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by qihqi 7y ago
Would rate limiting be a viable solution?
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by qihqi 7y ago
Real movie junkies probably also go to library to borrow bluerays.
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by qihqi 7y ago
Scale does matter. Consider how your gut-feel attitude toward a thief that have stolen $1 vs a thief that have stolen millions.
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by qihqi 7y ago
"The larger point here is that when groups get larger, it’s an exponential change, not a linear one" --- this sentence is a big pet peeve of mine. It's not exponential, its quadratic. I get that the author trying to say supe
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by qihqi 7y ago
If you picked that person to be an reviewer, that means you value their preference, and should at least make a faithful attempt to understand about that preference. If you haven't picked that person as a reviewer, then the merge it in.
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by qihqi 7y ago
This could be the start of a whole new world: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world
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by qihqi 7y ago
There is this trend of coding questions getting harder. Around '12 2-sum was a question that is on-site worthy, now being the first of leetcode people expects dynamic-programming type problems in on-sites. One theory is that the employ
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by qihqi 7y ago
When I was in college I preferred take-home coding challenges and whiteboard coding questions than talking through experiences. ...Because I had no experience, and school projects didn't count. I had time that no one is paying for, I h
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by qihqi 8y ago
It would make sense that for the immune system to fight property, calories are consumed. The soldiers gonna eat after all. (I don't actually know what I am talking about...)
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by qihqi 8y ago
I am not sure if that is true. English professors are paid less than Eng ones and does not require expensive lab and equipment.
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by qihqi 8y ago
In Python we have if 2 <= x < 4.
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by qihqi 8y ago
Same can be said for OSX or Windows, if it is even possible to use a different DE/WM than the default one.
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by qihqi 8y ago
Many systems set up to please underrepresented groups such as African Americans and Latinos indirectly hurts Asians. One of the reasons is that Asians are never as vocal and numerous as the other 2 groups. However, the biggest reason is tha
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by qihqi 8y ago
You are not wrong that Taiwan is part of China according to official definition (from both PRC and Taiwanese gov). However, "Taiwan is literally the Republic of China." is disingenuous considering that their government is not the
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by qihqi 8y ago
Well, just treat your current inbox as your review bucket; and create another tag "approved" as your approved things. Every day you review your incoming messages and tag it approved.
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by qihqi 8y ago
PixelBook seems great... It has a beta linux mode.
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by qihqi 8y ago
Comparing to other athletic sport. I doubt it is more popular than LOL or Dota2 or whatever current popular eSport tho. Or even werewolves (langrensha).
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by qihqi 8y ago
As stated in the article: The reviewer did purchase the product in Amazon and he's getting refund through PayPal.
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by qihqi 8y ago
Or you can vote municipalities that best aligns with what you desire.
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by qihqi 9y ago
What you have described is exactly what happened in Qin dynasty 2000 years ego. Then those languages evolved together and all influenced what is the modern Chinese. It is funny that this is the reverse process as how Latin evolved into Ital
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by qihqi 9y ago
Go door to door to small businesses to build them a webpage for free.
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by qihqi 9y ago
In China you can talk shit of government all you want, many people on the street will even agree it with you. Just don't write and publish it.
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by qihqi 9y ago
Parent comment seems to be asking about aesthetics. Is the black brick 'thinkpad' or silver macbook more aesthetic to boys or girls? However, since we are in topic of risk. Things like TDD and type systems only start to ring a bel
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by qihqi 10y ago
As a software eng. this is not something I need. I have realized that because computers are designed and programmed by engineers, we had what we need from the very beginning. I am glad that now its designer's turn to get some tools.
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by qihqi 10y ago
To be fair math classes from MATH departments usually have only simple numeric calculations involved, the answer is usually small number fractions combined with pi/e/squareroot of 2 (actually half of time is just 0 or 1). The goal
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by qihqi 10y ago
> In many ways the Internet was better 15 years ago when you could get free music on Napster and you could get laid on Craigslist. I kinda get the point but that is a horrible example. Craigslist is probably one of the few things that w
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by qihqi 10y ago
I had sort of different experience. I guess it heavily depends on what hardware you have. I installed ubuntu in an Asus laptop with the Nvidia/Optimus thingy. The optimus thing did not work but I can't really tell a difference bec
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by qihqi 10y ago
Chinese IRS collects sales tax through fapiao (at 17%). So it has no incentives to not let them create invoices.
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by qihqi 10y ago
> There is a reason why Google Fibre is not everywhere or they are not pushing it very aggressively. Because building networks are freaking expensive even for google. I am not sure if that is entirely true. At least, Google owns the fibe
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by qihqi 10y ago
At the beginning, Jeff have only thought of an online book company, instead becoming the 'Everything Store'. This legacy still exists as ASIN (Amazon Stock Indentification Number) is extended on ISBN to work on legacy systems.

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