shiplet

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Ask HN: Ecommerce frontend and backend migrations
1 points by shiplet 8y ago|0 comments
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by shiplet 9y ago
Hey!! No kidding! One of my goals for this year is to finally get my call sign. I've been on the verge the past two years, but things with work kept coming up. This year however, this year it's gonna happen.
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by shiplet 11y ago
In the 10+ years I've been running, I'd guess I've felt a "high" maybe 3 times? The first one was actually my first year running - a brisk 5-miler in the early Fall in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Another during the
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by shiplet 11y ago
I've currently got rEFInd dual-booting Yosemite and Ubuntu on a Macbook Pro 11,3 (15", mid-2014, 2.5GHz) - and it works just fine. It took some tweaking - the Linux distro didn't come with Wifi support right away, and it took
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by shiplet 11y ago
This is so cool. I was trying to correlate the sounds I heard to the shapes of the words, but I've got limited exposure to Turkish which made it more difficult. Fascinating to know that it [sounds] Turkish as well.
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by shiplet 11y ago
The tonal aspect makes a lot of sense, and in the case of Turks applying it to a non-tonal language, I'd love to learn how they did it. Maybe it'd be possible to apply to English?
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by shiplet 11y ago
Three reasons I love this: 1.) It's Aristotelian mimesis made manifest AND practical. It does diverge from his linguistic ideas about syllable construction, etc., but that's fine because it's not about him. 2.) It's abou
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The Whistled Language of Northern Turkey(newyorker.com)
29 points by shiplet 11y ago|10 comments
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by shiplet 11y ago
Not specifically tech-related, but as far as general knowledge goes, the BBC's "In Our Time" with Melvyn Bragg is about as robust as they come.