card issuer. My friend was forced to pay a large sum at knife point in China a few years ago with his CC, later the CC company told him there was nothing they could do since he personally signed it already.
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by happywolf 11y ago
Domain hoarding is different from 'buying anything cheap and then sell it later at a higher price'.
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by happywolf 11y ago
Technical this isn't fraud from the perspective of PayPal. Let me elaborate, if your account is taken over and used, or your credit card is fraudulently associated with a PayPal account, then this is fraud (as per PayPal). However in t
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by happywolf 11y ago
Nice insight. Learning more languages, especially those that seem to be different, could widen one's perspectives, and able to avoid the issue of learning only hammer and treat all problems as nails.
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by happywolf 11y ago
The company used svn. Not sure how viable to check file changes regularly since 1) everybody had their plates full 2) the system was complex with a lot of black magic that 'just worked', thousands of source files, within the mix
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by happywolf 11y ago
Nope, the CEO decided to move on. Small company.
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by happywolf 11y ago
The CEO decided to just move on because it was a small company with less than 30 people. Litigation would take too much time and money. The engineering team took a couple of months to figure out what that module did and rewrote from scratch
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by happywolf 11y ago
The horror story that I heard was a disgruntled engineer silently replaced the source codes (C++ based) in the project with compiled binary object files and he kept the source codes on his local computer, not checking those in. He did this
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by happywolf 11y ago
I do understand where you are from and I agree one will need to be aware what they are signing up for. A lot of times companies pay extra for the hardship, and I will say this is fair and square. However there is a limit on what a company c
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by happywolf 11y ago
Your argument sounds like it is not something wrong to commit crime in a crime-ridden neighborhood, and it is the victim's fault since that person didn't read news or does their due diligence. Interesting :)
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by happywolf 11y ago
I do believe there must be something wrong at a significant enough scale to warrant NYT's attention. There are always outliners (i.e. unhappy and stressed out staff) in every company, the question is how big is the population.
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by happywolf 11y ago
I was an engineering manager in one of the big Internet companies in Shanghai for 2 years. As a foreigner (Singaporean), my own experience was those graduating from top Chinese schools actually is a dis-service to the whole team since those
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by happywolf 11y ago
Agree with all the other folks on the importance not to seek help from HR. Am working in an MNC in Singapore. HR's chief objective is to protect the company. The only time it helps the employees is when something will hinder productivi
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by happywolf 11y ago
It seems this person's post has been voted down. I may not fully agree with what he said, but I do feel he/she has provided another facet of Amazon, which adds value to the thread. I disagree voting this comment.
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by happywolf 11y ago
If you really meant there are 6 persons between you and Larry, that is a lot of layers in a tech company.
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by happywolf 11y ago
After reading through a lot of the comments and the tweets, I have a burning question: "where is the spreadsheet?", if one is willing to divulge the salary, I believe he/she doesn't mind this figure to be seen by the pub

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