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by yangman 11y ago
Here is a list of all rotations systems known to be in use by various Tetris implementations: http://harddrop.com/wiki/Category:Rotation_Systems
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by yangman 11y ago
(I'm assuming you are a Canadian student due to referring to the work as "Co-op") In general, Canadian labour laws prohibit what are typically considered unpaid internships, although it varies slightly by province.[1][2] My
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by yangman 15y ago
A nice segue into a key point about Linguistics, and some Japanese facts. The study of Linguistics, explicitly, does not deal with orthography, or the written system of languages. There are of course exceptions with good reasons, but ortho
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by yangman 15y ago
An Aeron of the wrong size will definitely kill circulation in your thighs. The difference is surprisingly obvious once you try the various sizes.
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by yangman 15y ago
Yes. I can't really talk about it, but, yes.
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by yangman 15y ago
To English speakers, using different counters for different classes of nouns is a pretty strange feature... Strange, perhaps, but present. To a native Chinese and Japanese speaker like myself, the list of collective nouns for animals in E
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by yangman 16y ago
I'm surprised no one has brought up how difficult it often is to incorporate design changes into an existing project unless it has been developed with such accommodations from day 1. Even a seemingly simple software project can be monstr
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Is Wayland going to replace X?(blogs.sun.com)
1 points by yangman 16y ago|0 comments
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by yangman 16y ago
That makes me sad because I've never made more than 1/3 of that as a developer in Vancouver.
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by yangman 16y ago
What's more, the second source cited is basically a copy-n-paste of the Telegraph article. Phoronix can pretend to be a reliable primary source all it wants, but it's questionable stuff like this that makes its reporting a complete joke amo
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by yangman 17y ago
> I'm inherently suspicious when someone says something like "conveys information", but then says "logic and reason" don't work. Actually, the study of semantics, which is highly logical, will often fail at describing the "true meaning"
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by yangman 17y ago
(Disclaimer: I've not studied any of these languages in detail; the following is a mix of what I have studied, personal knowledge, and logical conclusions derived from both) Structurally, Japanese and Korean is almost identical. The morpho
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by yangman 17y ago
Right. I think I would file all of that under the "hard to translate" category. Now, let me clarify upfront that my minor (technically a "joint-degree", but effectively a minor) is in Linguistics, so this may get wordy and technical. What
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by yangman 17y ago
> Nowadays, there's some factual statements that are almost literally impossible to say in Japanese because the words/phrases/grammar to say them don't match up. Care to elaborate? As a English/Mandarin/Japanese speaker, I am certainly
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by yangman 17y ago
I do something similar with my site, but without the extra intermediary repository. On a push, the server-side hook simply hard resets the content of the folder to the tip of a specific branch. The website itself acts as the canonical rep
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by yangman 17y ago
Definitely some good advice here. I never wanted to make this about myself, but I thought it appropriate to point out that I just received and accepted an offer from a place I interviewed with last week (one of the few fantastic interview e
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by yangman 17y ago
To be honest I just wanted to see if I could get a few good stories out of people on the other side. I expected some good advice to come out of this regardless, but certainly had no intention of making it about me.
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by yangman 17y ago
The first point really shows an employer that actually cares. To be honest, out of all the places I have interviewed, there was only one instance of being questioned about the specifics of an open source project; it was for a QA position,
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Ask HN: As an employer, what do you wish applicants did more often?
74 points by yangman 17y ago|50 comments
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by yangman 17y ago
Ditto. And the provider implementation is my own, running on a server I have physical access to, with a self-signed certificate.
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by yangman 17y ago
This is still OpenID. Google uses a singular URL for all identities that OpenID consumers use to discover the true user identity, which is unique per user per consumer domain.
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X11 Releases Explained(who-t.blogspot.com)
1 points by yangman 17y ago|0 comments
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by yangman 17y ago
Gentoo as well, on 3 separate machines. Shared portage tree over NFS, distcc cluster, etc.