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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

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

By generic function, do you mean the catmull clark subdivision?

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 democracy is likely a very poor one.

Hong Kong doesn't have true democracy. On surface it might follow the British system [0]. The chief executive, the equivalent of mayor, is elected by the election committee of 1,200 members [1]. Slightly over half of the legislative council, the equivalent of the parliament, is the "functional constituency", which means those members are appointed by selected member of selected industries [2]. Hong Kong has been pushing for universal suffrage every year. Every year, peaceful demonstration is seen on 1st of July to ask for reforming the election[3]

It seems the market welcomes that...

It is more nuanced. Some are market manipulation. Some wants to support Jimmy Lai. There were people spreading rumours on lihkg.com, the hong kong reddit, that buying stock of apple daily can financially support the company. There are people thinking the company will soon be de-listed, which is more likely true, hence want a piece of history by getting a physical stock. Some want to make a profit by riding the market trend hence perpetuating the rising trend.

your number is just applications.

You are right. Some factor to consider:

- the numbers I quoted is for the UK only. US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan are the other company choices

- There are around 300,000 Canadian in HK. They can leave anytime [4]. And there are many holders of other citizenship whom returned HK after the 90s migration, sensing that HK weren't as bad as imagined.

They seem are disqualified on the new oath rule?

The new oath rule was imposed after the election if I remember correctly. And there is no governance over the execution of the rule. It's basically up to whoever in position thinks you violated the rule. No proof is needed.

non profit disbanded fearing of crackdown.

I might have misused the term charity. Non-profit fearing crackdown is still wrong, right? It was a non-profit for visiting inmate, so they feel cared, after all

it helps to guide the democracy sentiment of the society

People leaving the city are those either who care about democracy or who care about economy. So I hold opposite opinion. Time will tell.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers_in_Hong_K...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Committee_(Hong_Kong)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_constituency_(Hong_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_1_July_marches

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadians_in_Hong_Kong

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 population fled the city in the first half of 2021.

In a parallel universe, and completely unrelated note, my friends in China, thinks their country can finally stand-up against the west. They cannot be more proud of their country. There is also the sentiment that the West would not doing anything concrete against China

I can dig up figures and references if anyone interested

Edited with reference:

[1] Clam down on Apple Daily, the only pro-democratic (that I know of) news outlet in Hong Kong

[2] Directors of Apple Daily arrested

[3] 65,000 applications of BN(O) visa, the visa for HKers to move to the UK. HK population is around 7.5M

[4] Youtubers exodus, for fear of government prosecution in the name of the national security or for whatever reason.

[5] 230 Democrats quitting local council.

[6] There are around 479 local council in total. So about half of them quit

[7] People were arrested in the name of national security here and there. A charity, formed last year, providing inmate visiting service, will be dismissed. Only Chinese source available at the moment

[8] During the peak of mass migration in the 90s, 62,000 people per year moved away from HK. Compare with 65,000 moving to the UK in the first 6 months

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/hong-kongs-apple-daily-will-clo...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/17/hong-kong-poli...

[3] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/65-000-hongkongers-apply-...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/c/memehongkong https://www.youtube.com/c/bobsyouruncle1981 https://www.youtube.com/c/Gavinchiu001 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVjj_osiKAP_qTtJAr6IrvA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh_KRmXM4RiQFvOBBDpvC6Q

[5] https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/230-elected-pro-democrats-q...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_councils_of_Hong_Kong

[7] https://news.now.com/home/local/player?newsId=449783

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waves_of_mass_migrations_from_...

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 inherently bad. It depends how industrialised the process is

- Not all land can grow crop while cow glazes on infertile land.

- The water usage in raising cow does not account for where the water come from. It come from natural rain water if the cow is relatively free-ranged. Growing almond/oat on the other hand definitely rely on irrigation water. California wastes majority (can't remember the percentage) of its precious water on growing almonds

edit: https://www.sacredcow.info/helpful-resources contains some infographics of those quick facts

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

The tld is apt, wtf?

Didn't know. Savage! Good luck and wish you success!

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

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 know.

Used to own software-engineering.blog. Big plans on it. Not anymore

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 talking about their own project than anything. For me side project is a shortcut to peek into applicant's mind

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. Also definitely looking into "permanent establishment". The EOR suggestions are very helpful!

99.99% SLA achieved. Jokes aside, I think the article is well written.

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 things I think needed support are

- Send Full Payment Submission to HMRC

- Apply pay as you earn scheme for employer (or is it for employee?)

- Filing Self Assessment tax returns to report foreign income

I am new to this matter so am not sure if the list makes sense at all.

What about having regulations updated instead of bending the industry backward to fit the outdated regulations?

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 order effect or higher order effect.

Online banners charging "per impression" is second order effect, by occupying "mind share" while charging "per conversion" is first order effect. IMO most measurements are on the first order side and we have less visibility on the second order effect

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. Would love to learn what other "more useful" metrics are out there.

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 graph is like coding imperatively - hard to grasp from quick glance. Code is more frequently read than written

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 gone.

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 to say is, the US is designed to be free and inclusive. At least that's how I understand it. And there are always opposite voices. But, as I perceive it, the politically correct thing seems to be over-correcting the "wrong".

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 backend and shoving its response directly into a react component using dangerouslySetInnerHTML. One dev told me, "wait, you are opening door for XSS!"

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 whenever I want

I have yet to see anywhere implemented like this, but IMO mutation/deletion should be on dry run mode by default.

Can someone explain to me what am I reading here? Everyone is mentioning SCP. What is SCP?

Can I understand it as the UI layer for BPMN? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Process_Model_and_Not...

Tangential, but I am curious. What is the embedded animation/player made of?

I bet Brian owns a much larger stake on coinbase than on airbnb

Tangential, I always wanted an editor that can convert graph into data definition