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Most Frequent Applesoft Basic Tokens(jtauber.github.io)
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Rebuilding Gondor on Kubernetes(gondor.io)
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by jtauber 11y ago
Having experienced similar when I was your age (I'm now 41) here's what I've found useful: 1) never ever compare yourself to others, especially based on age . do your thing. for you . 2) wanting to achieve things in life
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Code Hosting: SourceForge, Google Code and GitHub(thoughtstreams.io)
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Seasonal Boundaries(thoughtstreams.io)
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String Trepanation(thoughtstreams.io)
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Mini blog ThoughtStreams now has monthly plans with a free tier(thoughtstreams.io)
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Apple Predictions is back ready for the WWDC keynote(apple.dyaso.com)
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by jtauber 13y ago
The source will be released in full on June 1st with various components being released earlier.
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Gen Y and the Growth Mindset(thoughtstreams.io)
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by jtauber 14y ago
That presupposes I understand them :-) My coding followed a specific talk which didn't go at all into why these particular gates are useful. Once I grok that, I'll improve the code.
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Basic quantum computing concepts implemented in Python(github.com)
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How We Use Trello(eldarion.com)
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Gondor (Python PaaS) Release 1.2(gondor.io)
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by jtauber 14y ago
While the affricate /d͡ʒ/ is not pronounced as a separate stop+fricative, it can result from the combining of the stop and the fricative and that is presumably what is behind the choice of "dj" as a digraph for representing /d͡ʒ/ in Django.
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by jtauber 14y ago
Given all the confusion here, I've added what is hopefully a simpler and more introductory explanation: Django is pronounced with an initial sound that, in English is often written "j". This might lead one to think of the "D" as silent with
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by jtauber 14y ago
I'm not sure what the confusion is. I agree with what you've said above. Basically: 1. "d" in French is pronounced "d". 2. "j" in French is pronounced "zh". 3. "dj" in French is pronounced as the same affricate you get by combining "d" and
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by jtauber 14y ago
Not sure where you think I say that, but to clarify anyway: the sound at the start of all those words in English is not the same as the sound the French write as "j".
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by jtauber 14y ago
It just occurs to me: does French even have the affricate /d͡ʒ/ natively? Do some native French speakers pronounce "Django" with an initial /ʒ/? That actually would be a silent D and would explain why the French would say "Django with a D
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by jtauber 14y ago
Well, firstly that comment postdates your initial comment that "everybody else in this thread" explains it better and you added the "(such as has pash's sibling comment)" after I'd responded. Secondly, I wanted to dive in a bit more and e
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by jtauber 14y ago
I haven't seen anyone else explain why Django is spelled with a D. All I've seen is people reiterate the reason for the pronunciation given the spelling as "the D is silent" rather than the more insightful fact that, far from being silent,
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by jtauber 14y ago
Also /d/ + /ʒ/ does become /d͡ʒ/ in English (and potentially all languages that have /d/ and /ʒ/) so even if you had a single symbol for /d͡ʒ/ that was unrelated to that for /d/, the relationship between /dʒ/ and /d͡ʒ/ is still close.
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by jtauber 14y ago
But if you're trying to explain why Django is spelled the way it is, it's far more insightful to explain /d/ -> <d> and /ʒ/ -> <j> than to posit the <d> comes from nowhere and is just silent.
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by jtauber 14y ago
I'm trying to think of other modifier examples. Not a perfect analogy but I don't think you'd say that, in English, the <h> in <sh> is silent. I wonder about Italian, though. Would it be correct to say the <g> is si
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by jtauber 14y ago
Polish apparently contrasts /t͡ʂ/ and /tʂ/ See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affricate_consonant#Affricates_...
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by jtauber 14y ago
Yes, but that is irrelevant to why Django Reinhardt spelled his name with a D.
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by jtauber 14y ago
Right, but the best explanation for why "Django" is spelled with a <d> is not that the <d> is silent and the <j> represents /d͡ʒ/ but rather that, as you say, the diagraph <dj> represents /d͡ʒ/.
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by jtauber 14y ago
Right, I didn't bother making the distinction between the true affricate /d͡ʒ/ and the sequence /dʒ/ because my main point was that the <d> exists in <Django> because <j> alone would be pronounced /ʒ/ and hence the &
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by jtauber 14y ago
Yeah, I didn't bother with /d͡ʒ/ (incidentally, neither does Wikipedia in their pronunciation of Django Reinhardt's name) because my main point was to explain the origin of the <d> in the name "Django".
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by jtauber 14y ago
I honestly don't think people who say "the D is silent" are making a distinction between the true affricate and /dʒ/. Saying "the D is silent" is missing the most sensible explanation for why the name "Django" is spelled that way: namely th

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