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by sivers 13y ago
I've been using Anki to get fluent in Ruby and JavaScript. See the article, “Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software” here: http://sivers.org/srs I use some super-dumb examples on that page,
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Yeah. Originally I was going to price them at $200 each. ("For the cost of one night in a Hong Kong hotel, this will save you weeks or even months of research.") Definitely only of interest to someone really planning on setting u
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by sivers 13y ago
Nope. Doing this for my own self-education. It's really more of a hobby than a business. See http://sivers.org/eg
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by sivers 13y ago
A great book about this is “The Culting of Brands” - by Douglas Atkin. http://sivers.org/book/CultingOfBrands
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Great point. I don't have the answer, but here's something to consider: That brilliant journalist I hired, the person who was ready to take on the responsibility of writing 16 books in a year, needed $90k salary. Finding people t
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For context, watch Paul Romer's two TED talks: http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer.html http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer_the_world_s_first_charte...
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by sivers 13y ago
Unfortunately not. I skipped Laos, Brunei, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and a few others. Having to draw the line somewhere, I picked countries where I either had an in, or had at least heard a lot of buzz and interest about (like Myanma
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by sivers 13y ago
I may. But to get it started, I want to help set the tone and focus. But once there's a precedent/standard/example to follow, an open style may make more sense.
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Because I'm especially interested in the comparison between countries, I thought the most fascinating part of the project was to ask the same 200 questions of all 16 countries, and compare the answers. This definitely isn't a ty
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by sivers 13y ago
Check out http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings That IFC "Ease of Doing Business" index is quite well-researched. That has better information than my books, for direct comparisons like you're asking.
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Thanks! It was SO tempting! But keeping my mouth shut about it helped me slog through it and get it done, instead of basking in advance glory. It's too easy to slack off, if you've already felt the warm fuzzy joy from people&#x2
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Yeah. I'll be writing about it very soon. Made a lot of mistakes. Learned some good share-able lessons from the process. You know I always try to describe those, afterwards, in case it can apply to something you're doing.
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Follow the link from any book's page to its page on Amazon. There you can do the "Look Inside This Book" thing on the book cover, to read a few pages. Or just email me and offer to contribute. Then you'd get a free one.
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Good eye. I looked at that question so many times in the last couple years that I got blind to it. Thanks for pointing it out. Fixed for future editions. The books, instead of being written by one person, are written by 50 different rese
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by sivers 13y ago
Good point! Of course, I came here expecting to see a bunch of people saying I'm wrong. :-)
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by sivers 13y ago
Hey Nathan. Great article. Thanks for writing this. Loved your three points. It's a subject I've been thinking a lot about lately, but I hadn't thought about feature re-writing for repetition practice. Good stuff. The only thing I'd add is
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by sivers 14y ago
Very nice that they did 301 redirects for all the thousands of URLs out there on their old CMS. Example: curl -I http://www.rogerebert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2010031... HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Cache-Control: no-cache
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:-) Thanks for catching that.
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Yep ^ that's the link. Those books are default sorted in order with my top recommendations at the top. A little blurb on each, then detailed notes inside.
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Sorry about that. Next week I'll post a succinct article about switching to OpenBSD, and I'll title it, "Long interview about life and travel." :-)
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How to test a REST client against a remote REST server?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
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A guy I know was in a similar situation when trying to enter Australia. 20+ years ago, when he was 18, he was arrested for the afternoon because of a student protest. So now on the visa forms, when entering Australia on vacation, he was ask
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by sivers 14y ago
Thanks "Selfcommit". That's nice to hear. I really appreciate it. Feel free to email me anytime : derek@sivers.org
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Fixed. Thank you!
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Herb - I totally agree. First draft of the post I kept saying "all because I went to school in Boston and bought a guy a pizza." Very thankful that I had the random luck to grow up in the U.S, to afford tuition at Berklee (though it was on
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Back then they were only $8. :-)
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I've basically just finished this process, described in the post, over the last few months. Experienced with PHP, Ruby, and SQL, but zero JavaScript. (1) - Tried to read Crockford's "The Good Parts", but was completely confused. (2) - Read
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by sivers 14y ago
Ah! Thanks for mentioning this. I thought the Tumblr massive-font-size thing was just my Galaxy Note. In a year of using a large-phone / small-tablet, the only site the gets it wrong is Tumblr.
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I've got a couple recent ThinkPads - (T400 + W520) - running Linux, and love them. My favorite thing is the removable CD/DVD bay, where you can stick in a hard drive caddy and put different 2.5" drives in there. Nice for super-fast (interna
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Very nice idea. I forgot to mention the deck-sharing point: It's pretty important to learn the material yourself first, then use the cards as a reminder of what you learned. When you go through someone else's deck, there's no context. But

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