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Yaneer Bar-Yam: Why Complexity Is Different(medium.com)
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The New Old Way of Learning Languages (2008)(theamericanscholar.org)
58 points by oskarth 10y ago|44 comments
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How to Learn Greek and Latin (2014)(seangabb.co.uk)
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Counting lines 60% faster than wc, with Clojure and core.async(hackernoon.com)
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by oskarth 10y ago
An electrician isn't, or shouldn't be, dependent on what so called "financial professionals" tell them. It isn't rocket science. Save a portion of your salary. Build up an emergency fund. Invest in passive index fun
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by oskarth 10y ago
If you believe most doctors have expertise in nutrition and fasting you've not been paying attention. It seems fairly obviously no one should arbitrarily and radically do anything just because someone told them to. There are a lot of
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by oskarth 10y ago
It isn't risky. It's a liability thing. Disclaimer: Not a doctor.
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Launching Code Cards on Hacker News and Lessons Learned(oskarth.com)
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A system to organise projects(johnnydecimal.com)
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by oskarth 10y ago
Considering how the NSA probably has access to this already, what does this mean? A few options off the top of my head. Not putting any probabilities on these, but it's interesting to think about. The options are neither exhaustive nor
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by oskarth 10y ago
While I agree, it is probably a case of not being in their target market: - Average age: 40+ - Average household income: 250k+ - Average household net worth: 1.5m+ From http://www.wsjmediakit.com/files/uploads/2014
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by oskarth 10y ago
Have to compare apples to apples though, i.e. reasonably similar standards of living and cost of living. All of the above cities started out very organically, and a lot of their vibrancy comes from their density, narrow streets, markets, et
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by oskarth 10y ago
> I'd suggest living in southeast / east Asia for a while if you think anarchical development is a good idea. It all falls apart when you need to build, maintain and provide basic services (electricity, water, sewage.) "It
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by oskarth 10y ago
While an interesting direction to consider, don't forget what a ballsy thing that was of Netflix to do. It wasn't at all the obvious right thing to do. Not to mention how well they are executing on it, producing content at the sam
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by oskarth 10y ago
> There's so many advantages to owning your stack and if Snap thinks that it's going to need 2 billion dollars to pay for cloud infra, they're at the scale where it makes sense to build your own infra Just to be clear, how
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by oskarth 10y ago
I've tried the multiple fill-in-the blanks card approach with Anki, but I'm personally not a fan. It feels too complex and reductionistic for code, but YMMV. Speed is indeed of the essence [1], but I prefer to actually feel myse
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by oskarth 10y ago
I have used shared decks a few times, but it hadn't occurred to me that you could apply the open source of branches/pulls etc - interesting idea! Another thing I'm considering is making the cards sharable as first-class citiz
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by oskarth 10y ago
Not yet but I've tried to make it work OK on mobile and build in offline access from the start, but it's still a work in progress. How would you deal with coding on a touch screen? It seems difficult to me with all the special cha
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by oskarth 10y ago
This is on purpose. The scheduling of cards is done server-side and I use polling (perhaps too eagerly) to fetch new reviews, including of cards that have just been created. I'd eventually like to find a better solution for this (such
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by oskarth 10y ago
I agree it's not a good way of learning programming. To me it's a way of retaining some programming knowledge - but to retain something you need to understand it beforehand. It doesn't make sense to use this type of thing f
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by oskarth 10y ago
Thank you! And I absolutely agree, this is on my TODO list. Do you have any specific request for the types of things you would like to see?
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by oskarth 10y ago
Of course! Ping me on twitter at @oskarth or email me@oskarth.com
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by oskarth 10y ago
OP here. I'm a long time user and fan of Anki as well. The main difference between Anki and Code Cards is that you can code in the 'question' directly. I find it useful for code where the chunk size is bigger than you can kee
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Show HN: Code Cards – Anki for code(codecards.me)
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Stop Using Arial and Helvetica (2013)(64notes.com)
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by oskarth 10y ago
This is a great idea. How did you read with candles? I found it difficult the few times I've tried, but maybe that's because I mostly read in bed. Do you read sitting at a table with the candle right next to you? Do you have multi
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by oskarth 10y ago
I've lived for more than a year in both Berlin and London, flying a lot to and from their respective airports. The difference is indeed huge. I've never had any major issues personally, but I know several people who've had ma
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Don't Be a Free User (2011)(blog.pinboard.in)
202 points by oskarth 10y ago|99 comments
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by oskarth 10y ago
To clarify, I meant this thread on HN when I said thread. I don't find it strange at all that that your article didn't mention it. Thank you for writing it!
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by oskarth 10y ago
Surprised that a thread about CSP in Lisp doesn't mention Clojure's core.async. CSP in Clojure is implemented as just another library and it's rock solid. While I don't claim to understand the implementation in detail, i

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