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Re:Roads Are Getting Deadlier for Pedestrians on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @10:43AM (#26567837)
It's not mentioned in the article, but I feel like the number of cars with blindingly bright headlights has to factor into this too.
Re:Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:40PM (#26228496)
Remember pagers? Even before cell phones, my dad (a physician) was reachable 24/7.
Re:Pine64 Unveils Quartz64 SBC on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @06:56PM (#26160552)
I've been meaning to buy something from pine64. This might finally be it; especially with that e-ink screen.

I just joined the mailing list. Hopefully I can snag one of those.

Re:Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust? on Friday January 15, 2021 @06:37PM (#25798129)
The point of the example is that in Zig, that statement is exactly as simple as it looks.

What looks like a field reference (`c.d`) is just a field reference; there are no getters or @property functions that are doing more complicated things.

And similarly with the addition operator, that plus sign is just addition and doesn't call a function somewhere else.

These abstractions are considered useful by the designers of other languages, but they are specifically excluded in Zig. The benefit of not having them being that it's easier to follow the execution flow of the program.

Re:US bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores, threatens shutdowns on Friday September 18, 2020 @06:41PM (#24522549)
That’s rough.

We are in a similar situation. She’s got a tourist visa though, and while we think it would technically be possible for her to enter the US, we’re kind of afraid to try.

Re:US bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores, threatens shutdowns on Friday September 18, 2020 @05:19PM (#24521972)
I thought the border restriction was just about having been in China in the last 14 days. Couldn't she get back into the US if she went to a different country first for 14 days?
Last I heard from this story, the lawsuit was because of unlimited lending:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23391662

Re:Programming languages are not languages (2018) on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:36PM (#22873886)
You might want to look into something called Constructivism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_proof

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020) on Thursday April 02, 2020 @12:29AM (#22756200)
Location: Singapore

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Salesforce/force.com, Apex, Visualforce, etc

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-glauber-583b143a/

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For the past 7+ years, I have been working as a software developer supporting a US product entering the China market. Salesforce, force.com and the related wed technologies are what I'm most familiar with, but I would be willing to consider projects outside of that scope as well.

Aside from software development, I am a native speaker of American English, and I've also gotten fairly good at Chinese since I've been living in mainland China for the last 10 years.

If anyone out there needs Salesforce/force.com technical expertise, or is hiring for an internationally-focused company or project, I would be interested in hearing from you.

Re:Show HN: Top Fantasy Reads – Fantasy books Reddit is reading on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @11:58PM (#22372792)
*bookshop.org

bookstore.org looks like they just sell their own domain name.

I don't read a lot of legal documents, but maybe it could also be translated as "unwarranted" or "not legally sanctioned".
Re:Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies on Monday September 23, 2019 @05:47AM (#21047335)
Hello, if the webmaster for this site is reading this, your `change.org` file is getting a Content-Type of `application/octet-stream` instead of `text/html`, which is giving me (in firefox) a prompt to download a file instead of displaying the page.

The problem is probably with your type mappings: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#typ...

Re:A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @05:40AM (#20283335)
All IoT devices are exposed to the internet by design. That's what the "I" stands for, Internet.
Re:Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B on Monday June 10, 2019 @10:53PM (#20152720)
The data storage limit increased quite a bit just a few months ago:

https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/spring19/rele...

Re:Ask HN: A Good Alternative for ReCaptcha? on Friday May 31, 2019 @04:21AM (#20059147)
It seems like it is effective.

We were getting a lot of automated requests, and right when we put the waterwall on our page, it did a good job of picking out those users and not impacting others.

After a few days though, those users were able to start getting through again, but based on the timing between requests, it looks like they might have had to start operating the page manually.

We're on ap4 and it looks like our stuff is still up.
Actually, the Gaokao does have something that might be similar where ethnic minorities get extra points:

https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1595620876524810727&wfr=spi...

Re:Kind of Screwed (2011) on Monday March 04, 2019 @08:25PM (#19307353)
Thanks for that insight.
Re:Kind of Screwed (2011) on Monday March 04, 2019 @08:04AM (#19300886)
It would be interesting to hear why he paid royalties to get a license for the songs but not for the cover art.

Hiring artists to create retro versions of the music and hiring an artist to create a retro version of the album cover seem like pretty analogous situations.