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by yuan 9y ago
The reporter said the video was taken before it opened, so of course there was no traffic. It's pretty busy a few months later as shown in this video: https://youtu.be/YOkW2h2HTD8
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by yuan 14y ago
You might try naming your functions in Chinese. There's evidence showing that people take advantage of the face recognition machinery of their brains to read Chinese[1]. Coincidentally, native speakers of tonal languages (Chinese being one
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A virus that kills cancer: the cure that's waiting in the cold(telegraph.co.uk)
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by yuan 15y ago
Or just learn a little bit of Elisp, and do this: M-: (loop for i from ?a for j below 12 do (insert (format "#define %c %d\n" i j)))
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by yuan 16y ago
Contrary to what the simplified/traditional categorisation might suggest, there is nothing non-traditional about the simplification scheme. Most, if not all, of the simplified characters are taken from existing forms, such as those used in
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by yuan 16y ago
I resent your speciesism insinuating that simply because you are born human, you are somehow superior to machines.
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by yuan 16y ago
> You lack some perspective and tact, you silly goose. It's not very surprising you and your friends think your native language is easier and that you prefer your own writing system. Way to navel-gaze, hello? Learn to read first befor
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by yuan 16y ago
> I seem to remember that the common Chinese idiom for a tough to learn language is 跟天书一样. "Hard as the heavenly script". If you really refer to your own language as yardstick for complexity, his post has a point. What is the point?
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by yuan 16y ago
No. The Chinese realize their language is a pain in the butt to learn and that the writing system is terrible in comparison to any alphabet system. As a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese, I think you are full of shit. No native Chinese
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by yuan 16y ago
If they can make it work, this could be perfect for powering ships, too.
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by yuan 16y ago
If you're interested in Lisp, Objective C and Cocoa, you might also be interested in Clozure[1], a Common Lisp implementation which provides complete access to Cocoa through its Objective C bridge[2]. [1] http://ccl.clozure.com [2] http:
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by yuan 16y ago
> ...since seeing the character doesn't provide any help in actually saying the word. Nonsense. There are about 200 or so[1] chinese radicals, and all chinese characters are either radicals themselves, or composed of two or more radi
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by yuan 16y ago
Pardon my cynicism, but, those who haven't learnt Chinese well tend to exaggerate its difficulty as a pretext to their failure, and those who have do the same to accentuate their achievement. If you are weighing whether to learn Chinese an
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by yuan 16y ago
> Line of sight networking was obsoleted by WiFi and Bluetooth. What problem does this solve? It is easier to prevent signal leakage with light.
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by yuan 17y ago
The "switch statement" in C is closer to the CASE macro[1] in Lisp. [1]: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_case...
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by yuan 17y ago
Sounds like you'd enjoy "Practical Common Lisp": http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
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by yuan 17y ago
Perhaps some would find this more interesting: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/linda-tischler/design-times/... (Mark Anderson's 10 Predictions For 2009)
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by yuan 17y ago
I don't remember seeing any "dynamic typing extremists" who would argue that static typing is totally worthless, just that it has cost (e.g., it's an additional concern for the programmers) too in addition to the benefits it provides, and t
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by yuan 17y ago
This shouldn't be a surprise for anyone who knows what a gearbox is, should it?
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by yuan 17y ago
More interesting is what isn't there: so prime is not prime.
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by yuan 17y ago
Honest question: if you trust dropbox.com enough to let them run a daemon on your box, does this really buy you anything?
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by yuan 17y ago
> See, in general, http://green.venturebeat.com/2008/04/11/why-the-california-h... . Too much hot air. How about some real numbers from historical data? From "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air" by David McKay, p.121. http://ww