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Apple’s Stringsdict approaches this exact problem, though unfortunately first-party documentation is limited. It’s a pretty mature mechanism and yes pretty freely within apple’s ow…

I'm glad Mr. Lazer-Walker is taking on the person corporatehood that many app-makers appear to be content with these days... It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, except for…

I really disagree with the sentiments here. Like many of you, I'm on the internet quite literally 14-16 out of every 24 hours, actively using it for about 13 of those. I've had a s…

Not to mention the mobile version literally only allows one word of text per line...I'm on an iPhone5 if that helps, but the sidebar is...over zealous, should we say

It's a poor Mandarin example also. You would likely say "there is a seminar", or "I intend to go to a seminar". Both are also perfectly valid English examples, I should add, and co…

I initially thought this was a way to sign documents by recording a video of you doing a distinctive hand gesture. I immediately did the "finger guns with a wink" move at my comput…

I was envisioning exactly this scenario.

Nerd moment. This reminds me of the part in The Hobbit (the book, not the movie) where Gandalf takes the dwarves to meet Beorn, the skin-changer. Before entering his house, Gandalf…

Typical WSJ red scare claptrap. This paper is seriously still caught in the McCarthy era, especially when it comes to anything at all related to Asia. Sure this article seems posit…

As a white male who has dated Asian females in the past (and is currently in a relationship with a white woman, if you must know, and to ward off the inevitable charges of "yellow …

Robot apologist here, but for some reason neo-Luddism has become fashionable again and it bothers me. Is this really a war over little pings from email inboxes? Are we truly that o…

There is a famous Chinese four character idiom about exactly this scenario: 愚公移山 (Yu gong yi shan), or "the foolish old man moves the mountain". Here's a link to the (short) transl…

What is modern Perl? Python. (I'll elaborate more here from my earlier one-word answer). Long-time perl programmer here, until I found Python. Perl is powerful, but Perl is for the…

I really don't think people understand how new ideas come about. It is simply a fact of life that the newest, most different, paradigm-breaking idea will almost always make people …

Goddamnit, startups. I should write a post of my own about this because it really pisses me off. Here is my advice about startup names: Stop It. Seriously though, stop it. You know…

Yes, there are regional variants of Modern Standard Mandarin, but the ways in which these deviate from the proscribed standard are predictable and in fact generally internally cons…

This is completely wrong...Do not listen to this person. I have studied Chinese my entire life and I can assure you, tones are extremely important. Tones are not "dropped", even in…

What if you wrote a program and you couldn't market, sell or support it? People do this all the time, it's called open-source software and people come upon it by merit of the quali…