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by wesleyy 12y ago
Scared me for a second, thought he as going to make a programming language in the MIT gui language "Scratch"
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by wesleyy 12y ago
Well if we're in an ideal capitalism society, if what foundationDB created was really of such tremendous value, somebody will come along and do the same thing.
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by wesleyy 12y ago
I'm not sure what you mean? Which part of the quote are you referring to? EDIT: whoops I now realized this is a reply to a different comment.
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by wesleyy 12y ago
This same article was posted on r/programming yesterday ( http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2y4294/coding_l... ). The discussion following was quite interesting, especially this one comment
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by wesleyy 12y ago
Hate to be a cynic but this article could've easily been titled 'how naming our startup "easypost" turned into a 15k mistake'. I just can't imagine that the name easypost was 15k better than alternative names.
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by wesleyy 12y ago
If the score exists, the top end surgeons are going to show it to their patients, which will force the low end surgeons to do so as well. The only way to keep the score secret is to design regulations for it which I just don't see happ
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by wesleyy 12y ago
It's always great when you spend 10 hours trying to debug something and then find out from a mailing list that it's actually a bug in R. :(
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by wesleyy 12y ago
Well another thing with Chinese characters is that they are usually made up of parts, and these parts generally carry a theme. For example, if I have never seen a specific Chinese character, I can usually decipher its definition easier than
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by wesleyy 12y ago
I don't think saying China didn't see and learn from the failing aspects of American city planning is fair or useful, especially when it comes to road planning. The Chinese and American culture on road use is completely different:
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by wesleyy 12y ago
Yes there actually is! English is a language that really favours the writer while Chinese favours the readers. Most of the time, you can read Chinese a lot quicker because the characters are all the same size (although they might have diffe
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by wesleyy 12y ago
I wonder if firefox purposely chose to adopt a developer-first strategy with its mobile OS, similar to Stripe. I know that this strategy works, at least somewhat, on me, as I recently needed a payment processor for a hackathon and, knowing