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I loved reading how they optimized the search problem. Charlie has CS education, the way they sorted their tuples and organized their data (as long as it's not by name!) reduced query times. Ironically, a CS education can help you opti
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You can have your cake and eat it too. If you have to build a native desktop app, you can use Chromium Embedded Framework. Spotify is one of its biggest users. You can still build your UI in HTML but drive it with native code (C++, Objecti
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I think in many ways, though, the self-taught guys are going to be very adaptive and resourceful to learn new things. The difference in knowledge can often be compared to a self-taught home cook and a formally-trained cook. I once had an in
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That's exactly the reason I chose that descriptor. In fact, the field "Computer Science" may not have existed before.
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Right, and I agree everyone has gaps in their knowledge. People obviously specialize and I wouldn't ever work on compilers, for example. I'm just describing what I often see the self-taught "millennial" programmer is mis
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I think one of things that "millennial" self-taught programmers have trouble understanding is OS. While the need to implement OS functionality is now a niche (like process scheduling), I have noticed that "millennial" se
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This is interesting. With the wave of workout studios like Barry's Bootcamp and Core 40 becoming extremely popular in America, I wonder if Kung Fu could be transformed into a workout class in America, or even in Hong Kong. I wonder if
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That's the argument I was making above--that being able to block emails and phone numbers is just as expressive as making phone calls and emails. Same thing with hosts file and ad blocking; people are guaranteed the right to privacy an
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I think this is a valid question--not sure why people want to bury this post, because I'm interested to hear this out. I think it's the same argument and laws that apply against emails. Some say that it's equally "first
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I do hope they use the same care and due process as they do with root certificate inclusion in the public suffix list (as well as the ability to add/remove entries manually). I think this is a great move for better security, but with g
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But what is the solution? Does the US build its own GFW to "protect" its own Internet? If a Chinese company wants to build a service that Americans can use, aside from blocking credit card payments for those services, the US woul
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That's definitely much easier. Crossing Shenzhen to Hong Kong is literally getting off the Shenzhen subway, crossing a bridge, and entering Hong Kong immigration and MTR.
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That's hardly true that Uber was treated fairly. Uber drivers faced hurdles from local government (being unable to issue a tax receipt), while Didi could do so. Uber drivers and headquarters faced frequent harassment from Hong Kong aut
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I remember reading this comment awhile back when China shut the door on Uber: "They open the door, allow foreign companies to enter and train locals in the technology and then slam the door when they gain traction." Google executi
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Is there a federal lawsuit or question at play here? IANAL, but interstate commerce comes to mind. What punitive measures or recourse does a state have on an out of state vendor like Netflix?
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Is the Quickbooks integration with online or desktop or both?
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The problem with this idea is C is an advanced language requiring one to be very careful with memory (referencing, allocation, deallocation, etc). If we are to keep C in its essence with well-defined behavior, managing memory still seems to
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Even though WiX isnt point and click I'm still impressed how easy it is to add uninstalling of old versions with a few lines of XML
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WiX's biggest issue is the lack of documentation. I actually quite like WiX because of some pretty good tooling (like heat to create WiX definitions for files to install, or dark to reverse engineer MSIs). Custom Action DLLs in C++ are
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Use a cover depicting flowers or palm trees, nobody will suspect anything--or as the poster suggested via YouTube video, a cover with the title "Ass Eating Made Simple" /s But yes, I could see that too...
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What I do in addition to freezing food that I can't finish is preserving them in mason jars, either by jamming them with sugars, or curing them with salt. You end up with completely different food products with different flavor profile
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As a practical consideration, one might be able to wrap a cover around a book. If one is peering over your shoulder, an ebook might be advised with a privacy screen.
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But I think for it to have meaningful impact we need interstate public roads to have self-driving. I haven't looked at the statistics, but most deadly accidents I read of late happen on interstate roads. Edit: It's unthinkable at
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That's only one lane that is enforced to a varying degree (hardly in CA), and subject to cheating. I think in order for cars to become safer we need to force the human out of the driver's seat. Even if we had a hybrid system, self
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Singapore also has a political framework that could force self-driving car adoption if the powers that be want it. Things that could be mandated such as self-driving only car lanes and motorways could be possible given the small size of Si
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My wife is a CPA and former auditor at E&Y, and mentions that transfer pricing is one of the trickiest things in corporate accounting (relying on "judgment calls" rather than binary decisions). It comes as no surprise that the
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Does Netflix have an integration with the ERP? Is the ERP self-hosted, on cloud, or SaaS (like NetSuite)? Very curious to read if G/L is integrated or if transactions are posted manually on an end-of-month basis. Edit: it seems like th
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I think that partly explains why non-American airlines use miles over kilometers for frequent flyer rewards program. A program denominated in kilometers would have to undergo conversion to miles if being deposited into a US account holder.
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What I find interesting (perhaps confusing is the better word for me) is that the other article from a few days ago that proclaimed drinking leads to cancer didn't mention that the moderate drinkers have fewer risk factors than the con
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Is there anything in C++11/14/17 that contains this? Could you use locks, or is that less performant? I'm very interested in using this since I do have a multithreaded Windows app that appends and processes a queue (a long po

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