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by ngokevin 6y ago
Learning each other's languages. Became enough I started to make an app around it. Playing different video games (Don't Starve, Animal Crossing, Luigi's Mansion). Actually love the increased time together. I thought about hea
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by ngokevin 6y ago
Have you been to China, talked to its people often, or do you get most of your sentiments online from other commenters and through news? I'd argue there is US mass media manipulation. There's simply clear monetary (and nationalist
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by ngokevin 6y ago
How do you feel about the community Anki decks out there today ( https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/ )? I guess you've found some deficiencies with those?
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by ngokevin 6y ago
Thanks for the input! I think I did see that before but as an American English speaker, I didn't feel the connotation that strongly. I'll genuinely keep that in mind and think about that. I wonder others here feel the same. I hear
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by ngokevin 6y ago
Sorry for the self-plug on someone else's thread, but if you're learning a language with a partner, I've been building an app to help couples learn each other's languages ( https://learncoupling.com ) if you&#x
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by ngokevin 6y ago
From what I've seen, all the media (and thus the majority of American people) 100% rag on China any chance they can get. They are public enemy number one, and anti-China sentiments are popular and applauded. I don't remember the l
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by ngokevin 6y ago
IMO, essentially mind control and subtle influence of people's decisions and stance on everything, including the outcome of elections.
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* A hate letter from owner of Cleveland Cavaliers to Lebron James http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/07/09/comic.sans.cavs.james...
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by ngokevin 6y ago
At my university of 20K+, we automated everything as student devs. Parsed the DMCA emails, followed the traces through various types of networks and network logs (public network with leased IPs, dorm networks, MAC addresses, etc) to see who
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by ngokevin 6y ago
There's no "real thing". All photos are processed, through the lens, by the software on the device, and by the photographers' workflows. When you shoot JPG, there's already a lot of processing that happens, and when
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by ngokevin 6y ago
Same reason why employees leave bad reviews on Glassdoor for former employers. Also to fit into their new environments. Everyone loves to hate on the enemy country. You might see that in the US with some Chinese Americans online, easier to
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by ngokevin 6y ago
Project names with a random word taken from another language always felt a bit cheesy to me.
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by ngokevin 6y ago
For myself, I automated creation of language flashcards. So I can just type a word/phrase in English, and then it will automatically fill in the target language translation, pronunciation, audio recording, and word-by-word breakdown to
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by ngokevin 6y ago
My QC35s disconnects every 10 minutes on Windows desktops or Apple Macbooks. It's better wired but even wired I can hear it cut out for a bit sometimes.
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by ngokevin 6y ago
I guess "China" triggers Americans with negative sentiments with as the media always does with us v. them cold war mentality, which gets more clicks. May I ask what alternative title do you suggest, to name the individuals?
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by ngokevin 6y ago
This mirrors the sentiment of many people on HN are heavily against the idea of doing anything more than 9-5, and prefer to live the relaxed engineer life collecting paychecks and tending to their microbrews. Maybe the hatred stems from tha
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by ngokevin 6y ago
You don't get compounding interest with BTC either, no self-reinvesting dividends.
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Lets you code like the coders you see in movies and TV. It's like the difference between touch-typing versus hunt-and-peck. For when you have to make a lot of mindless code movements.
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Any time there is an election, volunteer. Get people to vote, canvass, post up flyers. Local elections can have the difference of a couple dozen votes.
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Sorta fits inline with the fact that the CEO still spends time writing code (half-joke)
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"shouldn't" is also debatable to include, because managing itself is a full-time job
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by ngokevin 6y ago
Never felt remotely hot where I live in SF. Maybe towards Mission and further south/east.
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pedantic. obv i mean not a moneymaker as in direct money.
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by ngokevin 6y ago
Sounds like it'll be a future Serial podcast or something.
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Ay, I followed the wave. Heading back home to Portland for a bit and then to the Utah desert and beyond.
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Unless you don't like summer heat and heat waves. SF is more consistently around 70F. Depends if you like 55F - 75F versus 70F - 90F
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by ngokevin 6y ago
I feel side projects is something you do for fun or on a whim. You just start building immediately on your off-time with not much expectations. Maybe to try out a new technology. It's more of a solo engineering activity. You build it f
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by ngokevin 6y ago
That's a bit over-generalized. If someone's idea of doing a naughty thing is not making something people want, not talking to users, not validating a problem, not explaining what you do clearly, I don't think they'll do
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by ngokevin 6y ago
I'm currently bootstrapping as a YC alumni, and I'm going through YC Startup School. The curriculum is just as valuable for bootstrappers! It's all about validating a problem, getting users, planning your time, etc. The core
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by ngokevin 6y ago
HN isn't a moneymaker. It's a goodwill-maker and brand-maker for YC so it's better for them to keep it the way it is.

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