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by marak830 7y ago
As a user, why should I care? If Google knocks out the competition and the deprecistes it another company will fill that space. I use a search engine to find information not to find a website that serves that. (Fyi i don't use good, I&
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by marak830 7y ago
Yes, but then again I personally view a hell of a lot lately as propaganda. Which most is. Whether it's actually factual or click-bait is a whole 'nother story. Edit: fat thumb typos
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by marak830 7y ago
Surely you can target adverts based off of searched terms (as in immediate, not past), current site(eg: the article and not the reader). Beyond that you get into grey territory, and most of the time down right predatory. I can run a campaig
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by marak830 7y ago
I'm currently running a robotics course for ages 8-18. Drop me an email and I'll send you my lesson plans. For everyone else(and you), what I just finished writing up is a course designed around taking technology back to basics. L
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by marak830 7y ago
"That incident was a political turbulence and the central government took measures to stop the turbulence, which is a correct policy," he told the forum. Gunning down protesters then grinding into a mulch with tanks and aocs, so t
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by marak830 7y ago
Well that's surely a nice theory. The jobs part not the hyperbole. Me I prefer to have insurance, protection if I get injured at work and the whole host of other things myself and my parents fought for. It's easy to stand up and s
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by marak830 7y ago
As long as we keep (as a whole) letting a country that ground dissidents to a paste and washed the result down the sewers, drive our collective greed, we're fucked. Note I'd prefer not to use the term greed above, it's just t
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by marak830 7y ago
IMO they are. I teach k12 esl(pre:edit, kindergarten to year 12 English as a second language), my highest levels - free conversation we tried a spot where students would tell us about an interesting news story they had seen, heard or read a
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by marak830 7y ago
Aside from the party that mulched protestors with tanks and apcs then washed the remains down the sewers. I'm sorry but how can anyone discuss with a straight face that perhaps people were moving too fast for a system to catch up. . .
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by marak830 7y ago
Are you kidding? As a father me and my wife joke a lot about our son. Hide and seek hiding behind a chain link fence? Hey I'll save on college!
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by marak830 7y ago
Indeed preparing mine now for the 5 year and once that's done I'll be turning around and starting the permanent visa paperwork. Finally! Lol
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by marak830 7y ago
Yeah screw the planet because I'm bitter about an election. Makes sense /s We all lose on this game plan.
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by marak830 7y ago
"Even if a utility wants to retire an unprofitable coal unit, they might not be allowed to do so (by the state) if they're still paying it off." 'sell' it to a subsidiary and bankrupt it. Or act like a bani and pret
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by marak830 7y ago
Ot: it's amazing to be able to speak to so many different backgrounds isn't it? I don't know about the rest of you buy I'm always of two mjnds when recommending hn. I don't want to lose what we have.
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by marak830 7y ago
Oh that's awesome! I have a colleague writing a semester on science projects for kids, this is definitely going to fit in with that!
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by marak830 7y ago
Doesn't Germany import a fair bit from France(who is oversupplied from their nuclear reactors). I may be wrong I heard about that a while ago.
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by marak830 7y ago
Note: I agree with the fact it shouldn't be illegal. Main point, fucking hard to od on mushrooms when you can barely walk ;-)
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by marak830 7y ago
I'm fairly ambivilent about ubi, sf I don't know enough to make an informed decision so I'm not making a comment either way. But that article is shit. The author (from my opinion) has an agenda against ubi and is mixing their
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by marak830 7y ago
And forbid you purchase that on some sort of payment plan so you can get it. . . And then have them charge full value all of a sudden
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by marak830 7y ago
Amazon is a luxury brand? Look I'm in Japan and from this side of the pond as it were, Amazon is a shitty aggregate selling site. There are many around and they are all to be steered clear of unless you desperately can't find the
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by marak830 7y ago
I purchased x item at monthly payment of y, now I'm being charged a lump sum and it's throwing off my books. Shit strip out the what and it could screw over most people who don't have a large savings account (hell I do, but i
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by marak830 7y ago
And maybe those same people worked hard to be able to afford said phone on a payment plan. But the issue here is said payment plan didn't work as advertised
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by marak830 7y ago
Wow. Just in case you haven't realised from the other responses, your rather entitled. Not everyone is in a position to deal with large unexpected bills. Maybe you should learn to have a little empathy.
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by marak830 7y ago
Actually I do teach English, we have a core class for more traditional teaching then project courses where we use English in an active environment (programming, cooking etc). We looked into front end, and while a few students enjoyed it, th
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by marak830 7y ago
Maybe interesting but pay wall
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by marak830 7y ago
Re: teaching in their own language: no. The best way to teach a new language is to immerse the student in that language, you don't explain unknown words in their language, you build their language knowledge to be able to learn the new
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by marak830 7y ago
Re: first half: I agree, but these are esl students, I'm dealing with not just teaching coding (which they are amazing at once they get the underlying fundamentals), but also the English language around it (code block, function, variab
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Ask HN: Programming for students (English as a second language)
3 points by marak830 7y ago|6 comments
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by marak830 7y ago
Actually (about 7+ years ago?), I did dip into python and wrote a stock taking and auto order generating system for one of my kitchens in it, never really got the chance to revisit it after that though. I do remember how surprised I was at
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by marak830 7y ago
Haha yeah I was taking a risk, but I was pissed of lol

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