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by victoriasun 8y ago
I wrote a longer message but I deleted it out of fear of speaking inaccurately. So instead: Discord has a brand voice. Some of us will find it "cloying" and "vaguely demented." However, others will find it funny. Our use
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by victoriasun 8y ago
We have a brand voice. It doesn't appeal to everyone. We also have a clear TOS that clearly delineates our position on cub porn, and if you're interested in a policy debate on this (hint: we're more restrictive on cub porn th
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by victoriasun 8y ago
Hi! I work at Discord. I am > 12. In fact, no one here is 12! The narrative that Discord is run by 12 year old and furries is a hateful and toxic narrative that is fueled by an angry Twitter mob. Surely you don't count yourself in t
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by victoriasun 8y ago
> Didn't they model the movie Tony Stark after him? Iron Man the character was created in 1963. Elon Musk was born in 1971. The actor of Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr) did say in 2011 he was inspired in part by Elon Musk when develop
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by victoriasun 8y ago
"Innocent until proven guilty." One could reasonably assume that the protestors are innocent until proven guilty.
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by victoriasun 8y ago
I think perhaps you misunderstood the context of my original comment. I was responding to two questions: 1) Why is Jin Yong marketed as "The Tolkien of China"? 2) Is Tolkien more creative than JY? Both have subjective answers. In
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by victoriasun 8y ago
That is your personal choice, and is fine. But I think you can happily coexist with these other people: - Those who care about influencing their culture and want to do what they can to change it. - Those who are concerned with where their m
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by victoriasun 8y ago
Sigh.. I've seen this argument so many times I have to wonder if the people peddling it has ever sat on a hiring panel. The decision to hire someone in a high-skilled job has extraordinarily little to do with their compensation and muc
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by victoriasun 8y ago
You know, just because you don't empathize with how in our culture and society a woman being called a "liar and a slut" can be both career and social suicide, doesn't mean that it isn't a major downside for other pe
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by victoriasun 8y ago
If you're not interested in the internal workings of Google, then why bother? There are people who are, and they are the ones driving this conversation. Let them spend their energy and effort figuring it out while you enjoy the result
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by victoriasun 8y ago
FWIW I don't think that moral complexity necessarily makes a work great. Harry Potter will always be one of my favorite series of all times, and it has very little moral depth. I'm currently playing Dragon Quest 11, which is an am
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by victoriasun 8y ago
I had hoped that the Breaking Bad reference made more clear what I meant by cosmic good/evil. It has nothing to do with the idea that the One Ring is good or evil, but rather that the Universe has morality ascribed to each character. W
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by victoriasun 8y ago
Of course :) I do not at all mean to discredit Tolkein's moral complexity. I have simply personally found JY's more interesting and more compelling. That is just a personal opinion, and could be simply explained by the fact that I
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by victoriasun 8y ago
I am sensing rudeness from your comment but I don't actually understand why, given that we've said quite similar things about Tolkein. But to clarify the original intent of "morals" in my comment, I was referring to mora
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by victoriasun 8y ago
JY escaped China. His father was executed by the communist party, and well, if you were alive at the time you were well aware of what the risks were of staying or leaving. He chose to leave. Chinese oppression in the time pre-the Internet i
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by victoriasun 8y ago
Yes, JY stories are his own. One could read Romance of the Three Kingdoms and have a reasonably textual understanding of that time period. One could not say the same of JY; he simply borrowed setting and context and time.
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by victoriasun 8y ago
I left another comment here [1] with some of my introductory JY thoughts and recs! But to be honest I've never read an English translation of his work, so I have no idea what the quality of it is like. He writes in extremely poetic lan
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by victoriasun 8y ago
I am not, personally, but I did a bit of a brief Google so I'll speak to the limited knowledge I have here. First of all, to be frank, I fear a little bit of cultural appropriation (I also fear the HN comments that are going to result
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by victoriasun 8y ago
It can be difficult to get into reading JY as a Western reader as he writes in extremely poetic language. There are a lot of great articles on the difficulties of translating Chinese poetry if you're interested in the subject. Instead
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by victoriasun 8y ago
I think it's pretty hard to answer this question because what Tolkein is good at and what he is bad at are two sides of the same coin. Tolkein presents an extremely fantastical view of the world and ascribes to what I call "cosmic
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by victoriasun 8y ago
As a Chinese person who grew up with the works of Jin Yong and Tolkien, I bristle a little bit at this comment. For one, I think the marketing term is really used to explain Jin Yong's scope and impact, rather than a flat comparison of
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by victoriasun 8y ago
I like to take notes and highlight and write all over my books when I read and I have yet to find an e-book software that fits my use case. However -- if any one has any recommendations please let me know. I greatly prefer the convenience o
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by victoriasun 8y ago
> There is a point where that will happen for video: when you can fill the entire field of view of the human eye with video the same resolution as your fovea at ~100FPS, that's it. There is no more room for improvement. There's
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by victoriasun 8y ago
This is awesome! I haven't read your post fully yet so forgive me if you cover this, but have you heard of those studies that say that the optimal ratio for good things to bad things in a relationship is 5:1? Sounds like you and your G
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by victoriasun 8y ago
No worries! We actually didn't highlight it in the post :P I just find it such a cool fun fact that I wish we talked about it more.
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by victoriasun 8y ago
Sorry to hear that your Canary experience is not great :( Have you tried our stable Discord release? Canary will always have instability to it. If stable Discord still jitters for you please contact us ( https://support.discordapp
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by victoriasun 8y ago
Yes, this is 100% correct. That being said you can also create a React app using FRP framework such as Cycle JS and share exactly the same amount of code that I've listed above. Our team has chosen to go the React/Redux approach;
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by victoriasun 8y ago
We do reuse code. To be clear, a traditional "React app" typically consists of these pieces: + view/UI layer + flux/redux stores + data fetching and processing + action creators + utility libraries (date functions, markd
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by victoriasun 8y ago
Actually I don't own an iPhone X :P Our core user base tends to use 6 and above (approx 2 generations behind) and we dogfood regularly with a huge group of beta testers (thousands) with a huge range of hardware. We try our best to make
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by victoriasun 8y ago
Our architecture design is honestly pretty simple. Before the app fetches the JS bundle it checks a hash to see if it's on the right version, and if not, it fetches the other one instead. I honestly don't know enough about code pu

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