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by smugengineer69 8y ago
Apple’s Stringsdict approaches this exact problem, though unfortunately first-party documentation is limited. It’s a pretty mature mechanism and yes pretty freely within apple’s own frameworks. See “plural and gender support” here: https:
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by smugengineer69 12y ago
I'm glad Mr. Lazer-Walker is taking on the person corporatehood that many app-makers appear to be content with these days... It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, except for WhatsApplebees.
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by smugengineer69 13y ago
I really disagree with the sentiments here. Like many of you, I'm on the internet quite literally 14-16 out of every 24 hours, actively using it for about 13 of those. I've had a smartphone continuously since the palm treo 600 in
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by smugengineer69 13y ago
Not to mention the mobile version literally only allows one word of text per line...I'm on an iPhone5 if that helps, but the sidebar is...over zealous, should we say
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by smugengineer69 14y ago
It's a poor Mandarin example also. You would likely say "there is a seminar", or "I intend to go to a seminar". Both are also perfectly valid English examples, I should add, and convey similar time information. There is also an auxiliary, t
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by smugengineer69 14y ago
I initially thought this was a way to sign documents by recording a video of you doing a distinctive hand gesture. I immediately did the "finger guns with a wink" move at my computer screen to simulate what this would be like. I was sorely
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by smugengineer69 14y ago
I was envisioning exactly this scenario.
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by smugengineer69 14y ago
Nerd moment. This reminds me of the part in The Hobbit (the book, not the movie) where Gandalf takes the dwarves to meet Beorn, the skin-changer. Before entering his house, Gandalf warns the dwarves that Beorn is tempermental, and that in o
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by smugengineer69 14y ago
Typical WSJ red scare claptrap. This paper is seriously still caught in the McCarthy era, especially when it comes to anything at all related to Asia. Sure this article seems positive on the surface, but underneath it all is a deep, abiding
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by smugengineer69 14y ago
As a white male who has dated Asian females in the past (and is currently in a relationship with a white woman, if you must know, and to ward off the inevitable charges of "yellow fever"), I find at least part of this sentiment highly irrit
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by smugengineer69 14y ago
Robot apologist here, but for some reason neo-Luddism has become fashionable again and it bothers me. Is this really a war over little pings from email inboxes? Are we truly that oppressed by the ability to find out anything about anything
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by smugengineer69 14y ago
There is a famous Chinese four character idiom about exactly this scenario: 愚公移山 (Yu gong yi shan), or "the foolish old man moves the mountain". Here's a link to the (short) translation of this story: http://english.cri.cn/4426/2007/01/15
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by smugengineer69 14y ago
What is modern Perl? Python. (I'll elaborate more here from my earlier one-word answer). Long-time perl programmer here, until I found Python. Perl is powerful, but Perl is for the programmer, not the programmer's coworkers. It's not even f
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by smugengineer69 15y ago
Goddamnit, startups. I should write a post of my own about this because it really pisses me off. Here is my advice about startup names: Stop It. Seriously though, stop it. You know what I mean: the cute little misspellings, the nonsense wor
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by smugengineer69 15y ago
Yes, there are regional variants of Modern Standard Mandarin, but the ways in which these deviate from the proscribed standard are predictable and in fact generally internally consistent. Note, this is a separate matter from the dialects th
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by smugengineer69 15y ago
This is completely wrong...Do not listen to this person. I have studied Chinese my entire life and I can assure you, tones are extremely important. Tones are not "dropped", even in fast speech. The problem is actually that the above poster
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by smugengineer69 15y ago
What if you wrote a program and you couldn't market, sell or support it? People do this all the time, it's called open-source software and people come upon it by merit of the quality of the code. It doesn't need buzzwords, jargon, s