xiaopingguo

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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
There really doesn't seem to be anything new about the divide. The only thing that seems new to me is the resistance to the solutions. In any case it may all just be a matter of time. The current Greek tragedy that's playing out l
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
Invoking a vague ideology as the root cause feels like a diversion in itself from the basic problem of rich people getting richer while the poor get poorer and more indebted. The obvious solutions, debt forgiveness and plain old money/
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
"Value" hides a lot of meanings. The quote seems to imply monetary value, whereas there can also be aesthetic value, emotional value, value due to fame/popularity and more. Seems unlikely that an app would strip out all the r
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
Finally, some disruption amongst the management class. They have a long way to go in the race to the bottom.
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
I think one of the failures is that UX is designed by people who are comfortable with the abstract, we (usually) know about what is happening in the background, and can figure how action A leads to result B, but most people are just not goo
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
Eye opening. Did not think it would be this bad even knowing the real estate and internet situation there.
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
The opposite point of view is that there are way less actual problems in the world, and thinking everything is a problem that should be 'solved' is a problem in itself and hides the realistic efforts we can make on the few actual
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
Why not just fork the language? Why does one language need to do all the things?
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
Scandinavian languages already have "programmering" for "computering" if you want to sound quaint.
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
Wasn't Google at one point all about commodity/consumer level hardware for their servers? Seems a huge turnaround.
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
The reason 90% of everything is crap is that these things like performance and quality are almost directly opposed to business interests/needs. That seems unlikely to change. And it is a good reason to bet on free and open source softw
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
Sentence level translations, rather than word or paragraph level, graded by difficulty as beginner/intermediate/advanced. You can look up more about that research from here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
Watching Game of Thrones recently, Brienne of Tarth gets really beaten up in the fight with the Hound. I do not recall having seen that level of prolonged physical action/violence on a woman in anything else before. Felt quite shocking
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
I'm hugely in favor of graded sentence level translations especially for adult language learners. It is a more natural form of spaced repetition and requires much less will power to stick with it. Finding decent suitable corpora is the
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
>"like-minded people" This particularly obnoxious phrase seems to be coming up a lot more these days. Maybe it is just people admitting they really do not want diversity except in looks rather than substance. It seems to reflec
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
21% feels precipitous. The question is if that is just going to different platforms or if people are just more aware of privacy implications and thus sharing less on the internet as a whole. Or is the novelty factor of sharing itself dying
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
That was indeed a much better read. Particularly liked the bit about the bells.
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
While "c'est du chinois" is really not a valid excuse these days, with so many chinese people/students available all across Europe, ready (and hungry) to help Western companies deal with China's local systems/l
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
More people should definitely try out sam and 9term as examples of how much code/features you don't really need and can still get real work done. Personally, I wish sam had even less complexity and features than it currently does
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
The article does not mention the cost of these houses which would seem to be the major point of information. I think these developments can market themselves a lot better if they drop the terms "low income"/ "low cost&qu
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
Calling something a fad or saying it is too complex to be solved is also part of the willful blindness people seem to have on this issue. I think it is all part of a trend of outsourcing ownership of your health to doctors and hospitals and
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
Seems more like people are refusing to listen to those who do actually know how to stop it. The resistance to LCHF/IF I've seen and experienced has been ridiculous. People just do not want to change or give up their precious carbs
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
If anything, the FBI's recent success in cracking the iphone without even Apple's help should tell us that this is merely more security mummery. A mummer's farce if you will. Real security is more in line with Stallman's
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
It can hardly be called a crisis as long as people are still paying those prices/rents. Presumably they have rationally decided the better option for themselves. If/when prices collapse and people lose jobs, those in debt and with
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
Once you deal with FOMO (the fear of missing out) you are then free to deal with all the rest of your fears, leading to much higher life satisfaction. Stoicism, eastern philosophy (esp. ZhuangZi), travel and experience of other cultures,
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
Financialization of the economy and rentier capture of value/profits. There are six billion people who are waiting to be brought up to the average American's standard of living but have no path to it. Vast investments in housing,
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
I guess the real question is what is success? If you do not think climate change is a big problem or do not have a disproportionate fear of asteroids, then most of Elon Musk's work seem to be tilting at windmills. Personally, I do not
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by xiaopingguo 10y ago
I found the distinction between productivity and creativity interesting. The past few decades have seen great increases in productivity but many people have noticed a lack of innovation. Apparently this goes back to the seventies. Peter Thi