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walty8

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About walty8

https://www.bart.com.hk

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    Actually, my experience is, there is always a cause. But some causes could be very subtle or unexpected.

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    Comment #34010225

    In general, for complicated items, I prefer to code at one place and think at another place. They seems to require different parts of your brain, and have different 'comfortable sp…

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    Comment #32053515

    thanks, my son would love this :)

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    Comment #30134934

    > The app or website should make my life better but instead it's harder. This is the sub-goal, but not ultimate goal. The ultimate goal is to maximize the profit, with accounts cre…

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    Comment #28535876

    But the in the screen capture of article, the user name is actually 'issac.asimov', i.e. the mime type does not immediately follow the dot.

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    Comment #27273416

    yes, it's useful to comment out a bunch of lines.

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    Comment #27171856

    > I know the immediate response to this is going to be "But America did such and such...". I don't care what America did. When someone is on trial for stealing a car, talking about…

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    Comment #25818554

    We recently converted a chrome extension into safari extension using the tool provided by apple [1]. While the conversion is smooth in general, the generated app (not the extension…

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    Comment #25799411

    Thank you! The tutorial is great.

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    Comment #25710384

    It's for another rover, but I can't help thinking about it :) https://xkcd.com/1504/

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    Comment #25455690

    I believe it's discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25400249

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    Comment #25342411

    Oh, yes, Share point, the worst nightmare when I worked in a big corp years ago. I wonder if there are really some sort of experts that understand how does it supposed to work?

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    Comment #25287132

    But, that's still better than 'trying to create a product that may solve the problem of others', right? I mean, feeling the pain seems a valid start point?

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    Comment #25242950

    Actually even writing on wordpress.com is a bit too much, sometimes I just can't help but do the text decoration (font size, bold, underline). Nowadays, I write the blogs on the ev…

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    Comment #25121647

    Yes, it works but not intuitive. I mean why use the checkout for the file reversion? And I think that's the problem of git: it's powerful and it works, but it's really not easy to …

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    Comment #25098822

    Just some experiences of mine, I had been really stressful when trying to get a job, long time ago. And eventually I started the jogging at the time. To me, it's like sort of hedge…

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    Comment #25021747

    The article is actually useful, despite the annoying introduction line of `a few million poorer`. People could stop reading the article for whatever reasons. Just one typo I believ…

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    Comment #24996700

    I think the title is a bit misleading. > ... a while later I found out that the stress of completing all his other courses on top of his master's project had lead him to take the v…

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    Comment #24406133

    I figured it out in another incidence. I was in my first year as programmer, and I believed I was a pretty good one. I remember I was hanging around in a small computer book store,…

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    I think the paragraphs are simple enough, but my personal preferences is, some paragraphs better come first than others. I am not sure if it's the same to others, but for me to lea…