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We have Amazon Alexa devices in most rooms of the house. We all sometimes use them as an "intercom" to get the attention of other family members. For those not familiar with this f…

>Agglutinative languages, like Finnish or Hungarian, where word order is largely irrelevant and conjugations, not word order, determine meaning. I'd argue that word order is just a…

I absolutely agree that people should be able to choose how they use pronouns (or in fact any component of language). Communication is a mutual endeavour, and I will always make my…

The problem with "they" is that it is in fact a very bad translation for "ő" in a sentence like "ő mosogat." We typically find gender-neutral "they" in English when there is an ind…

I was amused to find that "ő orvos. ő sebész. ő agysebész. ő kardiológus. ő pszichiater. ő radiológus. ő bőrgyógyász. ő nőgyógyász. ő szülész. ő fogorvos." was translated as "she i…

Pronounced, originally, to rhyme with "honey" and "money". The obvious vulgar homophony explains why the word is obsolete today and, when it is used (as, for example, in the topony…

>any semantic similarity to the K2 GUI system is probably coincidental. Hardly coincidental! I very much had the K gui in mind when I originally architected it (and I'm not sure I'…

That is odd. Maybe it's an in-joke alluding to database triggers or something? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_trigger

iambic keying is clever, and fun, but of very little practical value. True. Also, amateur radio is clever, and fun, but of very little practical value. I've been a ham for almost 3…

Well, at least he will know to go to that level of detail next time! Once burned, twice shy. I guess my point is that being "100% convinced that the property had the [feature] of i…

In a situation like this, the key is to get a contingency in the house purchase contract -- and have the work done before the closing. We bought a house that didn't have cable or D…

A number of employees have one or more kids. Off the top of my head, they live in New Jersey (commute on NJ Transit), Long Island (LIRR), upstate (Metro North), i.e. the traditiona…

1010data is hiring in NYC. Standard black-and-white descriptions of the current job openings are at http://www.1010data.com/company/careers/current-job-openings (warning: links on …