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by jtsnow 12y ago
Interesting. This looks like the same concept as the community in which I reside: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daybreak_(community) Every home has fiber, but the bandwidth is throttled to about 12/4mbit by Century
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by jtsnow 12y ago
This book is a decent guide to decoding body language (including, but not limited to, deception): http://www.amazon.com/What-Every-BODY-Saying-Speed-Reading/d... The author's approach is that you must observe a &q
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by jtsnow 12y ago
But is a 3-4 hours per day for 4-5 days per week true immersion? And is it enough to master a complex language such as Mandarin Chinese? I suspect that, using this model with Chinese, a child can become conversationally proficient and gain
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by jtsnow 12y ago
I'll soon have to decide whether to enroll my child in the dual language immersion program at our public elementary school. Subjects such as math, social studies, science are taught in Chinese. Anyone have experience with or know of an
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by jtsnow 13y ago
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4130494 , from 2012.
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by jtsnow 13y ago
Missing from the list is Phabricator ( http://phabricator.org/ ). We've started using it recently and found it to be fantastic.
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by jtsnow 13y ago
The public school system in Utah provides language-immersion programs where students are taught regular subjects (math, geography, etc) in a foreign language for half the day. The elementary school nearest me offers Mandarin Chinese. The sy
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Qualcomm jumps into wearables with Toq smartwatch(news.cnet.com)
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by jtsnow 13y ago
As a child, I would draw similar maps with monsters and artifacts using MacDraw Pro. I'd draw black layers to simulate fog of war and delete as play progressed. My friend and I would take turns creating maps. It was loads of fun. If so
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by jtsnow 13y ago
Here are some other tidbits from missionary life that haven't been mentioned: - Mentorship and training offered by relatively successful individuals. - Most will have some form of leadership responsibility. Typically can range from ove
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by jtsnow 13y ago
As a wee lad, I uploaded my first bits of HTML onto Xmission's shared hosting in 1997. Good memories. Thanks to them, I didn't have to succumb to Geocities advertisements. A few years ago, they launched a cloud platform: http:&#x
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by jtsnow 13y ago
Having a driverless car pull up with a child seat littered with food in various states of digestion and other bodily fluids is not my idea of the future. Considering some adults can be more unsanitary than children, it seems we may also nee
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by jtsnow 13y ago
I imagine these monks would be horrified at the rate that we produce frivolous text today. We have notes like these scribbled all over our social networks. Some are entertaining, but I wonder how much of our "written" word will be
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by jtsnow 13y ago
Most of the bundled offers provide savings for a limited time. After purchasing, does one have control over when each of the services start or do they all start immediately?
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by jtsnow 14y ago
There was a Nova episode about creating the perfect turkey. [1] They concluded that the two keys to cooking a tender and flavorful turkey were 1) brining and 2) browning the outside of the meat. The recipe is available here: http://www.pbs
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Comparison of adaptive, responsive, static and liquid layouts(liquidapsive.com)
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by jtsnow 14y ago
My wife develops kidney stones when she is pregnant. During the second pregnancy, she had to pass them without pain medicine. There are many other conditions that women can develop when pregnant, but that go away after giving birth. Pregnan
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by jtsnow 16y ago
Looks like a re-hash of eCRUSH, launched on Valentine's Day, 1999.