msvan

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by msvan 12y ago
I agree with your sentiment that it's impressive of him to have learnt Mandarin while running a company like Facebook, at an age well beyond the optimal 'malleable' pre-teen/teen period. It's also brave of him to pu
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Henry Box Brown(en.wikipedia.org)
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Thousands rally in Hong Kong as democracy campaign heats up(reuters.com)
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by msvan 12y ago
I think the issue here is that Twitpic's business model is having people leave the main Twitter interface to take them to another domain, where Twitpic can extract advertising money from the impressions. Twitter has image previews thes
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The Sierpinski Triangle page to end most Sierpinski Triangle pages(oftenpaper.net)
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And then, getting the browser running itself in the in-browser browser.
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Housing is more expensive in SF and NY, but most consumer goods/services are more expensive here due to the high VAT. High taxes bring other benefits, but it's always tough to part with your hard-earned quatloos. A cup of coffee w
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by msvan 12y ago
I'm quite tired of hearing people saying Swedish people are "cold." There are plenty of opportunities to get to know us if you put in the effort. Emigrating is always tough. If you come from the US, you might find that we don
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Stockholm – it's not a coincidence(visitstockholm.com)
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Numbers Aplenty(numbersaplenty.com)
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24, the Monster, and quantum gravity(plus.google.com)
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by msvan 12y ago
My point is that Facebook and Google would've been the dominant actors on the Chinese market today, not Weibo, QQ and Baidu, if the CCP hadn't been actively working against the US companies. The alternative to Windows 8 is, for no
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by msvan 12y ago
There could be a wide range of reasons for this, but I'm pretty sure a large part of it is protectionism. The Chinese government is pretty hostile towards foreign software in China, and they are probably displeased with China's de
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I wonder if/when this will happen to programmers. I keep thinking that the job market for programmers will be radically different in ten years, what with the enormous amount of people "learning to code" these days. He did how
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by msvan 12y ago
I think a lot of people see frameworks like Ember and Angular and get scared by their vastness. You don't "get" them in one evening. I have spent many hours poring over documentation, articles and videos for both Angular and
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by msvan 12y ago
It's not the OP's fault, it's lack of integrity in the press. You start by propagating a rumor on some insignificant source like Secret, then a blogger picks it up. The blogger gets noticed by people on Twitter, who catch the
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Making Music is Hard(blog.martinsvanberg.com)
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by msvan 12y ago
For texts that are suited for skimming, perhaps less interesting texts, I can see tools like these being useful. But I hope you're not reading novels this way. Increasing the speed might help you finish more books, but to what end? Sho
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Can I get a job at SpaceX after graduating from a low-ranked program?(quora.com)
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by msvan 12y ago
It's a voluntary poll, hence not reliable. I would never trust an HN poll for something as significant as this. If the results were true it would be worrying, but we need much stronger evidence than this.
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Albert Einstein: Why Socialism?(monthlyreview.org)
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English is Just Easier(blog.martinsvanberg.com)
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I was borderline obsessed. Full-time studying in Beijing. With the caveat that reading that first novel was very much a test of endurance.
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There is nothing unfortunately uninformed about my comment. There is something unfortunately condescending about your reply. I am well aware that Chinese radical phonetic components are not as powerful as a phonetic alphabet. I am impliying
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by msvan 12y ago
Many of these gTLDs sound exotic today, but I bet 10 years from now they will be nothing special. I for one welcome it, if only to dethrone the dot com. It doesn't make sense for us all to try and squeeze into the same limited gTLD spa
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by msvan 12y ago
Chinese writing is phonetic, just not for your first 1000-2000 characters. I can usually guess the pronunciation of new characters, because things get dramatically easier when you have learnt a lot of them. These are all pronounced "di
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by msvan 12y ago
This essay has circulated in the Chinese learning community for a long time, and David Moser is both highly respected as well as obnoxiously skilled at Mandarin. As someone who has learnt Chinese to a high degree of proficiency, I agree wit
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by msvan 12y ago
Ryan Holiday [1] has written about doing this kind of work, though I believe he has quit since. It's probably not a service most people advertise publicly since it's in the gray zone, ethically and with respect to rules of the med
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Your Looks and Online Dating (2009)(blog.okcupid.com)
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For some reason, I find this idea hilarious. It's a great rethinking of the recipe model. It's also a typical engineer idea; it's the kind of idea few people in my environment would come up with.

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