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by nojs 5y ago
I’m surprised to hear that as that hasn’t been my experience living there (I’m not Singaporean though).
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by nojs 5y ago
The picture you’re painting doesn’t reflect the reality of the country. Singapore is consistently rated as one of the least corrupt countries in the world.
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by nojs 5y ago
> Use GET for everything that can be cached and repeated without side-effects *except when the query string is too big, then use POST
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by nojs 5y ago
> Dominos pizza has coupons, deals, etc I find this part of the dominos model quite frustrating - you pay almost twice as much, or else spend an unreasonable amount of time dealing with the whole coupon thing. I guess it should be viewed
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by nojs 5y ago
> I spent a decade taking massive risks to gain an extremely rare set of skills Can you elaborate on this?
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by nojs 5y ago
> random-walk of the %increase or %loss If you randomly add or subtract x% at each step the price tends toward zero (100, 50, 75, 37.5, …)
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by nojs 5y ago
Oh man this book is great! I still have the copy I managed to find second hand for my undergraduate degree. It’s amazingly relevant and useful given how old it is.
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by nojs 5y ago
Congrats! The space of elastic/lucene/algolia replacements seems to be growing, excited to see what you guys do in the next few years.
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by nojs 5y ago
It ends with you becoming Google/Facebook, trying and failing to police everything people say, and all sides hating you. The company is wise to avoid publicly positioning itself as the arbiter of content for as long as it can.
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by nojs 5y ago
Ok but you can type wxq<space>mdx which works! Maybe "whole sentence" is overselling it but it definitely works for some pretty long stretches of characters.
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by nojs 5y ago
Not really. It’s better than English word prediction, because you’re providing some info about what you want to say meaning it’s correct more of the time. You can also type additional pinyin characters in the middle to help the algorithm, e
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by nojs 5y ago
As a non-chinese pinyin input is so much easier. One of the cool things about it is you can type a whole sentence just using the first letter of each character. Eg “wxzdnwsmbq” on my phone is sufficient to produce “我想知道你为什么不去”. In English I
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by nojs 5y ago
> Now imagine I have a function, add(x,y), and I have an expression like add(add(add(5,6),7),8)... wouldn’t it be cool if I could use infix notation here? Cool trick, but you can also just use def add(*args).
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by nojs 5y ago
> I stayed up for finals for a week straight with maybe 2 hours of sleep total I’m confused when I read anecdotes like this. Are you staying you literally slept for 2 hours over the course of 7 days, averaging 17 minutes of sleep per nig
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by nojs 5y ago
Alternatively, you could use computer vision and only record the ones not transmitting - that would be an interesting data set!
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by nojs 5y ago
Same here!
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by nojs 5y ago
Here’s the paper: https://bjui-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j....
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by nojs 5y ago
> except for some Australians Australia has more new daily cases per capita than US right now, according to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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by nojs 5y ago
> The most common way to split a string in lines is using this concatenation formula. Is it really? I tend to avoid it in favour of ””” or ‘\n’.join(<list of lines>), because it looks like a mistake. Triple quotes are kind of annoy
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by nojs 5y ago
This is amazingly accurate. It contains several predictions that would have been very difficult when extrapolating based on life experience at the time. Consider how difficult it would be to predict how the world will look in 2122. I don’t
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by nojs 5y ago
The solution is not to rely on fining site owners, the solution is to support user agents that act in the interests of the user. Regulation will never keep up with the infinite ways sites can be shitty, browsers (and extensions) are much be
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by nojs 5y ago
If anyone else is curious, YKK is a Japanese company that makes roughly half the world’s zippers: https://slate.com/business/2012/04/ykk-zippers-why-so-many-d...
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by nojs 5y ago
Classic pics, thanks for sharing. I’d love to see the full quote in the first photo. It almost reminds me of Office Space.
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by nojs 5y ago
I think they meant consuming less means showing less appreciation, since by consuming you’re purchasing something somebody made which is a form of showing appreciation.
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by nojs 5y ago
So many memories playing this, thanks! I expected after finishing level 1 to see the “page 4 line 2 character 6” challenge room, where you were supposed to prove you owned the official manual. When I was a kid we had it on floppy disk but n
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by nojs 5y ago
> Once youre a legitimate member of a subreddit This part is important. I’ve been caught out on Reddit sharing things I’ve built, expecting a “Show HN” type of response but shot down for promoting a product. Unlike here, most people on R
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by nojs 5y ago
> Each new person who joins a queue goes to the front, standing immediately behind the person being served. This is, of course, an outrage against reason, intuition and natural justice. It is also highly efficient. If you’re next in line
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by nojs 5y ago
One thing I am increasingly noticing as I get older is that the most interesting people hold wildly different political stances on different topics, meaning you can’t predict their stance on any given topic based on political affiliation al
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by nojs 5y ago
> We understand you are not happy with your recent experience > [Tick] no response needed! I think companies really shoot themselves in the foot with responses like this. Surely it’s worth 4 bucks to avoid the potential PR shitstorm.
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by nojs 5y ago
I cofounded a company based on scraping academic publications. We ended up getting a lot of traffic (millions of pageviews per month) because we had good SEO, but it’s not necessarily a defensible business model by itself. You’ll likely hav

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