muddyrivers

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The Wonder Plant That Could Slash Fertilizer Use(theatlantic.com)
1 points by muddyrivers 8y ago|0 comments
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The Universe as We Understand It May Be Impossible(theatlantic.com)
2 points by muddyrivers 8y ago|0 comments
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by muddyrivers 8y ago
I grew up in China. Line cutting has always been annoying, even infuriating, for me. The last few times I visited back, I noticed the young generations are much better in this aspect. There are rarely any improvements in this regard among m
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by muddyrivers 8y ago
I have similar experiences in both systems. Growing up in China, it is easy for me to navigate in US cities. Beijing is primarily of grid system. The first time I went to Europe, I got quite lost in the city (Madrid). The second time was in
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by muddyrivers 8y ago
The table corruption bugs were triggered when the load was very high, as far as I know. It happened twice to me. In both cases, the corruption couldn't be corrected. The worse part was the corruption was propagated into replica, which
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Cglib: The missing manual(mydailyjava.blogspot.com)
2 points by muddyrivers 8y ago|0 comments
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by muddyrivers 8y ago
I think the media tend to use "depression" as a general term to describe mental illness. The persons who committed suicide may suffer other forms of mental illnesses. There are a great number of different types of mental illnesses
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by muddyrivers 8y ago
Pollution is indeed a big problem. I think it is closely related to both economy and national psychology. The economy has to develop to a point that the government decides that it is preferable to slow down economy and allocate more resourc
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by muddyrivers 8y ago
Diet might be another important factor. Asian tend to have balanced meals that include significant amounts of vegetables, fish, seafood, etc. I think the condition is improving. More and more people realize the importance of balanced meals.
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Meet the woman who can smell Parkinson's disease(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by muddyrivers 8y ago|0 comments
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by muddyrivers 8y ago
As a molecular and cellular biologist in my previous life, I would say it is coincidence, although it is exceedingly rare, as you said. I don't see the possibility to acquire it, based on my understanding and training. I want to provid
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F.D.A. Approves First Drug Designed to Prevent Migraines(nytimes.com)
1 points by muddyrivers 8y ago|0 comments
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by muddyrivers 8y ago
You can have very messy code with an excellent language. You can also have beautiful code with a poorly designed language. Let's do a thought experiments. Have a pool of SWEs fresh out of school. Divide them into groups. Each group is
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by muddyrivers 8y ago
This is true. However, it is more important to evaluate both the quantity and the "quality" of advantages and disadvantages. For disadvantages, how serious are they, how easy are they to be abused, to creep into the codebase, to b
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College Application Essays About Work, Money and Social Class(nytimes.com)
1 points by muddyrivers 8y ago|0 comments
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by muddyrivers 8y ago
You miss the point. I learned all these tricks in school as well. I loved them. I felt "smart". After working for so many years, I only remember the basic ones. If you ask me the "smart" tricks, I can't get them rig
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China Prepares a Hard-Line Stance on Trump’s Trade Demands(nytimes.com)
1 points by muddyrivers 8y ago|0 comments
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An MSG Convert Visits the High Church of Umami(newyorker.com)
69 points by muddyrivers 8y ago|100 comments
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by muddyrivers 8y ago
I agree. On the other hand, we engineers need to look at ourselves in the mirror. After all, we engineers conduct the technical interview. I was involved in hundreds of tech interviews in the past several years. So many times in discussing
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by muddyrivers 8y ago
I had a very similar experience many years ago. It was an start-up. The interviewer was the ex-CTO of a widely used open source project/product, and led the engineering team in the start-up. Although I regarded myself a good engineer,
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by muddyrivers 8y ago
No projects are budgeted to 45 minutes. The real world scenario for such limited time is debugging in production issues. It is a completely different scenario. The people who jump in are mostly those who are familiar with the services or ap
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by muddyrivers 8y ago
As someone in a similar situation as the author, I actually agree with you. It is perfectly normal that people who are not in similar situations don't know how to interact with such children and their parents, initiate, respond, or con
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Chinese Police Go RoboCop with Facial-Recognition Glasses(wsj.com)
2 points by muddyrivers 9y ago|0 comments
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The Ancient Origins of Both Light and Dark Skin(theatlantic.com)
1 points by muddyrivers 9y ago|0 comments
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by muddyrivers 9y ago
See @schoen's good explanation to solve the issue with a computer. It can be solved with a dictionary as well, by looking up the character from its pronunciation. With neither computer nor dictionary at hand, it would mostly fall into
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by muddyrivers 9y ago
嚔 is indeed hard to produce, even for Chinese native speakers. It is an example of an exception, though, like entrepreneur in English (I know it is from French, so the spelling is "unusual"). First, people don't write 喷嚔 ofte
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China’s ICO ban makes more sense in light of its history with fintech(techcrunch.com)
3 points by muddyrivers 9y ago|0 comments
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One Family, Many Revolutions: From Black Panthers, to Silicon Valley, to Trump(nytimes.com)
2 points by muddyrivers 9y ago|0 comments
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by muddyrivers 9y ago
I don't understand that it was voted down. I think it is a fair argument. I agree the reporting has been getting better.
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‘Spotify Rule’ Would Help New York Stock Exchange Woo Unicorns(wsj.com)
1 points by muddyrivers 9y ago|0 comments

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