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by hnfong 5y ago
> No reason for it whatsoever. The Mac had a functioning UI in the 1980s before the “defacto standards” appeared (I believe would be in the 1990s) would that explain some of the discrepancies?
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by hnfong 5y ago
It may be optional for individuals, but as a society, if a significant portion of people cannot afford to have children, that society will go "extinct" very quickly.
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by hnfong 5y ago
There are so many dimensions of skills related to software development that it's really meaningless to compare which areas are "easier" or "harder". Some people are better in some areas, and it's usually a comb
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by hnfong 5y ago
Damn. I've been coding in Python for 10+ years and never came across this "metaclass" thing. Starts wondering whether I'm rusty and un-hireable. Curious what it is, I read the first result on Google, which goes through a
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by hnfong 5y ago
Who, like Mark Zuckerberg? :D
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by hnfong 5y ago
> I actually found this video where a hyena basically took what it wanted from a leopard before the leopard took its prey up a tree. (Warning: predators with dead prey.) > https://youtu.be/cYzogF9IVLI The two animals
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by hnfong 6y ago
> Why are you assuming all the CS candidates are not passionate about the degree. I don't think I said or suggested that? What I implied is that people tend to look for jobs related to their degree if they don't have a good ide
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by hnfong 6y ago
I might be biased since I don’t have a CS degree, but I consider having a degree in the humanities a potentially more positive signal than a typical CS degree. It could indicate that the candidate is able to learn programming and software d
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by hnfong 6y ago
I consider the fundamental issue being a paradox between trusting lessons learned from past experiences and adopting to new circumstances. When you grow older, you gain more experience, and if you're intelligent, probably gain some wis
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by hnfong 6y ago
In many cultures, marriage was traditionally a more convoluted affair, involving both families and there's a strong preference to marriage with a family that your family knows and trusts. The socio-economic status of prospective mates
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by hnfong 6y ago
When looking for a mate, animals often engage in so called "irrational" behavior to signal to the other party of their readiness and seriousness for mating. This is how, for example, peacocks get their ridiculous plumage. And thus
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by hnfong 6y ago
"Iron eggs", eggs boiled multiple times across multiple days, is a delicacy in Taiwan. In case anyone is curious to see what an egg boiled for longer than usual (with soy sauce and spices) looks like. They seem to harden more and
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by hnfong 6y ago
> Nominally, it had a local legislature, but it was toothless to pass any serious labour or economic reforms. Its members were appointed by the governor until the last ~10 years. The last governor Chris Patten implemented democratic refo
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by hnfong 6y ago
So the Singapore thing is only a puzzle for those who refuse to accept that Confucian values had been working pretty well as a political ideology for hundreds of years in Asia (until the world flipped upside down in the past two centuries).
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by hnfong 6y ago
Just for completeness, many former British colonies inherited criminal defamation from the general body of English common law. Apparently UK only repealed it in 2010. Of course, Singapore is famous for actually using it, but still, in many
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by hnfong 6y ago
The link describes the problems but _not_ having a unified CJK table results in other problems. I regularly read texts in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese and some Japanese, and it's nice that at least characters that are uncont
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by hnfong 6y ago
Facts have real-world significance if it becomes part of a cultural propaganda. If one were less friendly they would say you have been "brainwashed" to believe that the European cultures (and their descendants) are entitled to mor
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by hnfong 6y ago
But how do you verify the formal specification? In a software project with sufficiently complicated features/requirements, I'd imagine the formal specification is likely as complicated as the program itself. There are ways to mak
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by hnfong 6y ago
Isn't that just a half-assed mandatory Hungarian-notation system? :-/ I mean, sure, in Perl the language "casts" the value into an appropriate type for you, but only in a few select cases..
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by hnfong 6y ago
> whereas the left is divided between more moderate and cancel culture. Apparently tucker said that the right would go into full fascist mode What you described might just be a self-fulfilling prophecy. If the moderate right routinely ge
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by hnfong 6y ago
It shouldn't take more operations (asymptotically) to delete than to probe/insert so as long as the original list is still amortized constant time then the delete operation still is.
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by hnfong 6y ago
I wasn't convinced of the gp commenter's sentiment about you being a less-than-ideal boss to work with but it seems you proved his/her point. Not sure whether you actually understand the issue raised by him/her -- the pr