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by shin_lao 10y ago
Dissing X was probably a way to test your fitness with their culture. If you answered neutral and political correct stuff, you failed their test. (This is only speculation I have never interviewed with them and only know them through custom
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by shin_lao 10y ago
You mean something like... __attribute__((optimize("unroll-loops"))) ? :-)
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1984 Summer Olympics boycott(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by shin_lao 10y ago|0 comments
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by shin_lao 10y ago
The problem is a little bit subtler than that. Generally speaking, European are more risk adverse than Americans (I'll exclude the UK as Brits are a bit culturally closer to the US). You will find investors, but it will be very difficu
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by shin_lao 10y ago
I wanted to upvote that comment and so I did! Then later I changed my mind because really, it deserved a downvote. Anger passed and facing the consequences of my actions I was nothing but a broken man. I brought back equilibrium and removed
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by shin_lao 10y ago
To be noted Boost.ASIO offers integrated SSL support, based on OpenSSL (with the advantages and disadvantages that it brings).
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Alphabet Should Pay No More Than $1.1B for Twitter(forbes.com)
3 points by shin_lao 10y ago|2 comments
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by shin_lao 10y ago
Several political leaders admitted that they lied during the election, therefore people voted based on lies. Since the majority isn't that big (less than 52%) is would be acceptable to not immediately follow through. It's as big a
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by shin_lao 10y ago
It would mean something in a profitable company as growing the workforce and keeping a company profitable is a considerable challenge.
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Open-Source vs. Proprietary – Keeping Ideology Out of the Equation(insidehpc.com)
1 points by shin_lao 10y ago|0 comments
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by shin_lao 10y ago
Some corporate VC are also very detached from the parent company and are actually closer to "regular" VC than you might think.
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Gawker privacy lawsuit evolves into a battle between tech billionaires(venturebeat.com)
1 points by shin_lao 10y ago|0 comments
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by shin_lao 10y ago
I believe all three named companies (Google, Apple and Facebook) have significantly large offices in NYC. Then you'd have to count Wall Street, which for a great part are big software companies as well.
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by shin_lao 10y ago
I think it's a very good idea because it will reduce the pressure on the core development team about feature X or Y. "You really want this feature? Write it as a module." Then it can serve as an incubator before importing fun
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by shin_lao 10y ago
You may find that you will have to choose at best between two of these three: joins, speed and convenience. In other words, you won't be able to join quickly in a convenient way for the users, of if you want the user to join like he ca
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by shin_lao 11y ago
Can the secret to the country’s happiness be found in its communal pools? If you use suicide rate as an indicator, Iceland doesn't seem to be so happy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r
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Facebook Has Seized the Media, and That’s Bad News for Everyone but Facebook(wired.com)
1 points by shin_lao 11y ago|0 comments
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by shin_lao 11y ago
Actually sleep deprivation has been proven to be equivalent to being intoxicated. I can't find the resource unfortunately.
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by shin_lao 11y ago
It doesn't work for large jet lags. When I go from EU to West Coast the toll on me is very high, whereas when I go to NYC I can adapt in two to three days.
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by shin_lao 11y ago
I use this rule for business, it never failed me: If you have a doubt, there is no doubt.
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by shin_lao 11y ago
To get up well, you need to go to bed well. Going to sleep at roughly the same time every day is good. Physical activity also greatly increases the quality of the sleep.
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by shin_lao 11y ago
3 hours a day is just not enough for everyone. For some projects it's perfectly fine but some tasks can only be done if you focus for a large amount of time on it, work obsessively on it until you reach a milestone. The greatest work I
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The sale of Intel’s VC unit may cause more markdowns in values of startups(venturebeat.com)
3 points by shin_lao 11y ago|0 comments
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Playtime is over: Investors want their money back(venturebeat.com)
2 points by shin_lao 11y ago|0 comments
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by shin_lao 11y ago
Problem is that people just a bit richer than homeless might complain about not having free housing, too.
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by shin_lao 11y ago
Does it mean that other engines could/should use that format?
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by shin_lao 11y ago
Economy isn't a zero-sum game because you create wealth.
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by shin_lao 11y ago
If they changed the tax code to let businesses get a deduction based on property they buy or build, ownership would be so much more diverse. I suggest you get another accountant. What happens is that the costs are spread over several year
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by shin_lao 11y ago
To my knowledge std::ifstream is pretty slow, I think the author should load the whole file in memory with a cache friendly layout and try the benchmark again.
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by shin_lao 11y ago
This movie is like animated XVIII century paintings, for that reason alone it can be considered a masterpiece. You have the right to not like the story, on my side I liked it very much.

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