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Of my closest friends when I was in high school, the one with the best social skills had been home schooling since I met him when he was 10. However, he did participate in extracur…

Charging devs a percentage App Store sales is very different from shoplifting and equating the two is extremely misleading. Devs voluntarily choose to publish apps on the App Store…

Firefox has been my main browser for almost 10 years and I haven't encountered any challenges other than availability of plugins, but even that has been a very rare issue.

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Fullstack Engineer / Fractional CTO Location: Taipei, Taiwan (US citizen, open work permission) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but I can shift my work…

Yes. In America, there are over 60 million fluent Spanish speakers, which is more than the entire population of Spain. In many southern and southwestern parts of the country you ca…

That must be nice. They’re probably blocking based on geolocation or something similar. I’m on an iPhone, using Safari and no VPN.

Sounds like Craig’s list.

I flagged this because upon following the link, all I get is: Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource.

Probably the highest profile and most consistent example would be Stripe. The most popular Stripe wrapper for Elixir’s docs point to a 2019 Stripe API version: https://github.com/b…

I don't know what that person meant but, like many in the region, Koreans have family registries (戶籍) that record their family lineage. At least among people I've known who have sp…

Yes. This is a big part of what initially drew me to Elixir. It's more than feasible to run a server on a cheap VPS, get great, though not quite Golang or low-level language perfor…

Not knowing what language she’s learning, it’s a bit tough to say. Many have an app with lots of reading material with audio and assistance tracking learned words, tap to dictionar…

So trading daily time and effort for six years for an option on learning a language in the future?

Almost anybody serious about learning Chinese is going to want to read some things written before the 1960s and for those things, people are reading the exact same books, essays, p…

If you're speaking in the context of language learning, there definitely are some great tools for "mining" audio cards from YT/Netflix and also for getting text from the subtitle t…

That's a great idea. I was an early Anki contributor and ended up wasting a lot of time with SRS. Basically every language blogger I knew in 2008 was obsessed with it. If I were to…

Very well, but it's very slow compared to what you can do if you mix it up with some higher effort activities.

Sure. This kind of project seems to be pretty common. I'd strongly suggest using traditional characters as a base because it's very easy to map multiple characters into simplified …

> ”I realized I was hitting an issue where I theoretically "knew" a word (would get it always correct on the card), but wouldn't always recognize it in a novel context.” Some of th…

I grew up in America and didn't find it incendiary at all. The extreme reaction was surprising to me, as well. The word was very common in 80s and 90s songs with no illicit or ince…

Partner doesn't mean that at all. Warren Buffet and Charley Munger were partners. So were Jobs and Woz. Or Buffet and Gates while playing Bridge many times. There's absolutely noth…

Strange. I don't think "lover" sounds illicit in any way, though maybe it suggests youth and romanticism.

Most times I've read "partner" the meaning has been "business partner", e.g. a cofounder or a partner in a law firm or agency, etc. I've noticed a trend, especially in Commonwealth…

They felt fake 10 years ago. Some good still came from them but except the one I did at Facebook, they all felt dominated by BS. FB at least had a separate room for people actually…

It reminds me of an older dev I met when I was just beginning who had worked even more years and said Fortran 95 was "fine". And he could use it to build pretty much anything. That…