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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
I think a lot of it has to do with mental status, which can be concluded with one sentence -- "Are you happy with your life, and if not do you have a clear path to reach that?". People who say no probably has a lot of trouble to g
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
It's different. Electron apps all look the same without actually making much efforts to make them "personal" -- they just want to release an app ASAP so they chose Electron. On the other hand, the Win32 era "skins"
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
I wonder what is the memory foot print of the notepad application in NT 3.1/3.5? The OS is supposed to run on 16MB systems so 1.8MB is definitely a LOT.
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
Wow this could be painful, to try to recreate something from scratch. Would QT make it work?
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
I don't know. They look cool. If someone wants to bring them back it's a viable option. I'd definitely welcome it.
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
Just ask along the line "Do you have someone from FAANG as a director/VP? Because I have worked with a few and really loved the learning process" and do a bit of research once you know the name of the hiring manager.
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
This should deserve a black top.
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
Yeah that could be the explanation.
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
I have a feeling that those slim margins don't really mean that Walmart is making e.g. 3 bucks on every 100 bucks ( https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/profit... ). There gotta be a
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
China's unofficial policy is to allow and tolerant competition within the sector -- and their economics model encourages the creation of a lot of companies in the same sectors too.
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
Not a new idea and the intention seems to be good. I wonder how will the implementation go. Where does the stores source merchandises? What is the volume of the five stores in total? How do they plan to offer a better price -- is it a perce
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
“more, better, faster,” I have heard these words, almost verbatim, from manager-yes-men coming from a FAANG background, and surprisingly concentrated in a certain demography (if someone find this offensive, I'll remove this part). My C
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
I don't know, but just look at Iran and US. Where is "rule of law"? Who is going to give it magically? Packages = ways to "adapt" to the challenges of the world.
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
For a start, they have bodyguards and rarely go into public without the right protection. They also went through a huge amount putting up security and cybersecurity (like I know one who sets up so many hops between endpoints that Microsoft
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
TBH people in AI may also resent AI, because they are the first to be impacted by AI. They just don't say openly because frankly no one wants to lose his/her job.
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
I'm not saying that violence is legal -- which is definitely not. But it is part of the "packages" and totally depends on whether the one wants to use. Historically violence has been a very...effective tool. When people feel
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
Is MFC that bad? I'm inclined to learn it now and see it with my eyes. I dabbed into Win32 programming for a bit (really just a bit, like a few days) and it was tedious, but not really anything bad.
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
I think the whole world sails on that ship and MSFT just wants to catch up. Their most darling developer tools since 10 years ago are mostly by web and for web: Typescript, VSCode.
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Hedley Combs Davis passed away(twitter.com)
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
That's the point. I haven't but I would like to, and I realize that the so called "engineering" problems I work on is NOT real engineering. OK I was probably wrong about that "not hard" though.
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by hnthrowaway0315 6mo ago
I'd argue that once you have a very well defined requirement doc that mostly kicks humans out of the picture, as well as a patient boss who doesn't want anything ASAP or "Tomorrow morning first thing", engineering is not
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by hnthrowaway0315 7mo ago
Thanks for sharing!
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by hnthrowaway0315 7mo ago
Did your team work similar jobs as described in the book? That must be fantastic! Yeah I know most of work is 80% chore, but at least the other 20% part is fantastic.
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by hnthrowaway0315 7mo ago
RIP. I kept a copy of the book at hand and read it from time to time whenever I need a boost of morale. It is very inspiring -- although the reality was probably more gruesome and less glorious. I keep roleplaying the roles in the books in
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by hnthrowaway0315 7mo ago
I think the same method might be used again in a future conflict with China, when the question of life and death becomes serious. Not saying that I LIKE it, but I think it is at least plausible, and with a non-insignificant (note the double
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by hnthrowaway0315 7mo ago
> Scientists from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, and Syria are considered “high risk.” I think this makes sense from a national security perspective (although I doubt there is any scientist coming from these countries
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by hnthrowaway0315 7mo ago
This might work well for power users, but common users may frustrate out. I do think the classic UI + keyboard driven menu clicks (e.g. ALT+some key combination) is the best case, where power uses can mostly use key stroke combinations to n
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by hnthrowaway0315 7mo ago
I think it is both nostalgic and pragmatic. I don't have to second guess what's the point of a widget, or even whether there is a widget. In default MacOS setting, the scrollbar is invisible, which literally spent me many minutes
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by hnthrowaway0315 7mo ago
I think Windows 95/2000 and the contemporary MacOS (including the then future MacOS X) have the best UI in everything I used in my 30+ years of tech life. I sincerely hope that one day we could go back to that road. If you want that ac
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by hnthrowaway0315 7mo ago
I think the biggest problem of IRGC is that they grabbed a large share of economy but spent a lot of that in geopolitical expansion for the last 1-2 decades. This in turn contributed to a more fragile Iranian economy and high inflation, whi

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