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There are signs that the china's housing markets is popping. I want to put money where my mouth is. What are the ways to short their housing market without direct access to the chi…

https://status.slack.com/ shows everything is fine but I can't access the company slack

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/exa…

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…

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 po…

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…

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 w…

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 le…

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 as…

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 supp…

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 improve…

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 m…

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 vocabu…

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 tru…

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-…