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by T-R 12y ago
Sorry, I just noticed that I didn't really properly respond there. "Reading" can mean "pronouncing" or "comprehending" - I'm arguing that overall comprehension (including both word identification and
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by T-R 12y ago
Familiarity with a character is a lot like familiarity with a latin root word in English - if you know most or all of the characters that compose a word, you can usually do a pretty good job guessing the meaning of it. Certainly there are e
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by T-R 12y ago
I can't really speak to the utility of using the characters in practice, but looking back on when I was studying Japanese and Korean, it frustrates me that more emphasis wasn't put on the characters, as learning the roots of the w
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by T-R 12y ago
While what the author says is true, I feel like there's a hint of ethnocentrism - his complaints all (over)emphasize the use of the link between the pronunciation of a word and its written representation. Whenever the author discusses
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by T-R 12y ago
I'm not sure whether or not it's the case with Korean, but in Japanese, many homophones are tonal, though not often explicitly acknowledged as such. words like 神 (kami: god) and 紙 (kami: paper), or 席 (seki: seat) and 咳 (seki: coug
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by T-R 12y ago
> The idea that this composability is unique to Haskell is false. Java's streams are an example of exactly the same thing in another, non-functional, language. The Gang of Four "decorator", "composite", and &quot
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by T-R 12y ago
These are not patterns unique to Haskell. In fact, it's just the opposite: these are mathematical abstractions, and so they can be used anywhere that you have use of function application, in stark contrast to the alternatives. By using
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by T-R 12y ago
I hardly found any in Paris, myself. A bunch near the Google offices in Mountain View and Roppongi - maybe it's using past visited location data?
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by T-R 12y ago
Their new audience isn't quite as easily convinced to invest hundreds of dollars on a piece of dedicated hardware.
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by T-R 12y ago
Worst case with Facebook: - It would signal a shift toward gimmicky experiences targeting a casual market that wouldn't spend several hundred dollars on a piece of esoteric hardware. - It would spoil an opport
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by T-R 12y ago
This is a terrible move for Oculus, though. The reaction from their core audiences - hardcore gamers and developers - seems to be largely negative, at a time right after Sony - a company that caters to that audience - announced its competin
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by T-R 12y ago
This was a fantastic talk. Sad that you have to log in to view it now. That was definitely not the case a few months ago.
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by T-R 13y ago
I've not gotten a chance to play around with it yet, but there's plv8x ( https://github.com/clkao/plv8x ), for managing plv8 functions.
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by T-R 13y ago
True, but that's not at all uncommon. Perhaps it was submitted by the same person? Still, that'd hardly be a reason to shut down the conversation.
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by T-R 13y ago
Java (at least prior to Java 7), has some severe limitations in how code can be abstracted. As an example, it doesn't allow you to pass functions as arguments to other functions directly. As a result, the canonical way to handle situat
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by T-R 13y ago
One of the nice benefits of writing for an old console like the NES is that emulators are often the first things ported to new platforms - you effectively get all the portability of writing for a virtual machine, along with the ease of runn
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by T-R 13y ago
We're trying to cover exactly those kinds of questions - http://www.slant.co/topics/871/~best-linux-distribution Not trying to compete with SO, but we think those questions need a home, and share eterm's
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by T-R 13y ago
King of the shrines?
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by T-R 13y ago
As a data point, when I worked in Japan, most of the code was written in English (variable names included - the language was mostly Java or PHP), with heavy commenting in Japanese. Granted, this may have been swayed from the fact that they
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by T-R 13y ago
Sorry for the trouble, working on getting it back up.
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by T-R 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback! We'll definitely be iterating on how we rank and present viewpoints to try to reduce bias. We don't want to remove indicators of popularity entirely, though, since that would reduce the utility of the site for reade
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by T-R 13y ago
We've got a topic on it over on Slant - http://slant.co/topics/446/~what-is-the-best-alternative-to-...
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by T-R 13y ago
The difference is that the first works with all of the native list functions, as well as all of those in e.g., underscore, without any extra work. The latter doesn't. Now, the latter certainly offers some other features, but my point was th
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by T-R 13y ago
Just plain-old native functions - that's the whole point.
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by T-R 13y ago
I think his point is that there's usually a very strict ordering to the events on an HTTP server - you parse and sanitize your input, make some database calls, and generate a response - at best, letting something else do the sequencing and
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by T-R 13y ago
Does Heroku Postgres support PLV8 now? In the questions section of the presentation, he doesn't mention it as unsupported, but as recently as Sept 2012, it wasn't [1] - has that changed? [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12593080/hero
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by T-R 14y ago
Not sure why you're so insistent this is a non-problem (to the point of implying that I or my housemates have personality issues, much less) - it's not like we haven't tried cash. It sucked, so my housemate made an app, and it's awesome. &#
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by T-R 14y ago
Yeah, really. For one, no one in the house carries cash, and no one wants to - that was even more true in college when a lot was paid for via campus ID. Not everyone has transportation to an ATM, either. More importantly though, when people
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by T-R 14y ago
You can opt to connect a bank account to WePay instead of using a credit card, dramatically reducing the transaction fee.
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by T-R 14y ago
Bill split apps are really nice if you live in a shared housing/dorm type situation. At our hacker house, we're always going out for dinner together, or sending someone out to get food, or ordering groceries on Instacart - saves so much t

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