asmala

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by asmala 3y ago
In some of these countries, nationality is a weak proxy for what actually matters for name order; ethnicity. Take for example Malaysia. Yes, ~70% of the population are Malay Muslims who (mostly) follow the convention mentioned here. But you
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by asmala 3y ago
If I’m mostly writing Finnish text, then the native Finnish layout (with separate keys for Å, Ä, and Ö) seems better. And if I’m coding, I personally prefer the US English layout where [, {, ;, etc. are more easily accessible. But I could s
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by asmala 3y ago
Hydro is indeed 1-2 orders of magnitude worse than other renewables on a deaths per TWh basis, but still 2-25× safer than all fossil fuels. (Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p... )
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by asmala 3y ago
Ah, you’re right, Medium was blocked in Malaysia for a few years for hosting Sarawak Report, a publication that shed light on the 1MDB scandal. Wikipedia tells me the ban was lifted in 2018.
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by asmala 3y ago
Neither bbc.com nor medium.com are blocked in Malaysia (source: I’m there presently), and I don’t recall either being blocked in Singapore or Indonesia. The sites blocked in Indonesia (e.g. Reddit) cannot be accessed by using an alternate D
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by asmala 7y ago
I think they're just going with the list of official EU languages ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Unio... ). That list does not, unfortunately, include Catalan, even though the Spanish gove
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by asmala 7y ago
In my experience, the size of the collection in any given library building is never much of an issue as you can always order books for very low fees from any library in the country. Because of this, the other facilities are a much bigger va
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by asmala 8y ago
While “herbal tea” is indeed a very loosely used term, botanically speaking “tea” refers to the species camellia sinensis. Hongyacha is, to my knowledge, the only known case of a caffeine free camellia sinensis.
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by asmala 10y ago
In Nordic countries, the order is reversed. We wear simple bands after the engagement, and give the fancier ring during the wedding.
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by asmala 10y ago
The Finnish news sources I follow paint this as a pilot initiative trialed primarily in Helsinki, and even then limited to a few courses. A country-wide scrapping of subjects seems still a long way off. The following passage from The Indepe
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by asmala 10y ago
I think you're right in that this won't have much immediate impact on the service providers. But think of this as a step towards commoditization of services. It's a small step from "Hey Siri, get me an Uber" to &quo
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by asmala 11y ago
Cursive, a Clojure IDE on top of IntelliJ, offers some semantic editing capabilities: https://cursiveclojure.com/userguide/editing.html (see e.g. the Rename section).
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by asmala 11y ago
The Wikipedia census data for Ordos is from 2010, i.e. well before the 2013 article. The ghost city proper is Kangbashi, a new development within Ordos intended to house 300,000 people. In early 2015, the population was estimated at 100,000
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Software Talks for the Ages(pchristensen.com)
2 points by asmala 12y ago|0 comments
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by asmala 13y ago
First thought; Brilliant. Second thought; E, F, Gmail…
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by asmala 13y ago
This is an interesting line of inquiry. I wonder, though, what would be a good way to quantify accessibility. I find myself doubting your statement that even non-programmers would find JavaScript or PHP easier than Lisp due to syntax, given
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Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard [video](ted.com)
1 points by asmala 13y ago|0 comments
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by asmala 13y ago
Hmm, I wonder though, is this any more complex than a client plus server combo of MVC frameworks like, say, Ember and Rails? It certainly took me a while to wrap my head around how Pedestal apps are structured but once I managed to do that,
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by asmala 13y ago
This was discussed the last time this link was posted and it appears Pedestal is in no way integrated with Datomic. That being said, I too got the same first impression when reading the docs.
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by asmala 13y ago
While I agree with most of what you're saying, the 2Mb JS file is entirely expected behavior if you don't use advanced compilation, which eliminates unused JS code and would hence cut down the file size to a fraction of what you see.
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by asmala 14y ago
My example above was possibly too simplistic. I'm not using Enlive at the moment but am merely trying to gauge what kinds of contracts would allow the developers and designers work together most efficiently. I can imagine a fairly big diffe
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by asmala 14y ago
Gotcha. How would you handle minor HTML changes, e.g. something like this:  <span class="username">joe</span>  <span class="username"><strong>joe<
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by asmala 14y ago
Coming from Rails, I tend to agree that the Clojure ecosystem is still less mature, but not by as much as I initially thought. Missing Rails I18n, SimpleForm, or validations? Clojure has you covered: * https://github.com/ptaoussanis/tower
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by asmala 14y ago
Based on my experience, Hiccup is more productive than just about anything else if the frontend person is the backend person or otherwise comfortable with Clojure. The ability to easily and cleanly define and combine abstractions in the p
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Hub Ventures Debuts 7 Startups That Want To Change The World(techcrunch.com)
2 points by asmala 14y ago|0 comments
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by asmala 14y ago
Check out http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/12/light-table---a-new-... .
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Clojure Werkz: A growing collection of open source Clojure libraries(clojurewerkz.org)
2 points by asmala 14y ago|0 comments
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by asmala 14y ago
I'm curious to see what the implications are for other JVM languages given the promise of more efficient byte code.
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by asmala 14y ago
That's a very interesting point! That said, it's not quite as cut and dry, given that API compatibility goes a long way.
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by asmala 14y ago
Indeed, I'm very curious about this one as well. Going for YC is clearly a great starting point for building a scalable business, so I wonder what the business logic will look like. As in genuinely, positively interested to know. :-)

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