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by jamesli 12y ago
Right. If the pipeline is not as proportionally diversified as the general population, it is senseless to ask the final hires as proportionally diversified. If they dig deep and analyze the race diversity of women in tech, I bet the data wo
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by jamesli 12y ago
Thumb up on the comments on "the East Version of Chess". Go is not a Japanese game, though. It was originated in China more than 2000 years ago. It is very popular in both China, Japan, and South Korea. [I don't know how it i
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by jamesli 12y ago
Because digit numbers are not foreign to Chinese. As simple as that. The majority of Chinese don't speak any western languages. A domain name of letters is no different from a random combination of letters to them, even if the name is
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Malaysia Jet Changed Course at Time of Disappearance, Officials Say(nytimes.com)
1 points by jamesli 13y ago|0 comments
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Why the Malaysia Airlines jet might have disappeared(bigstory.ap.org)
4 points by jamesli 13y ago|1 comments
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by jamesli 13y ago
Seriously? No Asians are mentioned at all.
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by jamesli 13y ago
I am strongly against the so-called lunch interview as well, if the candidate is already scheduled to meet 4 or more persons. When I am scheduled to have lunch with candidates, I never brought up any topics related to work, unless the candi
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by jamesli 13y ago
It is utterly ill-advised. Software design is about abstraction, to make code modular, flexible, and extensible. It doesn't matter it is OOP or FP. Both approaches have their own advantages and limitations. The dogmatic answer is misle
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Sleep 'Detoxes' The Brain, New Research Suggests(forbes.com)
2 points by jamesli 13y ago|0 comments
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Discovery Showdown: iTunes Radio, Pandora And Spotify(forbes.com)
1 points by jamesli 13y ago|0 comments
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by jamesli 13y ago
It is exaggeration "by transplanting feces from thin people". It is for eye-catching. I believe scientists will strive to identify the bacterium or bacteria, grow and purify them in an emotionally-acceptable environment. The bacte
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by jamesli 13y ago
Both Mandarin and Wu (or to be specific, many variations of Wu Chinese) are often heard in Shanghai. Mandarin is used as the common language for people who come from all over China.
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by jamesli 13y ago
Agree. It is not sufficient to use mutual intelligibility to distinguish language from dialect.
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by jamesli 13y ago
It involves more than linguistic characteristics to distinguish language from dialect. One can argue for both cases. I personally prefer to think of Chinese as a language family. It would be a much larger, and very interesting, topic. For t
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by jamesli 13y ago
Many people think Mandarin and Cantonese are basically the same language, or Cantonese is an accent of Mandarin. It is understandable since the majority of early Chinese immigrants were from Canton Province (or Guangdong Province), where Ca
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by jamesli 13y ago
"Keep in mind that there are many dialects of Mandarin and what this ministry is referring to is the fact that people do not speak the Beijing dialect well, which is the national standard." Strictly speaking, 1) there are many dia
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by jamesli 13y ago
I want to add an interesting personal experience. My native language is a Northeastern dialect in China. The dialect doesn't distinguish well the sounds between /z/ and /zh/, between /c/ and /ch/
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by jamesli 13y ago
> their role is to get resumes in front of the real decision makers For recruiting technical people, it is ideal that the recruiters has relevant technical background. The reality is mostly the opposite. So you never know how many good c
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by jamesli 13y ago
Technical people also look for "signals" or "red flags" during interview. They ask themselves questions like, if the candidate is a good fit for the team, if I want to work with him, etc. HR people are not necessarily be
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by jamesli 13y ago
+1
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by jamesli 13y ago
卜居浣花流水水西头，主人为卜林塘幽。已知出郭少尘事，更有澄江销客愁。无数蜻蜓齐上下，一双鸂鶒对沉浮。东行万里堪乘兴，须向山阴上小舟。 [edit] The English translation is excellent.
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What Happened to Asiana Airlines Flight 214(sooeet.com)
1 points by jamesli 13y ago|0 comments
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by jamesli 13y ago
Ruby has many awesome features, like metaprogramming. But methods without parenthesis, method definitions with operators, etc.? [edit] I am NOT a native English speaker. Is OP's blog supposed to be a joke and I don't get it?
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by jamesli 13y ago
It was not played by one terrestrial station, but played by all the terrestrial stations that signed the royalty contracts with the company which represents the artists and collects the royalties. Of course, the company gets a big chunk of
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by jamesli 13y ago
Each play in Pandora is only listened by one and only one person. Each play in terrestrial broadcasts is listened by potentially thousands of people, depending on the demographics of the covering areas. So it is uni-cast vs broadcast. If th
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A Model Cloud Made Of Raspberry Pi & Lego (techcrunch.com)
1 points by jamesli 13y ago|0 comments
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JavaScript is the new Perl(ocpsoft.org)
40 points by jamesli 14y ago|50 comments
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by jamesli 14y ago
IMHO, pair programming is suitable for developers who can talk, think, type, and keep basic social interactions at the same time, or can switch between them smoothly. I am able to make context switch very quickly and am very focus when work
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by jamesli 14y ago
Great work! One question: is there any manual that explains the implementation details of the internals? Some manual similar to those Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, etc. provide? The only docs I found in the company website that goes deep into th
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by jamesli 14y ago
Excellent point! Be-in-present is the essence of some sects of Zen, especially in Japanese Zen. Sweeping the yard is not only to clean the yard. It is a practice, a meditation, to sweep the distracted thought of one's brain. Same as arrangi

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