It's unlikely, despite all the rhetoric: http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/seoulsvulnerability.html (while that article is 10 years old, all the same factors remain in play).
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Despite what you think you saw in that meeting, you really have no idea why they rejected you (see Rashomon[1]).
And while writing this kind of post can be cathartic, you're also leaving behind an artifact that will be there to remind you again in the future.
You're almost better off just writing a draft post to get it off your chest, then deleting a few days later.
The only saving grace was that Aioi was a Shinkansen stop, and I could make it out to Kobe and Osaka on the weekends.
But if you're exercising by yourself, it's easy to skip it, especially if you're already feeling down.
It's better to take part in some kind of team or class activity where there's a little bit of social pressure to show up.
There will be mornings when you think, "I don't want to go, but I don't want to let those guys down," and so you wind up doing it.
I just found it better to try to read the reports and memos being passed around at the office, and once I looked up kanji I didn't know, I would tend to remember them, since I'd read them in the context of a sentence.
As for learning kanji by writing by hand, that's actually my own m.o. when dealing with an assignment (i.e., I write all the words out longhand before looking up those I don't know).
But digital input methods have become so much of a crutch, that many native Japanese (especially the younger generations) cannot write by hand any more b/c they forget how.
It's called "character amnesia": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_amnesia
My method for learning kanji was to count the strokes (it's relatively simple to figure the stroke count for any character: http://infohost.nmt.edu/~armiller/japanese/strokeorder.htm) then use that number to look them up in a dictionary.
But everything I looked up was in the context of a sentence, while trying to read a report at work, e.g.
In my experience with Japanese, using flashcards for kanji doesn't really help with long-term memory acquisition.
I agree with your latter point about context; it's better to find an unknown word in a sentence and look up its meaning, then you tend to remember the word longer b/c you understand how it's used.
It's not for beginners, though, and there's no emphasis on pronunciation (yet).
I doubt any of the symbolism of your interpretation was intended.
If that is his understanding of Taleb's book, then he has misread it completely.
Taleb says the best approach is a dumbell strategy, combining conservative choices with convex options whose downside risk is fixed or finite but whose upside is unlimited.
If you don't have a brand or following, though, selling through marketplaces that are not tied to devices is a huge disadvantage.
The typical ipad/kindle/nook user does not go outside the store built-in to the device looking for content (the majority of them probably don't even know it's possible), except for a small, bleeding-edge minority.
For unknown authors, the sales picture is different.
I was at the first startup school (in Cambridge) and I remember thinking that about reddit whereas the one I thought most promising (click fraud detection) seems to have flopped.
Other than making a bet on the people, I wonder if YC also has no idea about which startups will succeed.
Also, the default MT was terrible, and in many cases, the sentences made no sense.
WRT German, I'd love to do it, it's just I don't know which articles from which sites I should pick to use.
Also, thanks for mentioning Yeeyan; I hadn't heard of it, and I'll check it out.
WRT multiple translations, the current plan is to show the 'best' single edit, rather than aggregating a series of prior edits (though anyone who wants to submit an alternative translation can just make minor edits of any of the prior ones, of course).
But to see if that or any of the other suggestions you've made would work, I need to get more contributors to the site.
You're right about the furigana; it would make more sense as a hover/click to the corresponding word.
As for adding Chinese, I would love to do it.
Whenever I add a language, I'd like to include an interesting source of articles which is not readily available in other languages (i.e., an intelligent or thought-provoking magazine which publishes only in Chinese).
If you have a list of sites which fit that criteria, let me know, and I can add them, as well as making Chinese an option in the translate to/from list.
It's still very much a work in progress, but I'd love to find out what people here think!
It started as a hobby, to automatically send myself short study emails once a day, but then I thought to open it up to anyone, as a crowd-sourced (i.e., human) translation project for learning foreign languages.
I'm starting with Facta in Japanese and the New Yorker's financial page in English, but I'll be adding more sources (and eventually other languages) in the future.
It was just what came to mind immediately when I started reading your post.
I actually started reading thinking that you were going to talk about Jim Camp's "Start with No" negotiation technique, but your point was entirely different.
Before resigning, spend a lot of time muttering things like "I could go there, but of course he'd get me 10 moves later", etc.
It will seem that you are a genius, able to look far ahead into the game, processing a multitude of scenarios.
Not only is he running a media company (which ostensibly should be in favor of SOPA), but also he's the same generation as the lawyers, lobbyists, and legislators supporting SOPA.
It's all digital, though, with no print-on-demand option.