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> These Western men do not really have to learn the language or try to fit in. Their Japanese girlfriends or wives will take care of the majority of things for them. This part is g…

If you're familiar with online courses, then you probably know Coursera, but there are two decent algorithm courses that cover a lot of good stuff about data structures and algorit…

I started learning React recently. I really like the way the code is laid out and I enjoy writing it so far, but trying to use jQuery animations with React seems to pretty much rui…

I hope developers make good use of the changes to the title bar. It completely breaks the flow of the design of a lot of apps, and kills precious vertical space on my 13-inch MBP. …

Udacity has a good video course taught by the Android team at Google. Ignore the stuff about $200/month tutor support. All the materials are free. Edit: here's a link https://www.u…

Thanks for the link. Looks like you've put together some useful stuff.

It's borderline if you live by yourself in the city, especially if they don't cover travel expenses. There's a chance your health insurance and pension will be deducted from that t…

I think this book is a little too basic for anyone who's already studied any OOP. I'm no expert, but what I learnt from this could've been condensed into a blog post. I think it'd …

Do you know of any resources or examples that demonstrate basic animation techniques like this? The canvas examples I've found so far seem to be for fluid animations or games, rath…

I've used Anki for years to learn Japanese. It made learning to read relatively painless. You do need discipline to get far with it though. I managed to get my vocab deck up over 1…

There was a little study about this last year I believe [1]. Most of what comes out of your A is happy living at 37°C, so I'm sure it doesn't mind an extra 3°C or so. [1] http://ww…

I've found this to be a bit of a nightmare with Japanese and English. Japanese DVD and CD titles often have a mix of both languages, so length becomes next to meaningless when comp…

I'm already signed up to this. I'm hoping it'll go beyond what I picked up messing around with Capistrano and AWS. I've enjoyed other courses on the edX platform. My problem is tha…

I'm not a big fan of infinite scrolling, and when it breaks standard desktop functionality like CMD + Up Arrow, as in the case of Google image search, I could really do without it.…

Fair point. Replace lettuce with nuts, sweet potatoes, milk, lentils etc. None of them in any quantity are a logical extension of refined sugar.

All this is fun for experimenting, but none of it proves that we need to remove sugar from our diets. Food is complex and shouldn't be reduced to macronutrients. Maybe the protein …

I have no reason to defend Kern or his views on being healthy. The point in question here is Lustig's physiology credentials. Kern isn't the first to bring them into question, and …

The willing ignorance of East Asia is part of it, but it's more that a lot of the keto diets I've seen draw people in with tirades against refined sugar and starch, yet it ends up …

I don't think the idea that junk food is bad for you is surprising to anyone, even if Lustig paints it as a revelation. Have you tried 500 calories worth of apples? The closer peop…

Lustig could no doubt write some great posts here about growth hacking and selling your product, but if there's one thing he's proven about nutrition, it's that he's no one to be t…

I have no background in science, and was totally sucked in by one of Gary Taubes' books precisely because of that. A lot of these authors are incredibly biased and happy to filter …

People like Attia live in a parallel universe where there are healthy populations on Earth that eat no carbs and East Asia doesn't exist. My Japanese is good enough now to explain …

The Windows Japanese IME is awful. I never gave OS X's one a chance though, since I've used Google's ever since I found it.

I'd be interested to know what "less magical" things the author went on to pick up within less than a week to become more productive. CakePHP, Yii, Symfony 2? It seems a little bit…

I can read Japanese fluently, and Amazon.jp is no problem to navigate (it's a dream compared to Rakuten), but I still find many Japanese sites to be a cluttered mess. I've noticed …