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by nandemo 13y ago
Can you give an example of a country in SE Asia where that sort of commerce is common? I'd have thought that people would opt to use one of the e-commerce platforms, since they provide payment and anti-fraud solutions.
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by nandemo 13y ago
Sorry if it wasn't clear, but I'm talking specifically about Japanese branches of foreign tech companies like Google and Facebook (though the actual companies were different). > My (admittedly limited, but not null) experienc
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by nandemo 13y ago
> Find someone who works for the company (on their website, or linked-in, whatever). Tell them who you are, and ask if there's any jobs available. They'll probably send you to a hiring manager Have you actually tried that? Di
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by nandemo 13y ago
I guess it is sustainable, in the sense that there are far more new grads each year than new Amazon hires, and Amazon can afford to pay extra (as evidenced by their financials). It's just far from optimal.
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by nandemo 13y ago
"Buddy" sounds really silly. "Comrade" is closer, but at least in Portuguese that would be "camarada", which carries a rather old-style socialist nuance, not "companheiro". "Fellow", "b
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by nandemo 13y ago
That's right. That Haskell faux-quicksort uses a lot of extra space for the temporary lists. Here's a Haskell version of the "real" quicksort, though it isn't nearly easy a read as the faux-quicksort: http:/&#
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by nandemo 13y ago
I checked out your site about the time it was announced on Reddit. I really like the idea although I noticed some problems using it for my target languages (Spanish and Hebrew). For inflected languages like these, you really need a good ste
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by nandemo 13y ago
Anki (or any other SRS) doesn't have to be about learning words out of context. I've learned a lot with Anki plus sentences off of Tatoeba, which has a large amount of sentences translated into many languages. And I did that while
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by nandemo 13y ago
We functional programmers have to pay the bills somehow, you know.
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by nandemo 13y ago
How do you avoid the beasts that keep killing your guests?
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by nandemo 13y ago
OK, where are those elementary school teachers who care about tau then?
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by nandemo 13y ago
James is saying 2k per person (~24k per year, leaving you with ~40k).
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by nandemo 13y ago
That's true, but you're talking "just" about time value (interest), sig's comment was about the volatility of BTC in terms of USD, different things. You'd also lose the interest if the product was denominated i
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by nandemo 13y ago
I'm not sure how the relative geographical size of the Bay Area is relevant here. In terms of programming jobs, the Bay Area is a very significant part of the US. In any case, this and other polls indicate that programmer salaries in London
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by nandemo 13y ago
Even in rest of the developed world the average programmer doesn't earn U$150k + bonus.
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by nandemo 13y ago
jerrya gave a hint of a possible "reason" somewhere in this thread: "men are often discouraged by society from seeking first aid or admitting any sort of ailment or weakness." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5759447
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by nandemo 13y ago
Why build a factory today if you can buy your country's bonds and enjoy a risk-free x% a year? Why buy a smart phone today if you can wait 1 year and get a much better one for the same price?
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by nandemo 13y ago
Exactly. In fact, I was thinking not only of India and China, countries that are traditional sources of H1B programmers, but also Western Europe, Mexico, Brazil, etc.
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by nandemo 13y ago
Outsourcing manufacturing also depresses local salaries. It's just that it's not very visible anymore. I think it's fair to assume that, out of all unemployed Americans, there are some who would happily take a factory job paying $X; but $X
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by nandemo 13y ago
> Contrary to what the exercise industry tells you in ads, you actually can't lose weight with exercise. Diet is almost always required to lose weight. You can certainly lose weight by doing exercise and keeping your caloric intake cons
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by nandemo 13y ago
Skim milk still has a lot of protein. I consume a lot of milk but whole milk can be unpalatable so I mostly drink low-fat, which still has some fat and a lot of protein: There are 102 calories in 1 cup of 1% Fat Milk. Calorie brea
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by nandemo 13y ago
> because children are not competent to voluntarily participate in the economy. But isn't it still up to the parents to decide what to buy? There's a campaign in my country (Brazil) to ban/regulate all sorts of advertising to children,
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by nandemo 13y ago
Two related thoughts that always occur to me in these discussions: * Many (I wouldn't say most but at least a sizeable minority) American programmers and IT workers display reservations regarding the policy of issuing visas such as H1Bs for
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by nandemo 13y ago
That approach is used at length in Real World Haskell. For example, some code for key-value lookup is shown that deals with a series of Maybe foo values, first with a cascade of guards (think a cascade of if-else 's), and later with mona
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by nandemo 13y ago
I interviewed at a small company in Tokyo that was looking for an experienced programmer. I did a take-home programming test that took me a couple of hours (not Fizzbuzz-level), and also a couple of on-site tests. Besides being bilingual in
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by nandemo 13y ago
A lot of successful business partnerships can be described by "riding the coattails of a hit". If they're being straightforward and proposing a partnership, as opposed to (say) simply copying it, I don't see the problem.
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by nandemo 13y ago
Spam is unsolicited email. If A gives their email address to B in order to use B's service, and B then emails A regarding that service, AND gives A the opportunity to unsubscribe from such emails, it's not spam.
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by nandemo 13y ago
Humming is a vocal exercise. It engages the vocal cords. Not sure why you think humming/playing kazoo should be a good exercise for someone who has damage in the vocal cords. E.g. the common medical advice for someone who with a hoarse th
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by nandemo 13y ago
In Japan too. In large companies all employees have to learn about customer data privacy, as part of compliance training. But I wouldn't assume the company would be fined in this case. Just because somebody got unauthorized access to custom
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by nandemo 13y ago
Maybe this? http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz

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