mhkhung

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by mhkhung 3y ago
It happens to OSS projects all the time and simply discourages further contributions. Last year I took on an issue that has been opened for years, did all the work creating a pull-request, updating test code, yada yada, even another one tha
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by mhkhung 3y ago
There is Air Transat 236 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236 "This was also the longest passenger aircraft glide without engines, gliding for nearly 75 miles or 121 kilometres"
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by mhkhung 6y ago
It's capitalism that killed it. Stock price was sky high because of the optical-fiber hype. Management has to kill those traditional businesses (switches, etc) that doesn't have that high growth rate that justifies the stock price
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by mhkhung 6y ago
Would not considered Neapolitian. There are some 'higher-end' pizza places there that don't follow the 'tradition as dictated by committee'. https://www.eater.com/2018/2/23/17025722&#x
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by mhkhung 7y ago
And giving full citizenship to HK people is really not what they wanted. The people there want independence, full-democracy, not an escape route.
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by mhkhung 7y ago
The husband and son of the 'chief executive' (ie Beijing puppet) have full UK citizenship (as well as the previous chef executive too).. The British should revoke all these government officials' citizenship (And their family)
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by mhkhung 9y ago
"Laws change depending on who's making them. Cardassians one day, Federation the next – but justice is justice." – Odo, 2369 ("A Man Alone") How much representation does Catalan has in the central government and hig
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by mhkhung 9y ago
Toronto is totally different even from 10 years ago. Spadina/Queen/King (where all the starts-up are located) is so busy even at nights and weekends because so many people live and work there. The ports area being developed, is to
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by mhkhung 9y ago
Amazon must have nearly 400 R&D people in Toronto now. Probably 300 when I left. I was always involved in recruiting and Amazon hires the best from all over the world and probably over 70% of the engineers were from Waterloo and the new
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by mhkhung 9y ago
UofT is one of the best research university in the world, at the PhD level. Waterloo is best at producing the best engineers at the undergrad level.
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by mhkhung 10y ago
I think it is common to have incompetents running HR in these high-valued startups, when the VP is probably just a beer-buddy or the wingman of the founder, with no formal HR education or experience. I have had one of those asking the big n
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by mhkhung 10y ago
Vancouver is a retirement haven.. 10 years they all retired. Those needing to work go to Toronto.
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by mhkhung 10y ago
Automatic transmissions are way more reliable, with the computer shifting gears at perfect timing each time. None of my automatic transmission cars (1st hand, sold after 4-8 years) ever need to have its gear box repaired. Manual transmissio
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by mhkhung 10y ago
Detached house is over 1M in Toronto. But there are plenty of semis and townhouses that are way less (700K?) and condos walkable to downtown for half of that. Amazon is in a class-A tower right next to the banks and they cannot hire enough.
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by mhkhung 11y ago
There is always (your) life cycles. Both myself and my brother Waterloo grads in the 90s. He is in the sv and I stayed in Toronto. My company sent me down to the valley to "help" for a few months (ie living and food all expensed)