leafboi

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by leafboi 6y ago
>"It says a lot about the general attitude of Chinese people" in the context of a story about fraud is obvious flamebait. The context is fraud in China. The context involves multiple people from all walks of life and society in
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by leafboi 6y ago
>"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." and "Eschew flamebait." I mean, tbh, these are rather vague guidelines. You could say my comments are "thoughtful a
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by leafboi 6y ago
>it seems Pulsar needs to be an order of magnitude more performant to capture developer mindshare. Just to add to this, ease of use/setup is also a huge factor. There are technologies I can just spin up with zero knowledge and learn
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by leafboi 6y ago
This wasn't flame bait. It was just an observation. Please realize that it was other people who decided to flame. Just because someone decides to have a bad attitude doesn't make my post flame bait. I made a general observation ab
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by leafboi 6y ago
translation: If you can cheat, cheat. literal word for word translation: Can cheat. Do cheat. In Chinese the word lie can be used in place of cheat and in this context it means something similar to cheating other people.
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by leafboi 6y ago
It's a society/cultural/behavioral thing. In China they have a saying: 能骗就骗.
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by leafboi 6y ago
For sure, thanks for being more specific. I definitely noticed the overall attitude is generally different for Asians who are not of Chinese Nationality.
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by leafboi 6y ago
In my example above i specifically cited someone who makes guns or nuclear weapons. Those people make bombs and guns knowing full well that these weapons will kill less people than cars even though the base intention of the weapon is to kil
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by leafboi 6y ago
The kind of cultural attitude you describe reflects the supply and demand logistics of the economic conditions that were responsible for modern China as it is today. Modern China was built off the backs of Cheap Manual laborers
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by leafboi 6y ago
What's nuts about this how tons of people from all levels of government/society participated in this conspiracy. It says a lot about the general attitude of Chinese people. (I'm chinese, btw)
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by leafboi 6y ago
Makes sense. Even if the creator of the car never had the intention of making cars so that police men can use the cars to oppress people; the creators of those cars become liable as soon as they have knowledge of what those cars are used fo
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by leafboi 6y ago
You're talking about things like dependency injection. I'm not a huge fan of testing but "testable code" when written in a certain way (without dependency injection) actually has many external benefits that don't ha
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by leafboi 6y ago
>100% test coverage is likely impossible, but if we do find errors, we can learn from them and try to prevent them happening in the future by adding them to the tests. You do know there's a way to verify a function to a degree of 10
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by leafboi 6y ago
It's largely because they're dealing with an area with no theoretical tools. Any time you hit an area that are full of people "Designing" solutions/abstractions rather then "Calculating" an optimal solutio