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by pcr0 10y ago
I would advise trying free/cheap lessons first. E.g. freecodecamp, Lynda, udemy, CS50x, etc.
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by pcr0 10y ago
What sort of bookmark numbers are you looking at? I currently have about 2000 articles on Pocket, and just tagging + simple search works for me.
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by pcr0 10y ago
I'd argue otherwise for software developers, especially if you're working with a large C++/Java codebase, or compiling large projects such as WebKit/Linux kernel.
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by pcr0 10y ago
Asking out of ignorance, what sets EIZO monitors apart from other monitors?
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by pcr0 10y ago
What do you mean by that? That people took the trouble to use PGP but then go and do something this silly?
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by pcr0 10y ago
I'm hoping async/await improves performance over current generator implementations [0]. If implemented as Anders suggested (async/await gets translated to callbacks under the hood) they may even reach or outdo the performance
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by pcr0 10y ago
How do you cleanly handle mixing streams and promises/await in code?
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by pcr0 10y ago
Sorted out soon? The reporters have court dates set in mid-February and March[0]. Now every other reporter is under the chilling effect of knowing they might arrested and taken to court for simply covering a protest. [0]: https:/&#x2F
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by pcr0 10y ago
In Hong Kong, most apartment buildings built in the last 15 years are about that height or taller. New commercial buildings are often double that. Though your measure of effect on the surrounding community wouldn't really apply here as
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by pcr0 10y ago
The revolution alludes to the fact that one app is taking over everything from social networking, mobile payments, food, ticket sales, ride-hailing, financial products, bill payments, and much more.
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by pcr0 10y ago
This video from NYT explains it what makes WeChat revolutionary as a platform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAesMQ6VtK8 tl;dw The revolution alludes to the fact that one app is taking over everything from social networki
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by pcr0 10y ago
I can't run the IDE. After signing in to my Google account, the popup disappears and nothing happens. I seem to get this in my browser console everytime I load the page: Uncaught DOMException: Failed to read the 'sessionStorage&#x
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by pcr0 10y ago
I think China is the only market where phones are sold without google services. Even when Xiaomi sells to India or Hong Kong, the phones are often "global version" (different ROM), which come with google services because everyone
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by pcr0 10y ago
Yeah, as a tourist I was surprised that all hotels ranging from 5 star to small local inns were insistent on having everybody's passport when checking in.
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by pcr0 10y ago
There's an open-source effort that's begun since early last year: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/22 Though that will take another year at least before it comes to fruition. What was
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by pcr0 10y ago
Aside from businesses, people in HK, Macau and Taiwan are still a sizable market that use Twitter, where it's just behind Instagram in popularity and Sina Weibo isn't a thing there. The Twitter office is based in Hong Kong, just l
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by pcr0 10y ago
I agree, it's slower for me too, on a recent MBP. I think the main improvement they're targeting is lower data usage rather than performance improvements but I'm still surprised at how much worse it performs. Seems like a bug
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by pcr0 10y ago
And you'd need a motherboard with Intel's top of the line chipset (Z170) for TB support. Lots of people choose to skimp on the extra $30 or so as the perception at the moment is that it's only necessary for overclocking.
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by pcr0 10y ago
That's a clusterfuck of nope right there, one bad apple tries to smuggle drugs and someone innocent could end up executed.
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by pcr0 10y ago
I would disagree, as I'm assuming those deaths include pedestrians, who are rarely present in inter-city travel.
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by pcr0 10y ago
I took a Chinese high-speed train a week ago, I concur it was very pleasant and affordable. $60 roundtrip for approx the distance between Seattle and SF, 3.5 hrs journey.
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by pcr0 10y ago
It remains very popular amongst Ruby/Rails users, presumably due to less switching overhead between Ruby and CoffeeScript vs JavaScript. ES6 has provided a lot of the features that people were hoping for in JS, and CoffeeScript doesn&#
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by pcr0 10y ago
Another happy customer here. Notable features that I like: automatic password changes, security challenge (warns me about weak/previously used passwords), primarily web-based (works equally well on Linux).
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by pcr0 10y ago
He answered this in an interview. "Sure. So there's a couple assertions in those arguments that are sort of embedded in the questioning of the choice of Hong Kong. The first is that China is an enemy of the United States. It'
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by pcr0 10y ago
China doesn't rule HK, at least until 2047.
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by pcr0 10y ago
I live in Hong Kong and some McDonalds here sell gourmet burgers and quinoa. If they really perceive it to be a threat I can see them rolling this out worldwide.
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by pcr0 10y ago
Aside from web games where Flash is still king for older titles, Adobe AIR is a Flash platform that's still used widely in older projects. By now, I'd say most new development in Flash has completely stopped, but it will take anot
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by pcr0 10y ago
Considering even web pages today though, it's not often I want to build everything from scratch using just HTML. Rather I want to be able to drag and drop bootstrap/foundation/material components, but since I can't I mi
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by pcr0 10y ago
A bunch of reasons, including lack of market, complexity of today's web. They aren't entirely gone though, this was posted to HN a while ago: https://preview.webflow.com/preview/flexbox-game?preview=d1a...
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by pcr0 10y ago
Nice to see the turnaround from strippers and cocaine to attending law school and helping other people out.

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