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Ask HN: What are the ways to short a housing market?
1 points by throwaway_2047 3y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Is Slack Down?
2 points by throwaway_2047 4y ago|1 comments
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China Lost America(nytimes.com)
5 points by throwaway_2047 4y ago|0 comments
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
Learning coding can be a form of premature optimization. Exercising can be a form of premature optimization. Your body ain't gonna need it. jk
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
Would be great if there is support between navigation of 3D content and VR headset. If no support between them, there will be a virtual window embedding e.g https://threejs.org/examples/#webgl_decals , which is weird
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
By generic function, do you mean the catmull clark subdivision?
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
Thank you so much for taking the time to read the news. It is heartwarming to me. I will respond to the best of my knowledge. > If apple daily is the only pro democracy, which is a tabloid style newspaper, the conclusion is that HK democ
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
I used to live in Hong Kong. In the past 2 year situation has been Orwellian. News outlet being shutdown, pro-democratic parties dismissed, charities disbanded, whole members of political party got arrested, among others. At least 1% of the
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
I suggest everyone to read https://www.sacredcow.info/helpful-resources before jumping the bandwagon that milk is bad and the plant alternative is good. Quick summary based on hazy memory - Cow breeding isn't inherentl
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
It is the first order effect we are able to measure. It is often the second or higher order effect that are impactful. Quality, product market fit, etc
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
The tld is apt, wtf?
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
Didn't know. Savage! Good luck and wish you success!
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
Tangential, I think adding support of http://webtorrent.io/ by bridging webtorrent peer with bittorent peer would greatly increase/revive the popularity of the protocol
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
And I cherish the fact that all software is build on shoulder of giant. I see "leverage" instead of shit ton of 3rd party libraries. But of course, maybe there are Linus Torvalds with a Putnam prize under their belt, what do I kno
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
Used to own software-engineering.blog. Big plans on it. Not anymore
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
To me it is a huge plus. There are a lot to tell by looking at the side projects. At earlier stage start-ups, where interview process is not that rigid, it helps interviewer (at least for me) to gauge many aspect at once. Candidates love ta
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
Thanks so much for the pointers, super helpful! May I know what is the implication of not going UK payroll, i.e. earning foreign income? I might go for submitting an annual self assessment on my foreign income if there is no huge downside.
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
99.99% SLA achieved. Jokes aside, I think the article is well written.
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
Congratulations on the launch! I've recently moved to UK and doing research on payroll/tax matters. I am working remotely for an overseas company making foreign income. Do you support foreign company having employees in UK? The th
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
What about having regulations updated instead of bending the industry backward to fit the outdated regulations?
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
Thanks so much for suggesting Ogilvy. Definitely going to read it. As of increase of sales, I think all business activities ultimately lead to either increase of revenue or improvement of margin (lower cost). The question is, is it first or
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
As an engineer, I have always wanted to quantify the effect of PR. The PR people I spoke to often says it is hard to measure, occupying mindshare, "upper" funnel, yada yada. Some may offer number of publicity as a measuring stick.
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
Isn't programming itself inherently consist of "graph"? We convert everything into AST after all. The use of abstract concept like currying, recursion, map reduce is to have vocabulary express our thought IMO. Turning into gr
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
The were no major international companies IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The listing companies were overwhelmingly chinese ones. When American companies leave HK, all the trust in HK being an "international city" will be gon
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
Maybe tangential. Now in the society we have 2 + 2 might not equal four, a man cannot be "assumed" "he", reverse discrimination, etc. edit: I total understand why I'm getting down-voted. I think what I'm trying
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
Exactly my thought. My theory is that dev nowadays grow up in SPA/mobile client era and they are rediscovering what html was meant to be 20 years ago. I once wanted my SPA to render html directly by fetching the html from my trusted ba
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
I used a bookmarklet on chrome > javascript:(function(){console.log("monitor event"); window.addEventListener('message', (e) => {console.log(e);});})(); that way I can click the bookmark and start monitoring events
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
I have yet to see anywhere implemented like this, but IMO mutation/deletion should be on dry run mode by default.
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
Can someone explain to me what am I reading here? Everyone is mentioning SCP. What is SCP?
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by throwaway_2047 5y ago
Can I understand it as the UI layer for BPMN? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Process_Model_and_Not...

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