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Re:Young Chinese are sick of working long hours on Thursday May 10, 2018 @01:16PM (#17040865)
The word "millenials" as a classification is not used in China. Everyone gets classified instead as 80后,90后,00后, etc. (meaning born after 1980, born after 1990, born after 2000, etc.). Because of China's rapid economic growth, the difference in attitudes for someone born in the 80s versus someone born in the 90s is actually very pronounced.
Re:A Magician of Chinese Poetry on Saturday December 10, 2016 @04:23PM (#13147992)
I was named after this guy.
Don't forget the overthrow of the Qing dynasty by the British in the 1800s.
Re:Introducing d3-scale on Monday December 28, 2015 @08:50PM (#10804682)
Hey Mike, would I be able to break it down even further and get JUST the d3 linear scale?

Also, I've noticed that d3-axis as a separate module isn't ready yet. D3 scale and axis I have found to be superb when crafting graphs with Angular - is the d3-axis module a low or high priority for you?

I've read enough articles over the years that this move on China's part is not surprising to me at all. I think the average person in China is quite fed up with the lack of morality and social compassion in the general public - due to news articles like the ones I am about to link you.

Extreme lack of good samaritan behavior: http://www.chinasmack.com/2015/stories/old-chinese-woman-aba... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wang_Yue http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/videos/shanghai-pudong-airpor...

Chinese tourist behavior: http://www.chinasmack.com/2015/videos/thai-model-rants-about... http://www.chinasmack.com/2014/videos/thai-flight-turned-bac... http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/stories/mainland-chinese-tour...

I think the majority of the West believes that the government is behind everything. But the truth is that most of these kinds of changes in China are actually reflected in the people's opinion. In this case, the PEOPLE in China are really sick and tired of seeing news articles like few I have linked. The government has just decided that this seems like the best method to achieve what the people want.

I know it sounds kind of crazy, but you have to remember that almost nobody in China has ever read 1984. They don't share your values.

Re:Yahoo stopping all new development of YUI on Saturday August 30, 2014 @10:50AM (#8246571)
There are some core YUI methods that I think were really good. The one that comes to mind the most is Y.extend(), which is different from _.extend() in that it actually subclasses a class for you, and not just "mixes" two objects.

I know some people have some kind of hate or disgust for JavaScript's emulation of classical inheritance in this manner, but I liked it a lot!

Re:Visualizing Git Concepts with D3.js on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @01:22PM (#7467242)
Thanks, I'm glad you like it.

You do not have to click the 'git rebase' option before typing it out, actually. All of the (supported) commands can actually be used anywhere.