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by _feda_ 14y ago
Regarding all the comments here about dial-up and slow connections whether out of preference or necessity, I can't recommend enough having a slow connection and a data limit for helping you concentrate on the things that are most important
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by _feda_ 14y ago
I misread the title as empathy encourages analytical thought, which would make sense, because in order to empathize one has to have enough analytic ability to see how another person is thinking, if that makes sense.
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You may be more risk-adverse when using a foreign language(economist.com)
4 points by _feda_ 14y ago|2 comments
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by _feda_ 14y ago
It's regrettable you're not getting the feedback you should be getting, as this is something that will really help you stick to it. On the other hand, the very reason you aren't getting feedback is a good one: you're working on obscure arti
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by _feda_ 14y ago
The idea of 'hacking language learning' puts me in mind of Kato Lomb [1] a hungarian linguist who worked for the UN as one of the world's first simultaneous translators and knew around a dozen languages fluently. One of the most interesting
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by _feda_ 14y ago
I think the idea of the database that knows what words you know is kind of a fascinating idea in a way, in that it goes beyond personal information into personal knowledge, a digital reflection of your actual understanding which corrects it
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by _feda_ 14y ago
It's always seemed weird to me that wikipedia has a problem with scaring away potential editors. I for one love editing wikipedia and never found it in anyway intimidating when I started editing in my teens, although I'm probably part of a
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by _feda_ 14y ago
Ultimately it's not practical to use it, so even if it is easier to use after the great hump of the learning curve, it's still not good for real world applications, principally because of libraries, support and ubiquitousness . Certain lang
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by _feda_ 14y ago
Unix isn't the most used software, but it is probably the best. I think the makers of unix bring with them a strong sense of pedigree, but also something of a expectation that it shares unix design principles. Not sure if it does this or no
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by _feda_ 14y ago
If russians do indeed explicitly prefer social stability to free speech and media, then it must be an artifact of a troubled past and one where the divide between rich and poor has always been wider than europe and the americas. I think it'
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by _feda_ 14y ago
I don't think a typical sampling of the HN crowd would be familiar with the work of J.D Salinger outside of Catcher and the Rye, but as someone who's loved these stories intensely since my mid-teens, I can't recommend them enough. In fact t
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by _feda_ 14y ago
>you want stuff in the sidebar, never be too far away from header/footer, etc. I hate to be contrary, but no, I really don't want anything in the sidebar, at least when it comes to a piece of text that requires a certain amount of conce
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by _feda_ 14y ago
Just look at stack exchange. It's gamification is part of what makes it so rewarding to use.
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by _feda_ 14y ago
I think you're missing the point of the article at least a little here, although I agree with almost all of your points. Granted, hackers like any other group aren't all heroes or not heroes, and as you say the term is a loaded one already.
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Are hackers heroes?(nybooks.com)
22 points by _feda_ 14y ago|10 comments
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by _feda_ 14y ago
I've been taking cod liver oil, ginseng, and multivitamin (vitamin A through D, thiamin etc.) for the past month or so along with a pretty healthy and substantial vegetarian diet. I couldn't say if it's benefited me or not because the effec
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by _feda_ 14y ago
I love the use of the .st for sites like linkli.st that end with list. And of course for the smalltalk community.
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by _feda_ 14y ago
Is it possible to identify certain add-ons in firefox even if they aren't in the user agent string, or is that the only information you get from the client? Would be cool if it could tell that I use pentadactyl, stylish, ad-block plus etc.
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by _feda_ 14y ago
I was watching the film "things to do when you're dead in denver" the other night and right at the end, the main character, Jimmy "the saint" Tosnia says to write down the ten most important things to you. I thought that was a pretty good l
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by _feda_ 14y ago
I guess what I love so much about HN is the generally high amount of content that is relevant to me, which seems to be hard to find elsewhere on the vast expanses of the internet. I can read articles from HN all night, but it doesn't feel l
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by _feda_ 14y ago
and what were your impressions?
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by _feda_ 14y ago
"If I want to show someone content on my tablet wouldn't we just sit next to each other and look at the tablet?" To me this seems like one of those features that you wouldn't want until it becomes available, almost like Bill Gates saying ho
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by _feda_ 14y ago
Is there an easy way to get the editor to evaluate a different language? It's just I don't really use lisp but would like to try it out properly. I've tried poking about int he ./light script but don't see anything. Fantastic software by th
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by _feda_ 14y ago
They are beautiful too, in the classical sense, and beauty in the classical, natural sense is the most well-established and accessible kind in art.
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by _feda_ 14y ago
"Except Rothko was a lousy artist before he hit on the black on black rectangle thing. A study of his development as an artist shows somebody who is almost talent free." I accept that you think he was almost talentless, but he wasn't. I thi
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by _feda_ 14y ago
Stellar post. You're not completely correct when you say realism has been done. First of realism is alive and well today, but it's presence is diminished for good reason, most notably the camera. Nothing has changed the face of art quite li
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by _feda_ 14y ago
As a european I find it funny that you associate touring europe with exercising your left brain. I don't mean that maliciously I just find it funny.
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by _feda_ 14y ago
"Seriously though, how do you usefully and efficiently keep in touch with more than 1 person via telephone? I can't even imagine it working." In response to that I'd say think about what social life was like before the very recent invention
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by _feda_ 14y ago
"They are all available on the torrents. For free. Go out and steal them now if you want. Call it ‘copying’ and argue the semantics if you like. Just don't expect me to be your friend anymore or, eventually, to write another goddamned book.
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by _feda_ 14y ago
The author is a little contradictory in that he seems to simultaneously hold up drm as an author's last stand against piracy aswell as freedom denying. But I think the contradiction is just his own conflictedness about drm. He has to make a

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