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by irq11 10y ago
Yeah, I can't really speculate. It seems to me that the #1 biggest obstacle for Japanese speakers of English is getting past the Japanese education system, and actually speaking . Beyond that, I don't know. But as a general princ
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by irq11 10y ago
Yeah, anyone who suggests that is either exaggerating, or doesn't know as much as they think they do. Japanese grammar is simpler than English in some ways, harder in others. Overall though, it's really, really hard.
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by irq11 10y ago
No, I mean that there are at least a half a dozen different ways to express "if", and they all have specific semantic uses. It is way, way more complicated than syntax.
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by irq11 10y ago
"For Japanese, it's <expression> naraba <expression>. That's it. Unless? <expression> nakeriba <expression>." There are actually a number of ways to say "if" in japanese, and the one y
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by irq11 10y ago
also, legal drugs that are transported in strangers' luggage quickly become illegal drugs.
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by irq11 10y ago
I'm not sure what your point is. Rails isn't any slower when deployed on-site, nor is it more likely to be a bottleneck. If your local database is slow and the app code requires lots of DB resources, then sure...but that's th
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by irq11 10y ago
GitHub is a rails site. Does the same thing, and is fast. I don't know where people get the notion that rails is slow.
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by irq11 10y ago
The irony, of course, is that GitHub doesn't use any of the JS framework complexity that people here seem to think is necessary. They use jQuery and PJax. Sometimes I feel like 95% of the thrashing in the JS world is from people trying
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by irq11 10y ago
Yes, if the company someday decides to issue dividends, you may then someday collect. That's true. But until then, you're gambling.
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by irq11 10y ago
I don't know why people are voting your comment down. You're exactly right, in terms of any conventional stock analysis: if there's no dividend and no control, you're not getting a share of the business in any real sense
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by irq11 10y ago
I am definitely not trolling. I'm stating an defensible opinion that happens to be unpopular here. Arguing that an open-source project is cloning multiple pre-existing projects doesn't make the software any more innovative.
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by irq11 10y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that a senior person wouldn't use the words "inexperienced kids" to describe inexperienced kids? Or are you just trying to make a low-brow insult look intellectual? Come on. Being "senior&quo
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by irq11 10y ago
you mean, the future version of javascript that nobody uses yet has modules: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen... meanwhile, everyone else uses one of the sixteen competing i
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by irq11 10y ago
they're cloning github. it isn't rocket surgery. most of the hard technical work was done by github itself, when they built and released libgit and the other core pieces of their stack. in many ways, that's the whole problem
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by irq11 10y ago
I don't really want to stoke a language war, but if it truly isn't immediately obvious to you why a language like Python is less of a mess than JS (which lacks fundamental things like "packages"), then you aren't
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by irq11 10y ago
If you want to be a good programmer, pick another language, and start there. you will learn more good practices from starting with a modern, full-featured language like python, than trying to work in the the chaotic disaster zone that is ja
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by irq11 10y ago
because the experiment is orders of magnitude harder and more expensive than the data analysis.
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by irq11 10y ago
It depends on your country, and the country you're looking at. If you are an American, be aware that merely having a bank account in a foreign country will make your life a lot more complicated at tax time. It's probably not worth
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by irq11 10y ago
...particularly when a self-driving Tesla slams into it!
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by irq11 10y ago
Once again: if the sensors don't work for the problem domain, the quantity of data gathered is irrelevant . If you mounted a forward-facing video camera on every car in in the world and gathered the data for decades, you'd still
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by irq11 10y ago
Not sure why you keep talking about the gigafactory as if that's relevant to self-driving cars. Your only point can be summarized in one sentence: they've released a senor suite into the field, and through some combination of Big
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by irq11 10y ago
Well, for starters, the only thing Tesla has "released" here is a video. So there's that. I don't know if they hurried the release of the video. The real product launch is the sensor suite...and those haven't shippe
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by irq11 10y ago
This is an area where it's easy to be too credulous. If you want "iPhone 1 of self-driving cars", Google has been tooling around in them for a while now. They do a great job under ideal conditions, on a sunny day. The future
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by irq11 10y ago
Well, yes. That's why I didn't say that. I asked if the parent had any evidence for the otherwise bald assertion of a dubious fact (other than being a fanperson). It would be a perfectly reasonable response to my comment to say
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by irq11 10y ago
"I think you're underestimating how quickly Tesla'a AI software can improve" Do you have any basis for that statement, other than that you like Elon Musk, and read an article about "big data" once? I have act
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by irq11 10y ago
You still have to hopscotch over human feces. And now you have to hopscotch over the people who have been pushed out of their homes, too.
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by irq11 10y ago
You'd think that San Francisco didn't exist before tech came to town. The quickest and most effective way to fix a demand crisis is to eliminate the demand. And it has the nice side effect of diversifying the tech industry and red
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by irq11 10y ago
Ok, so change "free" to "cheaper", and the point remains: you like it because they charge less. Still, most people in HN threads use it because it's free. Which is great for an open source tool, but bad for an unpro
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by irq11 10y ago
so basically, you like it because it's free. doesn't speak well for their business prospects.
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by irq11 10y ago
It's in the interest of anyone who lives in the city, doesn't work in tech, and doesn't make enough money to compete with those who do. That covers most renters. Tech workers have this Napoleon complex going on where they rea

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