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by schacon 3y ago
> It reads like a good friend is trying to explain you something. As the author of this document, I wanted to let you know that it made me happy to read this. Thank you for the kind words. :)
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by schacon 3y ago
Actually yes, but I had to ask too. The cherry-picker person’s sig replaces the original, signing the new data.
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Signing Commits in Git Explained(blog.gitbutler.com)
10 points by schacon 3y ago|3 comments
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by schacon 3y ago
We did this as well several years ago, even with an iOS app, a guide to the process and a German cheat sheet: https://amty.io Every new Berliner feels this pain, but the worse part is getting an appointment. Not just for your An
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by schacon 4y ago
It sounded right in my brainpan.
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by schacon 4y ago
Oops, so I have. Or perhaps GitHub’s svn invented me…
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by schacon 4y ago
I tip my hat to your team and I owe you all beers, my friends. You are doing the lord's work.
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by schacon 4y ago
As one of the GitHub cofounders and the brainchild of this particular feature, I want to let everyone know that this is maybe the funniest thing I've ever done. We released this feature and published the announcing blog post, on April
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Language learning with Peloton-like streaming app(chatterbug.com)
5 points by schacon 5y ago|0 comments
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by schacon 9y ago
I have actually done a number of sweatshirts for my family and friends with this and it's a pretty great machine. If you've never done embroidery and want to start with a cheap and capable machine, I can vouch for this one. It&#x2
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by schacon 9y ago
Quelle langue, Allemand?
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by schacon 9y ago
That's interesting. I studied ASL for several years in college and got fairly competent at it (volunteered in an integrated elementary school, helped at some Deaf-Blind events, went clubbing with Deaf friends, etc) but have had very fe
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by schacon 9y ago
I've found this for German and French too. If I watch a movie or tv show that I already know and turn on both the German language track and the subtitles, it's awful - they're almost never even close. I would assume it's
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by schacon 9y ago
Think about how much time you spend a day speaking even your own language in your daily life. Do you think it's 16 hours in a day? 400 hours of practice is a pretty good rule of thumb I think, but that's deliberate practice, not j
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by schacon 9y ago
Thanks for the great comment. I agree that you need to learn the grammar of a language. I personally have a pretty hard time internalizing grammar rules. Our head curriculum designer always makes fun of me because I want to ban tables of th
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by schacon 9y ago
I would argue that immersing yourself in a native environment is hardly a simple thing. It's expensive - often in money, but always as an impact to your life. If you have a job, or spouse, or kids or pets, how does this work. I've
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by schacon 9y ago
This is the problem I always had with tandems and some tutors as well. One of the things I like about using our system is that all the exercises are guided. They have instructions, you can advance at any time, there is always an explicit ta
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by schacon 9y ago
Yes, getting a better overview of what your progress and work left to do in each level is on our short list. For now, you can always contact us with the Intercom button in the bottom right if you have issues like this and we can see if some
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by schacon 9y ago
We aren't currently hiring, but we would love to talk to you for future reference. We have many plans to scale. :) I agree that there are a lot of features we can and will add. This is only the very beginning of what we can do to impro
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by schacon 9y ago
Our curriculum is all designed from scratch by our linguistics team in house, so it will certainly be specific to each language. However, I'm sure that as we do several languages, we will reuse patterns and exercises that transfer well
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by schacon 9y ago
I'm not sure where you get this. I studied linguistics in college and one of my cofounders got her degree in linguistics from Harvard. Another of our employees is a computational linguist from Cambridge. Additionally, all of the curric
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by schacon 9y ago
This is a great rundown! One interesting thing that comes to mind is that most of the recent research I've read says somewhat counterintuitively that the age factor is not as big of a deal as you might think[1]. I was taught at Univers
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by schacon 9y ago
A tip on Netflix - in the US, it's often nearly impossible to get foreign language dubbing or subtitles. I've found that I can watch Friends in German by using TunnelBear or another VPN to get a German IP and then downloading them
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by schacon 9y ago
You can go to our signup page and choose "Another Language" and it goes into our waiting list. Then when we release new languages we'll likely contact you first to see if you want to be a beta user. https://chatter
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by schacon 9y ago
I'm curious who else in the community here learned a new language to either comfort or fluency and how they did it.
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by schacon 9y ago
I've read a lot of TPR(S) and also Krashen, whose research I believe the system is based on. It is somewhat difficult to use some of this theory over video, but we often discuss what we can take from ideas like this to help beginning s
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by schacon 9y ago
We will absolutely tackle these languages. We're releasing German for English speakers currently in order to learn better how more customers respond to the methods we're using, and German is more complex grammatically for English
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by schacon 10y ago
I'm really curious if this is based on your actual experience with a Vive or if this is an assumption based on what you know about the technology. I read an article at some point that claimed this was an issue so I consciously tested i
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by schacon 12y ago
So I just crushed the pngs which brings this down to 80M, but the problem is the mobi format that is produced by kindlegen. I cover the issue here: https://github.com/progit/progit2/issues/116 But basically A
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by schacon 12y ago
Amazon pretty much sets the price themselves here, we have nothing to do with it (nor do we get paid differently if you buy it for $50 or $20). I believe generally Amazon (or any reseller) pays Apress about $15 per book, since that's w

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