merlinran

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by merlinran 2y ago
What would you use Redis or substitutions for in embedded/ clientside applications? Seriously asking.
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by merlinran 3y ago
How about filter the tap water? much more convenient, economic, and healthy than keep buying drinks.
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by merlinran 3y ago
28% is not majority. Plus the hard part shouldn't prevent us from doing the easy part with much higher ROI.
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by merlinran 3y ago
This role is played by the smart phones in China. The customers pay by scanning the printed QR code, and upon success, the WeChat or Alipay app on the vendor's phone reads out the amount loud.
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by merlinran 4y ago
People don't automatically be free if every western company stops doing business in China. Withdrawing from the market can't really do anything about that unless it can put a lot of pressure on the power holders.
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by merlinran 4y ago
> I'm more of the mind that happiness is better as a side effect of a good life than the sole pursuit of your life. People who chase happiness as their primary meaning to exist usually are not very interesting and highly materialist
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by merlinran 4y ago
Well working with machines wouldn't need sprint planning and code review. I think peer programmers are also uncontrollable, the business requirements and technology evolvements can be unpredictable, and the customers/users have th
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by merlinran 4y ago
A proper UI is not about telling people how the things are done, it's about managing/meeting users' expectations on how the things are done, so it's pretty valid to let the users wait longer if that makes them feel bette
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by merlinran 4y ago
Industrialized agriculture would push most people out of land (no longer need that many people), and if the people can't find alternative for living they would be even poorer. If there are better alternatives, peasant farmers will chas
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by merlinran 4y ago
Trexo Robotics (YC W19) | Android Software Developer | REMOTE (America time zones) Trexo Robotics ( https://trexorobotics.com/work-with-trexo/ ) is enabling people to walk by building powered wearable robots, starting fr
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by merlinran 4y ago
I would argue that boilerplates should be minimized in the first place. Regardless how fast it is to generate them, reading them over and over again together with the code human write is a huge waste of energy.
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by merlinran 5y ago
Feel sad to hear such stories. It should have not been in this way. There have been many companies doing remote for years and sharing experiences out loud. And Slack can be used wisely, with just a little bit of discipline.
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by merlinran 5y ago
Had been in the same situation for years. Read a paper, encounter the first equation, scratch my head and search around trying to understand it, give up. That changed half a month ago, after watching the Linear Algebra and Calculus course a