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by izgzhen 5y ago
Can someone explain from supply chain perspective why Apple's new product rarely sold out (even if people have to wait in line to buy), while PS5 is still so hard to place an order despite they've already sold many million units?
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by izgzhen 5y ago
I am sometimes curious why people kept talking about a "dying" thing rather just letting it die quietly. Does it imply an underlying sentiment that we all hope someday there is a UML alternative that is truly successful?
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by izgzhen 5y ago
Wondering if there is a finer-grained datapoint on how Oculus perform (both Q1 and last year?)
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by izgzhen 5y ago
Job market is just a market, and there is no law on how much employer should pay. Employee chose one company over another on an absolute number basis, not on the ratio.
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by izgzhen 5y ago
Thanks for this reply!
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by izgzhen 5y ago
What is banned is discussion of society and politics, not their existence.
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by izgzhen 6y ago
Even for fully statically typed languages like C++, it is very common that some old code can’t compile with latest compiler. Shrugs.
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by izgzhen 6y ago
I would recommend most software engineers to avoid inventing a new configuration or other DSL and the parser/lexer for it. This can easily lead to hard-to-debug program and long-term technical debt. Always research for existing and w
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by izgzhen 6y ago
DDG will still have a hard time competing with Google in both search quality and revenue even if only keyword-based ads is allowed and used in future. Privacy is a nice feature to have, but not sufficient.
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by izgzhen 6y ago
He is a brave and responsible man. I believe a man like him was prepared and would find a new way to support his family.
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by izgzhen 6y ago
Program in CH has its own definition, which is typically not like “useful” programs that people write in real world. So it doesn’t really promise what it might seem to offer on the surface. On the other hand, formal verification of programs
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by izgzhen 6y ago
I definitely can't be calm and shooting video like this. For me, a plane flight is a totally magical blackbox, in which I just get onboard, sit, lay back, and done. Maybe I should be more informed.
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by izgzhen 6y ago
Similar to the reason why someone is married the wrong one but just can't get himself/herself to divorce. Certain types of people tend to be very averse of sunk cost even if they are well-aware that they will lose more if keep goi
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by izgzhen 6y ago
Some of the China's biggest cities already have many similarly 'over-designed' bookstores in which people went there mostly for touring/sightseeing purpose than buying actual books (since it is easier and cheaper to buy
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by izgzhen 6y ago
Data that airbnb owns values much more than their website stuff. And you need tech people in ML and data areas to manage and use these data effectively.
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by izgzhen 6y ago
They spend more in ads...
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by izgzhen 6y ago
I guess if the business idea really took off, then it doesn't really matter what language is this part of logic written in -- you can already wrap it in as a service with Web API -- or simply rewrote it in another more popular language
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by izgzhen 6y ago
GitHub offered something called Dependabot -- and the point I want to make here is that I've see SOOOOO many semi-active projects (like, dozens of stars and some downstream users) which just ignore the PRs opened by Dependabot. These m
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by izgzhen 6y ago
Thanks! I am asking since I am not sure it this is aligned with some of my childhood memory. Back in my days as a pupil in China, I don't have to bind the book but still need to buy two things for each new textbook: 1. A plastic separa
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by izgzhen 6y ago
Zoom takes care of customers with very heterogenous device/network conditions, which makes it reliable solution: (1) Zoom works even in pretty bad network environment, and provides phone call fallback out of box; (2) Zoom provides a va
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by izgzhen 6y ago
Sorry for being a complete outsider but can someone explain why DIY bookbinding is interesting and/or useful?
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by izgzhen 6y ago
The fact that average people can write useful programs are largely due to the maturity of software engineering practices, which was just beginning to develop at EWD's time. Software engineering != developing algorithms. And unfortunate
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by izgzhen 6y ago
It seems that Gmail is no longer a priority of Google, which is actually reasonable. Email provider is hardly a growing business anymore, and the market is also full of small players. How much gmail user will bother to transfer to other ser
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Ask HN: Why is naming things in programming so hard?
9 points by izgzhen 6y ago|16 comments
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by izgzhen 6y ago
Men/Women ratio is about 2/1; About 99% are Han people (which is not surprising considering it is Shanghai); Most common org: retirement branch. Actually, so many of them has "退休" in it which means "retirement"
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by izgzhen 6y ago
UPDATED: added support for remark.js slideshow
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by izgzhen 6y ago
UPDATE: add support for rendering reStructuredText source file now.
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by izgzhen 6y ago
UPDATE: added support for front-matter, pandoc format, and also supports rendering directory and vanilla HTML sources now.
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by izgzhen 6y ago
https://dochost.me Shameless promotion of a tool for hosting fancy rendered CSS/HTML in Github as a permalink w/ comment box.
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by izgzhen 6y ago
UPDATE: implemented...with help of a Rainier beer.

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