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Actually, it's a good analogy because Mandarin's difficulty is also overblown. It's hard, yes, but I have no trouble being understood by the Chinese, and any Westerner living in China who makes the effort inevitably comes to that point as well.

Is there a good summary of this anywhere? Sounds incredibly interesting.

It's no miracle, the bureaucracy is as huge as the cities. Even in a shit tier city like Zhanggong, Jiangxi they employ hundreds of people to monitor social media. I imagine the number of people employed for things that actually matter must be many thousands.

Kimchi is also an awesome and inexpensive snack. I always have a big jar of it (from the grocery store) in the fridge to snack on when I'm too lazy to cook.

The most laughable part is that you can't install Chrome or any other software created by companies that the government doesn't like.

Will this be available for Edx and Coursera too? So few CS MOOCs encourage version control and they certainly don't allow using a free public repo.

Yes. But it also makes it easy to create components that do fit the platform, thus "the issue is the developer."

Turkish I suppose? What are some surviving Hurrian words?

"Bruce" triggered the English response? That's a weird ML algorithm.

Internet Explorer was still a year away. Did they add a "Best Viewed with Internet Explorer" button later?

That's how I understood it as well, though I was still disappointed that my expectations weren't exceeded. I am eagerly awaiting the day that new AAA games are playable at low quality settings on a MacBook Pro but I guess that's still a few years away.

I just wish phone controllers would start selling enough that more developers would design their games to use physical buttons for gameplay and touch for menu selections etc. Are the current options just that shitty?

I considered buying one when I had a 5S, but decided against when it leaked that the 6's would be bigger. Don't know if the situation's changed.

I've been holding off on reading TAOCP because of the modernized assembly language promised for the next version -- is this at all justified?

Interesting that Java 8 is a strict requirement. I'm curious what version of Java is most common in enterprise these days?

I had the same in Chrome and IE and just used inspect element to banish the orange image to the netherworld of terrible web design.