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chingjun
7y ago
How do you know that this individual driver has a one in a billion miles chance of crashing? By statistics from other human drivers I assume?
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chingjun
7y ago
I am from Terengganu. And yes people in Terengganu can speak standard Malay, but among themselves they speak a different dialect, which is very different. People from other parts of Malaysia often have difficulty understanding it. It’s more
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chingjun
9y ago
Not sure if things has changed but 1 year ago my brother in law has opened an account in bank of China 中国银行 while he was on a 1 year traveling visa. You may want to try with another bank And no, we’re not trying to spread rumors :)
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chingjun
9y ago
Any foreigners can open a bank account in China even on tourist visa. No special documents needed other than your passport. Yes, being a foreigner in China does suck but not for this case.
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chingjun
9y ago
WhatsApp was only started to be blocked recently (last year) when WeChat was already way ahead of WhatsApp in the market. WeChat's success was not due to lack of contender
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chingjun
9y ago
Easy, have a self driving cart to follow you wherever you go!
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chingjun
9y ago
> 3. You need access to a reliable electric grid and reliable fast internet (the firewall rules out mainland China completely--1/5 of the world). Every competent developer in China knows how to bypass the firewall.
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9y ago
Just like how you learn any other programming language: use it to solve your problems. Anyway, here's a few steps that I would recommend: 1. Go through http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ and http://
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11y ago
The problem with using the English message as the key is that, when we changed the English text, we'd have to change the keys in all other languages as well. Also, the same English text might translate to different texts in a foreign l
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chingjun
11y ago
Yes, I'm a Chinese and to me this is just two rare Chinese characters placed together. It doesn't have any meaning.
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chingjun
11y ago
Shouldn't it be "a UI toolkit" instead of "an UI toolkit"?
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chingjun
12y ago
Can anyone explain to me why I couldn't write n.forEach(console.log); Just tested on Chrome, it gives me an error TypeError: Illegal invocation
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chingjun
12y ago
When PHP announced that they will skip PHP6, we joked that it is a smart move to avoid PHP version 6.4
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chingjun
12y ago
Chinese government once blocked the download page of the python website (python.org), when they released python version 2.6.4. It is widely believed that it's because the version number triggered that[1]. Python website has since added
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12y ago
Because we now have [ag]( https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher ), which is similar to ack, but much faster
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chingjun
12y ago
You should avoid the obstacles while cycling. You should also stay within the safe speed limit, especially in areas with obstacles. Same rule applies for driving, walking, and basically everything.
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12y ago
Swift has named arguments, and it's called "external parameter name". Here's an example taken from Apple's documentation[1]. func join(string s1: String, toString s2: String, withJoiner joiner: String) -&g
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chingjun
12y ago
Yeah, a developer cannot get "design".
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chingjun
13y ago
You're not alone.
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chingjun
13y ago
Wow I didn't know that! I was always doing something like this mi = dict((v,k) for k,v in m.iteritems())
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chingjun
13y ago
I stared at the page for 10 seconds before realising that i have to use arrows. I'd suggest adding simple instructions like "Press arrow keys to navigate".
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13y ago
5. 193 ^(?!.*(.)(.)\2\1) 11. 379 ^\*(er|[fiptv])|^([blpw]|c[hor]|do|mi|re)
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13y ago
379: ^\*(er|[fiptv])|^([blpw]|c[hor]|do|re|mi) and it has "do re mi" in it!
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13y ago
> ^(?!(.)(.)\3\2)$ > But now it matches nothing. Things like (?!..) are called assertions. I like to think of assertions as patterns that match the space between two characters. So (?!a) means that it matches the space, wh
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13y ago
Order for 195 ^[a-g]*[^a-g]*$
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chingjun
13y ago
What is the difference between this and 'while true; do cmd1 && cmd2; sleep 1; done'