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by gbog 13y ago
Yes, not the same content.
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by gbog 13y ago
There was one which url was a suite of 0 and 1, and to me it was the best, drawing a very deep click-tree of randomness. If someone still has the url, I'd be happy to know if it is still alive.
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by gbog 13y ago
50 USD per day in Malaysia, in country side? Seems like a lot. In China I would go as down as 20$ par day.
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by gbog 13y ago
It's become fashionable to walk along Saint-Jacques de Compostelle pilgrimage path in France and Spain. Would you call it ultra-long walk? Anyways, the good part of it is that you have cheap and clean pilgrim hotels all the way, and th
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by gbog 13y ago
But... crosswords in Chinese? How'd you do that?
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by gbog 13y ago
I don't know, nowadays it seems that if you look hard enough you can find published papers demonstrating any point, and it seems even easier to find paper "proving" something against common sense and experience. Here it is th
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by gbog 13y ago
Not sure. Do you think Da Vinci sat at his table and thought "let's invent the helicopter" (with a nice unique memorable name for his work in progress)? I would rather imagine Da Vinci being supposed to draw some boring archi
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by gbog 13y ago
Except that you need to know what you will do in advance, in order to give a meaningful name to the branch, and you need to delete odds branches in order to find your way when switching, et cetera. The first point is stronger than it seems,
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by gbog 13y ago
Same here. In short, testing the tests by ensuring they break when they should is the most important part. If I work on a functionality, my first step is to break it and make sure some tests did break too, only then can I start working on i
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by gbog 13y ago
Why? Because you think everything is equal, everything has its own gotchas and not one is better than the other? That is against all history, not only in software. Postgres is obvectively better (safer, better engineered, easier to use, etc
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by gbog 13y ago
I for one welcome this change, on stylistic grounds. Browsers are used by many people around the world from all ages, all of what they tell to their users must be carefully edited to avoid misunderstandings and anything not necessary needs
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by gbog 13y ago
> how people who create content get paid You are assuming they must be paid. But that's a questionable assumption. Content producer can have other means of living. Content creation could be a hobby, something you do because you have
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Or WeChat, which is quite big in China.
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by gbog 13y ago
Kind of the same as with two english words (nouns or verbs, not counting stop words) So, depending on your writing skills, it can be a lot. You could use the begining of a poem or a sentence, which would be understood by the readers. For in
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by gbog 13y ago
The elephant in the room: it is used for porn. Porn drives many things IT. As it is still forbidden or restricted in many countries, most user cannot just point their browser to porn sites. So they download or copy pics and vids to SD cards
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by gbog 13y ago
Would be interesting to hear what would be the functional stand on this. In a way a team may not need the players. Maybe teams are just identifiers, as are players, and we have a list of event relating players to teams. Then a function can
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by gbog 13y ago
White hat trolling has positive outcome, it helps people to consolidate their ethical immune system, like a vaccine.
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by gbog 13y ago
I have learnt Chinese and use it for work. Chinese characters have a personality of their own, you don't need to know the sound to remember them. You could even read perfectly Chinese and being unable to communicate orally. This very h
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by gbog 13y ago
> mutually unintelligible dialects (Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, Hakka, etc.) But the trick is that when written on paper these dialects are mostly mutally intelligible.
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by gbog 13y ago
> create an "optimal" language (ie, glyphs only trace to possible human vocalization There comes Chinese characters, which are exactly the opposite of your definition of "optimal": Chinese characters are not an alphab
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by gbog 13y ago
Ok, possibly. But even then, I hope I am not the only one to have noticed a trend where many people in the tech community declare themselves "humbled" or display some humility in one form or another. So, Ian Bicking aside, I think
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by gbog 13y ago
Wisdom? maybe, I don't know. But humility? well, long ego trip posts about ones achievements and future achievements are not exactly artifacts for humility, in my papers. And the usual downtoning of one's achievements in this arti
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by gbog 13y ago
There was an academia in classic China called Hanlin. Its business model was probably close to what I'm taking about: infinite funds providing a roof and good food to the guests and their families. Extra income in the form of fame, acc
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by gbog 13y ago
Ok but life is not all about business and money. Some or many inventors did their exploring tasks because it was a passion of theirs. Some people are driven by pride or even sexual desires. Some of the greatest achievements of humans have b
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by gbog 13y ago
When I said the moon I just meant some far fetching projects, not just sending tourists to the moon. However I agree that the Google plus social turn is kind of frivolous and heavy handed, at the same time. I was hoping in the beginning tha
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by gbog 13y ago
OP is talking about going to the moon, you are bringing the topic back to retail, which is ok but a bit cold-showerish. I think on HN we could and should go further in the "no-limit" thoughts, even if as a simple exercise. For exa
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by gbog 13y ago
You should add the simpler, deeper issue of upvoting mechanically filtering out good long form content. Say I found a link here and it's a really good long form story, I really got into it, even had a coffee break while reading it. The
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by gbog 13y ago
I didn't mean to claim that 100% of what could be named "musical instrument" is following perfectly the pattern, I was merely illustrating that "simple interfaces often require complex system". Another illustration,
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by gbog 13y ago
On the contrary, a synth is the most complex instrument and the easiest to play, that's my point.
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Why make this so complex? Imagine you go in a hotel room, all this stuff is written in Chinese, you just woke in the night with an urgent natural need, and you just want a light on right now! So you have to read a sign with "go to bath

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