meric

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   by meric 9y ago

   I wake up an hour before sunrise, open the curtains, go back to bed. When the sun is up it shines brightly into my room it's much easier to wake up.
2. 362.▲
   by meric 9y ago

   You're right a lot of the loanwords and similarities between the languages could and likely happened later on. I think there's no way Cantonese and Vietnamese don't have lots of connections with the ancient Yue people; A whol
3. 363.▲
   by meric 9y ago

   Considering how much more abundant we are, in terms of CPU, RAM, Disk space, compared to twenty years ago, and also in terms of food, clothing, shelter, compared to a thousand years ago, IMO we're only going to find more ways to consum
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   by meric 9y ago

   The best technology where "best" means it actually does something useful for people, rather than whatever we, engineering types, think it is.
5. 365.▲
   by meric 9y ago

   Keep doing the freelancing and keep doing contract positions, build up a portfolio and gain some more work experience in the field, which you can then talk about more in detail in interviews for full time roles. I think one or two years of
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   by meric 9y ago

   Probably because two thousand plus years ago the area that is now called Guangdong, and the area that is now Vietnam, was inhabited by the same people; And then the Guangdong area was conquered by China. The people who lived in Guangdong in
7. 367.▲
   by meric 9y ago

   Garbage collection or at least some sort of built in memory management that is consistent in all programs for that language.
8. 368.▲
   by meric 9y ago

   And that difference is temporal - in the same way Obama as a person can change and payday loan interest rates and regulations can fluctuate
9. 369.▲
   by meric 9y ago

   I'd count commodity electronics in there.
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    by meric 9y ago

    I think this is where the perceived "ageism" comes in...
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    by meric 9y ago

    Amazon.
12. 372.▲
    by meric 9y ago

    I think it's worth learning NodeJS if you're interested in it. I have heard of PHP backend and NodeJS (building react, redux etc) stacks. So I suggest do both.
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    by meric 9y ago

    Jesse Livermore's strategy.
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    by meric 9y ago

    "but the thought of losing a chance to do" Einstein worked at the Patent Office pushing paperwork too. He had spent two frustrating years looking for a job "he wanted to do" before that. https://en.wikipedia.o
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    by meric 9y ago

    I remember back before I knew about variables, when I started learning programming, thinking about a programming problem for whole days, and figured out how to store intermediate computed values in MacOSX text fields and retrieve them later
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    by meric 9y ago

    He's not at that level yet!
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    by meric 9y ago

    Before Kim Jong Un took power, people were protesting the government. These days they fear him, while proclaiming "‘What has he done for us?". According to Tao Te Ching, verse 17, Kim Jong Un is more capable than his father: With
18. 378.▲
    by meric 9y ago

    I think it's because for 9000 euros the students can study medicine in their home countries at a good university and not have to learn German, then move many places in the world with a skilled employment visa.
19. 379.▲
    by meric 9y ago

    And tells you they've stopped reading.
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    by meric 9y ago

    I repealed your argument before the accusation of your own willingness to punish others in pursuit of your ideology merely highlight your own hypocrisy. There is no subtlety there. EDIT: You changed the label of the group you demonise, &quo
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    by meric 9y ago

    There are many Muslim while paying Zakat also believe themselves to be acting in the name "God's Will". I disagree with you linking demanding punishment of others and acting in the name of God. https://news.ycombin
22. 382.▲
    by meric 9y ago

    How can you talk about the formation of Taliban without mentioning the CIA?
23. 383.▲
    by meric 9y ago

    Good work, you've managed to paint all religious persons under one brush.
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    by meric 9y ago

    A lot of the times by the time the thought appears in our minds, it has already been pre-thought by our subconscious. First impressions, for example. E.g. When we read the neural-linked menu of a restaurant, maybe by accessing the part of o
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    by meric 9y ago

    It's comparative to the "espresso machine in the office" perk. When you bump into your colleagues in the morning you have an extra talking point.
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    by meric 9y ago

    Yes; I think his statement is more trying to describe his own inability to separate the wheat from the chaff; Most startups do fail and he can't differentiate between the good ones and bad ones; And after all, whatsapp was once a start
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    by meric 10y ago

    Well I use a parser combinator to build the Lua parser here. https://github.com/meric/l2l/blob/master/l2l/lua.lua#L429 The parser generated is recursive descent.
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    by meric 10y ago

    Thanks :-) What are the syntax features most jarring to you? I suspect it's the ones that's been ported from Lua but I'm not sure.
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    by meric 10y ago

    That looks great I will give it a go sometime!
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    by meric 10y ago

    If it helps I'm thinking of expanding the usage of those bindings to function keyword and default arguments as well. :)