yeowMeng

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by yeowMeng 3y ago
Not sure this will be helpful but here goes. I wanted to be a pilot but am tall (> 6 feet) and poor eye sight (< -10). I was told at a young age that it would be nearly impossible for me. I accepted my fate for better or worse. Yet yo
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by yeowMeng 4y ago
I may have seen RMS talk once. I arrived early. After witnessing an interaction with a younger woman, it was weird…
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The best and worst engineering methods to stop COVID(twitter.com)
3 points by yeowMeng 4y ago|0 comments
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by yeowMeng 5y ago
Solarwinds is closed source so the choice to build from source is not really an option.
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by yeowMeng 5y ago
I like the eclectic selection of problems. I wish I had seen something like this when I was growing up; a manageable set of problems with the hint of depth. It’s easy to snipe a nerd, but nerd sniping a non-nerd.. That’s gold. FWIW: - No ma
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by yeowMeng 5y ago
> The [python] scripts are much faster... Pipelines are performant; many algorithms can be expressed as pipelines. Bash has many built-in string manipulation mechanisms which do not require a sub shell. Why do people who subscribe to the
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by yeowMeng 6y ago
Cscope in vim to jump between caller and callee (examine relationship). See where symbols are used. Jump to global definition. Could not live without cscope!
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by yeowMeng 6y ago
I listened to the record again; Popple, crackling, the sound of streams; The tape is transcribed; From the spinning disk to my mind; Let’s listen again but this time one rut deeper; The orbit quickens but the beat is steady; The needle stop
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by yeowMeng 7y ago
Bash was the first scripting language I became “good” in too! The skill seems to be regularly devalued in this community, and there is no surprise why (what is collaboration and maintenance for $500). However, it’s hard to ignore why bash m
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by yeowMeng 7y ago
On my second day at work they let go of the dozen people who had been our groups training “buddies” the night before. That sends a strong message. In the five subsequent years, I can’t recall anyone else getting let go. I later learned that
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by yeowMeng 7y ago
He is free to compute as he desires. He has worked a lifetime for that freedom. As for a luddite, he has enabled generations to forge new wild techno paths.. So literally the opposite of a luddite.
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by yeowMeng 8y ago
Curious to know why the HN title is using `FOSS` but only mention of `FOSS` is on the site’s /faq page. For free software zealots, the sites tag line “... maintaining popular open source projects...” may not spur action as OSS is missi
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by yeowMeng 8y ago
uhmm.. Staring into a book while listening to silence.. staring into a wall listening to music.. These are introspective journeys. You can’t expect everyone to be social in person from day 13.. Some ppl need time before they bloom socially.
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by yeowMeng 8y ago
You can watch an average American baseball game in a ‘condensed’ format in under 20 minutes. The condensed format shows key pitches and plays.
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by yeowMeng 9y ago
> ... can't sort basics of their their UI out ... Consumer lock in && feature bias to minimize UI complexity && tradition of maintaining long standing bugs... So basically, XXXXX XXXX as in Don’t care.
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by yeowMeng 9y ago
It’s a mvp wget clone.
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by yeowMeng 9y ago
Speculation to follow: Health care as an industry is significantly more profitable than the proactive/preventative healh programs. Eliminating insurance removes a volatility dimension. Preventing problems (if possible) saves infinite s
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by yeowMeng 9y ago
Some tree planters live in the bush for months. I knew a tree planter who lived in a tent within a tent and inside the outer tent was a dozen jugs piss. He never bothered to empty the jugs until the camp relocated. Also, it’s not impossible
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by yeowMeng 9y ago
Totally! Compiler development = Finite State Automaton + Push Down Automaton + Context Free Grammar + Intermediate representation + Static Analysis/Optimiation + Stack Machine + ... Hardware Architecture = Stack Machine/Turing Mac
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by yeowMeng 9y ago
BFS space complexity is order exponential.
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by yeowMeng 9y ago
Yield is a function of energy to the foilage that feeds the flowering buds. The largest bud is usually at the top of the plant since light tends to be placed above a plant. During flowering, if you can distribute energy more evenly among th
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
Play hunting oriented games with them.
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Password protection for static pages(github.com)
1 points by yeowMeng 10y ago|1 comments
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
Wirst guards and a helmet are a worthwile investment.
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
Honest question: when you didn't want your parents knowing where you were - did you make good choices? The truth for me; If I had listened to my parents, I would not be as cool. But If I had listened, I would be healthier and getting o
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
I used to be a son out skateboarding with a parent subsidized cellphone that was, on many occations, not answered. I can now understand the worry I cause my parents 'you were gone for 12 hours skateboarding and didn't think to che
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
(Other useful strategies not mentioned) * Watch video's on Khan Academy/youtube * Use Wolfram Alpha to confirm/deny yr solutions * Get a tutor who can explictly show you how they approach solving any arbitrary problem you bri
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
I dont think it's fair to characterize Stallman as an "Armchair Economist". FSF/GNU are active efforts in response to the Stallman world view. It's the opposite of armchair IMO. There is a distinction between framew
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
it could be base3, base64, base84.. that does not matter. The part that I find interesting is how many people who read the script are going to decode the blob and verify that the blob is non-malicious.
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
I try to read scripts before I download and execute. The only time I thought WTF was this: https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py Even though the author made it clear something funny was about to happen - I just could not exe

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