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by villesundberg 11y ago
In Finnish, the letter 'ä' denotes the vowel [æ], which is close to the vowel you'd use in the words 'cat' or 'hat' in English. This sound, to my knowledge, doesn't exist in Standard German.
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by villesundberg 11y ago
Finn here. It's true that Finnish spelling is very simple. The mapping of sounds to letters is quite regular, and much more so than in English. As an example, the word 'computer' is 'tietokone'. The pronunciation is
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Matter Two(matter.vc)
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by villesundberg 13y ago
This is a long-running weekend project I started for my own use in ITF Taekwondo. I've been generalizing it little by little to cover other arts. It's still a little rough around the edges and a lot of obvious things are missing.
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Show HN: Kihapp - Tournament Organizing for Martial Artists(kihapp.com)
1 points by villesundberg 13y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Scoopinion, The Weirdly Accurate Newsletter(scoopinion.com)
3 points by villesundberg 13y ago|1 comments
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by villesundberg 14y ago
I think we all saw this coming when G+ took over some of Reader's functionality. I've been working on a news solution of my own, Scoopinion, since 2011. It's a discovery engine that ranks articles based on how closely they've been read. Use
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by villesundberg 14y ago
Agreed. I've been wondering how to do that so that it doesn't get tedious but stays effective. Blacklisting categories or sources works to an extent.
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by villesundberg 14y ago
This is a good point, and happens to me sometimes too in real life. I've also found that some people read way too much into how well an automatic recommendation system should work. There have been a couple of angry feedback messages due to
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Great Recommendations Are Half Placebo(scoopinion.com)
27 points by villesundberg 14y ago|14 comments
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How Scoopinion is sharing news reading data with journalists(journalism.co.uk)
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My Digital Zen(scoopinion.com)
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Media burnout(scoopinion.com)
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Breakfast as a Service(scoopinion.com)
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Dangerous, dangerous ideas(scoopinion.com)
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Could Fasting Cause Flow?(scoopinion.com)
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Help everyone: procrastinate more(scoopinion.com)
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Scoopinion Tracks What You Read, Not What You Click(huffingtonpost.com)
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by villesundberg 15y ago
Users abandoned by Summify should check out our alternative - a newsletter based on reader engagement: http://www.scoopinion.com