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by kev6168 9y ago
Sorry for the late reply. My work has been mostly business applications and web site backend stuff, and I am happy to continue doing it. But I also like to learn native mobile app development (bothe iOS and Android) to expand my skillset.
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Ask HN: Should I learn Kotlin or Golang?
5 points by kev6168 9y ago|14 comments
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by kev6168 10y ago
>> Technically speaking, the app is amazing. This. Also, the app's user interface is super intuitive despite providing so many advanced functionalities (which are very stable and just works). I don't have stats or anything,
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by kev6168 10y ago
A technique that I have found to be useful is to focus my attention on studying the people themselves , not the words they are saying. By that I mean I turn myself temporarily into a researcher who is watching people (not creepily), and tr
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by kev6168 10y ago
You are right, HTC Vive is actually mentioned in their product detail page. The listed price is 68000 RMB, about 10K USD. I guess this includes the entire headset, a high-end computer, and the platform itself. No idea how big the margin wou
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by kev6168 10y ago
Last month I saw a machine similar to this [1] at a trade show in Guangzhou, I asked some kids after they finished playing, they all loved it very much. [1] https://detail.1688.com/pic/536274760161.html?spm=0.0.0.0.J0..
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by kev6168 10y ago
I think people don't trust each others to "give back", and that's the reason people rely on guanxi, instead of trusting normal social contract and normal civil relationship between strangers. They want to have extra fixe
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by kev6168 10y ago
Extreme lack of trust between all entities (individuals and institutions) is the fundamental reason for the extreme guanxi phenomena in China. Practicing guanxi is for __survival__ in China, not merely for getting a better deal, as is ofte
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by kev6168 10y ago
There is Livecode (livecode.org). Does anyone have experience using it in production? It's cross-platform and has both commercial and open source (community) versions.
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by kev6168 10y ago
My anecdote: more than a few times I was asked by small Chinese sellers on Amazon and Ebay (introduced by mutual acquaintances) to help them write emails to press unhappy customers to remove their negative reviews left on Amazon or Ebay, in
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by kev6168 10y ago
Short-term gain, long-term loss for the American consumers. If the Chinese will simply copy and crush many honest businesses then not many people will want to spend on R&D, on developing novel designs. The result is stagnation in innova
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by kev6168 10y ago
I agree the craziness of China's society today is because people are lost in a unfamiliar era. The old life style where family and village are at the absolute center is gone, but the new structure with comprehensive and strictly enforc
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Las Vegas firm seeking high-speed rail cuts ties with China company(lasvegassun.com)
1 points by kev6168 10y ago|0 comments
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by kev6168 10y ago
When reading translated poems for enjoyment, not for language studying, I make an effort to regard them as original creations in the second language to avoid being distracted by nitpicking translation issues.
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by kev6168 11y ago
oh lots of 'fightings' are needed. Those fightings are very strange and pointless work to a westerner, but actually are the necessary and normal things to do in the Chinese business environment, things like 1. thorough research on
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by kev6168 11y ago
There are a few places where you can lodge strong protest and send legal notice: State Intellectual Property Office of China http://english.sipo.gov.cn/lxfs/ China Internet Network Information Center http://
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Neovim development part two(reddit.com)
1 points by kev6168 11y ago|0 comments
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by kev6168 11y ago
IMHO, China is still full of tech copycats. What they have done so far is applying western technologies/business models to the Chinese market, maybe some modifications here and there for the local culture and marketing schemes, but har
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by kev6168 11y ago
Qihoo is listed at NYSE (went public in 2011), regulations and consumer protections are better enforced in many overseas markets than in China. I usually look for English version if I have to use software produced by certain Chinese softwar
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by kev6168 11y ago
Can you uninstall Qihoo360's software easily nowadays? Four years ago I helped a friend to clean up his PC and it took me more than _two hours_ to remove numerous little pieces Qihoo had put in every corners of his system. I had to sea
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List of prizes for evidence of the paranormal(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by kev6168 11y ago|1 comments
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by kev6168 11y ago
Genuine question: how does Org-Mode handle mindmap style information management? By "mindmap" I mean applications such as Freemind, Xmind, etc.? I recently started to use Xmind after years of Vimoutliner. Both the upsides and down
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by kev6168 11y ago
You can guess I haven't used their services since then, not sure if they let you do that easily now.
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by kev6168 11y ago
I lost 4 years' emails (1998-2002) because my account was inactive for a mere 6 months! Contacted Yahoo in 2002 but couldn't get my emails back.
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Ask HN: Let's share our favorite mnemonics (Even better if it's created by you)
1 points by kev6168 11y ago|0 comments
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Hugo Best Novel Award Winner: The Three Body Problem(thehugoawards.org)
23 points by kev6168 11y ago|4 comments
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by kev6168 11y ago
Yeah I thought we were talking hypothetically and in a very general sense (hence the obviously made up numbers to merely indicate some scales) about an inherently very general issue.
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by kev6168 11y ago
The parachute analogy is worth exploring. Let's say in a life time, the accident rates due to packing a parachute quickly is 1/10000, and the fatal rate of the slow packing group is 1/1000000. Even though the fast group faces
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by kev6168 11y ago
Working quickly is important because it's the better method to survive and thrive. Quickly producing 100 deliverables with qualities ranging from shit to pretty good, will probably on average always defeat carefully crafting one deliv
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by kev6168 11y ago
The name 'Standard Treasury' is a little bit on the grandiose side to be honest. 'Standard Markdown'? :-) In some culture, people deliberately give their little children rustic/ugly/low-key names in the hopes o

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