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jon2512chua | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Gaming with one arm

I play Starcraft 2 quite a bit, and can confidently say that no matter how good your strategy is, it just doesn't work without good execution against any decent player, and by decent I mean anyone above bronze league. This is because not using keyboard shortcuts slows you down by orders of magnitude, and your faster opponent can just brute force his/her way to victory.

Using MMORPG mice with all the extra hotkeys might work rather well though, but I still doubt that it's possible to get into the more serious players' leagues this way though.

jon2512chua | 11 years ago | on: Mistakes You Should Never Make

> Seth absolutely deserves to have a forum to tell his version of the story, but I find it more than a little annoying that after everything he's done, he's still able to leverage his position as a YC Founder to ensure that his version of the story gets more attention than anyone else's.

I'm really interested to hear about the other side of the story. Any links?

jon2512chua | 11 years ago | on: Anti-Tesla sentiment and the death of optimism

> Today's tech "entrepreneur" rarely looks like Elon Musk, someone who genuinely seems to want to do good things for the world. The skeptisism exists because there are a lot of startups doing plain silly things, masked in global do-goodery marketing narrative.

I would say that it's more of today's entrepreneur genuinely believe that they're doing good, but are just terribly misguided.

Of course, that's just how it feels to me.

jon2512chua | 12 years ago | on: I Broke My Phone’s Screen, and It Was Awesome

> What distinguishes one from the other?

The drastically different way you pronounce a word, or even the choice of words. Well for example for the sentence "I feel very cold". Mandarin: wo jue de heng leng Hokkien: wa chi tio jin na leng Teochew: wa chi tio jin nga ngang etc...

> Then, before the development of kana, was Japanese also a chinese dialect? Korean before hangeul? > If I wrote the english sentence "how old are you?" as 多老是你？, would that make english a dialect of Chinese? If > I wrote 你多大？ as "ni duo da?", would mandarin stop being a chinese dialect? > If you imagine two illiterate people, one of whom speaks mandarin and the other cantonese, do neither know any language at all, due to being illiterate?

I do understand what you're saying, and I do agree with you regarding the examples above. But then how would you explain the relationship between Chinese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Teochew, etc in terms of language vs. dialect?

jon2512chua | 12 years ago | on: I Broke My Phone’s Screen, and It Was Awesome

I do understand that when people refer to Chinese it means Mandarin. However, if Mandarin is a language does that mean that Hokkien, Foochow, Cantonese, Hakka, etc are languages too?

I don't think the way I described it in the grandparent post above is entirely accurate as well, but how I've always seen it is that the written words forms the Chinese language, whereas the different way people pronounces it (not talking about accents here) and orders them are the dialects.

jon2512chua | 12 years ago | on: I Broke My Phone’s Screen, and It Was Awesome

I'm a Chinese, and I can easily understand written kanji (one of the 3 Japanese writing systems) as it's essentially traditional Chinese characters, but the pronunciation is a whole different game altogether. From this I'm assuming that it's the same for Japanese speakers to recognise some Chinese characters, thus making it easier for them to learn.

jon2512chua | 12 years ago | on: I Broke My Phone’s Screen, and It Was Awesome

Well bunnie is Singaporean, and most if not all Singaporeans can speak Mandarin (not a linguist but Chinese is more of the language, and Mandarin the dialect, albeit the "official" dialect for the language).

jon2512chua | 12 years ago | on: Delete your code

Major do'h moment for me. :P Got so used to using a VCS that I took some things for granted.
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