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by mchaver 11y ago
Sounds like confirmation bias. You can find lots of code written in Haskell on GitHub. Try searching something there while adding "language:haskell". Anecdata: Haskell pays my bills and I've never coded a factorial function a
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I'm not sure if there is any data to back it up, but I remember reading somewhere that the average American adult is less likely to casually partake in sports or music (compared to maybe 100 years ago) based on the perception that they
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I see it more as a neighbor helping a neighbor out in their area of expertise. Train companies are, presumably, good at running trains so the best sort of charity train companies can offer to its customers and potential customers are train
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I agree. They both learn rules, but mostly unconsciously. Adults generally bring a lot of baggage. They already have a language with which they will compare the language they are learning. A lot of classes focus on teaching the rules of gra
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I don't think the sounds matter as much as the sound patterns. You can certainly make up diacritics and letters that fit the visual style of Arabic or Latin script to make up for missing sounds in a particular language. I assume (I cou
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>> Combine this with the use of tones, and you get a pretty complicated mess. You can't use tones to communicate things like irony, anger or doubt. You have to play on volume. You're losing a lot of expressiveness and subtle
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Not sure why you are getting down voted. It's a valid question. Cheap, abundant energy makes in cheaper to produce and transport necessities for human life and allows us to invest more time into researching and improving the quality an
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Arab numerals originate from India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Hindu%E2%80%93A...
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You can think of monads as abstractions that may or may not return toasted objects.
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It looks like a transliteration. Seems like they are using Cuneiform syllables to represent English. Quote from the webiste: "We take the letters from your message and transliterate by syllable, as nearly as we can, into cuneiform.&quo
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For an article that seems to be written for non-linguists, I'm not sure why they didn't focus a bit more on English since there are wealth of examples of "no vowel syllables" in fast speech and many dialects. https:&#x2
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>> most dialects have completely different sets (i.e. non-1-to-1 mappings) of words than Mandarin, and many have supplemental character sets that wouldn't make any sense to someone reading Mandarin Yes, that is correct. Cantones
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>> So while two people speaking different dialects may not be able to speak to each other because the tones and pronunciations of words are different, they most certainly can communicate by writing with each other because each dialect
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The Ultimate Guide to Estonian E-residency, Banking and Taxes(medium.com)
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Here is a specific example of them requesting customers to help protect the brand by not calling them "legos". http://english.stackexchange.com/a/47223
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In colloquial North American English "Legos" is pretty common. The effort to get people to not use the form "Legos" seems to originate from branding. The Lego company does not want "Lego" to refer to all brick
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Did you end up staying in South Africa or go somewhere else?
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How many years of experience do you have? I can help you ask around. If you are interested send me an email (details in my profile).
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Singapore is another good option. I believe it has a pretty straight forward work visa system. Also a growing number of startups. Here are some job boards: http://www.startupjobs.asia/ http://e27.co/jobs h
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by mchaver 11y ago
Legalized polygamy could create a lot interesting legal issues, particularly marriages of convenience. It would challenge a lot of traditional legal structures that assume a union between two people. If there is no restriction on how many p
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I think the biggest problem I have with the App Store model is that it seems to go hand in hand with planned obsolescence. Older versions of programs are no longer available for download (maybe not true for all app stores?) and older hardwa
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by mchaver 11y ago
Would remote work be an option for you? It might be a good option if controlling your work environment is important for you.
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Hard to really guess what would have happened but it's possible that a Chinese speaker could have opted to start with one of the romanization systems or zhuyin fuhao and then build a system to inputs characters at a later point. For Ar
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Is oDesk a global marketplace? Visualizing the geographies of digital work(cii.oii.ox.ac.uk)
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US-Cuba travel and trade: New rules start on Friday(bbc.com)
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by mchaver 12y ago
Is that salary you quoted before or after taxes?
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I haven't used your service, so I be making some wrong assumptions here, but if some users would like to be able to find some of the candies they have eaten, you could include a list in their account with the name of candies they have
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Luckily, post Dot-com bubble, most companies have realized that generic named websites are not the way to brand your product. How many times have you gone shopping at shopping.com or read the news at news.com (forwards to a brand name). The
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A lot of pro-drop languages actually don't inflect for person (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai).
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Napping is quite common in China and Taiwan at the work place and at school. People are overworked though.

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