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> Because the code took only the first letter, rather than the complete sound of the character, most regional speech variations did not matter.

This bit is really interesting. This is one of the motivations for an open source Chinese IME framework called RIME: https://rime.im There are configurations available for a number of dialects like Suzhou or Shanghai dialects so that users who prefer those languages don’t have to use Mandarin/putonghua pinyin.

I was having trouble remembering tones when practicing with Duolingo because there are minimal checks that you actually know the right tones for each word or character. ToneBoard requires you to type the tone as well (e.g. “hao3” to input “好”), which I think really helps with remembering the tones. (I am also learning Vietnamese and really appreciate needing to type tones with Vietnamese keyboards.) You can use it with any app in iOS, so it also lets you practice recalling tones while texting, writing a Facebook post, or whatever.

It's a GH pages site, BTW: https://github.com/bellkev/random-jazz-chords

Just a reminder, all OSS projects get 3 free containers on CircleCI (which means up to 3x parallelism), and they all run in fast Linux containers (with sudo enabled).

Full disclosure: I work for CircleCI.

We should have all the pieces necessary to support it. Ping us at sayhi@circleci.com and we'll be happy to work with you to make sure it works smoothly.

We do have an API that supports triggering builds with a POST request, passing in custom parameters, etc. The bigger issue is that we strive for a really rich integration between us and GitHub. For example, we support their status API, link back to PRs/commits from our build page, etc. It's a lot more than just triggering builds.

We do have support for other services planned, but we are focused on the GitHub experience for now.

We have support for other flavors of Git on the roadmap, but for now we are focusing on providing the best possible experience with (public and private) GitHub repos.

To be clear, we have both Android-oriented Linux containers and iOS-oriented OSX VMs already. Using a mix of OSX VMs and Linux containers in a single build is also on the roadmap. Definitely reach out to us if you have any more specific questions!

Do you mean you need to run iOS- and Android-based tests all at once on the same machine? You have Homebrew, sudo, etc at your fingertips in our OSX VMs, so you should be able to setup anything you need there. If you just need to run iOS and Android tests in separate projects, then that's very easy--we have a lot of customers already doing that. Ping us at sayhi@circleci.com if you have more specific questions and we will make sure you can get things working.

BTW, we now integrate with this from CircleCI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8597439

There's some discussion in that post of how it compares to pre-baking, etc. Of course there are trade-offs either way. CodeDeploy does require that your are careful with your lifecycle scripts to make deployments as atomic as possible. At least they provide a good selection of default lifecycle events for you to take advantage of.

Another possibly relevant fact in this matter is that the Android/Java lawsuit certainly didn't help the Oracle/Google relationship...

I'm actually curious now, was your (or whoever became the victim of this code) "Japanese name" not in the system in katakana or something?

I looked into this a year or so ago when I was looking to "vimify" my whole setup. I couldn't get into Ranger because of the lack of real image previews (I was doing a lot of image processing stuff at the time). W3M looks like it will help a lot with that though, so I'll definitely give it a second shot.

This is an awesome UI concept that could be used to demonstrate other kinds of projections, too. It would be awesome to see similar apps related to perspective transformations, rectilinear vs. fisheye lenses, tilt-shift lenses, panorama stitching, etc.

I use it all the time to create, reformat, and resize images for websites. I don't need to do that frequently or elaborately enough to require Photoshop, and Gimp does a fine job. It may be hard to use for casual users, but not for technical users. And there are lots of resources an tips online.

NOTE: SURF and SIFT are both already patented, btw, along with some other things in OpenCV, so watch out with them.