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by zapzupnz 7y ago
That has nothing to do with name ordering. This discussion is about name order. I didn't think I had to spell that out considering the article is about name ordering. I should've been more specific.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
The convention of calling a person by just their last name has no bearing on their name order. Obama is still Barack Obama, not Obama Barack. If Russians don't say Vladimir, that doesn't make his name Putin Vladimir. The only West
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
I think you're missing the point. Whether in katakana or in romaji (Latin script), the Japanese don't reverse our names, so there's no reason for us to do that to theirs whatever script is used. As I said to someone else, tra
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Indeed. It's really quite simple; we should call people as they call themselves, not how we think they should be called. It's the basic respect we expect for ourselves but the West is bizarrely inclined not to give to others. We c
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
When did I say anything of what you said is wrong? I was merely reinforcing my own point, in case anybody reading both comments felt any ambiguity; that the writing system doesn't matter, the name should still retain the correct order
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
I guess there's just a dwindling number of reputable sources without paywalls. The proper papers whose articles can actually be shared and the rags such as you named are getting hard to distinguish.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
It's literally just bleach and juice. Presumably the juice is for taste.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
It would make the English rendering of Japanese names consistent with … well, themselves. 安倍 (Abe) 晋三 (Shinzo) will be Abe Shinzo, not Shinzo Abe. The Japanese don't reverse Western names, so Steve Jobs is never Jobs Steve.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Or just not read tabloids which, despite being rags, should know better anyway. Actually, it's because a journalistic publication should know better that I'm inclined to call such an example wilful ignorance. People not knowin
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
But still, as you notice, in the right order. Transliteration doesn't really come into it. Of course the Japanese would write スティーブ・ジョブス (but emphatically not ジョブス・スティーブ) rather than Steve Jobs, just the same way as we write Abe Shin
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Again, such things are not used in Chinese or Korean names — in the Latin alphabet. I was sure I didn't have to spell that out. No need to make an exception for Japanese, no need to start inventing needless uses for punctuation. The wo
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Market segments. Whether us nerds on HN agree or not, Apple has a premium feel to their products — or at least that's how non-technical people tend to perceive them. The only real attraction to a Tesla car is the deluxe nature of their
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
> Tesla potential customers are not buying a Tesla in place of another batteries + sensor tech + gps I feel like this is a poor comparison. When companies attempt to make luxury experiences affordable to the masses (yes, still more exp
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Inventing things like this is needless. We don't put commas or grave characters in Chinese and Korean names.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
One person cannot speak for an entire gamut of people. There will be people for whom the way one says their name is not a simple matter of grammar but of identity, pride, family history, etc. The Japanese respect the rest of the world enoug
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
This is fantastic. Living in both the English and Japanese-speaking worlds, it'll be nice not having to go through mental gymnastics to remember how to call somebody in whichever language. I think consistency is preferable; it's s
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
It's also not a poster boy for a good app, Electron or not. It looks uglier than plenty of native chat apps and still manages to take up an amazing amount of RAM doing absolutely nothing.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
That person is big-timing. Their tone ("you should read more" and so on) is in violation of the HN guidelines, filled with needless snark and condescension. The offending comment has been flagged by multiple users who agree that
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
What teams? The article is about homes.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Indeed. If they wanted CS grads to come out of their shells, then a mandatory communications course might be more in order. That would cover all multitudes of communication: face-to-face, telephone, written, email, etc. Not "Communicat
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Here's an article on it: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/31/16580976/super-mario-run... I love it, too, and I think it's well worth the money. But I'm sure Nintendo became aware all too q
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
I mean, I know why Nintendo doesn't treat mobile as a first-class platform: it isn't their hardware. More than that, though, I think Nintendo doesn't like to make sacrifices to realise their ideas, both in terms of having to
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
I find the same for Scrabble and Monopoly, though on an iPad rather than a phone. The old version of the Scrabble app used to let you put an iPad on the table for everybody to see, then use the iPhone/iPod as your personal letter rack
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Safari suggests Reader for me. You on iOS or macOS?
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
I mean, it looks terrible on my iMac, too. Even a 5K Retina display can't save the site from the tiny font and non-contrasting colours.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
I tend to avoid mobile games for all these reasons in the article and some in the comments. I am explicitly a Nintendo fanboy, unapologetically, because their raison d'être seems to be making fun, positive, memorable experiences wrappe
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
It makes sense. If the answer could be 'yes', the title would be an affirmative statement.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
It's based on the article's by-line.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
The actual article of the headline gives no clues as to what the article is about. The HN title is based on the article's byline. It might be clickbait-y, but at least it's derived from the article.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Just as an aside, the scrolling thing at the top of the page is stupid and unnecessary. As I irritatedly scrolled past the first few bits, I accidentally overscrolled and had to go back, then wound up back at the static image again. Ugh.

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