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Oddly enough, I've seen Bing Translate work wonders on facebook when it comes to translating Chinese into English. One of my friends posted a huge paragraph in Chinese, and the translation read as correct (if a bit flowery) English. I'm just one data point, but I'd guess that there are definitely good translators out there.

At the end of day 2, he says that Rhinehart encouraged him to only eat as much as he needs, and only when hungry. The logs of days 3, 4 and 5 are much more positive once he starts eating only when he's hungry.

> To top it off, I had the best lamb and rice meal I've ever had...for $5 from a halal food cart. (I actually spent an hour today looking for the cart again, I liked it THAT much, but it was nowhere to be found. I will look again tomorrow!!)

If I were to guess, I'd say it was Halal Boys Platters on 53rd and 6th. Those guys are legendary.

They'd all be expelled, we'd hold elections and elect a new congress that does the exact same thing.

The problem isn't the people in congress, its the people they represent.

Why is Aspergers presented as a third option? I'm pretty sure having AS doesn't just take you off the Introvert/Extrovert spectrum. And while many people with AS are introverted, it isn't always the case.

I feel like this might've made more sense as two different polls.

Sure thing, what's your email?

I'm currently having my mind blown by Bret Victor's "Learnable Programming", but after that I'll send you guys the details of how my class has been working so far.

Also, I started learning Clojure and Clojurescript about a month ago, but I'd love to try my hand at building something nontrivial with them.

I'm a teacher and my next term starts in one month. I'm retooling all my lesson plans right now to use this. Thank you so much, I'll be following this project closely.

> Reddit's biggest problem is that the big subreddits are incredibly homogenous, and the small ones incredibly slow.

There's definitely middle ground though. /r/DepthHub is pretty good at aggregating solid comments. And there's good debate on subs like /r/ChangeMyView and /r/NeutralPolitics. Admittedly, these subs don't refresh as fast as /r/worldnews, but there's usually new content every day.

This is really off topic, sorry in advance.

Why did you use "(sic)"? I always thought it stood for "Spelling InCorrect", but lately I keep seeing people use it in other contexts.

We have unlimited land, but I don't think we have unlimited Silicon with which to cover it.

As someone who did some theater in college, the same thing is happening to scripts. You can't really get a look at them without buying them off Dramatists Play Services or Samuel French. It's hard enough to get people interested in Theater without this kind of wall.

I felt exactly the same way. I "tolerated" the gun fights in Infinite, but the story and world-building were what I was really there for.

I was talking with a friend today about how interesting it would've been if Elizabeth's "quantum powers" had been explored as a puzzle solving device rather than a "summon furniture" mechanic. I feel like that could've been a Portal-esque revolution in gameplay.

> Tried reading this but the site was down... ironically.

I googled the title and grabbed Google's cache (in text-only form, the real deal wouldn't load for me).

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:U8pNBnR...

I didn't buy the "Go easy! It's still only beta!" stuff. The changes that happen in beta are along the lines of "Apps no longer crash while activating the radio while audio is playing." not "Complete icon redesign".

However, some of these (Z-Index? What?) should've absolutely been fixed before GM.

The same way we know of ancient civilizations.

They'll uncover warehouses full of old government forms and shipping records, and use them to draw conclusions about how we lived.

^People write this comment on Reddit a lot. The one I'm about to write, they also write this one too.

You can't talk about Reddit as a hivemind, because it isn't one person, or even a definite collective of people. The people who take things out of context, and the people who call them out, are different sets of people. If Reddit seems to have multiple personalities, it's because... well, it does.

Oscar Wilde: I wish I had said that. James McNeill Whistler: You will, Oscar, you will.

Not to mention, with smartphones getting cheaper and cheaper, a lot of people in developing nations are getting access to the internet for the first time.

It's the kind of thread that really has no home. Proggit would shoot it down for being frivolous, HN would probably do the same if it was a self-post.

I'm glad that StackOverflow leaves closed questions visible. A lot of the value I get from SO comes from opinion-y questions getting answered by experts.

Definitely check out CaféAuLait: it's French that compiles into CoffeeScript.

Wow, that's an awesome idea. I'd love to try and bring it back to life, but I know absolutely nothing about p2p protocols or the inner workings of git.

In an actively maintained project, that bug could be fixed in a day (or at least within the week). In an actively maintained proprietary game, it could go out in a patch pretty quickly. In an abandoned proprietary game, the bug will never be patched. In an abandoned open source game, there's at least a chance you might be able to fix the bug yourself.

And that's one part of the freedom. Open source software will live as long as people are interested in it, while proprietary software dies very definitively.

The quote is incomplete. Right after all that, he says:

>But rest assured, as of this time I can say that there is at least 1 complete & superior product in testing, testing that so far is going remarkably well. So one day there will be a product on the market that will save life's while also having countless other uses. The inspiration behind this project.... Mr Maurice Ward

I'm not sure when this comment was written, but perhaps he was talking about Graphene.

Whoa, we're gonna need a source for that kind of fact.

npm is the Node Package Manager. I think it's assumed that if you've been working with Node.js (or other things in its family, like CoffeeScript), you've already downloaded npm. It's like when a Python framework says "Just use pip install!" or a Ruby project says "Download our gem!"

That said, they really should have more info before dropping you on the install page.

Last I heard Udacity is powered by App Engine. There was an interview about it with the CEO at the end of the Web Development course, and he seemed pretty pleased with it.

Past progress is not a sure indication of future progress. Phones have made huge leaps in the past decade, but now the leaps they're making are smaller and more incremental. We're hitting a barrier of how much power we can pack into a device that can fit in your pocket.

This article does a fantastic job of explaining whats up: http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow...

You can use a dictionary of the most common 10000 words, you'd still have loads of entropy.

I want to like Mongo, I'm all about "cutting my teeth on the bleeding edge", but I don't know what to think about MongoDB. Most conversations about it seem to go like this:

Lover: MongoDB is so much faster and easier than old school SQL! Hater: It's fast and easy because it doesn't check if it's written data correctly, which leads to corrupt data. Lover: Well you could always turn on the write lock. Hater: If you turn on the write lock, it becomes slower than normal SQL databases. Lover: Well you're just trying to use it the same way you use SQL. MongoDB is great for some problems and not so great for other problems. Hater: What problems is MongoDB better at solving?

And then that's the end. I've never heard a convincing use case for this thing. If you can change that for me and give me one, I'd be delighted to listen.

Someone upstream said that 4096 is the largest number of bits you're allowed to have for an RSA key right now.