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All talk. No action. Sounds good. Doesn't work. Never going to happen. (tm)

Just wanted to remind everybody that Robinhood is not the boogeyman here. The government and its collusion with wall street are.

I never mentioned integrity. Integrity is nonexistent in the previous admin, the current admin, the big tech, and the mainstream media. And they working together is much more scarier than they fighting each other. I wish you could have seen this after what happened to Parler and now the GME stock saga.

I have to say whoever voted for Biden voted for this.

A Trump admin would have done the same but at least we could get some angry journalists yelling at them. See what we get now? A bunch of a* lickers.

Think of it as the culture revolution of the digital age.

If you cheered for Twitter shutting down Trump, or Amazon kicking out Parler, you shouldn't be surprised for this.

And the media made fun of it.

A few comments / suggestions:

1. The admission committees can certainly influence your life, but don’t let them define your life. For the long run the college you attend could be just a small factor and I think it is getting smaller thanks to the internet and open source.

2. The PL area is small and to some extent limited. Your interests and passion could likely shift in the future. Just keep an open mind.

3. Embrace life. Make friends. Build stuff (think open source) and actively participate in the communities. They usually are very friendly to bright kids. You may find out it could be a lot easier to join the top universities or companies in the future when you personally know and work with the professors or experts. You may even find out you can define your life and those universities matter no more to you.

It is a 30 patients test and almost everybody’s fever was gone right after enrollment. Even the swab test results turned negative in 2-4 days. Why is medicine ever needed for such group of patients?

It seems NCBI's index is not updated. You should try MN996532, which is also from bats and the sequence was uploaded Jan 29. It shows 96% similarity.

This headline is completely misleading. Those who "took over" the universities are the students who actually LIVE there. And those who "took over" the financial district are people who work there: they just protest downstairs during their lunch time.

You don't take over your home or office because you f*king own it.

There are reports that he has successfully fled HK. He was literally risking his life standing out and I wish him all the best.

It depends on what exactly the variables are referred to. FWIW, Windows DDK's example code has a consistent style as the kernel code (at least for windows 2000/xp). You won't have a thousand ways of naming variables once you get used to that style.

Ruling by fear, anger and hunger. Check out North Korea.

.NET's developer community is in no place comparable Golang's or Javascript's. Just take a look at GitHub's trending page by programming languages. Javascript is really bad for server side applications, and yet here we are with so many nodejs server apps. It doesn't matter much how good a tech is. What matters more is what the new generation is using, which you can get a sense from the trending page on GitHub.

Just take a look around to check out new enterprise MIS projects being implemented with a simple golang backend + reactjs etc frontend. The adoption of intereactive/responsive and single page web UI, and the more iterative development practices are certainly driving to a different direction compared to Spring (and RoR etc). I think the main force is from the frontend tech here and that is why you see them in the same sentence.

Java the language is slightly different than JVM but nevertheless the future is not very bright IMO. So far there are a few areas Java/JVM still holds a strong position but if you take a look at GitHub trending there is little or now new blood coming in.

- Android. No serious competitor to Java yet (JVM is irrelevant). But the Google lawsuit could have some complication.

- Spring stuff. I won't be surprised if they will be replaced by golang and nodejs (along with react/angular/vue etc). Same path for RoR.

- Data processing: Spark stuff, PrestoDB, Flink, Kafka, Hive, HBase, Lucene/Elastic etc. Java/JVM is still dominant but golang could be a future contender. A few new application databases/KV stores are implemented in golang.

The problem for Java is that the last category is mostly services (instead of libraries/frameworks) so you can potentially use any language to work with them, and the industry probably won't create many jobs for building generic services especially in the cloud era. So having the dominance doesn't provide a lot of protection.

Though the end result is more or less something similar you are over simplifying the situation. IMO usually there are two major reasons that makes foreign companies hard to compete with locals: * Excessive regulations and sometimes special rules for foreign companies. But e-commerce is usually not the worst sector for this. * "Expertise" on how to deal with local laws. It is no secret local laws are usually selectively applied. Local companies have a lot more flexibility than foreign companies and they can do a lot of things that could create prohibitive legal liabilities for foreign companies if they even want to follow. For example, low wages and unhealthy work environments, unlawful marketing tactics, bribery and corruption etc.

I would argue the latter is the usual competitive advantages local companies have.

I would certainly be surprised if after installing the new tires you are required to install a new system to compensate the brake or you car may crash. The MCAS system is a clear indicator that the airframe and the engine are not compatible and yet they decided to do so for profit.

I think a lot of the discussions are missing the point. The mcas system itself is indeed just a duct tape for a known design defect, ie using a new engine on an old body. It is like you replace a part in your car, find it over heating, and put an ice bag on it. The planned software “fix” is something like changing the volume of ice. I think it is a dead end and it is scary.

I think people should really talk more about how the government spends the collected tax money instead of taxing those wealthy more.

This is similar to what people in those despicable countries are doing. In the name of "best interest for the country" people in power can do whatever they want.

"Best interest" is hardly a measurable or even agreeable term.

You have a technical problem. You want to solve it with XML, and now you have two problems.

You have a management problem. You want to solve it with micro services, and now you have N problems. N = number of micro services.

I think the Chinese government works more like a gang than the kind of government you are familiar with. The only politically correct thing is to maintain the ruling, and the real motivations are nothing uncommon: power and money, and most of the time the latter.

The great firewall project is a big business for a lot of people (e.g., billions dollars business if not much more). Hardware providers look for the deals. Professors in universities look for funds (for themselves and for their students). And the biggest cut would be bribes for officials and commissions for pimps. The worst part is this business is sort of under table and there is not much control.

All these people want this business to stay and grow under the name of glorious "reasons", and there is just zero motive for people to get in its way.

Shadowsocks is (arguably) easier to use for ordinary people and better informed. Most people don't even have command line experience before. After all this is one problem limited in one country which couldn't be freely discussed so choices may not be "optimal" in some sense.

VPN is roughly ok as long as your IP address is not in the blacklist. But it could be unstable. The GFW may drop your connections from time to time. I am not sure about Tor but I believe it probably doesn't work any more. Private VPN/shadowsocks is now the majority I think.

His success in Baidu and Baidu's success in general means more victims of their advertising business which is simply online fraud (of medicine and medical treatments). And most of the victims are probably less educated, poor people who are new to the internet.

For that I despise him and whoever actively takes part in Baidu's business. And the investors. This is the worst online fraud in the world because it is literally killing people.

Do you guys know that reportedly 30+% or even a half of Baidu's revenue comes from false advertisements by private hospitals and medical institutes mostly owned by companies from PuTian, a city in south China? It is literally bloody dirty money. If you can read Chinese, here is some news report: http://finance.china.com.cn/industry/medicine/yygc/20140721/...

Counting all the solutions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle#Counting_so...

I feel nowadays to meaningfully talk about performance of N-queens problem N should start with 18 instead of 8.. Here is a C++ solution with 40 lines of code and can solve 18-queens in less than a minute on a laptop:

https://gist.github.com/jdeng/7915749

For those who are interested in developing a realistically useful small OS in C++ (or even C++ 11), you may probably want to check out OSv https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv/ developed by previous KVM guys.