vaskebjorn

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by vaskebjorn 9mo ago
My point was that what Nabokov said about Russian "When you speak Russian your mouth ought to distend laterally at the corners" also applied to German, and that saying "ich" properly in German was an example of this. Yes
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by vaskebjorn 9mo ago
The "ich-laut" does not exist in english. It's not like just saying "ish." Example: https://youtu.be/oSIPAMoCzhA?t=195
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by vaskebjorn 9mo ago
Be born into a noble family with english speaking governesses.
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by vaskebjorn 9mo ago
Everything he says here also applies to german. For example, to actually say "ich" properly you need to have a wide kind of smile that feels incredibly strange to an english native speaker.
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by vaskebjorn 7y ago
Yes it is very far from intuitive (as a developer I can tell when uis are designed solely by developers). The way I think of it is this: you do all of your foreign language reading through the app. Lingq keeps track of which words you have
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by vaskebjorn 7y ago
Also check out the lingq exporter [1] which works with Youtube as well. Does something similar but also allows you to keep an inventory of your current vocabulary on the lingq platform. I'm a huge fan. https://chrome.google.
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by vaskebjorn 7y ago
It's not that difficult of an intellectual exercise to find parallels between one time and place and Weimar Germany. Honestly this article is a bit intellectually dishonest by saying things like "It seemed as though nothing could
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by vaskebjorn 7y ago
With eggs you are probably getting plenty of protein. I have been mostly vegan for a while and I don't think my bike riding has been affected, but I can tell you it definitely affected me when it came to weight lifting. For the first t
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by vaskebjorn 9y ago
I can second the Chartrand book (I believe you mean "Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics"). I used this book in a "bridge" class and loved it; it really starts from first principles and gives you a
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by vaskebjorn 9y ago
I've been reading the Norton Edition of Franklin's autobiography and some of the excerpts in the back of the book are pretty amazing. A lot of them pretty vicious European responses to Franklin's approaches, especially his li
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by vaskebjorn 9y ago
I've been devoting a lot of time to learning hardware lately and the resources that have worked best for me are: Make: Electronics [1] This is a very accessible, hands on driven book that starts from absolute 0 and builds you up step b
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by vaskebjorn 9y ago
In my experience writing getters and setters has been boilerplate 99% of the time. But I still write them because situations arise where you do need to change the nature of that property, sometimes dynamically, and then it's suddenly w
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by vaskebjorn 10y ago
> I know people will disagree, but a skilled photoshopper can often reproduce the look and feel of film with digital. But why go through the hassle of photoshopping when you can just get the image out of the camera the way you want it? T
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by vaskebjorn 11y ago
"The danger in trying to force object-oriented concepts onto a C base is to get an inconsistent construction, impairing the software development process and the quality of the resulting products. A hybrid approach yields hybrid quality
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by vaskebjorn 12y ago
Yet another reason for this not already mentioned is that some enterprise customers actually expect these ugly interfaces. This horrible ie 6/7 aesthetic has come to signify what "enterprise" software looks like, and it'