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by yzhengyu 15y ago
I respectfully disagree. I actually stopped using Firefox because my experience with Chrome's Omnibar convinced me to switch full time. With how the Omnibar works, I no longer need to type in a full URL. It either searched for the site I wa
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
This is the same argument that the leaders of my country, Singapore, foisted on us, that we need to have immigration to "close the gap", so-to-speak. This was in the late 1990's, then they began a program of liberalized immigration which no
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
It is actually one of those famous interview questions. Kinda like the Microsoft one where they asked you why are manhole covers round. Totally useless, since performance in an interview is not indicative on whether an employee is a good fi
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
You're being overwhelmingly optimistic. History shows that an education model to be surprisingly resilient and will only collapse if there as seismic shifts in its supporting culture/state/nation. This is readily apparent in East Asia, wher
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
I can appreciate node.js since it is an innovation which allows the industry to start tapping the massive pool that is Javascript programmers [shudder]. But its not particularly compelling since I've used Erlang, and for Java - Netty, Apach
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
Perhaps its only true for merchants - I live in Singapore and I could use Checkout to pay for Cadence and Slang.
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
Well, my answer to that is the same as the others here. At most of the corporate places where the programmer is treated just like any peon, he/she will just get assigned more work. The running jokes amongst my peers is that the project mana
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
It might sound absurd to you and me, but it really isn't from his point of view once you consider the majority of the audience who is listening to him. For better or for worse, most people are conditioned against destructive action [i.e. vi
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
You can say hypothetical middle manager got lucky, but it isn't. We will never know whether Zynga would have succeeded without hypothetical middle manager or the other 'undeserving employees'. This is just dickish behavior from Pincus. Give
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
Ironically, I greatly admire the Finnish system. They got something very, very correct if their teachers can get a bunch of "unmotivated Finnish children and teenagers" to score so well in so many exams. As a Singaporean, I would amend the
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
I concur. If I don't get at least seven, eight hours of sleep the day before, I find myself staring at the screen blearily the next day (at work) or succumbing to a mid-day nap (if the next day isn't work day).
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
Hmm, in the greater world of software project delivery, I actually see this as a problem of misaligned incentives. People will go ahead and make poor long-term decisions that inflate technical debt and eventually cause product to die largel
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
I think at the end of the day, what Jobs clearly did not care for was dogma. And in politics - be it left or right-wing - there remain plenty of dogmas, sacred cows and entrenched positions which he did not care for.
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
Amen. I have lost count of the number of times where I saw engineering teams taking the full blame for failure where it was middle management dropping the ball with regards to dismissing the massive engineering risks engineering have found
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
Sound advice, but I guess this is more for sticking with a craft and getting better at it. Hmm, as a programmer who works for a salary, I think it is a very important skill to know when to quit the circumstances which are stopping you from
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
As I see it, software rots because though maintenance is a permanent and recurrent cost, the ultimate cost for it (codebase abandonment) lies in the distant future. By the time it is needed to flush the big ball of mud down the toilet, the
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
I am well aware of his flaws. I actually placed a higher weight on the accessibility of Gladwell's work. He might not be an economist/sociologist who studied the problem, but the fact that he is able to introduce difficult concepts to a lar
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
News at eleven, "Horatio Alger myth continues to appeal to fairness bias", "Middle class continue to toil under the mindset that they are temporarily embarrassed millionaires". Raw numbers collected over decades of research disprove this ha
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
I suspect it will take an extended time of economic malaise to kill the 'trickle-down' mindset. After all, this mindset took root in the western hemisphere during the time of Reagan and Thatcher (read, 80's) and the Horatio Alger myth remai
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
Well, while I found the question strange, perhaps it is more of a method to gauge whether the applicant is familiar with tools like cvs/svn/git? A reasonably experienced team developer [perhaps a dev admin guy as well] will probably know ho
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
It is actually in the interest of the government to redistribute wealth, so that the next revolution never comes. :) Despite what embittered historians say, the rich and powerful learnt plenty of lessons from the French Revolution. The only
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
Scratch this image deep enough and you will realize top local officials in China are always under tremendous pressure to increase GDP growth to further their own position and careers and that the easiest way will be build 'anything'/'someth
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
As a Singaporean who went through the whole system locally and feel a nice sense of pride when I see all these nice scores, I would like to point out that the usual flaw of statistics - they only tell the skin-deep side of the story. As I s
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
Erm, its not?. Shawndumas was just pointing out that a decision was finally made. They were grappling over the syntax for over two three years. Now they will just need to grapple over with what kind of scoping that Java's lambdas will have.
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
Hmm, I would reckon node.js is popular because of its inherent simplicity and tapping the greater javascript community, which is by far the most vibrant and energetic I have seen. The things that it introduced - asynchronous, modelling as e
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
As a Singaporean, all I can say is that once you become more aware of how the incumbent government generates most of its revenue, you will be rendered speechless. Americans often exaggerate and say that their nation is turning into a corpor
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
Those who started out as programmers at the beginning of the computing era and who remain in the same field of computer science are of course, going to be experts in their fields due to years of accumulated experience, knowledge and skill.
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
Unfortunately, I have worked in places where the culture was so poisonous and the appraisal scheme so skewed that employees of high ability had plenty of incentive not to do this. So this is not a given. Fortunately, I am no longer in that
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
I would like to add the point that even if the person is coming across as direct and undiplomatic, you should never take it personally. All it means the person has lost his/her calm but the channel of communication remains open and more imp
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
If its economic growth you want, you should move to China. But not as an overseas expatriate but as a Foxconn factory worker earning below China's mandated minimum wage and long hours beyond government sanctioned safety limits. Or you can j

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