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by ximeng 10y ago
There were four major bullet points on the challenges. I imagine they also have other things to do and need to spend time persuading people to make changes elsewhere in the org.
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by ximeng 10y ago
"SYLK": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYmbolic_LinK_(SYLK) not SLYK I assume
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by ximeng 10y ago
Standard oil? Microsoft? At a high level government and big business are very similar in scope. It's not a matter of one or the other - your analysis is too simple. Government created the baby bells, not creative destruction. Governmen
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by ximeng 10y ago
Bought Surface Pro a while back. Happy. Charger broke one week after warranty expiry. Keyboard broke a little later. So only way to reboot is hard reset which takes about 15 seconds of holding power button and volume up button, twice, and d
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by ximeng 10y ago
How about usage in this passage: 囍事 http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20160623000760-260115 In response to your edit, I mean that it has cultural resonance that is unusually strong in relation to its linguistic over
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by ximeng 10y ago
计算机 jisuanji would be a hardware computer, 计算着 jisuanzhe computing as an ongoing action, and 计算者 jisuanzhe computer in the sense of one who computes
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by ximeng 10y ago
It may be the case, but usage of many of these characters is rarer than 囍. Looking through many of the characters in the cjk Unicode extensions it is not hard to conclude that characters like 福倒 should exist. E.g. 2010f and 20114 which look
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by ximeng 10y ago
This is used in discussions of the character, would you not consider that text? it does seem to have a more figurative than literal reference than most characters, in a way that I am not sure how to translate into English.
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by ximeng 10y ago
Interesting comments, thanks. It is used in company names, which would make it awkward not to have an encoding for it: there are many characters used just in names in Chinese that would leave locations and people having unencodable names if
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by ximeng 10y ago
I don't think it's true that 囍 never occurs in running text - it's used in company names which would be used in text. It would be odd not to have an encoding for such a common character.
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by ximeng 10y ago
You can design wide or deep with abstraction. Repeat similar code or abstract it out and branch down. Both introduce complexity. Possible to have too many abstraction layers. https://plus.google.com/+aerotwist/posts&#x2
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by ximeng 10y ago
WeChat payments seem like genuine improvements. But agree it's going to be very challenging for these companies to expand overseas. Perhaps still easier for China to expand outside its borders than outside companies expanding to China.
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by ximeng 10y ago
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnol... Alternative source without interstitial. Also comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10693764 And actual companies here
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by ximeng 11y ago
Google "rare earth china japan". 2010
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by ximeng 11y ago
To a reasonable first approximation, everyone on HN is in Silicon Valley, although "Not US" is still substantial. Here is previous survey I submitted, not sure if there's any better source. https://news.ycombinator
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by ximeng 11y ago
Or SQL Server on Linux: http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/07/announcing-sql-se... (unfortunately looks like this article was flagged so we won't see the conversation that would have come from
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by ximeng 11y ago
There are certainly differences between the pricing models for these enterprise databases. They are actively developed and have different feature sets, although you might need to look carefully to distinguish between them. There is active c
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Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition Is Now Free(blogs.technet.microsoft.com)
20 points by ximeng 11y ago|8 comments
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by ximeng 11y ago
He does talk in the interview about why he doesn't do that, and the reasons aren't completely unreasonable (basically he wants to avoid professionalising the dev process)
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Curing Cancer Is Within Reach(bloombergview.com)
3 points by ximeng 11y ago|0 comments
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by ximeng 11y ago
This article would not be hurt with more context being given
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by ximeng 11y ago
Love the gcc error message he links to. Classic C++.
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by ximeng 11y ago
Fork and make changes. If you have access update read me to point to your new project. Give it a similar name and add a new entry to ruby gems.org
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World's biggest floating solar farm powers up outside London(theguardian.com)
2 points by ximeng 11y ago|0 comments
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A browser dilemma – HSTS ‘supercookies’ force you to choose privacy or security(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
2 points by ximeng 11y ago|0 comments
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by ximeng 11y ago
The top comment on Reddit says: "As a casual player of Go myself, some of the moves that AlphaGo made were crazy. Even one of the 9th Dan analysts said something along the lines of 'That move has never been made in the history of
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by ximeng 11y ago
UN budget around 5.5bn$ for two years, WHO around 4bn$. Not enough by a long way if drugs are costing 1-2bn$ to develop.
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How 3D printing is shaking up high end dining(bbc.com)
65 points by ximeng 11y ago|41 comments
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by ximeng 11y ago
Surprised this would not attract interest - did you raise this previously in another post? Agree with the other replies to your comment, I would have thought there could be considerable interest here if managed correctly. I imagine a brief
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by ximeng 11y ago
No interest from HN or from him?

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