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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?

chingjun

7 年前discuss

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 of Malaysia often have difficulty understanding it. It’s more like Scottish to English I would say.

chingjun

8 年前discuss

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 another bank

And no, we’re not trying to spread rumors :)

chingjun

8 年前discuss

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 this case.

chingjun

8 年前discuss

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

chingjun

9 年前discuss

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

chingjun

9 年前discuss

> 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 knows how to bypass the firewall.

chingjun

9 年前discuss

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/ and http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/ , or at least go through the table of contents so that you have a feeling of what bash is capable of. A few important things are: if, while, for, switch, functions, string manipulation, pipe, subshell, command substitution

2. Understand the execution model. Variables in subshell cannot be accessed from the parent shell, this is a common mistake

3. Learn to avoid common pitfalls. I always recommend my colleagues to always quote the variables in double quote, always use "$@" instead of "$*", always use double square bracket instead of single square bracket for testing, use echo to pass return value from functions instead of assigning to global variable

4. Learn awk, sed, grep. Bash can be quite limiting when it comes to data processing and these tools can be quite powerful. You can use bash to glue different filters together at a higher level.

Bash is a fantastic language and there are quite a lot of things that can be much more quickly in bash than in other "proper" languages. A lot of people says that it's too difficult to maintain a shell script beyond a "critical mass" but I believe that if you follow good practices and write modular codes, shell scripts can be very manageable.

chingjun

11 年前discuss

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 text might translate to different texts in a foreign language depending on the context / location appeared.

Disclaimer: I've never used gettext before.

chingjun

11 年前discuss

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

chingjun

11 年前discuss

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

chingjun

12 年前discuss

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

chingjun

12 年前discuss

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

chingjun

12 年前discuss

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 number triggered that[1].

Python website has since added another download link written in Chinese on their website.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_19... , called 六四事件 in Chinese, literally means six-four incident since it happened on 4th of June

chingjun

12 年前discuss

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

chingjun

12 年前discuss

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 basically everything.

chingjun

12 年前discuss

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, withJoiner joiner: String)
      -> String {
          return s1 + joiner + s2
  }
  join(string: "hello", toString: "world", withJoiner: ", ")
  // returns "hello, world"

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/swift/...

chingjun

12 年前discuss

Yeah, a developer cannot get "design".

chingjun

12 年前discuss

You're not alone.

chingjun

12 年前discuss

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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