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Unfortunately, I haven't come across much. However, a good option, which is similar in principle, is Lingq ( https://www.lingq.com/en/ ). The designer of it has recently become int…

The approach that has seemed most effective for me (for Dutch and Spanish), and I can also rationalize it from my logical side, is "comprehensible input" method. The idea is that y…

Pattern 12 was something I learned early (fortunately) in my software development journey. I think the article I was reading was something to do with how to properly partition your…

I always liked the concept behind BitShares, but I never hear much about it. Conceptually, it seems like it targets the third-party concern. Anyway, the idea of BitShares is (was?)…

Did anyone else notice the recent Evernote update in Mac's App Store have a lot of suspicious positive reviews? Most of them were by accounts that had only submitted that one revie…

I completely agree on the technical observation. My trade is definitely computer science first, but every once in a while, I get in an artsy mood: https://picasaweb.google.com/samu…

I think Brian dated my sister back at Rice.. haha. So strange to stumble upon him here. Anyway, impressive startup resume. I'm familiar with a lot of his projects, but never connec…

I'm software developer working as a tech consultant at Accenture. But I'm also an artist: http://picasaweb.google.com/samuel.jennings/Art . I think art and math are entirely connec…

If you always repeat the same steps, why can't you abstract them into a single method that takes name and text as arguments. You shouldn't ever have to repeat the same set of steps…

He uses emacs because he likes the benefit of slime when he's programming with Clojure. But he's not opposed to using vim once a vim Clojure environment becomes more mature.

This is financial, but good move on my part. I invested in Apple the day before the release of the first iPhone ($120 a share). I then recently used some of it to buy a car way out…

A few years ago, I signed a contract with an awful web startup. At the time, I was laughing on the inside because I thought it was funny how much they (two brothers) wanted to pret…

That is not always the case. When I have to present programming technical designs to a room of clients and upper management, I know that it matters. I completely know that it matte…

More confidence? I guess it not so simple since you're interpreting it in a different way than I am.

If you're overly confident, assume you're just average. If you lack confidence, assume you're better than everyone else. I think it's a matter of knowing where you stand in the ran…

Ask HN: I'm going on my first date with a real girl. But my only formal attire is a Red Voyager Star Trek uniform. Should I spend money on formal clothing, or will my Star Trek uni…

Dear Apple, Congratulations on doing well over the past few years while still maintaining an air of marketing discipline. You could make more money by taking the high volume, low q…

By trying to incorporate programming into trading. If you get an account with a company like Interactive Brokers, they offer an API. They also only charge $0.005 per share. You can…

Sigh..

Really, why was I down voted? I'm not sure what was wrong with the comment. I think anyone would agree with the idea of tort reform, just like anyone would agree with the idea of h…

I think we should show a chart of each country's health care costs relative to how much their lawyers make on health care related malpractice cases. Because in America, it's out of…

I live on Earth. Also, North Korea uses the Korea Exchange: http://www.mapsofworld.com/north-korea/economy/stock-exchang... My point is that North Koreans, like anyone else in the …

This only affects paper cash though, right? So assuming they have most of their value in a bank, savings, stock, physical assets, or whatever it is they do in "DPRK," then they sho…

I guess, if you want to only know basic stuff. But engineers, programmers, physicists (etc..) can benefit from maintaining a large knowledge base of stuff that they wouldn't find i…