cygwin98

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by cygwin98 11y ago
I remember a few years ago the saving interests in Australia was around 8% plus. That was risk-free rate, if you take a bit more risk on other financial products, 10% might be achievable. Not feasible for 20 years though.
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by cygwin98 11y ago
Just to point out: these days you don't have to use the dosbox/qbasic combo in order to have a qbasic-compatible environment. There is an open-source implementation called qb64 that is both qbasic compatible and cross-platform (Wi
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by cygwin98 11y ago
Nuclear missles or "90000 tons of diplomacy" are both certain kinds of deterrence, nothing more, nothing less. If US does not have those carrier combat groups, China wouldn't care either.
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by cygwin98 11y ago
Cuban missile crisis in 1962?
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by cygwin98 11y ago
You can still do QBasic though. There is an open-sourced implementation called QB64 [1]. QB64 is also cross-platform that can run on Windows/Linux/Mac/Android. [1] http://www.qb64.net
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by cygwin98 11y ago
It is funny to see that the total amount Yahoo gained from all her other acquisitions put together is less than a fraction of the Alibaba deal.
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Azure is Down(azure.microsoft.com)
2 points by cygwin98 12y ago|0 comments
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by cygwin98 12y ago
Wow, amazing! Though it does seem a bit creepy to me, as the stories in old sci-fi novels, where a big corporation X built and operated a robot army taking over the governments and ruling the world, tend to become reality at a increasingly
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by cygwin98 12y ago
The Philippines?
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by cygwin98 13y ago
I thought for coding tests implementations are supposed to be done from scratch on. Or at least the guy who wrote the working parser should be on top of the list.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
2 people wrote a proper state machine driven parser that didn't work. 1 person wrote a proper state machine driven parser that worked. You probably missed three really good candidates here.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Palm's Treo series were pretty good smartphones back then. Though some braindead CEOs split the company into one hardware and one software company, while neither had the sufficient resources to put a new generation of smartphone OS thr
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by cygwin98 13y ago
I haven't seen any trend of bashing China, unless of course reporting honestly is bashing. Well, this is a bit subjective, in my book selective reporting that focuses on negativity is bashing. I am all for more budgets for NASA. Quit
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Not surprised. He has been bashing China for a while, which is the trending topic in the mainstream media anyway. Though I do wish some of the media agencies strike out of the group-thinking, and examine what NASA has been up to for the pas
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by cygwin98 13y ago
The team is still working on it. There is hope still. http://gbtimes.com/opinion/jade-rabbit-still-fighting-despit...
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Big corps like IBM share surprisingly similar traits as an military army. The general in charge of the army commonly only deals with the grand strategies and communicates with a few of his high-rank colonels. He has no idea who is the most
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by cygwin98 13y ago
How exactly is Dart dangerous? It's open source, unlike C#. One nit to pick here: C# is open sourced, though the .NET framework is not. Anyway, let's focus our discussion on Dart. Somehow I had an impression that GOOG might have
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by cygwin98 13y ago
I think Bing is a lost battle. The real question is what can they do on Azure, and can they move people to a cloud-based Office suite. Bing is actually doing surprisingly well, considering the team competes with probably the most successf
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by cygwin98 13y ago
I would prefer a strong Microsoft that keeps improving Bing and its web/mobile advertisement branch, which can counter-balance GOOG on web/mobile sphere. A GOOG with almost infinite cash flow from Ads would be as bad as MSFT in 90
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Adobe is the monopoly in the desktop graphics tool market. Not sure why no VC targets it at this moment, which does seem like a slow dinosaur to attack on.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
His tone sounds like a project manager, well, maybe CEO as a role in big corps like MSFT is a glorified PM on a larger scale.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
I was talking about money. I read a few years ago that Buffet was able to raise a huge amount of fund (equivalent to about 1million in today's money) when he was very young from a few of his dad's friends. Cann't recall the s
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by cygwin98 13y ago
His mother was then a board member of IBM, which was one of big factors of IBM's decision making over the choice of PC operating system.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Warren Buffet's dad was a member of U.S. House of Representatives, which was a huge advantage to have as an investor.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
HP has no vision, otherwise, TouchPad and WebOS could have been huge now. They were way ahead of the time on Node.js/Javascript stuff.
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by cygwin98 13y ago
On the referenced pdf[1], there are two professions related to us: 130 0.042 Software Developers, Applications 293 0.48 Computer Programmer The former has 4% probability to lose to automation, while the later is 48%. What is the difference
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Maybe I significantly underestimated the workload to implement such a feature, especially with good UX. I personally consider it a good feature to differentiate BCC from its competitors. Though I am not sure if you can say such a feature wo
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by cygwin98 13y ago
I agree with your point: BCC is a niche market. Though I wonder if BCC even has achieved its potential. I was surprised by patio11's statement: I’m sorry, Bingo Card Creator does not support using clip art. Have a nice day. Maybe he
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Found an interesting comment from a guy called Fildo on patio11's blog: Hmm, that makes me wonder. 2013 was the first year I started selling my (desktop) software and I made a little more than you – without doing all the A/B test
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by cygwin98 13y ago
Thanks. A surprisingly fun read. It does get me interested in Venus, which is like a twin of Earth except the hellish atmosphere.

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