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namelosw
7y ago
I was against the algorithm tests or something more like exams before. Until I interviewed a lot of people with my colleagues during these years. Interview processes are highly biased based on the knowledge of the interviewer's backgro
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namelosw
7y ago
From my experience, it doesn't destroy focus. I just don't look at it and turn off the notification and switch to it when I take a break. Those guys demand direct response destroy focus.
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namelosw
7y ago
Except they can't, things like Instagram and WhatsApp are blocked and taken down from the AppStore. If there's new they would also be taken down. Any forums or messing app alike must do ISP registration from the government, the cl
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namelosw
7y ago
This is more accurate about the current state, people can talk about politic in person in normal volume in public like metro or mall, or just through Wechat as long as you don't affect collective. A lot of People in person say bad word
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namelosw
7y ago
Yes, Most of the time 可 means 'able' in '__able'. But it could also be 'a thing that can be easily loved'. Rr simply, 'pleasing'. For example, 可口 means tasty. So, 可爱 could be understood in both ways a
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namelosw
7y ago
I personally don't find it useful. But it might be my own problem because I cannot get rid of the idea of questioning meditation itself. However if you are in doubt like me try take a nap. I find 20mins nap at noon also works great.
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namelosw
7y ago
It probably "A Haskell program compiles does not crash if you don't use a specific set of functions". But it probably could be true for a lot of languages, but for Haskell, the set is much smaller Dependent type can let you a
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namelosw
7y ago
I'm from China, I'm actually shocked to see people in the US or France do that all the time. Usually, it seems private properties are destroyed during the process. But why? If it is the government people protest, but why do people
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namelosw
7y ago
The problem is like 'is Erlang an Actor language?'. The answer is yes. Carl Hewitt developed the Actor model based on Smalltalk in the 1970s. Joe Armstrong created Erlang in the 1980s, which he didn't know the Actor model at
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namelosw
7y ago
I just found I forgot to attach the link for Nine_familial_exterminations[0] in the original reply. Shared sentencing was common, but I believe there's nuance between European feudal kingdoms and eastern empires. In Machiavelli's
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7y ago
China has a different culture. One reason that western people having protesting culture because of historically authoritarians are less powerful and less cruel than the eastern ones. Take the 'nine familial exterminations'[0] as a
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7y ago
Zero. You can even hear the majority complaining about the protest from time to time.
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namelosw
7y ago
It's hard to explain 20 years ago, but today if someone has used enough something like Reactive extension, Promise, LinQ, async/await, Optional, etc. There's a great chance to make one wonder about the similar pattern behind
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namelosw
7y ago
It's not necessarily either steal or innovated a new way right? People don't have to steal ideas to invent the circle-shaped wheel.
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namelosw
7y ago
Joe Amstrong had a related talk 'A Guide for the Perplexed'[0] last year. He mentioned several 'forgotten great ideas' such as Linda Tuple Spaces, Flow-based programming, Xanadu and Unix pipes. [0] https://you
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namelosw
7y ago
> Examples: Clojure, Common Lisp, HTML, Make > Examples: UNIX, LISP, The Web, Emacs, TeX 1. Or just computer science. 2. Churn is not a problem. If you keep accepting the churn, you will learn them faster and faster, until you scan th
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namelosw
7y ago
I'm afraid there are no big changes, there's an IntelliJ plugin but it's not as slick as Emacs. If you are already comfortable with Emacs it's all good. VSCode is also another popular choice. You probably want to check o
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namelosw
7y ago
I guess they might intrigued that dependent type would be the future of programming languages with rich IDE support. If you try Idris, although mostly people are just using it with text editor with simple plug-ins, the auto-completion is in
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namelosw
7y ago
Wow. Finally a prover with serious IDE support. I always believe this field would be very useful and evolving steadily in the industry. It just doesn't attract eyeballs like machine learning and blockchains.
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7y ago
Wow. From UX perspective this indeed make sense somehow.
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7y ago
I remember one of my far relatives tried to drag document from one computer to another, by drag and keep pressing the mouse, in the meantime, he disconnected the mouse to one computer and then connected to another. It really confused him wh
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namelosw
7y ago
I live in Beijing and I spend 20 mins riding share bike to work every day. I don't drive because I don't find it useful. I have a driving license but almost never used it, there are many, many people also having a license without
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namelosw
7y ago
In China, there would be no 8Chan at all because if any post is related to massive shooting (probably not shooting because it's not that achievable in China, you get the idea), the post will be arrested and the website will be taken do
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namelosw
7y ago
> draws everything from scratch is a bad idea. > re-writing the same app 5 times (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android) and maintaining 5 codebases is a bad idea. So probably React Native's approach (the approach itself, not React
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namelosw
7y ago
I use HHKB, both type-s and Bluetooth version. Type-s is far better than other HHKBS in terms of the feedback and the sound. It's by far my favorite. I used several Filco keyboards like Majestouch, Ninja and Minila. The first two are g
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namelosw
7y ago
Wait... We must having different definition of perfect. I would say Go is a very good language, and probably be one of the best in terms of simple and practical design, fast execution, fast compilation etc. The perfection, however, is not s
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namelosw
7y ago
I don't see a valid use case for null. It's just a easy-to-make billion dollar mistake. Null exist because people are being lazy, and don't want to think reference type T to be T | null. Instead, in most of the cases they ign
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namelosw
7y ago
But CS is not only about algorithms and data structures. Even schools are missing the point mostly. Things like general PLT and formal methods, namely how to deal with abstractions in a large project, and how to know if your program is corr
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namelosw
7y ago
Imo optional typing like this is the best trade-off for now. Usually, statically typed languages is not expressive. There are a lot of abstractions are hard to express in statically typed languages. Even in Haskell. With optional typing, yo
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namelosw
7y ago
Exactly. Lisp rule could be shortened to minutes to explain. From SICP videos for HP, by Hal Abelson: > Lisp is easy to learn... just as you can teach someone all the rules of chess in a few minutes. But of course, it takes much longer t
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