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Herding the world’s languages – Minh’s Notes

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Herding the world’s languages. Wikipedia’s front door has changed little in nearly a decade. The wall of languages at www.wikipedia.org. Happens to be one of the most frequently accessed series of bits on the Internet. It’s also a monument to multilingualism: a degree in modern languages may help you decipher a tenth of the page, but only after installing an assortment of obscure fonts you’ll never need for any other purpose. Anyone can edit the portal’s temporary staging area. The Wikimedia Foundation l...

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Lowercase history – Minh’s Notes

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Among my many roles in the Wikipedia project, I play the part of historian. Not the kind who obsesses over Civil War battles and World War I artillery, building up infoboxes the size of the. That’s History, uppercase. No, I add historical content to non-history articles. Most articles need lowercase history to provide essential context and flavor. It’s not enough to know how things are; we need to know how things got that way and how we found out about it. Over the past three months, I more than doubled.

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Old Stuff – Minh’s Notes

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A nation of handouts. Herding the world’s languages. It fell in the woods. Silicon Valley for Midwesterners 1.0. AVIM doesn’t fool around. A triumphant return to spam. What we watched before YouTube. AVIM extension is now AVIM change-around. Almost a snow day. AIM OpenID Login in Motion. AVIM not just for Firefox. Mười lũy thừa một trăm. Vietnamese Dictionary 1.0 for Firefox. A smile and nod. Pills with bank accounts. Yesterday’s Web: Netscape and friends. State of the art. I’ll find something to put here.

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Driving through cornfields – Minh’s Notes

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Southwest Ohio is full of creepy stories about ghosts and other strange encounters along the roadside. There’s a whole series of books on them. But if the subjects of these tales call any area road home, the one that begins in Historic Downtown Loveland. Is probably that road. And take a left onto Second. 48) After a couple blocks, turn right onto an unnamed road. Now this road is interesting: it’s clearly drawn as a trunk road on Google Maps, but it has no label. If you try hard enough. Anyhow, if you h...

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A nation of handouts – Minh’s Notes

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A nation of handouts. Years ago, I started to collect government-issued road maps and atlases, procuring them for free mostly by stopping by roadside welcome centers. And signing their guestbooks. Requires a bit of tact: you don’t just waltz in and demand a government handout; you have to fein. Interest in the captivating state you’ve just entered. (Under the Purpose of Visit column: Just passing through. ). But evidently I’m not alone. For me, the maps proved useful during road trips, even after a.

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About – Minh’s Notes

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I’m Minh Nguyễn. Of San José, California, United States, Earth, Solar System, Local Fluff, Local Bubble, Gould Belt, Orion–Cygnus Arm, Milky Way, Milky Way Subgroup, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Pisces–Cetus Supercluster Complex, Universe. You get the idea. I was born a couple decades ago to Vietnamese immigrants in New Orleans. While growing up in Loveland, Ohio, I attended. Then headed out west to study Computer Science at the Leland Stanford. I spent a couple years writing Mac applications. Those ...

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Hardly knew ye – Minh’s Notes

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Since my earliest days in high school, I have kept. Readers apprised of many things, teaching you how to manually create a snow day. Dupe me and sound important in the process. And triple your learning rate. Reader, you are worth every minute I spend writing to you (or using writer’s block as an excuse for not writing to you). But if you only know me from this blog, I have been pretty mum about that nine-to-five part of me. Today is my last day at Apple. (It’s a fruit company heard of it? Press “Su...

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Mapbox – Minh’s Notes

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Last month, I left a job tending orchards. In the idyllic foothills of Cupertino, eager to finally paint. A startup focused on advancing open data and. Technology. Everyone thinks they know maps: either an unwieldy relic of another era. Or (heh) a solved problem. But geospatial data is essential to a variety of industries, and smart tools to present and analyze it are going to be a big deal. Mapbox is leading the way, and we’re doing it the right way. Http:/ panel.1ec5.org/mt/mt-ping.fcgi/1697.