RunUO here too. I'm still in touch with many of the people I met between the RunUO and UOGamers communities, and lots of us have gone on to work in industry. Don't know where I'd be without it honestly.
Eh, I personally find GitHub more useful for line-by-line nitpicking than for high-level, architectural reviews. GitHub PR diffs encourage reading code in an arbitrary top-to-bottom order and don't make it easy to jump around and get the bigger picture.
Unless you mean that they don't place any importance on the diff at all, which I might be inclined to believe, but that leaves a lot of the onus on accurate, well-written PR descriptions… which not every developer seems to be capable of.
Going off-topic a bit, I highly recommend you peruse the forum over at the Reviewing the Kanji site (koohii.com). Even if you have no interest in the book the site is based around (Heisig's Remembering the Kanji) there are troves of great advice and methods for Japanese self-study to be found there.
Neat, will check it out. Yeah, Kanji might be a tall order right now (still working with Hiragana/Katakana first), but found the forums. Kinda nice to find a community of Japanese learners
Yeah, they're wildly popular with just about everyone I know 25 and under, especially on sites like Instagram. There's even been a music video created from them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmlJveN9IkI
Hmm. 40 year here who really likes using them. I find over instant messaging, which we use a lot at work, when you are just typing text a lot of the real meaning behind what you are saying is lost.
Compare the following mentioned during a code review:
Your code is crap
Your code is crap :-)
The first is taken seriously, the second is more of a sarcastic joke. The meaning conveyed is even stronger when the picture is a comical and brightly coloured smiley face rather than an ascii smile.
I guess it's cultural, but I wouldn't IM "your code is crap" during a code review with or without an emoticon. If the code really was crap I'd be more constructive. If it wasn't crap I wouldn't say it was. Why wouldn't you just say what you mean?
That sort of hyper-abbreviated writing has largely disappeared thanks to spell-check, predictive autocomplete, and so forth.
Emoji can certainly stand in for text, and I see plenty of comments and text messages that consist primarily of emoji. But just as often they will accompany text to add personality or mood the way ASCII smilies or textual kaomoji always have on bulletin boards.
I think UberX has the potential to become bigger than the taxi market. In the vast majority of American cities, especially in smaller ones, taxis are not readily available and are just too expensive for getting across a suburban sprawl.
The main Uber service depends on the existing market to some extent but I think it also has the potential to grow it.
> In the vast majority of American cities, especially in smaller ones, taxis are not readily available and are just too expensive for getting across a suburban sprawl.
There is a good reason for that, it's so much easier to own a car in these and is pretty much mandatory to get anything done. Cars + Gas are still relatively cheap in comparison to paying someone to come out and drive you around anytime you need to go somewhere, which is compounded in the suburbs by the distance and time involved and the area any taxi service would need to cover.
Sure, technology ala Uber helps here, but does this really change the fundamentals in theses areas? I don't think so, you still need to pay a driver and in areas where its easy and cheap to store a car it would make much more financial sense to just drive yourself around.
Driverless cars are really the fundamental shift that might change this, but let's be real that is still a risky venture, despite all the Google hype people are drooling over. This large of an evaluation only makes sense with that in mind.
It's fun once. It's impractical for someone editing the code later though, I don't want to have to look up the unicode character each time I want to remember it, and I don't want to have to copy and paste it either, it's better to stick with the characters available on a keyboard.
OS X handles some of this by assigning mnemonics to keyboard keys with the meta key (on mac keyboards, Option, or the "windows" key on the standard layout) held down.
For instance, the registered trademark symbol ® is just option+r. ∑ is option-w. Diacritics are two-stroke combinations, to get é, you'd type option-e, which puts the ´ on the screen, and then type the e to complete the character.
Some of them definitely make more sense than others. ∑ looks like a sideways 'W", the trademark symbol is just a circled r, and the diacritic marks fit the character you'd commonly associate them with. (Guess what letter you hit to get ¨ over a letter?)
"OS X handles some of this by assigning mnemonics to keyboard trademark symbol ® is just option+r. ∑ is option-w."
And, after they ran out of mnemonics, they sprinkled the rest of the characters on the keyboard (almost; I think they tried hard to keep things memorable, but some combinations are just plain of the "if you don't know it, you 'll never guess". The Apple logo is on the k key, for instance (IIRC). Mnemonic? MaKintosh?)
"Diacritics are two-stroke combinations, to get é, you'd type option-e, which puts the ´ on the screen, and then type the e to complete the character."
That's the old way. Recent OS X has 'hold down the e key, a menu pops up, click the desired variant or type the digit shown next to it'.
Ah neat, I wasn't aware of this. Every mac I use has the press-and-hold mechanic disabled to support a higher repeat rate. I might have to go back and play with it some more.
> Some of them definitely make more sense than others, but it sure beats copypasting out of character map!
Sure, but even making your own keyboard layout beats copypasting out of character map for any characters that you use regularly (and if you switch from US-English to US-International as your base layout, you get a lot characters that aren't on US-English for free without making a new layout.)
I guess it depends what country you're currently in. I know some chinese developers would prefer some chinese characters because it happens to be the ones available on their keyboard.
I have to agree. I had a love affair with unicode put directly in LaTeX markup (delta, integral signs, element-of, etc...) and it was very fun at first. Then I had to send the paper to a collaborator while writing a follow-up article together. I ended up removing all the unicode, and in subsequent work I didn't do it any more.
Why would you want to put math symbols in LaTeX using unicode? What would be the advantage over using a package like amsmath or even the native math environment? I'm genuinely curious.
I won't mind it if the original author also has a comment signifying what unicode character the variable refers to. This will reduce some pain though not all of it.
I'm stuck doing most of my work in php, so this is kind of neat. (I also like that the example in the text resurrects the famous 30 year old dogcow joke.)
I love this. The boarding pass design is a nice touch, although I still feel like I'm going to fold it in a hurry to get it out of my hands and not in the way they intend.
