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forkrulassail··on A game to learn a new language
A specific problem I have with this very fun (I must say) site is that gender isn't shown with nouns.
forkrulassail··on A game to learn a new language
I fully agree with you, but Anki (with pronunciation) got me 12k German words in 12 months with 40 minutes daily where Goethe couldn't give me a functional understanding of German whilst travelling. Grammar and the functional language comes ter with constant translation or immersion with sites and experiences like the excellent DuoLingo.
forkrulassail··on Ask HN: Open source focused crawler?
Have you tried BeautifulSoup?
forkrulassail··on Ask HN: Any thoughts on this?
Looks similar to Lumosity.com

Read the science on this, it's not yet fully conclusive about what benefits come from these types of training.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-04/do-brain-games...

forkrulassail··on Norway says Bitcoins aren't real money
Norway should read more Robert Anton Wilson, I'd recommend starting with 'Reality is what you can get away with'
forkrulassail··on Open Source Personal Finance Manager
Same here, reminded me of this parody: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
forkrulassail··on Open Source Personal Finance Manager
That title is such a lie.
forkrulassail··on Ask HN: does your job put meaning in your life?
I've been a programmer since a very young age, having both parents as teachers I never saw it as noble or a job with any ROI. Spending my first year, after 3 years of industry, I realized it's more rewarding than anything I've done before (it's been 12 years now). Everything related to development can still be done, interaction with industry and I also get to see, 2, 3, 5 years down the line how successful companies spawn from inspired students.

Besides teaching I could also recommend contributing back to open source projects and just getting active in your community.

forkrulassail··on Internet horror stories: How ISPs screwed over users
I've been kicked from 7 South African ISPs as a top 2% or 'abuse' user, after paying for uncapped access. Things seriously need to change this side.
forkrulassail··on Youtube: real name now the only option
It seems the way to fix comments is to alienate more than half of your userbase. Vimeo here we come.
forkrulassail··on A newcomer's (angry) guide to data types in R
You had me at 'shockingly dreadful'. I spent the last three months in this environment and can finally say that for the next part of my exercise, I will surely switch to Python's Panda.
forkrulassail··on Ask HN: Escaping the nightmare of server administration?
You could learn puppet or something similar for configuration management on multiple nodes.
forkrulassail··on Tesla lost $38M in third quarter, stock tumbles over 12 percent
Even Musk said he reckons the price is overvalued about a month back.
forkrulassail··on What's your best weapon in the war against procrastination?
Beeminder.com
forkrulassail··on Linux kernel swear counts
I love how penguin is halfway between bastard and crap, I'll update my swear word dictionary.
forkrulassail··on Need Feedback on Game Concept
Sounds similar but on a lower level (in life) to a game I played in primary school called Jones in the Fast lane. Much fun, maybe you can grab it somewhere for round logic.
forkrulassail··on How to avoid the Emacs Pinky problem
Thanks for the tips. I know the german/english (uk) layouts, but want to really give Dvorak a go.

I'll give the gtypist a go. If it's something I can consistently work at I'm pretty happy with doing and committing to this daily. Spent last two weeks learning to use emacs and emacs lisp.

forkrulassail··on How to avoid the Emacs Pinky problem
Do you have tips for learning Dvorak?
forkrulassail··on Ultimate recruitment perk: Life extension
From the recentTranshumanist Reader: "The most frightening apartheid one could imagine is a future world in which extended life is allowed only to a few – the very wealthy, the political elite and their chosen followers, Mafia, military, scientists, sports heroes, movie stars. This is not the transhumanist objective – far from it. It is up to all of us to ensure that this segmented future never happens. We will not best prevent it by denouncing technical advances and trying to blockade them, but in thinking hard, feeling deeply and wisely, debating the issues together, and acting as free men and women".
forkrulassail··on SkyDrive in Windows 8.1: Cloud storage the way it’s meant to be
Yes, go ahead, trust Microsoft again.
forkrulassail··on The French Parliament votes a legislation that gives priority to Free Software
Some other countries have also looked at this.

http://www.sita.co.za/FOSS/FOSS1.html

A policy alone doesn't seem to help, as can be seen here: http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...

Legislation might be a better approach. I couldn't find the exact numbers now, but a country like RSA sends around 1 billion US out of the country for software licenses yearly.

forkrulassail··on What are the flaws of bitcoin?
You mean besides the fact that I bulk sold off on the previous $32 peak? :(
forkrulassail··on Ask HN: What phone do you use?
HTC Amaze 4G
forkrulassail··on Google Flights
Yeah, not international yet.
forkrulassail··on Prof. calls out student for cheating via Math StackExchange
I'm sure honour codes don't distinguish.
forkrulassail··on Ravi Shankar dies at 92
He lived a full and beautiful life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOi45THGJdQ

forkrulassail··on Can websites personally identify visitors?
TOR

https://www.torproject.org/index.html.en

forkrulassail··on Ask HN: Is there an open source variant of CodeSchool/Udacity type systems?
That's what I expected. Mind if we start a discussion via email?
forkrulassail··on Ask HN: Is there an open source variant of CodeSchool/Udacity type systems?
Thanks I'll have a look.
forkrulassail··on Ask HN: Is there an open source variant of CodeSchool/Udacity type systems?
Also, what do you think is better, running server side code tests or just client side regex validations?
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