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by shin_lao 12y ago
Reproduction is not just a biological act where a male gamete meets a female gamete. The hardest part of the process is finding the person with whom you want to have a child and who will be your partner in life for this incredibly complex c
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by shin_lao 12y ago
To be clear: you will be working in Paris and you must have the legal right to do so
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by shin_lao 12y ago
It is possible to build reliable monotonic counters based on time, and that's actually a sound approach.
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by shin_lao 12y ago
A hackathon is a good tool to brainstorm and have some Proof of Concept, but it is a bit silly to believe that it is a good way to build a lasting product and I must say a bit sad to think that what matters is making money. Building web app
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by shin_lao 12y ago
quasardb | Paris, France | Several INTERN positions available! We have a digital marketing and a software engineering slot available for people passionate about technology looking for some great experience. We are a bunch of crazy people bu
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by shin_lao 12y ago
Leaving one of the most successful startups in history isn’t easy. Interesting sentence. Isn't it a bit early to say that MongoDB is "successful"?
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by shin_lao 12y ago
Agreed. When designing our product it became quickly apparent that immutability isn't practical, we opted for MVCC ACID transactions, but the most difficult part of MVCC database is getting the purge right. You can cheat purges with so
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Sync 2.0: Skip the Cloud, Share Direct(blog.bittorrent.com)
87 points by shin_lao 12y ago|42 comments
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by shin_lao 12y ago
You could also say that having a wealthy family was not an incentive to work hard. There is no rule to success.
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Hollywood accounting(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by shin_lao 12y ago|0 comments
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by shin_lao 12y ago
Anyone who has a couple of year into software engineering knows that there is diminishing return over the number of "eye balls" and that some problems are just god damn hard or need to be looked at with the problem in mind. Softwa
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World View’s parafoil flies to record altitude of 102,000 feet(venturebeat.com)
1 points by shin_lao 12y ago|0 comments
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by shin_lao 12y ago
That is pretty stupid of them.
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by shin_lao 12y ago
"The previous one, the industrial revolution, created lots of jobs because the new technology required huge numbers of humans to run it." That's not that simple. The industrial revolution initially destroyed a lot of jobs b
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How sleeping 6 times a day helped the founder of WordPress(venturebeat.com)
2 points by shin_lao 12y ago|0 comments
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by shin_lao 12y ago
Don't know about YC, but most funds don't invest in competing companies, and sometimes the strategy can even be broader: "don't invest twice in the same area". For example if you already have an investment in email
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by shin_lao 12y ago
If you are writing numerical stuff, you should be using more explicit types such as std::uint32_t.
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by shin_lao 12y ago
Some Hifi equipments are in the range of hundreds of thousands, it is easy for the reseller to slip in a couple of cables in the range of thousands. It's 1% of the final price. Of course there will be absolutely no difference with a 5
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by shin_lao 12y ago
Just try to remove all C++ applications from your everyday life, you will have the answer to your question.
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by shin_lao 12y ago
You should use static_cast<>() and not C style cast. You should not care about signed/unsigned, use auto.
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An end of an era(propellerheads.se)
1 points by shin_lao 12y ago|0 comments
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by shin_lao 12y ago
Maybe they hope that one of the biggest NoSQL players, who raised a lot of money, acquires them? From the website also I cannot understand the advantages compared to a relational database.
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by shin_lao 12y ago
It can also mean that you actually don't have enough experience. In my career I was in that kind of place where I had decent experience and started to be overwhelmed with possibilities. As I gained even more knowledge, solutions appear
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by shin_lao 12y ago
Bigger engines are noisier because more "explosions happen inside" (to simplify). A bigger engine isn't necessarily more powerful than a smaller one, but it's a hint.
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by shin_lao 12y ago
Yes we hired through SO Careers and have been very satisfied with the result. You need to spend a lot of time crafting your job offer and should not be afraid to take the premium package but it is worth it. The staff has been very helpful w
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by shin_lao 12y ago
It is interesting to see that much has happened in Mathematics since 1869. All questions are extremely easy. No real functional analysis. Trivial algebra. Some fairly easy calculus. The Latin/Greek section is also very easy as everythi
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by shin_lao 12y ago
Obviously I don't know the laws of every country in the world but I would be surprised that lying about the revenues of your company isn't at least a felony.
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by shin_lao 12y ago
A typical phrase you will hear from customers at this point is "We don't want to be your biggest client." This is not something you can get around easily. Some companies have strict rules such as "we can't be more
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Notch moves on up into the $70M megamansion that Jay-Z and Beyonce wanted(venturebeat.com)
5 points by shin_lao 12y ago|0 comments
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by shin_lao 12y ago
>1. This sort of for loop is idiomatic C++ code. No. This is C code. In C++ you write: std::vector<int> a = { 1, 2, 3 }; std::cout << std::min_element(a.cbegin(), a.cend()) << std::endl; You shouldn't

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