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by nitrobeast 6y ago
I will be surprised if Microsoft or Goolge encrypt their video calls that LE cannot access them either.
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
Xi’s China is abosolutely authoritorian, but that’s not what this conflict is about. This is more like US vs Japan in the 80s, where US wants to secure its influence and power, by keeping others down if necessary.
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
It is presented here that name before type is easier to read as a matter of fact. I’m not so sure. In math or languages where type info is optional, we often write “x = 5”. When type info is required, it is natural to evolve to “int x = 5”.
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
I believe Wuhan government eventually went door-to-door to test the population exhaustively.
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
I believe Google also bans non-Google file sharing tools like Dropbox or OneDrive from employee’s computers too.
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by nitrobeast 7y ago
There were convention centers converted to isolate patients in Wuhan too. Basically, Wuhan needed both more hospital beds for people requiring intensive care, and more beds for isolating infected patients with mild symptoms. Only the second
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Boeing Starliner Lands in New Mexico After Clock Error Prompts Early Return(nytimes.com)
2 points by nitrobeast 7y ago|0 comments
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by nitrobeast 7y ago
By being more concerned about police brutality in US, which will give totalitarian states less excuse to behave similarly.
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C++ Rvalue References Explained(thbecker.net)
2 points by nitrobeast 10y ago|0 comments
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by nitrobeast 10y ago
See "conceptual integrity" in The Mythical Man-Month. There needes to be someone who resolves technical conflicts and keeps the design conherent.
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Use vitess to automatically scale MySQL databases(vitess.io)
1 points by nitrobeast 10y ago|0 comments
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The Dropcam Team(medium.com)
3 points by nitrobeast 11y ago|0 comments
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by nitrobeast 11y ago
AlphaGo was in over time in game 2.
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by nitrobeast 11y ago
Interesting ... Because of some incidents Google is evil ... Meanwhile Firefox is not allowed on iOS.
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by nitrobeast 11y ago
Some people may disagree, but Steve Yegge's "political axis" seems relevant here: https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSKeg4v... https://plus.google.com/110981030061
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by nitrobeast 11y ago
Fixing bugs in poorly designed/written code is the number one cause of unhappiness for me. Maintaining my own code is fine, at least it is a learning process to see what worked/didn't work in the original design. Instead of l
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by nitrobeast 12y ago
"Sorry, education reformers, it’s still memorization and repetition we need." This is very true. For example, doing the advanced engineering calculus can often boil down to manipulating polynomial, which are still arithmetic. A pe
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by nitrobeast 12y ago
I don't understand why people think working remotely can be as productive as working together under one roof. Unless you are doing things that does not require a team anyway, there are times when face-to-face conversations are necessar
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by nitrobeast 12y ago
The 'pay wall' of NYT is just for show. Use incognito mode to browse as much as you want on nytimes.com
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by nitrobeast 12y ago
It is very likely that the Chinese government prefers Windows 7 to Windows 8. Why the fuss about XP, protectionism?
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by nitrobeast 13y ago
Quote from the linked article, "(net neutrality rules) forbid ISPs from blocking services or charging content providers for access to the network." But that is confusing. ISPs are already charging content providers for access to t