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In some of these countries, nationality is a weak proxy for what actually matters for name order; ethnicity. Take for example Malaysia. Yes, ~70% of the population are Malay Muslim…

If I’m mostly writing Finnish text, then the native Finnish layout (with separate keys for Å, Ä, and Ö) seems better. And if I’m coding, I personally prefer the US English layout w…

Hydro is indeed 1-2 orders of magnitude worse than other renewables on a deaths per TWh basis, but still 2-25× safer than all fossil fuels. (Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grap…

Ah, you’re right, Medium was blocked in Malaysia for a few years for hosting Sarawak Report, a publication that shed light on the 1MDB scandal. Wikipedia tells me the ban was lifte…

Neither bbc.com nor medium.com are blocked in Malaysia (source: I’m there presently), and I don’t recall either being blocked in Singapore or Indonesia. The sites blocked in Indone…

I think they're just going with the list of official EU languages ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Unio... ). That list does not, unfortunately, include Ca…

In my experience, the size of the collection in any given library building is never much of an issue as you can always order books for very low fees from any library in the country…

While “herbal tea” is indeed a very loosely used term, botanically speaking “tea” refers to the species camellia sinensis. Hongyacha is, to my knowledge, the only known case of a c…

In Nordic countries, the order is reversed. We wear simple bands after the engagement, and give the fancier ring during the wedding.

The Finnish news sources I follow paint this as a pilot initiative trialed primarily in Helsinki, and even then limited to a few courses. A country-wide scrapping of subjects seems…

I think you're right in that this won't have much immediate impact on the service providers. But think of this as a step towards commoditization of services. It's a small step from…

Cursive, a Clojure IDE on top of IntelliJ, offers some semantic editing capabilities: https://cursiveclojure.com/userguide/editing.html (see e.g. the Rename section).

The Wikipedia census data for Ordos is from 2010, i.e. well before the 2013 article. The ghost city proper is Kangbashi, a new development within Ordos intended to house 300,000 pe…

First thought; Brilliant. Second thought; E, F, Gmail…

This is an interesting line of inquiry. I wonder, though, what would be a good way to quantify accessibility. I find myself doubting your statement that even non-programmers would …

Hmm, I wonder though, is this any more complex than a client plus server combo of MVC frameworks like, say, Ember and Rails? It certainly took me a while to wrap my head around how…

This was discussed the last time this link was posted and it appears Pedestal is in no way integrated with Datomic. That being said, I too got the same first impression when readin…

While I agree with most of what you're saying, the 2Mb JS file is entirely expected behavior if you don't use advanced compilation, which eliminates unused JS code and would hence …

My example above was possibly too simplistic. I'm not using Enlive at the moment but am merely trying to gauge what kinds of contracts would allow the developers and designers work…

Gotcha. How would you handle minor HTML changes, e.g. something like this: joe joe Updating the selector in the template is easy enough but seems a bit tedious if the design team d…

Coming from Rails, I tend to agree that the Clojure ecosystem is still less mature, but not by as much as I initially thought. Missing Rails I18n, SimpleForm, or validations? Cloju…

Based on my experience, Hiccup is more productive than just about anything else if the frontend person is the backend person or otherwise comfortable with Clojure. The ability to e…