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by vinceyuan 11y ago
Cool. According to Space launch market competition [1] "Falcon 9 rockets [were] already the cheapest in the industry." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_launch_market_competitio...
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
I am surprised to see the bad comments about Blackboard software. I never use it. But my ex-manager and several ex-colleagues (software developers and QA) are now working for Blackboard. They are confident in their company's future.
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
I followed a tutorial to crack WinZip with SoftIce. And then I tried cracking WinRAR with SoftIce but failed. That's all I did with SoftIce.
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
ZTE is as big as Huawei. Both of ZTE and Huawei manufacture telecom equipments. Umi is a tiny company. That's why ZTE phone is much better than Umi phone.
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
> The basic (world-changing) functions of the smartphone (location services with GPS, decent point and shoot camera with you at all times, web access on the go, etc.) are present in both devices. Generally, cheap ($30) phone's cam
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
I have the experience of working remotely. The biggest problem is in communication. I think that's why most companies don't accept remote.
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
It's weird. When people are texting, most of the faces remain wooden. Nobody wants to look at a wooden face. Students wouldn't like to use it in the classroom because video is data-consuming.
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
> The idea is simple enough: as the truck makes its rounds, the roof-mounted HorseFly UAV selects, transports and drops off a parcel right outside the recipient's front door. It's a very good and practical idea. The truck bec
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Truck firm wants to deploy delivery drones on the move(engadget.com)
1 points by vinceyuan 11y ago|1 comments
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> For $300, you got a well-made, nice-looking phone with cutting-edge hardware and few compromises to be found I don't think it is nice-looking. It's not ugly. It's just normal. It looks very similar to some Android phon
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
I did the same thing several days ago. But after 30 seconds, the web page did not finish loading. It has downloaded 7+ MB. I closed it.
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This One Intersection Explains Why Housing Is So Expensive In San Francisco [1] [1] http://www.businessinsider.com.au/why-housing-is-so-expensiv...
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
"Google favors workers who are under the age 40" I am thinking about my career path. I don't know if a company will hire me as a software developer when I am 40+ years old. I do understand the companies like young people.
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
Any idea?
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I think so too. Maybe another reason is we can use 'go func' in this programming language to start a concurrent function.
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
[off-topic question] I know YC asks the oversea team which got YC investment to move to Bay Area. But how do they deal with the visa? I don't think all of them have H1B or L1 visa. I heard a team moved to Bay Area with B1/B2 visa.
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
It's very common that people with similar skills have different salary, especially in a big company. Big companies have the rules in salary increase rate for the current employees, but are willing to pay more to hire new employees from
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
"they used the name "Go" for the language" just because Google named that programming language 'Go'. Personally I don't like the name 'Go'. It's a verb. It should not be used as a name of a
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
[off-topic] As a Chinese, I do know what Weiqi (围棋,圍棋) is. I was surprised to see the English name of Weiqi is Go. (When I saw Go in this post, I thought it's Golang.)
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
DO is much cheaper than AWS.
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
Excellent work! Why are there so many startups in San Francisco?
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
Shareware becomes free apps with in-app purchases.
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
tl;dr Results: "We could downsize our provisioned API server pool by about 90%." "the time it takes to run our full integration test suite dropped from 25 minutes to 2 minutes, and the time to do a full API server deploy with
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Typo keyboard case for the iPhone permanently withdrawn from sale(9to5mac.com)
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> This Huami H3 smartphone cost me $34US (210RMB) in January. It’s sold with a 5 inch screen, Bluetooth, WiFi, 4G cell connectivity, Android 4.4 and an 8 core processor. It's very cheap but good. And actually the processor has 2 cor
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
I didn't choose Java for my backend just because it uses too much RAM. The VPS(s) with large RAM are expensive.
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Is 0.3% error rate caused by GC pause?
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Are Go servers at New York Times or other companies impacted by the Golang GC pause? I am learning Golang and want to know if Golang GC pause is a significant issue in production.
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Apple Watch survives 1200m swim, 10m dive, and 40m water chamber tests [video](9to5mac.com)
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by vinceyuan 11y ago
I don't think it is a problem. The new browser's name is not Edge. It's 'Microsoft Edge'. The samsung phone's name is 'Galaxy Edge'. Now tech companies like to use the compound name, e.g. Apple Watch,

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