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by shangxiao 9y ago
I think it's worth pointing out that this appears to be mainly Chinese culture from the mainland. Chinese from other areas like Hong Kong and Taiwan seem to be completely different. When I visited Taipei I was pleasantly surprised to
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When to Avoid JSONB in a PostgreSQL Schema(blog.heapanalytics.com)
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by shangxiao 10y ago
This reminds me of a similar horror story involving "the ultimate database design" https://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/opinion-pieces/bad-carma...
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by shangxiao 10y ago
Yes this is why I personally avoid such lists. Take for eg the Django books: anything below 1.8 is officially unsupported and you should definitely not be learning. A quick question on #django on freenode about best learning resource and p
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by shangxiao 10y ago
It's a pattern to prevent information leakage
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by shangxiao 11y ago
I'm fairly certain that the book "Practical things to do with a Microcomputer" I had when I was a small child was partly responsible for my career in Software Engineering, even though as a teenager I hated computers and just
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by shangxiao 11y ago
Not to mention that Tom Christie raised £32,650 for DRF 3 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomchristie/django-rest... :)
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by shangxiao 11y ago
> Vulnerabilities like ShellShock simply vanish I'm actually surprised at the naivety of whoever wrote this. I'm not an op at all and I understood enough about ShellShock to know that this isn't correct at all.
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by shangxiao 11y ago
Not yet supported afaik [1]. I've used react-mixin [2] with some success. [1] https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/01/27/react-v0.13... [2] https://github.com/brigand&#x2
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by shangxiao 11y ago
I really couldn't comprehend what that was all about and had to go read a Vice article about him to understand
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by shangxiao 11y ago
It's funny reading this after the article about banning PowerPoint[1] and being instantly reminded of why it should be banned. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9606345
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by shangxiao 11y ago
Not only that but I've found SPAs to be more complex than their traditional counterparts, mainly due factors like: the extra layers & complexity involved, churn rate of & lack of maturity in JavaScript frameworks, lack of integ
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by shangxiao 11y ago
vs random memory bugs that will fail randomly at runtime ;)
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by shangxiao 12y ago
Only the people like you who would take that literally would need counselling.
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by shangxiao 12y ago
The title "Running on 100% Renewable Electricity" in no way suggested to me that they are talking about anything other than grid electricity.
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by shangxiao 12y ago
Postgres is definitely not boring as there is a lot of interesting stuff happening with this database. I think the author here should really be making the distinction between sexy & unsexy.
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by shangxiao 12y ago
A bunch of blank lines is a lot more grokable than timestamps lost in a bunch of text.
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by shangxiao 12y ago
It's pretty much in line with my definition of hacking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(hobbyist)
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by shangxiao 12y ago
sigh go look up the definition
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by shangxiao 12y ago
PRC is not (yet) a superpower.
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by shangxiao 12y ago
I guess the people who downvoted this like to ignore the facts hey.
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by shangxiao 12y ago
Let's not ignore the disgusting gun-ho attitude of these "pilots" who are looking for any excuse to pull that trigger and ignoring any possibility that these were civilians. "I was hoping we could make a rifle out. Never
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by shangxiao 12y ago
'new' is a source of confusion for newbies and experienced devs alike, sufficiently enough for them to ask questions on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9468055/what-does-new-in-... Even I have to
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by shangxiao 12y ago
Angular: meh Express: no Neo4J: rather not Node: fuck no My point: your opinion is exactly that... everyone has their own, and it's as useless as mine, in these comments, until you add some weight behind it.
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by shangxiao 12y ago
The point of that article was that people don't notice subtle changes, especially when their not tech savvy/tired after a long day of work/whatever. Also someone pointed out in the comments that some people tend to ignore ch
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by shangxiao 12y ago
Yeah but you don't expect shady software from a company that's supposed to be protecting us.
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by shangxiao 12y ago
There's also something about the sound effects in the modern Star Wars films that sound so fake & made up. There was a post on HN a few weeks ago about how the Millenium Falcon's hyperdrive sound was a mashup of actual sound
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by shangxiao 12y ago
> is this basically just running billions of text passwords through the md5 algorithm and comparing the results with the unknown string? Yes: " using a computer that tried more than 300 billion plaintext guesses every second "
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by shangxiao 12y ago
I take it to mean that you'll be the first person to smoke test changes
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by shangxiao 12y ago
These are quite good, source? I've heard of most of in one form or another from different people.

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