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by xiaoma 10y ago
Here's a thought: Things often go wrong. Would you rather have your mission critical apps relying on Google's customer service or on Amazon's customer service?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Building in C++ is completely rational after you've hit such scale that server costs outstrip the engineering costs of using a low level language. It's not like fb, google and amazon don't know how to scale a service.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
If powerful entity A is guilty of X on a massive scale and then punishes weaker entity B for engaging in X on a small scale it makes A even more contemptible. For your reference: A = Google X = Arbitrage B = Users who bought and resold Pixe
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by xiaoma 10y ago
>" The company used automated tools to disable accounts that were found to breach their ToS, likely the majority of which were bots. " In the US, there's a concept called right of first sale that protects people's a
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Innocent? No company that uses a double Irish tax structuring scheme to avoid paying billions has any right to cast guilt on consumers who legally purchase phones and take advantage of minor arbitrage opportunities. If you truly feel that
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Sadly, it appears Google has abandoned their former motto, "Don't be evil". This is completely sociopathic and amoral and a human had to have approved the action. It's overwhelmingly likely that without the massive media
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I know it's big in Taiwan, the place I've spent most my adult life. Taiwan is not in SE Asia, though. Also, I believe BMM is the dominant chat app in Indonesia.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Really? I did some traveling in SE Asia last year and was under the impression that LINE had failed everywhere in SE Asia except for Thailand.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
And the irony is that regular expressions, by definition, can't recurse. Nobody's gonna rename them to turing expressions, though.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
You're way better off just doing some reading (and listening to podcasts/radio if you can find materials easy enough). You'll get correct input, you'll learn things that aren't translations of things you would alrea
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by xiaoma 10y ago
snipes.com -> snopes.com
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Spend 20 minutes each night journaling your experiences for as long as you stay. This is an incredible opportunity to learn about high-stakes interpersonal conflict from a front row seat.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
This piece is disturbingly ageist and naive in parts: "That’s not because you’re inexperienced — it’s because you’re right. Your generation is, by definition, further ahead on the march of progress than everyone else. It is literally
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Ethics
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by xiaoma 10y ago
If you voted for her in the primary, then I actually do blame you. You picked just about the only Democrat Trump had a hope of beating.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
They're not leaving the country. Their country left them.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I think you're confusing deduction with speculation. I'm fully aware of the difference between language openness and "freedom of choice for consumption". I just don't agree with the wisdom in tying my workflow to a
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by xiaoma 10y ago
No. I honestly can't tell if you're trolling or not at this point, but "Er" is a horrible way to open a comment. Assigning a strawman position to someone you disagree with is equally horrible. I've gladly purchase
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by xiaoma 10y ago
thanks!
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by xiaoma 10y ago
What does a "paydirt" IPO mean?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
and painfully slow
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by xiaoma 10y ago
>" Er... " VS Code is miles ahead of Jetbrains offerings and has no yearly subscription fee. MS was indeed one of my least favorite companies half a lifetime ago, but they've changed business models and are now pursuing a
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by xiaoma 10y ago
What non-Jetbrains IDE supports Kotlin well? What % of its contributions come from outside the Jetbrains ecosystem? Once Jetbrains no longer controls Kotlin's future and most Kotlin users are not Jetbrains customers, then I'd co
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I'm torn on this. On one hand, Kotlin is great. It's not Scala but it gives you a whole lot while maintaining the ability to very easily swap in for Java. On the other hand, it's controlled by Jetbrains—the company that now o
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by xiaoma 10y ago
> That is bad, but you can compensate an wrongfully jailed person afterwards. How do you compensate someone for being imprisoned (and likely raped) from the age of 28 to 45? In many cases, the death penalty is more humane.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Professionally it's far better to be great at one thing (or a clump of related things). The market doesn't if your skills are kind of close to a professionally marketable level in many areas. On the other hand, it generously rewar
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by xiaoma 10y ago
It's also possible that they're either more interested in deeply exploring another culture or simply more flexible than those who spend nearly their entire lives in one culture are.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I often take 15 minute walks to think about thorny problems or use a pen and paper to sketch out designs. Either of those would yield "low user activity" indicators. It's been years since I've been an employee on any sit
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by xiaoma 10y ago
If you're building a basic webapp, you shouldn't be using a front-end framework at all! React has one of the gentler learning curves of the front end frameworks, but it's still a lot more work than just rendering everything
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Yes, and the same advice applies to westerners living in Asia! Especially in cities like Shanghai or Hong Kong, there are westerners who live for decades without interacting with the local culture in a meaningful way.

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