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Centuries will pass, technology will change, but one will still need someone else to open the next slide: https://youtu.be/7DbslbKsQSk?t=83

The problem with translating any Chinese classics lays in their multi-layered meaning. Old Chinese literature is complicated because every author expected that the reader was accus…

why bother with a cross-platform framework, then?

By other computers you mean SSHing to them or working at them physically? If the latter, this sounds like a very odd excuse. If you use a custom KB layout on your main machine(s), …

I'm curious whether the research you mentioned had the people who actually grew up writing or typing. If the former, no wonder: I spent all my school years extensively taking notes…

Just curious, did you file a bug report for this?

Right, but did it lead to taking Tizen to the level it could replace Android? What I like about Samsung is that they do realize and accept that the software is not their forte. Hen…

Is mono going to be fully merged into .net _something_ (core? standard?) at some point in the future or it will remain separate?

Not really. Now you need to charge the Macbook with MagSafe and connect the dock to it. It's still two cables. USB-C allows you to charge your mac through the same cord it transfer…

At this stage the value of GitHub doesn't have much to do with git per se. It's about the projects' communities hosted there. That said, I don't see much of uniqueness in what GitH…

On a related note, most of speakers of East-European languages have hard time with word pairs like "bitch"/"beech" and "shit"/"sheet". Number of "spreadshits" heard at some meeting…

Actually, flour made from crickets has been already available for some time: http://www.amazon.com/Cricket-Flour-made-100-22/dp/B00OMCTOD...

Chinese characters allow to "compress" information, at least compared to alphabetic writing systems. That made them relatively transportable. A good example of how a library might …

I'm wondering if using "IIII" instead of "IV" for the 4th chapter was intentional or it has to do with the social class of the author =)

https://insider.windows.com/ — Becoming an insider is just a registration away, takes no longer than 5 minutes. Use preview builds at your own risk, though.

Does this mean that premium processing circumvents the lottery whatsoever?

Perhaps because providing ad companies with the tools like these is the way to monetize the service?