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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
I wonder if his browsing habits have changed since 2007: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134979
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
Contrary to what the article tries to evoke, the Fukushima meltdowns were a huge catastrophe that severely impacted a whole region. Ask the people who live(d) there if they think the impact of this thing was overstated in the media - they'
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
I agree; it reminded me of this, in a bad way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
It's unlikely, despite all the rhetoric: http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/seoulsvulnerability.html (while that article is 10 years old, all the same factors remain in play).
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
This really needs to be the top comment. Despite what you think you saw in that meeting, you really have no idea why they rejected you (see Rashomon[1]). And while writing this kind of post can be cathartic, you're also leaving behind an
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
Nice, I should update my old blog post about this: http://denis.papathanasiou.org/2010/08/24/spam-apalooza-a-su...
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by dpapathanasiou 14y ago
I can relate: I lived in Aioi, Hyogo-ken while working at Riken's Spring-8 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPring-8 ). The only saving grace was that Aioi was a Shinkansen stop, and I could make it out to Kobe and Osaka on the weekends.
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Box Score Replay(boxscorereplay.com)
1 points by dpapathanasiou 14y ago|0 comments
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by dpapathanasiou 14y ago
Exercise is incredibly important b/c of all the positive neurochemical effects it produces. But if you're exercising by yourself, it's easy to skip it, especially if you're already feeling down. It's better to take part in some kind of team
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Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours(en.wikibooks.org)
1 points by dpapathanasiou 14y ago|0 comments
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More founders reject VC money(crainsnewyork.com)
90 points by dpapathanasiou 14y ago|19 comments
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State Machines in Go(denis.papathanasiou.org)
56 points by dpapathanasiou 14y ago|17 comments
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by dpapathanasiou 14y ago
I don't remember which set I tried, but their characters seemed disjointed/random and, worst of all, unrelated to anything I was doing at work. I just found it better to try to read the reports and memos being passed around at the office, a
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by dpapathanasiou 14y ago
You're right in that my site is for people who've already mastered kana and some basic kanji, and there are already so many resources where you can learn those, but there are relatively few for intermediate and advanced students, and that's
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by dpapathanasiou 14y ago
I've heard of Heisig, but only recently. My method for learning kanji was to count the strokes (it's relatively simple to figure the stroke count for any character: http://infohost.nmt.edu/~armiller/japanese/strokeorder.htm ) then use that
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by dpapathanasiou 14y ago
" Flashcards are actually pretty good for acquiring masses of vocabulary. But it doesn't help you put those words together coherently or even enable you to comprehend what you hear. " In my experience with Japanese, using flashcards for kan
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by dpapathanasiou 14y ago
I'm tackling Japanese, but from a reading and writing perspective: http://macaronics.com/ It's not for beginners, though, and there's no emphasis on pronunciation (yet).
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by dpapathanasiou 14y ago
That's simply the story of how the continent got its name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(mythology)#The_continen... I doubt any of the symbolism of your interpretation was intended.
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by dpapathanasiou 14y ago
" The prototypical entrepreneur is highly risk-seeking to the point of irrationality. A simple cost-benefit analysis would dissuade most people from traveling down this path; yet, the entrepreneur is an entrepreneur because of the risk invo
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Simple Social Media "Share" Buttons(denis.papathanasiou.org)
1 points by dpapathanasiou 14y ago|0 comments
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by dpapathanasiou 14y ago
Ironically enough, the current issue of Wired magazine has an article praising TED for creating the TEDx franchise and allowing anyone to use its brand: http://www.wired.com/business/2012/11/ff-tedx/
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by dpapathanasiou 14y ago
An author with an established brand or significant following (and I count your HN reputation as an example) can sell anywhere , b/c readers will seek out his work and deal with all kinds of annoyances: usb cable device syncs, finding out w
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by dpapathanasiou 14y ago
I would argue that that represents an unusual case: people here pay you out of respect/gratitude for your contribution to the community. For unknown authors, the sales picture is different.
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by dpapathanasiou 14y ago
As I mentioned at the start, it was an extended explanation for people who needed more than just links to KDP and iBookstore.
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by dpapathanasiou 14y ago
I look forward to reading about yc start-ups, but increasingly find myself shaking my head, wondering how some of them will ever amount to sustainable businesses. I've always attributed this to the fact that yc must know a whole lot more t
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A practical guide to selling ebooks online(denis.papathanasiou.org)
15 points by dpapathanasiou 14y ago|7 comments
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by dpapathanasiou 14y ago
I actually started by machine-translating everything, but I think the sparseness of the articles is better b/c it feels like a call to action to complete them, versus already having the English or Japanese in place. Also, the default MT was
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by dpapathanasiou 14y ago
Thanks! Also, thanks for mentioning Yeeyan; I hadn't heard of it, and I'll check it out. WRT multiple translations, the current plan is to show the 'best' single edit, rather than aggregating a series of prior edits (though anyone who wants
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by dpapathanasiou 14y ago
It started as a hobby, to automatically send myself short study emails once a day, but then I thought to open it up to anyone. It's still very much a work in progress, but I'd love to find out what people here think!
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Show HN: I built a wiki-style site for language learning and text translation(macaronics.com)
3 points by dpapathanasiou 14y ago|5 comments

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