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by mtts 13y ago
> English grammar is not simple. It has what (12?) tenses. (on the contrary Russian has basically 3 tenses) And it's full of exceptions. Why 'I see', but I'm looking at you. There's simply no reason. It's an
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by mtts 13y ago
> Besides, once you've learned Chinese, any European language with an alphabet looks easy to learn. Well, there is the fact that Chinese children learn Pinyin (Chinese romanization) in school. Of course Pinyin attributes different s
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by mtts 13y ago
In theory, maybe. In practice I've been to a number of them where they only spoke German. :-)
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by mtts 13y ago
I think you're missing the point. A creole language, which English is, after a fashion, is a language that comes about when speakers of different languages come together and come up with something that's intelligible to speakers o
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by mtts 13y ago
Most contracted languages in existence are ridiculous. Esperanto is especially bad: it's just a jumble of Germanic and Romance languages that is just as difficult for a native speaker of a non-Indo-European language to learn as the lan
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by mtts 13y ago
As another data point, in the Netherlands, both variable names and comments are in (atrociously bad) English.
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by mtts 13y ago
Wait .. doesn't turning on the bill printing machine weaken a currency instead of strengthening it?
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by mtts 13y ago
In this case it's not engineering prowess, however, it's just dumb luck: they had plenty of volcanic ash to work with, we don't. Another example is Roman pottery. By sheer coincidence the clay they used was of exceptionally h
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by mtts 13y ago
The irony here is of course that those strong and virile Romans the fascists sought to emulate were themselves quite often homosexual, or at least not averse to homosexual sex every now and then. Off the top of my head I can think of Julius
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by mtts 13y ago
> Also, if anyone is wondering, this article is actually from one of the most respectable Dutch newspapers. Nope, it isn't. It is from the website of what used to be a respectable newspaper, which is in fact run independently from t
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by mtts 13y ago
The Singapore government an evil regime? Wow.
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by mtts 13y ago
I doubt this is really an issue. Maybe some knee jerk anti-American types might spew nonsense like this but Europeans with a little more sense and insight and who actually care about this stuff are well aware that: 1. By law all European te
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by mtts 13y ago
Ok. So how's about this. Istanbul is, and always has been, the most secular city in Turkey. Not Erdogan's base of power at all. Erdogan proposes to tear down a park near a location the inhabitants of Istanbul consider to be central to their
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by mtts 13y ago
It's this reason, more than any other, that's brought me to clean up my language as I've gotten older. Calling someone a motherf* is easy. Being able to point out their promiscuity would make an 18th century French libertine blush, now that
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by mtts 13y ago
Oh, it's definitely true. When Brits riot, they throw "stones". Americans think the word reminds them of testicles and so throw "rocks" instead. Which to Brits is ridiculous as to them "rocks" are rather larger bits of stone that are pretty
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by mtts 13y ago
Yeah, I meant soldiers. They travelled far, came into close contact with large numbers of other soldiers and then brought back the flu with them to their home communities when they were repatriated. Modern mass tourism is pretty bad as well
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by mtts 13y ago
However, the Spanish Flu had some things going for it that were rather unique and unlikely to ever occur again: vast displacements of vast numbers of people, vast numbers of people in poor health due to years of deprivation as a result of f
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Ridiculous. Poor software is unusable. Poor restaurant food, on the other hand, is mostly just "meh" and only very, very rarely, unedible. Fine dining is about paying huge sums of money to go from "good" to "really, really good". There's no
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by mtts 14y ago
> WP and Wordpress picked the wrong implementation language. No they didn't. PHP makes sure you can deploy them just about everywhere for very cheap and without really knowing what you're doing.
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by mtts 14y ago
WSDL is an object notation for objects that describe what a web service should do. This could just as well be done in JSON. It would be marginally less verbose, too :-) Oh, and it's perfectly feasible to translate a well formed HTML documen
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by mtts 14y ago
XML is human readable. It was meant to be (this is why it's text instead of some binary format). It's just really, really verbose, which is what this JSON spec is going to end up being once it's dealt with all imaginable edge cases.
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by mtts 14y ago
Yes it would. Because making it universal enough makes it incredibly verbose and nasty to work with. JSON became popular because it was simpler than Web Services which became popular because it was simpler than CORBA which became popular
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by mtts 14y ago
Well, to be fair, JSON is at least a lot less verbose than WSDL. So there's that.
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by mtts 14y ago
> But ~300ms server response times is nothing if your end user has to wait 5-6 seconds for the page to render due to suboptimal frontend code. True for a single request, but once you start getting lots of concurrent requests all those ~
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by mtts 14y ago
Not the parent, but I work the same way, and I tend to allocate 2GB RAM per VM. I haven't really used my Windows 7 guest yet, so I don't know if that one needs more, but for everything else it's enough.
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I used VMWare. And no, just attaching the "new" USB hardware to the guest was not enough. iTunes only saw the iPhone if the Linux host did not have the USB modules loaded (and in fact had them blacklisted so they wouldn't be loaded automati
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by mtts 14y ago
>> "Then there's my phone. How do you use one of these things without a computer upon which to sync your data and backups?" >> Windows VM? That only works when you disable USB on the host (which makes USB keyboards and mice
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by mtts 14y ago
Almost, but not quite. o opens a new window with the selected file, while nerdtree opens the file in the most recently used non-nerdtree window. Also, there doesn't seem to be a way to tell netrw to create a vertical split rather than a hor
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by mtts 14y ago
One thing NERDTree does that netrw doesn't (IIRC, haven't looked very deeply into this) is open files you select in a different window than the one that contains the file listing. I happen to find that convenient, YMMV, of course.
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by mtts 14y ago
That's one way of putting it. Another, more correct way, would be to state North Korea invaded South Korea and the US (and its allies) stepped in to stop them. They did this not to "free North Korea" but to prevent "communism" from overrunn

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