mpare

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   by mpare 16y ago

   This is almost exactly the opposite sentiment as was voiced by Bill Joy just yesterday about Sun's downfall: > As for Sun's downfall, Joy traces it back to the fact that the company's business changed, leaving much of its research in ar
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   by mpare 16y ago

   > I always thought that two near-monolinguals dating or getting married would be the quickest way to learn a new language, although I never had a chance to test this hypothesis They have an expression for this in French: "La meilleure f
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   by mpare 16y ago

   I noticed the same pattern as I've been moving around the last few years. Transportation is huge -- there was a big difference for me moving even just two metro stops farther from my job in Paris. Jonah Lehrer wrote a post on this a while a