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by muxxa 12y ago
He's going about it the right way. Always learn vocabulary first, grammar after. Without the words you cannot communicate at all. Without the grammar you will be able to engage with a native speaker enough for them to correct you as so
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by muxxa 12y ago
One thing that Anki does very well (and that neither memrise nor duolingo attempt) is allow you to immediately rate the difficulty of an exercise right after you do it. This allows you give feedback that e.g. You got something right by fluk
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by muxxa 12y ago
That's Roberto Carlos
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by muxxa 12y ago
Have you thought of the possibility of increasing the difficulty after each subsequent request from the same IP address?
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by muxxa 12y ago
Have you surveyed how many WordPress installations are on shared hosting? I think that much of the success of WordPress is attributable to the fact it can be installed via Fantastico with the click of a button, I wouldn't be surprised
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by muxxa 12y ago
I wonder if replacing nginx+lua with http://webd.is/ would be faster (and maybe easier to deploy)?
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by muxxa 12y ago
This is really nice, but they haven't solved the following problem: sometimes you need more information from further on in the process in order to choose your dates. For some types of trip, the most important thing is a combination of
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by muxxa 12y ago
I've always hated paying for music (CDs/LPs) before figuring out how much I'm gonna like it. I currently subscribe to spotify but dislike how apparently so little revenue goes back to the artists I love. I've often thoug
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by muxxa 12y ago
Get a vaporizer: http://www.thebestshop.eu/shop/electronic-cigarettes-starter... Nicotine without the volatile smoldering micro particles hitting your lungs.
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by muxxa 12y ago
On OpenStreetMap: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/30.9966/103.6092&layers... Good to zoom out and see the context of the mountains vs. plain.
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by muxxa 12y ago
The author dismisses the RULE based approach. I'd love to see it compared, as it was the only thing that I could get to complete for a multi-GB table merge (I can't recall what other approaches I tried). http://stackov
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by muxxa 13y ago
Using CTRL+Q for the phone is dangerous on a mac, as it's easily confused with APPLE+Q which closes the browser window, losing your progress. --- Edit: it saves the game state in localstorage; kudos!
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by muxxa 13y ago
Super idea and execution! I think it needs a few more iterations in a teaching environment to actually make it effective though. I tried running this by someone with absolutely zero css or html experience. - The instruction (e.g. 'Se
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by muxxa 13y ago
Here's what we use at StatCounter when compiling Global Stats data: http://gs.statcounter.com/detect Can you check if that detects your IE11 correctly?
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by muxxa 13y ago
Here's a BitTorrentSync id of some exercises that really helped me: BDN7MZPLOUBODZ65VXQFBSUQ6WUJSOVOC
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by muxxa 13y ago
I was using WorkRave to prompt me to take breaks. Paradoxically, this made things worse as I was getting more stressed about getting back to getting stuff done during the break. The key is to internalize and accept that you need to take b
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by muxxa 13y ago
My experiences with RSI leave me sceptical on these types of approaches which focus solely on minimizing hand and arm movement. E.g. hunt and peck typists are less prone to small tissue RSI because they make large movements using their stro
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by muxxa 13y ago
From a tech savvy farmer friend: > Yep it is USA only but it's interesting. Especially the market watch on grain price. Farmers never have a notion what the worldwide price for barley is even thou they sell it. > Also the farm lo
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by muxxa 13y ago
Is there such a thing as 'typo checking'? I'd like something that is able to correct accidentally swapped adjacent letters. I'm imagining something that looks at the sequence and timing of keydown and keyup events to mak
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by muxxa 13y ago
What if the situation continues and large percentages of the bitcoin pool are of unknown status (could be lost, could be in the possession of a government institution, could be being hoarded). Would this make bitcoin more risky compared to
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by muxxa 13y ago
My favorite anti-suicide advice is 'Never commit suicide when hungover'. It sounds subversive but I think it gets the message across by first not discounting that the other person may have valid and important problems, and then em
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by muxxa 13y ago
Replacing an avatars' face with an @ symbol feels like some violence has been done to a person — in other contexts, portraits are defaced by scribbling over the eyes or face, and that is what this icon feels like. Additionally, the @ s
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by muxxa 13y ago
For a single pass from left to right, I think you need to maintain a counter for each y-value: http://codepad.org/W16O9vUB I actually think this is a good interview question, as playing devils' advocate and coming up w
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by muxxa 13y ago
The Fields medal is deliberately not open to Mathematicians over the age of 40 to encourage young Mathematicians. Very depressing for older Mathematicians. Andrew Wiles was too old to win it, and Erdös is not a Field medalist (although no
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by muxxa 13y ago
You are assuming that most people will abandon XP when it is officially abandoned, I'm not sure that lack of official support will convince users to embark on a disruptive upgrade to Windows 8. There are signs that the rate of decline
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by muxxa 13y ago
Also, usually the exact moment when I want to look up the name of a track that I like is when it just finishes playing. This is also the exact time when this interface removes the name of the track and replaces it with the new 'now pl
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by muxxa 13y ago
> to your existing email accounts This implies to me that it will work on top of my existing gmail/yahoo accounts. I take it that's not the case? > Mailelf is built to make running your own server easy Elsewhere it says that
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by muxxa 13y ago
discovery: pitchfork.com and recursively following artists on soundcloud
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by muxxa 13y ago
There is some folklore that you should get your honey from local sources such that it is made from the same pollen that is inducing your asthma. ymmv.
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by muxxa 13y ago
UI problem when you run out of time as you are just about to press the 'Submit' button, the 'exit' button (or whatever it was) pops up and then you never find out what the 5-letter words were.

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