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by kenver 8y ago
I don't think that attitude is unique to Chinese people. My experience is based on my name rather than looks. Whenever people from my father's country ask me my name, they suddenly expect me to speak their language - and then to
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by kenver 8y ago
Thanks for the generosity: kemalenver
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MyHeritage breach leaks millions of account details(theverge.com)
3 points by kenver 8y ago|0 comments
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TSB crisis: IT meltdown enters third week 'but progress being made'(theguardian.com)
3 points by kenver 8y ago|0 comments
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TSB tries to switch but computer says ‘no’(thetimes.co.uk)
1 points by kenver 8y ago|0 comments
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by kenver 8y ago
Ah my bad, I misremembered a talk I heard once. I'll check out the book. Thanks.
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by kenver 8y ago
It’s not puke inducing, but it is verbose. The language designers just took a different approach to how to write code. Just for some background, it came out at a similar time to c++. Both were designed to be a ‘better c’
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by kenver 8y ago
One of the toughest experiences of my work life was my viva. The examiner picks at every hole in your work and you need to have an answer. Even if the answer is acknowledging it and proposing future work. It's a very useful experien
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Japan has found a ‘semi-infinite’ deposit of rare earth minerals(business.financialpost.com)
2 points by kenver 8y ago|0 comments
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by kenver 9y ago
There’s a big difference between being tunnel visioned on architecture and not getting anything done, and the very common scenario of not seeming to care at all. Having been a contractor at many companies Im pretty sick and saddened of seei
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by kenver 9y ago
Unfortunately they do mix paid content in. I built it in to one of their apps after much complaining about what it was going to do to the user experience, but they have to pay for the publication somehow.
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by kenver 9y ago
Clearly just stop his name getting split, but it's also a nice bonus that it's semantically correct http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nob
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by kenver 9y ago
You might find Rodney Brooks’ work interesting if you’re not familiar already.
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by kenver 9y ago
I visited for a couple of months just before the war. Such an amazing country with beautiful ancient cities. Here are some photos I posted a while ago from a similar thread: http://imgur.com/a/gkqlj#0
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by kenver 9y ago
I wonder if there are any other professions, other than pro sports people, where this would be a reasonable question to ask. In most professions experience is desired, in fact I'd go so far as to say you only start becoming decent at y
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Mapping GHQ Lines in Google Earth (2015)(chriskolonko.wordpress.com)
2 points by kenver 10y ago|0 comments
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by kenver 10y ago
Here's another anecdotal story. I just got my visa for Australia so I'm going there in June. I also know 3 other friends who are leaving. We're all leaving because we don't want to be in a country that's so preoc
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by kenver 10y ago
You can buy ketone strips that will indicate whether you are experiencing ketosis. They react to your urine.
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by kenver 10y ago
Totally agree with you. Further to that he is assuming that picking up Swift or Objective-C is the hard part of developing in the Apple ecosystem, when in my view it's picking up the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch APIs which are shared by eith
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by kenver 10y ago
Out of context like that it seems really obvious, but with the background of the character (he likes playing video games to relax), the first time I saw that it didn't seem so out of place for him to be interested in the gadgets. It d
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by kenver 10y ago
I wrote a toy compiler a very long time ago and I'd like to try again. Do you have any links/recommendations for resources that would be a good starting place?
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Government Hackers Caught Using Unprecedented iPhone Spy Tool(motherboard.vice.com)
7 points by kenver 10y ago|0 comments
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Friends Reunited is over(medium.com)
1 points by kenver 11y ago|0 comments
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by kenver 12y ago
I was fortunate enough to go there as a tourist about a year before everything started getting blown up. It was a beautiful place with some of the most amazing heritage anywhere in the world. It's really hard to do it justice with wor
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by kenver 12y ago
I can't believe you bothered to take the time to write that. Who cares what his running pace is, and more to the point why do you? I think the point of the submission was to highlight the quality of the site. Not some strangers fitness
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by kenver 12y ago
I really like Spotify and I love that they're making this API available. But we just saw netflix shutting down their API. Are Spotify committed to keeping this around, or will they just shut it off in a few months when it becomes too
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How to open microchips and see what's inside.(zeptobars.ru)
3 points by kenver 13y ago|0 comments
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Steve Wozniak: I feel guilty for enabling surveillance(guardian.co.uk)
10 points by kenver 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Runners GPS watch for hackers
1 points by kenver 14y ago|0 comments
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by kenver 14y ago
That was true but there have been some recent developments so I'm not sure if it is still the case. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17218968

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