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chingjun

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    Comment #20884569

    How do you know that this individual driver has a one in a billion miles chance of crashing? By statistics from other human drivers I assume?

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    Comment #20860797

    I am from Terengganu. And yes people in Terengganu can speak standard Malay, but among themselves they speak a different dialect, which is very different. People from other parts o…

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    Comment #16296082

    Not sure if things has changed but 1 year ago my brother in law has opened an account in bank of China 中国银行 while he was on a 1 year traveling visa. You may want to try with anothe…

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    Comment #16295661

    Any foreigners can open a bank account in China even on tourist visa. No special documents needed other than your passport. Yes, being a foreigner in China does suck but not for th…

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    Comment #16295638

    WhatsApp was only started to be blocked recently (last year) when WeChat was already way ahead of WhatsApp in the market. WeChat's success was not due to lack of contender

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    Comment #15648048

    Easy, have a self driving cart to follow you wherever you go!

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    Comment #14916265

    > 3. You need access to a reliable electric grid and reliable fast internet (the firewall rules out mainland China completely--1/5 of the world). Every competent developer in China…

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    Comment #14635984

    Just like how you learn any other programming language: use it to solve your problems. Anyway, here's a few steps that I would recommend: 1. Go through http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html…

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    Comment #10589671

    The problem with using the English message as the key is that, when we changed the English text, we'd have to change the keys in all other languages as well. Also, the same English…

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    Comment #10107343

    Yes, I'm a Chinese and to me this is just two rare Chinese characters placed together. It doesn't have any meaning.

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    Comment #9499918

    Shouldn't it be "a UI toolkit" instead of "an UI toolkit"?

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    Comment #8811590

    Can anyone explain to me why I couldn't write n.forEach(console.log); Just tested on Chrome, it gives me an error TypeError: Illegal invocation

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    Comment #8810908

    When PHP announced that they will skip PHP6, we joked that it is a smart move to avoid PHP version 6.4

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    Comment #8810094

    Chinese government once blocked the download page of the python website (python.org), when they released python version 2.6.4. It is widely believed that it's because the version n…

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    Comment #8782343

    Because we now have [ag]( https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher ), which is similar to ack, but much faster

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    Comment #8782217

    You should avoid the obstacles while cycling. You should also stay within the safe speed limit, especially in areas with obstacles. Same rule applies for driving, walking, and basi…

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    Comment #8464384

    Swift has named arguments, and it's called "external parameter name". Here's an example taken from Apple's documentation[1]. func join(string s1: String, toString s2: String, withJ…

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    Comment #7882439

    Yeah, a developer cannot get "design".

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    Comment #7377855

    You're not alone.

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    Comment #7369090

    Wow I didn't know that! I was always doing something like this mi = dict((v,k) for k,v in m.iteritems())

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    Comment #7248643

    I stared at the page for 10 seconds before realising that i have to use arrows. I'd suggest adding simple instructions like "Press arrow keys to navigate".

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    Comment #6942439

    5. 193 ^(?!.*(.)(.)\2\1) 11. 379 ^\*(er|[fiptv])|^([blpw]|c[hor]|do|mi|re)

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    Comment #6942383

    379: ^\*(er|[fiptv])|^([blpw]|c[hor]|do|re|mi) and it has "do re mi" in it!

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    Comment #6942367

    > ^(?!(.)(.)\3\2)$ > But now it matches nothing. Things like (?!..) are called assertions. I like to think of assertions as patterns that match the space between two characters. So…

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    Comment #6941923

    Order for 195 ^[a-g]*[^a-g]*$