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by laurieg 10y ago
Japanese milk is almost exclusively UHT. Heat treatment at 120 degrees for 2 seconds is the norm. You can get milk which is just pasteurised. It's called 低温殺菌牛乳 (teion sakkin gyunyu) but you have to pay a premium. Personally I find th
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by laurieg 10y ago
I advise people to give noise cancelling headphones like these a try for 30 minutes to an hour before spending a lot of money on them. I found the noise cancellation feature causes a pressure like feeling on my ears that was very uncomforta
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by laurieg 10y ago
We have counters in English too! Tons of words are uncountable, like water, bread, and so on. A slice of bread, a loaf of bread, a bread roll (Hey, why did that one come after the 'bread'...) We even have lots of words that are bo
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by laurieg 10y ago
"Dropping the pronoun" is a very English way of thinking about things. In English sentences have to have subjects. Consider the following paragraph: John went to the shop. John bought a cake. John took it to Bill's house.
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I think you're probably falling into a common trap: There are plenty of exceptions, you just don't know them yet. For sure, Japanese verbs are more regular than English verbs. But most materials written about Japanese are aimed
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I wouldn't describe that pattern as incredibly rough or even particularly informal. It's common to at the subject after the sentence when speaking quickly. You use it when you think the listener may have to quite picked up what y
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by laurieg 10y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but you can use React Native without any code push features, can't you?
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Teach concepts before code. For example, if I'm teaching kids what variables are I bring out a bunch of boxes with labels on them. The boxes represent the computer memory. I can put numbers in the boxes. I can put other things in bo
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I was thinking of heuristics like structural complexity of the sentence: "The film that came out last week was good." Every word is very simple but in combination they produce complexity that is challenging to many learners.
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Forgive me if you aren't looking for advice, but I recommend a distraction notebook: Keep a small notebook beside you and promise yourself you are going to focus on the topic at hand for a period of time. When a thought, question or s
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by laurieg 10y ago
I think the implication is that the senior dev conducting the interview wasn't really interrupted (hence the quotes around the word) and that it was just how the realistic interview question was presented.
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You don't track hours worked? Do you have more or less fixed working hours? Otherwise how do you stop people staying a long time to impress the boss?
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> The biggest problem to me with Duolingo that it doesn't explain certain language rules (I am learning German) and you have to brute-force until you "get a feeling" and memorize patterns. I'm not trying to be contrar
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by laurieg 10y ago
Awesome work! I've built similar projects like this but nothing at this scale, or this polished. I have a bunch of questions: How do you deal with bad sentences/mistakes in the source data? Even the best dictionaries I look at
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by laurieg 10y ago
I have done a little teaching with younger age ranges, coding and math included. I had a lot of success with 'unplugged' computer science activities. Basically, any activity without computers. Let's learn what an algorithm
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by laurieg 10y ago
Orville Wright (of the Wright brothers) went from developing early airplanes to seeing the development of international travel and the jet engine. He lived until 1948 and his last flight was in a Lockheed Constellation[1] In computer scien
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by laurieg 10y ago
Japan does not have regular uber cars, the uber app just hails regular taxis. Uber did a trial in Fukuoka, Japan but ran into legal issues and had to end it.
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by laurieg 10y ago
People do all sorts of crazy things for 100 bucks. If you fraudulently get a job as a programmer you might be making thousands and thousands more than you would otherwise. It's not hard to see the incentive.
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If you are still looking you could buy a flashlight with a diffuser (a kind of translucent cone that slips over the end). On modern flashlights you can adjust the brightness to many different levels. LED technology has also come along a l
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by laurieg 10y ago
It's very common in Japan to pander to foreigners (read: "non-Asians") when they never asked to be pandered to in the first place. It's unlikely anyone ever complained about the symbol but someone probably brought it up
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by laurieg 10y ago
What do you mean by "allow immigration"? If you have a degree and a job you can come work and live in Japan. Japanese immigration is not that restrictive. My native country, the UK, has far more hoops to jump through to get perm
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This flexibility can be a blessing or a curse. Usually it's the latter. A good immigration lawyer should know the ins and outs of your local immigration office and be able to tell you fairly confidently (not 100%) what will and won&#x
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by laurieg 10y ago
There's no Hacker News meetups but there are a few general programmer meetups that might be of interest to you. If you are interested come to the meetup on Wednesday nights in AIP Cafe, Daimyo.
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by laurieg 10y ago
How do you find the brightness an pixel arrangement using a 4k tv? I have been eyeing up a 43 inch tv as a monitor for a while.
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How to Learn a Foreign Language by Paul Pimsleur is a short book that has a lot of gems about language learning. My tips as someone who has learnt a foreign language to fluency after becoming an adult: Focus on sounds before the written lan
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by laurieg 10y ago
What do you do about visas? Do you have a day job?
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I have to say, with the best will in the world, I don't believe you. I don't believe that someone is paying $15000 a week for some basic software development.
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I'm not a very experienced engineer, but I did go to a world class school and have worked for a few years. I have been job hunting in Japan and recently received an offer from a large web company in Japan. They were offering less than
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by laurieg 10y ago
Spaced repetition is a wonderful tool. I came across it when I started learning languages and have over 5000 cards in my largest Anki deck for words and phrases. A lot of thought is put into how to use a learners time most effectively. Th
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This reminds me of a UX lecture I attended in undergrad in the UK. The lecturer flashes up a picture and says "who is this?". There is a sea of blank faces as a reply. The picture was of Roy Chubby Brown [1] who by some measures

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