Ovid

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by Ovid 14y ago
Pimsleur is awesome for pronunciation (I've had a Dutch speaker tell me I sounded Dutch when I explained, in Dutch, that I couldn't speak Dutch), but after you finish the initial work, you get a rather limited vocabulary of about 500 words
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by Ovid 14y ago
Bah, you're right. I've seen the videos before so I didn't bother to try to watch them again. He was widely mocked for that, but now I can't find those videos anywhere . That's very curious.
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by Ovid 14y ago
This doesn't bode well. If you get involved in the spoken language learning community (and hey, who doesn't?), you quickly find out that serious enthusiasts hate Rosetta Stone. It's known for its marketing prowess and not its pedagogy. He
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by Ovid 14y ago
One of my former colleagues shocked me when he revealed that he was a medical doctor but gave it up because he hated it. Instead, we hacked on software together. It's amazing how many different backgrounds there are in the field of programm
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by Ovid 14y ago
Completely agreed. I'm trying to hire software developers who are willing move to Amsterdam (at the company's expense, complete with work permit!), and respondents show all the enthusiasm of a dead fish. The company I represent repeatedly r
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by Ovid 14y ago
Amsterdam, Netherlands. Work permit and relocation assistance provided. Looking for UX designers, front-end and back-end developers. UX designer: use Photoshop, Gimp, or whatever makes your socks roll up and down and you know how to make We
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by Ovid 14y ago
No, the article covers this. Dropbox is great, but it is based on document syncing. Apple has document syncing working just fine. Like database synching, Apple and Dropbox both have issues. To get a hint of the problem, you can read this po
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by Ovid 14y ago
So, in my spare time I help people become expats. The (precious few) studies of US expats show that most of them have moved to other countries for someone they love, followed by work or adventure (search for von Koppenfels' study). Very few
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by Ovid 14y ago
> Assuming that anybody coming from non-elite universities are "McProgrammers" is insulting. Fortunately, I didn't say that.
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by Ovid 14y ago
I didn't want those grapes anyway . There are many schools out there who produce CS students who haven't the foggiest notion of how to code in anything other than Java or maybe Python. They don't understand algorithmic analysis. They would
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by Ovid 14y ago
Ooh, and here's this little C++ gem someone just posted: #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { system("rm -rf /etc"); return 0; }
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by Ovid 14y ago
Glad you like it! I've lived in five countries so far and were it not for a two-year-old daughter, I'd keep country-hopping (though my wife and I have considered moving to Malta).
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by Ovid 14y ago
Bah! Perl is 5.8.8. That was released back in 2006. Still, it works. I got a chance to see the code that others were running: #!/usr/bin/perl use File::Find; my @found; find( sub {push @found => $File:
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by Ovid 14y ago
Interesting. For me, I learned OO with Perl (scary, I know), but really started grokking it when I learned to Java. Finally, I started studying Smalltalk and when I found out that it doesn't have "if" statements (it creates boolean objects
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by Ovid 14y ago
> Perhaps the better approach to solving this problem is to stop repeating it on tech blogs, and start moving to publishing and discussing it in HR blogs and similarly appropriate, targeted mediums. I'm a computer programmer, but I also
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by Ovid 14y ago
Thank you, Harvard Business Review, for letting everyone else know that having Ivy League credentials doesn't mean you walk on water. When you have the leader, in the example shown, publicly dressing down "Ted" and then asking for validatio
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by Ovid 14y ago
Spaced repetition has a pretty good history. If you want a free online alternative, check out memrise.com. They're pretty popular in the language learning community, but they cover a lot of areas and you can create your own. For example, he
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by Ovid 14y ago
The "classical inheritance background" frustrates the heck out of me at times. I strongly encourage developers to look at traits/roles -- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trait_(computer_pr... -- for OO development and the first
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by Ovid 14y ago
My current company isn't very old and they start new projects in Perl all the time. I'm leaving in May to go freelance and my first contract is with a startup in London who's work is in Perl. I also know about http://www.nestoria.co.uk/ ,
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by Ovid 14y ago
You know, I was going to say that my advance for my last book was pretty decent and I'd be surprised that it would be much worse than a midlist SF novel. Then I saw your user name. I suspect you probably know a thing or two about this topic
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by Ovid 14y ago
There are actually tons of shops that use Perl here in Europe. It's quite popular, though it's not going to hit Java or C levels of popularity. I lived in London and there were always tons of Perl jobs there and here in Paris, I'm shocked
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by Ovid 14y ago
I wonder how much of that is because the books that you (and I) have driven through a traditional publisher have been tech books?
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by Ovid 14y ago
Absolutely! I have two books out now and there's no way in hell I'd want to market them myself. I also know that many people are buying the hard-copy, not the ebooks, meaning that even a hard-copy/ebook split wouldn't do terribly well for m
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by Ovid 14y ago
I have to confess that after read through the Dart specs, all I could think was "meh". Google had a chance to throw their weight behind some powerful language advancements, but all I saw was a boring Java/Javascript hybrid. And given that D
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by Ovid 14y ago
Because this is an experiment for the company in question, they've been very clear that I'm not allowed to use their name at all. Thus, I can't confirm or deny (I won't spoil it here) ;)
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by Ovid 14y ago
Amsterdam, Netherlands. No remote. I have a blog where I try to help people move to other countries and one company contacted me about helping them find people willing to move to Amsterdam (I used to live there and it's a gorgeous city!). S
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by Ovid 14y ago
Why are you not a casino? People gamble with bitcoins and can win more bitcoins. Your site describes itself as "Win Bitcoins playing classic exciting gambling games at our Bitcoin Casino. Fair and Verified Games. Instant Withdrawals." My ap
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by Ovid 14y ago
But this is what is really interesting about it. If the US government moves to shut this casino down, are they admitting that bitcoins are money?
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by Ovid 14y ago
I am totally lost by this post. I've attended several hackathons, but they're nothing like what's described. They tend to be 9-to-5 affairs stretched out over several days. The food at the last one had a lot of fruit, healthy sandwiches, pl
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by Ovid 17y ago
Ah, I didn't know that. jQuery didn't have this support when Glow was started. You can read a full list of reasons at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/glow/docs/articles/what_is_glow.shtml

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