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I've found the most success with Memrise: https://www.memrise.com

Highly recommend Memrise https://www.memrise.com/

There was an HN poster a few months ago who claimed that memorizing the Python standard library made him much more productive.

text_exchon Show HN: The Sample – newsletters curated for you with machine learning

For all the uninitiated, Jacob also runs Findka Essays [0] which is fantastic. My daily reading is Findka Essays and Thinking About Things [1], which is more than enough interesting reading material that I can get through.

[0] https://essays.findka.com/

[1] https://www.thinking-about-things.com/

text_exchon Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work

There is a certain subset of programmers who get away with this at work. But if you're posting this, it sounds like you're torn between the comfortable quality of life you're living now, and the boredom and knowing you could be doing more.

Some ideas:

* Can you do a rotation on a different team? (For example, if you're devops, you might learn a lot on SRE/ops.)

* Can you start side projects at work, for work?

text_exchon Ask HN: Where do you find thought-provoking articles on the internet?

I run an email newsletter[1] that aims to highlight the interesting content found on personal blogs. It's a single link every other day to something interesting, the kind of blog posts that you come across every once in a while that really make you think. The overwhelming feedback is that being able to read the kind of non-viscerally-targeted news and analyses that aren't easily found online is incredibly valuable.

I've been asked multiple times about starting a community with discussion, but don't currently have the bandwidth. If someone else would like to create one I will happily support it.

[1] www.thinking-about-things.com

Some example articles are at www.twitter.com/thinkingaboutt6.

text_exchon Ask HN: Where do you go to read interesting articles, besides HN?

I run an email newsletter[1] that aims to highlight the interesting content found on personal blogs. It's a single link every other day to something interesting, the kind of blog posts that you come across every once in a while that really make you think. The overwhelming feedback is that being able to read the kind of non-viscerally-targeted news and analyses that aren't easily found online is incredibly valuable.

[1] www.thinking-about-things.com, www.twitter.com/thinkingaboutt6

text_exchon Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

Each email contains the article's title, the genre, and an extended excerpt.

I'm not sure how to link to previous emails, but here is a sample of previous links: https://mix.com/thinkingaboutthings.

It started out as an every day email, but readers told me that every other day would give them time to read the articles.

text_exchon Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

Thank you for letting me know. Fixed.

text_exchon Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

I run an email newsletter[1] that aims to highlight the interesting content found on personal blogs. It's a single link every other day to something interesting, the kind of blog posts that you come across every once in a while that really make you think. The overwhelming feedback is that being able to read the kind of non-viscerally-targeted news and analyses that aren't easily found online is incredibly valuable.

[1] https://www.thinking-about-things.com

text_exchon A newsletter about mental models and rational thinking

This looks intriguing. Welcome to the newsletter space! I run Thinking About Things [0], a newsletter with a similar premise - that of critical thinking and seeing things in a new light.

The demand for content about critical thinking is rising exponentially. I'm happy to collaborate and show you the ropes - you can find our contact info on the site.

[0] thinking-about-things.com

text_exchon Show HN: Want to share my newsletter with HN readers

It's impossible to underestimate the degree to which curation is becoming the differentiator in the digital economy. Those who can be trusted to provide valuable content from the fire hose of all that's available on the internet will become the new information brokers.

text_exchon Limitations and pitfalls of the job interview

This message is expressed very well here [1]. Tl;dr internships are helpful to students for a variety of reasons, like making applicants more valuable to employers, making programming less of an abstract concept, and exposing them to interesting subfields of computer science.

[1] https://getatechinternship.com/2020/04/27/why-do-i-need-an-i...

text_exchon Ask HN: Tips for students before starting their first job

https://getatechinternship.com/2020/04/27/how-to-succeed-at-...

Tl;dr -

1. Don’t go straight to Stack Overflow

2. Learn the standard libraries

3. Put away your phone

4. Figure out how to unblock yourself

5. Figure out when to ask for help

6. Keep track of what’s going on in the industry

7. Stop being insecure

text_exchon Ask HN: Where do HN readers spend their online downtime?

I get an interesting article emailed to me every day from Thinking About Things [0], so I use that to go down some rabbit hole.

[0] www.thinking-about-things.com

text_exchon If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

I've long wanted to build a search engine of only personal blogs. I am less familiar with the field of information retrieval so I haven't gotten started yet, but it's always been a dream of mine and if anyone is interested please contact me at [redacted] [at] the world's largest email provider.

Discovering unknown parts and blogs on the internet is one of the enduring goals of a newsletter that I run [1], which provides a single link to an interesting article every day, usually by lesser-known authors and blogs across the internet.

[1] www.thinking-about-things.com

text_exchon Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?

I've long wanted to build a search engine of only personal blogs. I am less familiar with the field of information retrieval so I haven't gotten started yet, but it's always been a dream of mine and if anyone is interested please contact me at threemillionthflower [at] the world's largest email provider.

Discovering unknown parts and blogs on the internet is one of the enduring goals of a newsletter that I run [1], which provides a single link to an interesting article every day, usually by lesser-known authors and blogs across the internet.

[1] www.thinking-about-things.com

text_exchon Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

For those who prefer text-based entertainment, I run an email newsletter called Thinking About Things [1], which sends out a link to an interesting article every day. It's aimed at curious people who don't have a lot of time to read - each email has an extended quote from the article so that you can see if it interests you. It's gotten very good reviews from readers.

[1] https://www.thinking-about-things.com/

text_exchon Ask HN: What are the underrated newsletters you like reading?

I enjoy Thinking About Things - they send a single link on arbitrary topics every day. It definitely lives up to its name.

https://www.thinking-about-things.com/

text_exchon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

Thank you for the feedback - I'll add that.

text_exchon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

Anyone who enjoys this might enjoy an email newsletter I run, Thinking About Things [1], which sends readers a single interesting and thought-provoking link every morning. It's a similar idea - small, manageable parts of ideas for people who are too busy to pursue idea discovery full-time.

[1] thinking-about-things.com

text_exchon Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook

I run an email newsletter[1] that aims to combat exactly this issue. It's a single link every day to something interesting, the kind of blog posts that you come across every once in a while that really make you think. The overwhelming feedback is that being able to read the kind of non-viscerally-targeted news and analyses that aren't easily found online is incredibly valuable.

[1] https://thinking-about-things.com

text_exchon Nine-year-old child to graduate university

Sounds like he got a scholarship.

text_exchon Developers mentoring other developers: practices I've seen work well

Teaching developers how to find the answers to their problems is a crucial skill, and one that's often approached the wrong way - either new developers get all the answers easily and don't learn, or they spend days trying to unblock themselves. I recently wrote about that challenge in an article for junior developers. [1]

[1] http://www.pearlleff.com/seven-tips-for-a-junior-developer

text_exchon What a tweet tells us about spy satellites [video]

https://xkcd.com/1910/

text_exchon Ask HN: What business would you start in 2018?

What's wrong with the USGS or Landsat data portals?

text_exchon MIT IQ: The MIT Intelligence Quest

It is referencing the following xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1831/