xiaoma

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by xiaoma 10y ago
Are you blogging about news distribution in the internet, interfaces or haptic feedback?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Honestly, once you know either pinyin or zhuyin, learning the other is trivial. It took under a day for me to get it 95% down and then with some regular usage it was done. But one effect was I found I had a much easier time keeping sounds s
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by xiaoma 10y ago
The standard zhuyin input is laid out on the keyboard in order . By in order, I mean it is in the same order as the sounds have been taught for many generations and still are today ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlNGJzYJQ
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by xiaoma 10y ago
No. That's wrong on both counts. Please re-read my comment.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Hmm... I think you're over-emphasizing the people skills. Possibly the best front-end dev I've ever met was clearly on the aspergers spectrum. He wasn't good with people at all, but he was obscenely productive and probably th
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by xiaoma 10y ago
No, that's not true. The history section of the wikipedia entry on rails says: "Hansson first released Rails as open source in July 2004, but did not share commit rights to the project until February 2005." [1] The very seco
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by xiaoma 10y ago
> "Except that if you use a western keyboard you still need to learn Pinyin or Romaji in order to be able to type the language." No you don't. I type in zhuyin every day. The sounds line up in order of the alphabet, start
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I have learned pinyin and zhuyin both, but found zhuyin to be the "superior" system. In pinyin the two vowel sounds ㄜ and ㄝ are written as "e", and both ㄨ(sometimes) and ㄩ are written as "u". Furthermore, typin
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Cake PHP was basically a copy of Rails. When Rails first appeared, it didn't exist.
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Excommunication, ostracism and poverty.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
As a rule, I flag outright ads.
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If the most toxic NCAA basketball player shot 3s like Stephen Curry, how much backlash would there be if the NCAA removed the three point line for a season and returned to just 2 points per hoop like in the 70s?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Microsoft has an extraordinary amount of in-house talent when it comes to IDEs and performance, and it shows in VSCode. The difference in responsiveness between the two editors is stark and it's a primary reason I never use Atom anym
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by xiaoma 10y ago
You can call it hubris, but my goal is truth. I don't have any financial or even emotional stake in WP and am just trying to make the best predictions I can. In my experience, you don't hone those skills unless you actually have t
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by xiaoma 10y ago
What is your experience with predictions, exactly? I feel confident that WordPress will be more widely used than Medium next year, in three years and in nine years (which is an eternity in tech). Would you bet against that? I don't mea
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Having their own domain puts content creators in charge of their own works. Medium can pull the plug on any given user, pivot, die or get acquired at any time.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Medium will never overtake WordPress. Medium has a lot of buzz, a great founder and a powerful centralized system. It felt like an upgrade to the web. WordPress on the other hand, is a force of nature. Not only does it have a strong team
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Hmm... I don't think I've ever in my life worked on a platform where I couldn't get libc. It sound like a neat project where there are some good defaults and where most weaknesses (performance, flexibility, etc) come from gol
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I've gone from ST2 -> WebStorm -> Atom -> VS Code I prefer code now because its features are nearly on par with WebStorm but it runs far faster than WebStorm or even Atom. About 6-9 months ago, it was still a bit behind on f
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by xiaoma 10y ago
That essay was written about 5 years before Trello was spun out of Fog Creek. You can see Joel in the photo on the WSJ article covering that story: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/07/24/digital-w
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I still haven't gotten any assistance from Google after losing my YouTube account when my f#@!ing plus account (which I didn't even want) spawned another account from the gmail address I'd signed up before Google bought the
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I recently bailed from bitbucket when they stopped allowing me to log in without making an Atlassian account. I remain a happy trello user until that happens to your product as well!
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Looks like too many customers decided they JUST MIGHT HAVE TO GO OVER TO THE AUSTRALIANS! So many that "the Australians" bought the team. This is poetic and this is why I'm glad blogs often stick around. https://ww
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Aside from the fact that education has second order effects that powerfully benefit humanity as whole, good will is a boon for companies. The cost of running hangouts (which is essentially P2P) is a rounding error for Google. Why shut down
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Ebay auctions aren't scaled by cost of living adjustments either. The highest bidder wins. I agree that work permission should be either open or open after the first year, though. It's a huge artificial inefficiency to have talent
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The way to do the auction is, the engineers with the highest salary offers get to come (national security permitting). This way the slots would be used only to bring in people who were truly highly valued in their profession.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Google's brand has plummeted since the era of blogger/google reader/google talk, etc. It's just that they have powerful monopolies that fund pretty much anything they want to do and there are powerful network/lock-i
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Some companies have used it for language tutoring. There are a lot of things a language learner with a keyboard and mouse can productively do during a video chat that isn't built into hangouts, e.g. looking up words, saving vocab items
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by xiaoma 10y ago
What exactly in your reasoning is US-specific? Wouldn't everything in your comment be equally true if "Japan", "China" or "EU" were substituted for "US"?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
That's weird. It's totally normal for couples to run mom and pop shops together. Most businesses historically (and maybe even up through today) have been run by families. It's human. It's natural.

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