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The reporter said the video was taken before it opened, so of course there was no traffic. It's pretty busy a few months later as shown in this video: https://youtu.be/YOkW2h2HTD8

You might try naming your functions in Chinese. There's evidence showing that people take advantage of the face recognition machinery of their brains to read Chinese[1]. Coincident…

Or just learn a little bit of Elisp, and do this: M-: (loop for i from ?a for j below 12 do (insert (format "#define %c %d\n" i j)))

Contrary to what the simplified/traditional categorisation might suggest, there is nothing non-traditional about the simplification scheme. Most, if not all, of the simplified char…

I resent your speciesism insinuating that simply because you are born human, you are somehow superior to machines.

> You lack some perspective and tact, you silly goose. It's not very surprising you and your friends think your native language is easier and that you prefer your own writing syste…

> I seem to remember that the common Chinese idiom for a tough to learn language is 跟天书一样. "Hard as the heavenly script". If you really refer to your own language as yardstick for …

No. The Chinese realize their language is a pain in the butt to learn and that the writing system is terrible in comparison to any alphabet system. As a native speaker of Mandarin …

If they can make it work, this could be perfect for powering ships, too.

If you're interested in Lisp, Objective C and Cocoa, you might also be interested in Clozure[1], a Common Lisp implementation which provides complete access to Cocoa through its Ob…

> ...since seeing the character doesn't provide any help in actually saying the word. Nonsense. There are about 200 or so[1] chinese radicals, and all chinese characters are either…

Pardon my cynicism, but, those who haven't learnt Chinese well tend to exaggerate its difficulty as a pretext to their failure, and those who have do the same to accentuate their a…

> Line of sight networking was obsoleted by WiFi and Bluetooth. What problem does this solve? It is easier to prevent signal leakage with light.

The "switch statement" in C is closer to the CASE macro[1] in Lisp. [1]: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_case...

Sounds like you'd enjoy "Practical Common Lisp": http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

Perhaps some would find this more interesting: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/linda-tischler/design-times/... (Mark Anderson's 10 Predictions For 2009)

I don't remember seeing any "dynamic typing extremists" who would argue that static typing is totally worthless, just that it has cost (e.g., it's an additional concern for the pro…

This shouldn't be a surprise for anyone who knows what a gearbox is, should it?

More interesting is what isn't there: so prime is not prime.