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by nfnaaron 17y ago
You may be right, I'm not so sure. Chinese is difficult, not just because tones (~4 in Mandarin, ~8(?) in Cantonese) are important for meaning, but because you can't easily fake it or guess when you're reading or writing. The written langua
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I don't have an app, but here's a book that I've been liking: Easy Spanish Reader: http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Spanish-Reader-William-Tardy/dp/0... same, with CD: http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Spanish-Reader-CD-ROM-Three-Part/... It's for b
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It's not much of a perceived advantage to study a 2nd language as an American, because no matter where you go there's probably someone who speaks English, and chances are that wherever you go few if any speak the 2nd language that you studi
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
clickable: http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/
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Use PuTTY as a superior command shell on Windows
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When the page loaded, the site started shouting at me through my speakers about something National Geographic wanted me to see about some kind of law enforcement group that has something to do with illegal immigration. I think. I actually s
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"The Justice Department, where President Barack Obama has tapped five former RIAA lawyers to serve, said copyright infringement 'creates a public harm that Congress determined must be deterred.'" I wonder how much campaign contribution mone
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"The food is flown by helicopter to points throughout the capital and distributed by paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division. At the tent city, set up at a golf course, more than 10,000 people displaced by the Haitian earthquake lay unde
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
The article earlier about NYT preparing to charge ("Prepare to charge!") for access got me thinking (again) about the same questions that cstross asked in his post. I say good luck to NYT in their efforts, but as the OP says, it's a dead bu
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Where the first chapter is free, so you can decide if you want to pay to get sucked further in. Serialized works used to be one of the ways periodicals attracted readers (and advertisers).
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And that reminds me of an observation I made after going to the gym for a few months (and that after doing nothing for 30 years) : I'm not good at anything, but I'm better at everything.
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"[1] reading internet, [2]ranting and [3]solving problems of my choosing" [1] For reading the internet, you could do a startup where companies that intrusively search the internet and facebook for disqualifying statements for new recruits a
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Interesting post about perl, but the end is most interesting about Life In General: "But I guess there's also a moral to it all. We all start somewhere, and in a way it's reassuring to find five-year old proof of this fact. A newbie is just
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No, but it takes research to quantify it.
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Yeah, but they're the FBI so their intentions were good. </sarc>
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Tell HN: On scratching your own itch
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Re niyazpk's comment on squatters and porn, I have been unpleasantly surprised by the .com version of .other sites that I use.
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"China has denied any role in the hacking attacks, which began on December 15 and also targeted US defence contractors and finance and technology companies, including Google. 'Hacking in whatever form is prohibited by law in China,' said Ji
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Apt-cyg, A command-line software installer for Cygwin(code.google.com)
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The home page for this document, including links to this pdf and related docs and pages: http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG819/
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I don't think advertising for "a paper" will ever be as lucrative as the old paper days, because it's too easy to drift over to the billion other sites on the web. The old paper days allowed for virtual monopolies because it was physically
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
1. Wouldn't it be better/safer/something if it were easy to find such sites, so that nicer people can know just what they're up against? If I wanted to do something about cockroaches in my house, I'd like to be able to find the cockroaches.
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"Some scientists have questioned how the IPCC could have allowed such a mistake into print." Curve fitting?
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Like probably most other companies doing business in China, and probably for years. Not defending it, just pointing out that this one decision of Yahoo's is, unfortunately, normal.
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And the guy (maybe the same guy?) who actually had a warrant served to search his dorm room and seize his computers, based in part on the fact that he had been seen using a command line. The warrant was later quashed, don't know how or if t
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
My kid is in 6th grade, which is middle school in these parts. He did his science project over the Christmas break, which involved a Daniels battery (zinc, copper, copper sulfate, zinc sulfate). Although his science teacher had agreed to ta
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"Citing sources in the defense contracting and intelligence consulting community, the iDefense report unambiguously declares that the Chinese government was, in fact, behind the effort." OK, good. It's not yet been proved in court, but at l
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"But I know people filled their days just as fully in those distant days as they do today. What did they fill them with?" Yes, they filled their days, but it took longer.
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Which will likely translate as "Keep your damn ball out of my yard, you kids!"
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Maybe the point of triple encryption was to make it less likely for scanners to find it in a routine scan? The people who did this certainly knew that once they were found it was over; they were just trying to delay being found a bit. [Edit

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