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by kyllo 12y ago
Well, his wife is a second generation Chinese-American and a Cantonese speaker. So that wouldn't be a very compelling reason to learn Mandarin.
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by kyllo 12y ago
Yes, in China people really tend to appreciate any effort you make at learning their language. You don't have to be fluent to be appreciated for trying. This will go a long way in endearing him to the Chinese people.
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by kyllo 12y ago
Make some Chinese friends and speak only Chinese with them. Really listen to them and try to say the words and phrases the way they say them. You have to socialize in the language, that's really the only way to learn it.
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by kyllo 12y ago
For most people this is probably true, but I started learning Mandarin in college and now have a native-sounding accent, and I know others who have pulled it off too. I think the key was that in the first few months of studying Mandarin, I
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by kyllo 12y ago
Exactly, when the tube gets warmed up and you crank up the pre-amp gain you get a warm-sounding natural distortion that afaik is impossible to emulate with a digital amp. I used to have a Marshall JCM 2000 Dual Super Lead, that thing sounde
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by kyllo 12y ago
Research says our ability to distinguish sounds in other languages ceases after first 8 months and that's why it's harder to understand someone talking in foreign language. For me this obstacle went away with sufficient immersio
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by kyllo 12y ago
Arguably so, by way of crooked government officials making cheap capital and permits available to their friends in exchange for gifts and insider investment opportunities.
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by kyllo 12y ago
TFA is correct that corruption and inequality are major hazards. But the greatest and most immediate threat is the real estate bubble, in my observation. There have been plenty of articles pointing out that the prices are unsustainably high
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by kyllo 12y ago
I currently work at a company where this isn't the case, and I have experienced a significant jump in earnings and responsibility, and it's refreshing, but it's sort of the exception that proves the rule. Internal mobilit
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by kyllo 12y ago
Let's remember that in those 42 years the number of BASIC, FORTRAN, or COBOL jobs has diminished through to almost nothing. The last person I met who described themselves as a COBOL programmer was about 10 years ago, and even they sai
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by kyllo 12y ago
Nope, it's definitely cost. Bunker is still very very cheap.
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by kyllo 12y ago
I hear the legal recreational weed is selling out, that's part of the reason why only two stores are open, the supply is so limited. You can drive by and see a line out the door. The recreational weed is a separate supply, they had to
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by kyllo 12y ago
And as a result the price of legal recreational pot in WA is around $35 a gram which is over three times the going rate for medicinal pot and illicit pot.
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by kyllo 12y ago
Son of a doctor here. My dad told me not to go to medical school. Reading this makes me so glad I listened.
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by kyllo 12y ago
It's a historical industry term, they used to run on steam, and they're still referred to as steamship lines within the logistics industry today.
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by kyllo 12y ago
And also how poor the market intelligence informing their decision making is. After China joined the WTO in 2001 and their exports and exploded, steamship lines extrapolated that growth indefinitely and ordered as many new ships as they cou
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by kyllo 12y ago
Korea has a version of black pudding as well, it's called soondae. Pig's blood, vermicelli noodles and spices encased in pig intestine. Pretty tasty.
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by kyllo 12y ago
Yeah... I think the whole premise behind SuperPACs is the ridiculous notion that money = speech and campaign contributions are protected free speech.
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by kyllo 12y ago
...except for in JavaScript itself: ~$ node > "JavaScript is a better language than Go" ? true : false true > "JavaScript" > "Go" true
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by kyllo 12y ago
Yeah. I recently had a guy with a CS degree ring up my groceries at the supermarket. There are definitely people out there with CS degrees who cannot make it as software developers.
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by kyllo 12y ago
Ahh, I remember what it was. I saw a code snippet like this: let input = reader.read_line().ok().expect("Failed to read line"); And I thought "Cool, Rust has exceptions!" I'm probably too used to thinking i
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by kyllo 12y ago
You're right. I must have misunderstood something I read.
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by kyllo 12y ago
What I've heard from a friend who's a SDE there is that because they have a Service-Oriented Architecture the individual teams can use just about whatever language they feel is best for the particular job. The other teams don&#x27
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by kyllo 12y ago
Well, Google's C++ Style Guide[1] disallows exceptions, so it makes sense that they wouldn't put exceptions in Go either. Come to think of it, Go does seem pretty similar to the subset of C++ that Google allows their developers to
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by kyllo 12y ago
So, you did it in Go instead of Java, right? I think this is exactly what people mean when they say Go is more of a replacement for Java than it is a replacement for C++: In the sense that when Ruby and Python become too slow, people normal
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by kyllo 12y ago
Perhaps, but the problem is, with no generics or exceptions, it might just be too low-level and not expressive enough to really be a suitable Java replacement.
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by kyllo 12y ago
Rust addresses all of these problems. It's memory safe through compile-time reference counting and borrow checking (not garbage collected), and it has exceptions and generics. It also has a more powerful type system with type inference
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by kyllo 12y ago
Weird to see this mix of a very imperative for-range iterative loop with a very functional pattern match, which makes it look similar to an SML or OCaml solution to FizzBuzz. I guess this is the definition of multi-paradigm right here. Will
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by kyllo 12y ago
I think the appropriate term for languages like FORTH and assembly is "untyped."
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by kyllo 12y ago
True in some situations but totally depends on the company, on your boss, and on your performance. At my current employer I've been kicking ass at my job and getting regular raises without having to ask for them. Granted, my starting

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