aandrieiev

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by aandrieiev 8y ago
Centuries will pass, technology will change, but one will still need someone else to open the next slide: https://youtu.be/7DbslbKsQSk?t=83
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by aandrieiev 8y ago
The problem with translating any Chinese classics lays in their multi-layered meaning. Old Chinese literature is complicated because every author expected that the reader was accustomed to volumes of other classics and could comprehend all
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by aandrieiev 8y ago
why bother with a cross-platform framework, then?
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by aandrieiev 9y ago
By other computers you mean SSHing to them or working at them physically? If the latter, this sounds like a very odd excuse. If you use a custom KB layout on your main machine(s), it is a way bigger showstopper for being effective at the re
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by aandrieiev 9y ago
I'm curious whether the research you mentioned had the people who actually grew up writing or typing. If the former, no wonder: I spent all my school years extensively taking notes, and nowadays taking a note on paper is a reflex I can
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by aandrieiev 9y ago
Just curious, did you file a bug report for this?
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by aandrieiev 9y ago
Right, but did it lead to taking Tizen to the level it could replace Android? What I like about Samsung is that they do realize and accept that the software is not their forte. Hence Android.
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by aandrieiev 10y ago
Is mono going to be fully merged into .net _something_ (core? standard?) at some point in the future or it will remain separate?
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by aandrieiev 10y ago
Not really. Now you need to charge the Macbook with MagSafe and connect the dock to it. It's still two cables. USB-C allows you to charge your mac through the same cord it transfers data to/from. Not like it matters too much, but
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by aandrieiev 10y ago
At this stage the value of GitHub doesn't have much to do with git per se. It's about the projects' communities hosted there. That said, I don't see much of uniqueness in what GitHub provides, it just happened to be good
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by aandrieiev 10y ago
On a related note, most of speakers of East-European languages have hard time with word pairs like "bitch"/"beech" and "shit"/"sheet". Number of "spreadshits" heard at some meeting
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by aandrieiev 10y ago
Actually, flour made from crickets has been already available for some time: http://www.amazon.com/Cricket-Flour-made-100-22/dp/B00OMCTOD...
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by aandrieiev 10y ago
Chinese characters allow to "compress" information, at least compared to alphabetic writing systems. That made them relatively transportable. A good example of how a library might look like at that time can be found here - https:
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by aandrieiev 10y ago
I'm wondering if using "IIII" instead of "IV" for the 4th chapter was intentional or it has to do with the social class of the author =)
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by aandrieiev 10y ago
https://insider.windows.com/ — Becoming an insider is just a registration away, takes no longer than 5 minutes. Use preview builds at your own risk, though.
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by aandrieiev 11y ago
Does this mean that premium processing circumvents the lottery whatsoever?
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by aandrieiev 11y ago
Perhaps because providing ad companies with the tools like these is the way to monetize the service?