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by korussian 14y ago
Exactly right. I teach at a uni in South Korea. Students who never lived/traveled outside the country will never, ever raise their hands if they don't understand. Not only that, but if you ask them outright, they will nod and say clearly
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by korussian 14y ago
I liked the minimal font selection before, since it encouraged focus on content over style. Since there were so few options, all the offered fonts had to be crisp and professional-looking in any context. But I guess more is better… On anoth
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by korussian 14y ago
They probably choose that asteroid diameter to say exactly the above: i.e. "relax, it can't hurt you."
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by korussian 14y ago
I checked out timeforzen.com. I don't want to unblock flash so that audio can play. The message suggesting I do that sounds a bit snarky too.
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by korussian 14y ago
I don't think I should need to login/register before creating a doc. I want to see what I can do first.
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by korussian 14y ago
Sorry, apparently a single star makes everything after it italic… until a later star. Can't edit/delete. My bad.
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by korussian 14y ago
Also remember that in Star Trek the most ubiquitous technology was the pin-on-walkie-talkie, during use of which people would look up at the ceiling. It was a show defined by the 80's/90's , with several plotlines that could have been resol
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by korussian 14y ago
I learned the Korean alphabet (Hangul). It's by far the easiest/most logical natural language alphabet to learn, and takes just a few hours to get reasonably proficient. It rocks and I read it well... the trouble is I don't know what I'm
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by korussian 14y ago
That's a fantastic idea. I'm struggling to learn Korean, and it's tough because few of the words are recognizable to me. I have a base of English/French/Russian, so that doesn't help (much). I would love to try to put my grammar/flash car
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by korussian 14y ago
Exactly this. Everything needed for iPhone/iPad already existed off-the-shelf years prior as well. It takes a lot of oomph to condense all that into a beautiful little device that doesn't suck during real life day-to-day use.
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by korussian 14y ago
The Apple way being the one that results in multi-day campouts and kidney sales. Of course the trade-off to announcing/shipping simultaneously is…?
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by korussian 14y ago
PairMixer is Pair for single people. Instead of networking with your one partner, you can network with one stranger.
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by korussian 14y ago
Even SexySamantha? "I'm a Professional Promotional Model from Toronto, Canada! I love to model, act, and dance! I am also a Fashion Designer and I create all kinds of fun costumes and outfits! ♥ ♥ www.SuperSweetAndSexy.ca ♥" If I were moddi
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by korussian 14y ago
If filling out the personal profile is a requirement, why are there some profiles which are blank? Perhaps those members are not interested in viewing other members?
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by korussian 14y ago
Also, I get the feeling the few women who appear signed up are not real. True/false?
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by korussian 14y ago
I love the idea. Suggestion: filling out the personal profile section should be a requirement. Also, a couple of leading questions, OKCupid style, wouldn't be a bad way to get people to describe themselves a little better. Something like
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by korussian 15y ago
Unfortunately, this only works for people with a US address.
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by korussian 15y ago
Ray Kurzweil: "At what point do humans cease proliferating? How many humans can Earth reasonably accommodate? We can actually accommodate a greatly expanded biological population. We have 10,000 times more sunlight than we need to meet 100
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by korussian 15y ago
I like your unintentional pun in the title. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_(computer_programming)
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by korussian 15y ago
It looks like a fantastic app - very intuitive. I get that this is a side project, but is the restaurant bill splitting problem a real problem that needs a better solution? You made such a nice looking, well thought-out app that I think yo
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by korussian 15y ago
Could you please suggest the best way to get started with Sinatra for a beginner who just knows HTML/CSS? Most Sinatra tutorials I've found seem to deal either with very specific hacker-interest cases ("How to combine Sinatra with x to do y
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by korussian 15y ago
Quizlet is awesome, but the use-case for this new tool could be: a) mentioning new vocab off-the-cuff (or in response to a question) in class and immediately showing a picture of it b) students trying to remember a word and me showing them
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by korussian 15y ago
I teach EFL, and this would be fantastically useful in class for matching up vocab with pictures on the fly. The only issue is: I need a much larger rez image to put up on the big projector. Since this is doing Google Image Search... any c
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by korussian 15y ago
The bias wasn't slight -- in fact, it made it tougher to get through the whole article. It felt like the whole time I should be picturing the Indian flag waving majestically in the background, as India single-handedly picked itself up by i
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Flippa won't let me (or anyone, ever) close my account. What do I do?
2 points by korussian 15y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Roughly how much did a Wang 1200 weigh?
1 points by korussian 15y ago|0 comments
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by korussian 15y ago
We don't want first-responders to have to open up the patient to know if the patient is dead or just mostly dead, and moving the patient into an emergency medical vehicle may not be the best first move. This would be particularly true for
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by korussian 15y ago
I need someone to paint my house. Does anyone know that guy who stencils rats around London?
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Anyone interested in saving lives by making a cheap/tiny one of these machines?(eurekalert.org)
4 points by korussian 15y ago|3 comments
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by korussian 15y ago
I don't know about Europe, but walking around South Korea three years ago, it was a sea of Samsungs and LGs on every man, woman, child, and senior. Today, if a university student isn't sporting an iPhone 4 (not 3Gs, since that's last year'

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