強 and 共 are read kyou, not kyuu

Your timing could not be better. Just this morning I was thinking how I'm set on the kanji front (with Anki) but I could really use a system for learning more vocab and grammar at an advanced level.

Then this came along. Excited to have a go!

Awesome! Let me know if you have any feedback after playing around with it.

Started reading about laundry but ended up reading the entire blog… Very interesting stuff!

Wild guess, but it could be that Amazon’s strategy involves Twitch somehow.

> English-only, global (…)

That must be a record for quickest contradiction.

Unless by “global” they mean… no, I’m stumped.

English is the main language in countries widely spread around the world, and is widely spoken as a second language in many others.

Even people from non-English speaking countries can speak English.

Japan would like to have a word with you

Well, you may have a hard time pronouncing the words, but that has nothing to do with understanding the language or with reading and writing in it. Spelling might actually be easier if you’re not distracted by inconsistencies compared to spoken language.

Also, “global” doesn’t have to mean “relevant and accessible to every single person in the world”. It could also be the opposite of “local”, for example, and describe the kind of content you can find, rather the kind of people.

Japan is a rather stubborn outlier, but even they still make an effort to learn. There's no getting around the fact that English is the language of science and commerce such that many people choose to learn it even if it's not their mother tongue. No need to get in a huff about it.

Of course English is the language for science and commerce, but that has nothing to do with it. Because you can't tell people "you can't speak your language here".

> you can't tell people "you can't speak your language here".

Yes you can, and that has been standard practice on the Internet since forever.

Things are much better now with Unicode etc., you will still run into problems with things like directionality and non-Latin scripts all the time.

If English is the default language and if English support is always the highest priority compared to every other language, that’s effectively the same as saying “you can’t speak your language here”.

And it works the other way around too. If you build something local and support only the languages used locally, you’re effectively saying to everyone else, “you can’t use your language here”.

> > you can't tell people "you can't speak your language here".

> Yes you can, and that has been standard practice on the Internet since forever.

Visst, klart du kan säga så, men andra kan lika väl strunta i det. Och tala om för dig att du beter dig som en översittare och ett arsel. Översittar-arslen har alltid funnits, det är inget nytt.

But in which language?

Do you mean they refuse or they can't?

Why are you stumped, what does 'global' have to do with language?

I subscribe to a global streaming service of Hindi content.

Hacker News is global and English-only

> Hacker News is global and English-only

Niin sinä luulet. Liegst falsch, mon cher.

Some things in this life are supposed to be diverse but they are not really :(

Would you like 90% of the posts on this site to be in languages you don't understand?

Again it is not the point. English is not my native language and I have no problem in using it... but if I am replying to someone I know their own language and would like to use that (with just them) I shouldn't be forced not to do that.

Then privately message them. Public networks are not meant for that.

I will take this as an insult, thanks.

yeah, I don't speak any other languages fluently but I also find that sentiment disgusting and reductive. use whatever language you want, wherever you want.

What happened to “social networks are private property and can moderate content however they want”?

Hugs to you.

Kevin, is that you?

Before clicking on this link I was thinking "oh yeah, I know of one such example near where I used to live in Bath". And then I clicked the link... and now I'm terrified of you.

We may have met :-) It was actually hard to find a good example on street view today - the whole centre is washed now and Cheap/Westgate aren't black for over a decade.

Bath posse, represent.

> To this day I still don’t understand how one can read the agile manifesto and somehow get to scrum.

It's almost like scrum pre-dates the agile manifesto. (Which it does)

But the manifesto was written by many of the same people. The expectation that they would be compatible seems reasonable. And, the "Scrum Alliance" happened very shortly after the manifesto.

I know, but it’s not how it’s sold.

The typical presentation is “we need agility => Scrum”. One would assume that if Scrum doesn’t fit the bill, one would discard it.

But, unfortunately, scrum has become synonymous with "Agile" in the corporate mind. Everything, including SRE and ops work, gets force-fit into Jira "Agile" (really FrAgile) methods and meeting-heavy rituals.

But scrum easily devolves to rapid cycle waterfall death marches. This has been going on for at least nine years that I know of. It sucks.

When a company says "We do Agile with Scrum" I wince and am very, very skeptical.

And add DevOps to it, because then one can get rid of run == cost savings.

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code:_The_Hidden_Language_of_C... comes to mind.

Yes that's in the spirit! I personally did not enjoy it though because it tried to explain at a level that non-programmers could understand so it didn't exactly go fast enough. I got bored reading it so I wouldn't recommend it to other programmers.

I feel the opposite. I read it right after taking a computer organization class in college. Both Code and the course covered very similar topics. I really enjoyed and appreciated how clear and concise and friendly of a read it was even more after taking the course.

Fair enough!