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by laurieg 5y ago
If you start free, you're setting yourself up to get a lot of price sensitive customers. If you set a price in 6 months, even if it's very low, they'll likely be annoyed. Maybe they didn't have any money to pay for the
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The flip side is many people learn bad pronunciation habits because of reading. Things like Chinese tones for native English speakers or L/R for native Japanese speakers are always going to be hard and no single textbook, tape or app
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You've hit the nail on the head! Being comfortable with ambiguity and not knowing something 100% is crucial. I've observed many language learners over the years and if someone has a habit of translating every word they see into th
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Older second language learners have a harder time, but I don't think it's because of some kind of "weakening of the brain" with age. I think the real reasons are: * Older people can't remember the difficulty of lear
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Block based programming languages are a bad idea for teaching kids programming and I would argue actually counter productive. I disagree with this. Block based languages reduce the amount of text on the screen (less dependent on reading
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Localizing Split-Card Themes into Japanese in Magic the Gathering(wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com)
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This BBC podcast covers the story including interviews with some of the people directly affected: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m000jf7j
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Micro Mysteries. Tiny short stories with a hidden puzzle that the reader has to figure out. (Inspired by Two Minute Mysteries by Donald J Sobol) https://lauriegriffiths.github.io/micro-mysteries/
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The creators of the Raspberry Pi had a good take on this: If you make something that doesn't have a website browser and can't play a youtube video young people won't see it as a computer. It's easy to forget that BBC mic
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It looks like this is the original book: http://webcatplus.nii.ac.jp/webcatplus/details/book/1862799.... It looks like there's a copy in my local library. I'll have to go hunt it down next chance I
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Base 64 encoding is good enough to hide a keyword from a casual glance
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McDie: A node-based visual tool for developing models of dice probabilities(gengelstein.itch.io)
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Blockers will not solve this problem. Right now the pattern is something like this: Feel bored/upset/angry --> want to get away from this unpleasant feeling --> open up a tab --> scroll If you install a blocker you only c
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I once interpreted for a crew recording "man on the street" interviews. I had no experience working in TV, I was a last minute replacement. At the beginning of the day, the producer listed the opinions he wanted to get. "Ok,
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Give yourself permission to feel jealous. You are not your emotions. Thinking "I must not feel bad. I must not feel jealous" is a surefire way to add to your anguish. (Acting on your feelings is a different story.) Realise that ev
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Many posters have already mentioned some of the great things about Japanese cities: walkable neighbourhoods, good public transport, life without cars. I agree with all of these. However, you can't get something for nothing. Even in the
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I'm looking forward to seeing your full setup!
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Someone came to our local hackerspace talking about learning python. They had gone through almost an entire python textbook on an android smartphone. Code exercises and everything. We lent out a raspberry pi to them. The upgrade to screen
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I wish I had planned my career when I was a student. Take advantage of career services, internships and all the other resources a university has to offer you. Don't worry about making the "wrong" plan, you can always change
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I really like seeing this detailed breakdown of VR for work. I would like to use VR more but even an hour with the Oculus Quest leaves me feeling quite tired. The physical weight of the device and the not quite perfect alignment of the len
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"Nobody believes me, not even my therapist." I wonder if you could expand on this point a little. What kind of therapists have you spoken to and what kind of conversations are you having with them?
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The oldest program-like thing I have is a game written in the Adrift interactive fiction engine from 2001. Unfortunately, it's password protected and I can't remember the password. I wonder if there's an easy way to crack it
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When learning to ride a motorcycle they taught us about target fixation [1]: looking at an object in the road and then hitting it even though you're trying to avoid it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_fixa
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Fred Rogers really appreciated the world from a child's perspective. The idea that when you're doing everything for the first time it can be very exciting and also scary. He often talks about the "drama" of everyday lif
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I'm gonna recommend Fukuoka, Japan. The city is large enough to have many creature comforts, but small enough that you can 'get out' and experience the countryside very easily. Compared to Tokyo you will likely save a good a
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Doing things with other people. Before modern screen-ruled life, people spent more time with other people. Chatting in the pub, eating dinner together and talking. Other than that, just talking a walk and noticing things on the walk. I&#x
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Running - I enjoy it but do not recommend it. While it keeps my fitness up I often end up with one pain for weeks. Playing the piano - a great diversion, it doesn't take too long to be able to play chords and sing along to your favouri
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I recently learnt to differentiate notes in a scale using an app[1]. Basically, you listen to a few chords for musical context and then you hear a note and have to choose which note it as. When I started I couldn't do it at all. Aft
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My secret method to learning a language: 1. Read or listen to something in your target language. 2. Work out the meaning of a word you don't know (using a dictionary, teacher, context clues etc). Do this 1000 to 10,000 times and you&#x
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The first computery thing I every wrote was a simple interactive fiction game using the ADRIFT system. It's archived online and I've played it. 10-year-old me really couldn't spell well. I've tried to edit it but it&#x27

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