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Haha, poor choice of words there. When he says "adding", he really means "apply a binary operation A • B, which returns A if ....". The key point is: Once you can define a binary operation which is a…

"Well", Harry said, "If you are asked to add two employees, return the guy who is older. But if both of them are the same age, then return the guy who has been with the company …

I was under the impression that visas are issued to the company - not to the person - and thus can't be transferred from company to company. Am I mistaken?

They are getting more than what most senior engineers are getting in my company. Living in the third world really sucks.

For anything more serious than the occasional ipconfig, you should go ahead and download Powershell. (Disclaimer: not the OP)

Malaysia, typical salary for new graduates is about RM30,000 (USD$10,000). Don't work in Malaysia.

That other text editor doesn't cost $70 to use either ;)

I'm curious about this. What sort of tech visas are available if I wanted to go to Britain, or the US?

The second question (0.1 + 0.2) + 0.3 == 0.1 + (0.2 + 0.3) is not an edge case, unfortunately.

Geography is the reason why Europe did not remain united long.

I remembered he did explain why Europe failed to become a united empire - geography. According to the book, the reason China has a large stable empire was because of China's geography, which was mostl…

What's the benefit for a porn site to stick to .xxx, where they can be easily filtered?

I think you might be thinking of Lamar Smith.

I know that feeling - the person who took <myname>.com sat on it for 2 years ...

The way I see it, when I click a link, I'm signalling that I'm interested in reading the author's opinion, not the submitter's interpretation of the subject - that's what the comment section is for. W…

That's the point. The article title should reflect the author's opinion, not the submitter's, nor HN's.

Usually they'll change submission titles to match the original article's title. I actually prefer it this way. This way, HN is neutral - by presenting the article title as-is, they aren't asserting an…

I'm glad it's working out for you :) It's not for me. Programming has been a passion of mine all my life. I practically learnt Python all by myself, in my own time. Thing was, people have been telling…

I suspect that if your passion was 'playing video games', you might find yourself agreeing with the article.

Maybe that's what passion really is - the satisfaction one gets from 10,000 hours of sweat and tears.

Seems like commenting on HN serves the exact same purposes.

Here's the thing, when someone like Linus Torvald says things like that, we applaud him for it.

It's the reverse - a lack of civility among those alpha-nerd types leads to the general acceptance of misogyny (and racism, for that matter) among them.

I noticed something similar in reddit's various subreddits: /r/python/ usually consists of folks showing off their latest projects, while /r/csharp/ had more people asking questions about how to do su…

I never said I would :)

I'm from a developing third-world country. $4k/year is our minimum wage. It's hardly a fair price for 32 years of service.

If someone offered to pay you $200,000 now, but in return you have to be his slave for 32 years, would you do it?

I also have problems with 'hjkl'. I could never tell which is up and which is down. If it were up to me, the navigation keys would be mapped to WASD instead.

It is the exception that proves the rule!