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Thank you for sharing them :) I'm glad they have helped you and I'll keep them in mind. Specially, I feel that, some day, I'll remember the one about traveling alone and it will be helpful.

También me preguntaba esto cuando escribía mi mensaje previo, pero no lo mencioné porque el chino usa caracteres no latinos. En el caso de palabras claves en inglés, aunque no sepa pronunciarlas les puedo asignar un sonido en mi mente, lo que ayuda a memorizar; en el caso del chino, estaría en chino… :P

Hace rato estaba leyendo sobre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale y su traducción de la Biblia del latín al inglés. Supongo que en ese caso, fue más fácil (digo fácil, pero spoiler alert lo mataron) traducir la Biblia que hacer que toda la población inglesa aprendiera latín. Lo menciono porque pensé: «he aquí un caso en el que traducir fue la mejor opción». Y eso que ambos idiomas tienen el mismo alfabeto.

Supongo que sí puede ser una barrera, hasta cierto punto, que las palabras clave no estén en tu lengua natal, pero un mayor problema es que los recursos de aprendizaje suelen ser ininteligibles si no sabes —y a veces aun sabiendo— inglés.

That sounds good. :) Would you like to share some of the other things you've done to improve your life (if it's not too personal)?

Francamente, la principal barrera que he visto no es que los lenguajes de programación estén en inglés sino que la gran mayoría de artículos técnicos, libros, foros (HN), etc., lo están.

Para reducir esta barrera la mejor y más fácil solución es aprender inglés. En la programación normalmente hay que aprender muchos lenguajes, diría que aprender otro idioma (lenguaje natural) no es tan diferente y el haber tenido que hacerlo nos hace mejores programadores.

Por otro lado, no creo que esté mal aprender a programar usando lenguajes que luego no vayas a usar; así que si Latino sí facilita el aprendizaje para hispanohablantes, en comparación a otros lenguajes usados en la educación (Java, Python, JS), pero que están en inglés, diría que no es un mal proyecto.

Pero si por mí fuera, hubiera preferido aprender a programar, no con un lenguaje en español, sino con un Lisp (Scheme o Racket).

What is SJ?

Your comment brought the prologue of this novel https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/32411/bens-damn-adventure-... to my mind.

My favorite part as well :)

Not anymore ;) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?votes=136&list_id=1...

I had never heard of Heaven's Gate. I just read (mostly skimmed through) some of the things in that website. It was quite horrible and dripping with morbidity (is using morbidity this way a correct nominalization?).

Hey! I read some of your articles a couple of days ago :) I liked your blog.

Up until a few days ago I wasn't aware of the existence of https://www.popsci.com/tags/science-confirms-obvious/ and now I see it everywhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25989234 and an image in this article).

I liked the website. You seem to have quite a few cool products. :)

This is the first time I hear of this (https://xkcd.com/1053/).

I had always assumed they had the same etymology. It didn't help that in Spanish all of these words maintain the 'r' between the 'a' and 't': tártaro, ra, Tártaro, Tartaria.

Here there are 3 different etymologies: https://dle.rae.es/t%C3%A1rtaro and here there's another one: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauce_tartare

Although I don't know if the Wikipedia article should be trusted, since the English version one (Tartar sauce) states: "The word Tartar is a Turkic word that is the name of Tatar people."

I was wondering why none of the links were working. I was trying to read on the beginnings of Perl6 (now Raku) design (such as in https://www.perl.com/pub/2000/11/perl6rfc.html/) and also check some States of the Onion. At least everything is currently accessible either through the Wayback Machine or here: https://perldotcom.perl.org/

Is this the vault you are referring to: https://www.gdcvault.com/ ?

It might be helpful to consider the paradox of choice; although I'm not completely sure that it is correct or what its real implications are.

Also, this topic made me think a bit of this letter: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Let...

I liked this critique of the history in one of his books (Better angels …): https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2020/07/24/steven-pinkers-...

Here are other links that concern another one of his books (Enlightenment …): https://historyforatheists.com/2016/11/the-dark-ages-popery-... (I haven't read any of these reviews though).

Thank you. This was great.

"Future versions of Racket CS" appears twice on the graph. It still understandable though.

Interesting although a tad confusing image names (alt attribute). I saw them because I have uBlock Origin set to block media elements over 20 KB.

I sometimes use http://programmer-dvorak.appspot.com/ to practice. The ergonomics of accentuation is inconvenient, but this probably solves the problem: https://github.com/N0rthw1nd/Latin-Dvorak

He recently returned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25865062

8/10 I had the advantage of recognizing Sussman, Sammet and Guido. I don't think they look like killers. But I also didn't think that about Dorothea Puente and John Christie who I mistook for planguage designers :-)

Chesterton certainly played a role, but it was mostly the posts on Aron's blog themselves. The story is like this: I was born into a christian family, but like many young people, and helped by some written works, some healthy amount skepticism, other not-so-healthy things, and what I saw inside and outside my social circles, I came to doubt my previous beliefs.

Anyway, then I discovered Aron's blog, and it was like a new world open to me. Something that I've experienced very few times in my life; maybe when I found SICP/Lisp…

And it could even ve said that I discovered that blog thanks to SICP since it went something like this: OCW > SICP > Paul Graham > Hacker News > (eventually) The Blog. ^^

Scott does write from an atheist viewpoint, since he is atheist, but even though I am not, I still enjoy his writing very much, just as I've liked many of PG's essays or LessWrong articles. It is not necessary to hold the same beliefs to enjoy intellectual fellowship/communion as it is (usually) exemplified by Hacker News itself.

Also, if you want to, I can share with you some of my favorite articles there. I have a huge list though.

I can also recommend Camo; it has worked mostly all right.

I discovered SSC through this blog: http://www.wall.org/~aron/blog which I discovered thanks to this HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18176929 and I can heartily recommend it.

That comment, and more specifically, Aron's blog have made a huge impact in my life. I've spent hundreds of hours reading it and losing myself in intellectual rabbit holes, I've been introduced to many interesting topics, books and authors (such as Scott Alexander, G.K Chesterton and Gödel, Escher, Bach (which I have on my nightstand)), and I've come to truly believe in God.

The comments section is usually very interesting as well.

> However, none of the company’s employees are listed as based in Belize, and DDoS-Guard makes no mention of the Latin American region in its map of global operations.

This is the first time I have seen Belize referred to as a Latin American country; although I just checked its demographics and a little more than half of its population speaks Spanish.

Haha, I didn't imagine what the second envelope would contain, but I did imagine that it would end with a recursive situation.

Are you referring to this one: https://avalon.fun/ ?

Thank you very much; works great.