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by com2kid 12y ago
BINGO. But because of Han unification I all of a sudden DO need to know the language. The same Unicode code point needs to be rendered differently for a user in Mainland China versus a user in Japan or else the user may not be able to read
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by com2kid 12y ago
> The vast majority of Japanese and Chinese characters are not only similar, they are identical. Not all are. Some are clearly different characters deriving from a common historical root, and should not be unified. And what about traditi
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by com2kid 12y ago
Wikipedia is not forced unto the world as everyone's only source of knowledge. Unicode on the other hand is the only way many people have to input and see text in their native language. When one group proposes being the ultimate soluti
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by com2kid 12y ago
Han unification makes things really hard for programmers. You end up with code that tries to guess what language a string is in to pick out which character set should be used! It is an absolute nightmare and a horrid idea.
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by com2kid 12y ago
I stopped eating all sugar for 3 years (all carbs actually). My dentist loved me. My dental visits consisted of me walking in, getting briefly looked at, the dental hygienist doing a quick go over my teeth, complementing me on how clean the
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by com2kid 12y ago
So to summarize: 1. A group of marketers came up with a cool concept video and some UI layouts. 2. Marketers get surprised when a sketchy hw/sw house takes them for everything they are worth. Quote " All we needed to do was provid
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by com2kid 12y ago
> So, maybe your course covered the sonata-allegro from, tertian harmony, major-relative minor, key modulation, medieval, classical, rococo, romantic, modern, etc. Yup, this sounds more like it. Although we also covered topics like ident
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by com2kid 12y ago
> Is that part of what is meant by how to listen to music? My sarcasm detector is broken. The course covered the history of music (very much Western biased), taught us the names for the various aspects of music, how to identify the diffe
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by com2kid 12y ago
> I would love it if most liberal arts institutions "fostered a broad set of knowledge and skills whose value is not always immediately apparent." But they generally don't, at least not anymore. All in all, I feel that I g
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by com2kid 12y ago
Many years ago (close to 20) I saw a cool demo of a palm-able chording keyboard, and looking around it seems that a few brave souls have actually attempted to bring the idea into production. A good keyboard only UI (I don't trust small
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by com2kid 12y ago
Oddly enough, my mother started having problems with eye strain with her Kindle a couple months back. She switched to a high DPI tablet and says it is easier for her. Rather odd since it goes against everything I think I know about eInk ver
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by com2kid 12y ago
How do you deal with flipping back and forth pages? For math classes specifically (realistically the only classes that I used a book for), I would frequently flip all around the book, where I was flipping too and from varied per chapter of
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by com2kid 12y ago
> So far, nobody has filled in the section on how a key-press event works its way through the OS, up to the window system, to the application, and to the code handling the input text box. Heck USB was glossed over. That section alone sho
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by com2kid 12y ago
> ARM isn't Chinese IP. Its not theirs, its licensed from ARM Holdings which is a UK company. The CPU is only one very small part of a chipset. The overall SoC is far more important. And of course any company that has an Architectur
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by com2kid 12y ago
> Interesting how even China, given its wealth, has given up on building its own OS and chip infrastructure. I wouldn't say that. I would say that the Chinese Government has allowed the free market to take over this task. Take a loo
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by com2kid 12y ago
And I have to get all my cards replaced. Again. Which means updating all the merchants who do have my CC#. All of that has a cost in terms of my time!
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by com2kid 12y ago
I mentioned in another part of this thread, the payment page as shown on the blog entry does not indicate that my CC# is stored with Stripe, rather from all appearances it appears to be stored with Kickstarter. Now having read this thread I
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by com2kid 12y ago
The box on Kickstarter does not indicate data is stored with stripe, it looks like it is stored with Kickstarter. As others have indicated, this is one more place that my CC# is stored. I have more trust in Amazon's security than in Ki
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by com2kid 12y ago
Miracast is such a POS, I am saddened by exactly how horrible it is. I have a Miracast setup with over a second latency for video. When it works at all.
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by com2kid 12y ago
BT Speakers typically use A2DP, which sounds horrid. Recompressing already compressed audio is not a path towards goodness. That said, reading up on A2DP, it seems that A2DP supports higher quality audio streams, but I have yet to see anyon
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by com2kid 12y ago
I am very surprised Amazon is killing payments. All in all though, this means I will be much less likely to support any Kickstarters. With Amazon Payments, I did not have to re-enter my CC#. Backing a project became an impulse buy. Click,
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by com2kid 12y ago
Smart phones have poor battery life due to background data sync (radios are expensive to power up) and screen usage. Turn airplane mode on, leave your screen off, and your phone will last a long time.
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by com2kid 12y ago
> Spreading crime around is not that way. There is also the idea that by separating out problem elements, that in the long term you decrease overall crime. A child in a ghetto who knows not of the potential for escape will likely stay in
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by com2kid 12y ago
Your idea seems to be based on the fundamental assumption that the idea in school is to learn facts that can be tested easily. IMHO the idea of school is to teach students how to learn. Knowing when a certain battle happened isn't impo
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by com2kid 12y ago
> But the elephant in the room went untouched: the middle managers. Microsoft occasionally does a "flattening" exercise where they go around and reduce the number of managers that exist. Put a year moratorium on promotions to m
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by com2kid 12y ago
What I find am using is that the author started in Python and a year later ended up in Z80 assembly! I am impressed with the willingness to go back to one's roots.
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by com2kid 12y ago
A number of problems. A huge one is wiring. Parallel is really complicated electrically, noise drowns out your signal and things run slow. This is why most of our buses have switched over to serial (e.g. USB, PCIe, etc). Sometimes we run th
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by com2kid 12y ago
> You cannot be serious. A 1000+ line long setup() method that creates a ton of one-off elements, sets a million properties, and saves them all as instance variables is in no way superior to using some XML to structure your elements, and
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by com2kid 12y ago
Sadly, a lot of CE stuff was deemphasized years ago. > However the the compiler and library support is very limited. Don't even discuss about C++11 Back when I was on the compiler team, it was a bit before the revitalization of Nati
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by com2kid 12y ago
> - You could choose what features to build in (this was really baroque and complicated, to say the least). I remember getting WinCE down to 6MB, and this got you an empty app with some drivers. It took 45+ minutes to build (we never got

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