namelosw

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by namelosw 6y ago
This. We are being too much overloaded by information and tasks nowadays. There was even a time we take our time just for chatting and it actually felt good.
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Also 元(yuán) is exactly 'Chinese Yuan' you hear about today.
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My guess is China is standardizing and mass-producing coins, and molding is easier for quality control. Hammering is more straightforward for smaller-scale productions. Furthermore, China frequently forbids civilians to have weapons, while
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Some experiences of counterparts from languages I've used, although it's like bike shedding but it's still user experience. It would be user-hostile if not carefully designed: Ruby: Good but there are too many kinds of synta
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It's not just governmental foreign policies, it's about the overall mentality, of both the government and people. The parent thread I was responding written "I guess Thailand is due for a revolution". There would surely
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Well, I would say the opposite. The West cares too much and incited too many revolutions. Remember the Arab spring? People are still burning in hell and nobody in the West gives a shit anymore. Sure, Gaddafi was a terrible dictator, but his
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by namelosw 6y ago
I wonder if using external cameras and microphones to record the screen directly, would that deal with all these kinds of invisible / inaudible watermarks?
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I believe it is both...
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by namelosw 6y ago
It's likely to be bad, such as: Massively plagiarize articles and the search engine probably have no way to identify which is the original content. It's like to rewrite everything on the internet using your own words, this may lea
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by namelosw 6y ago
> INSANE peer pressure. In China, it's even more so. If you're an obese person and many will throw "wow you're fat" and "you should really lose some weight" right in your face. Although it sounds terrib
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by namelosw 6y ago
You must be kidding. There’s no way companies like Apple would ever handout iCloud source code to China.
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According to the experience, he was most likely invited to 'having tea'. The idea is prevent him from fled, or moving his money aboard, or retaliate through medias. PS: Even criminal businessmen lives in separate jails which condi
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by namelosw 6y ago
From my understanding, Jack Ma having these troubles recently because he's filing the Ant Group IPO. Everybody was talking about the stock because everybody believes it would be skyrocketing. Also combined with the fact that the Ant Gr
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by namelosw 6y ago
The so-called 'Wet market' is basically the counterpart of the farmer's market in the west. It's the concept of the 'market' for average person, not only for Chinese but also for east and southeast Asia, bannin
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by namelosw 6y ago
> "if you're going to even think about threads, just use Java or go" since concurrency is so nice there. Concurrency in Java is not very great although there are some improvements in these years. The actor model (Ruby 3 &#
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by namelosw 6y ago
> the only way to become a billionaire is by exploiting people I don't if it is the only way to become a billionaire. But the bigger problem is every billionaire is exploiting people. Imagine you are one of the wealthiest guys i
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by namelosw 6y ago
Thank you so much! Although I skimmed through it didn't say too much about the Prolog interpreter, it's very educative.
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by namelosw 6y ago
I'm actually very interested in the Prolog prototype - especially on how it's done and how do they iterate the design. Does anyone have any information about it?
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by namelosw 6y ago
I believe serious remote workers should optimize their home working environment. It is an investment. But the problem is most people was forced to working remotely without any preparation and motivation - people end up complaining remote wo
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by namelosw 6y ago
> school taking up 100% of her time, energy, and attention that is preventing her from pursuing creative interests? This was the problem for me when I was a kid. I had limited time to play my favorite video games. So I spend whole days i
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by namelosw 6y ago
That's a very narrow way of looking at greatness, but I some how love your point.
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by namelosw 6y ago
Kill at any time is dangerous for stateful Erlang / Elixir workloads. But there are several patterns: 1. Some process group libraries can handle graceful shutdown, which migrates the processes to other nodes. When you kill one of the n
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by namelosw 6y ago
> If your team really knows what they're doing... they can let you move really fast and make elegant DSLs and so on. I agree on this part. The problem is many teams with 5 Ruby programmers is doing what 100 Java programmers' wo
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by namelosw 6y ago
It makes sense to if you are in a moderate or high status white-collar and seriously thinking about pursuing your own lifetime-goal. You have to give up the 'easy' way of life you currently have to trade for some success rate fo
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by namelosw 6y ago
I was really pissed off days ago, when Windows 10 keeps prompting me pop-ups for updating several times when I was playing online game. I had to choose remind me 1 hour later because there was no other better option to defer it. I can only
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by namelosw 6y ago
May I ask what's wrong with the vacation? There was very, very few cases in China recently, and the 600M Chinese vacation are almost entirely domestic travel.
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I wouldn't agree. Since it's an 'Advice to my young self'. I would say either forget side projects (to be boring as hell), or invest more in side projects (take some risks). I have been haunted by sloppy side projects fo
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by namelosw 6y ago
It's a winner-takes-it-all industry. Sometimes I have the weird realization that it's the same way if there was no GFW or regulations in China, there would be no Chinese competitors now because those tech giants in China would hav
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by namelosw 6y ago
> this is not an HN problem, but a perennial challenge of any large community. It seems to be many people could agree on this. When a community grows, most of the time old members would start to struggle about the problem. I wonder, coul
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by namelosw 6y ago
I was a self-taught programmer and when I first learned to program, I found the concept of 'reference' is very counter-intuitive to me. I assume people have no CS background may find the same - why is this 5 and another 5 is the s

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