Ken Li

Pittsburgh, PA, United States

I'm a Ruby on Rails developer from Canada, although I do my fair share bit of C/C++ programming as well.

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Do the parent directory's permissions matter when accessing a subdirectory?

permissions directory asked May 26, 2011 at 22:52

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Why hasn't there been an encryption algorithm that is based on the known NP-Hard problems?

complexity-theory np-hard encryption cryptography asked Mar 14, 2012 at 8:02

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87 votes

What's "wrong" with C++ wchar_t and wstrings? What are some alternatives to wide characters?

c++ winapi unicode internationalization wstring asked Jun 19, 2012 at 19:00

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42 votes

How do you make std::shared_ptr not call delete()

c++ c++11 shared-ptr asked Nov 21, 2013 at 21:07

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35 votes

When Japanese say KY on the Internet, what does it mean exactly?

slang abbreviations asked Jun 2, 2011 at 2:08

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26 votes

Is there evidence that using dynamic languages has an impact on productivity?

programming-languages empirical-research software-engineering asked Apr 9, 2012 at 0:54

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25 votes

What are the main differences between 京都弁(Kyoto-ben) and 大阪弁(Osaka-ben)

dialects kansai-ben asked Jun 2, 2011 at 0:19

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24 votes

Why does Himura Kenshin say ～ござる (~gozaru) at end of every sentence?

rurouni-kenshin japanese-language asked Dec 12, 2012 at 1:23

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How is a JIT compiler different from an ordinary compiler?

compilers asked Mar 12, 2012 at 22:44

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20 votes

What is an intuitive way to explain and understand De Morgan's Law?

logic discrete-mathematics didactics asked Mar 14, 2012 at 6:57

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How to choose between "よん" (yon) vs "し" (shi) for "四" (4) and "しち" (shichi) vs "なな" (nana) for "七" (7)?

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Rails: How to use before_save to change a field value based on another field?

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Difference between 向け and 向き

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Japanese kanji with different meanings in Chinese

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Algorithmic intuition for logarithmic complexity

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～にしては vs. ～としては

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DRY Controllers in Rails 3.2

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What is the meaning of all those "w"s in email and SNSs?

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Is it true that only girls use うち to refer to themselves?

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Rails startup Issues in Ubuntu

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What is the real difference between the proper use of the words さむい and つめたい?

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rails: javascript_include_tag renders an incorrect path

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Are there any situations where かしら is considered appropriate/normal for males to use?

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Does anyone have advice on how to get over/through/around the intermediate language plateau? (Self-learner)

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Rails Something is Wrong... (noob)

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Why are some lyrics' words written in kanji whose usual reading is not how it is sung?

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Is there any difference between 意外に and 意外と?

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うるさい written as 五月蝿い

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