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by yannis 17y ago
The picture is still pretty much bleak. The major changes in China and India are skewing the picture and the $1/per day definition of poverty is also questionable. Go to the link below and press play to see some visualizations of similar st
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by yannis 17y ago
I feel as strongly as the author that the new UI basically screwed up the 'character' of the site, but most importantly its usability. For the first time in the last three months I did not spent time on the site. The new UI looks good but i
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by yannis 17y ago
If you want to raise your kids bilingually one way is for you to only speak to them say in Norwegian and your wife to speak to them only in English. It is a very interesting subject especially fro an evolutionary point of view - what's happ
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by yannis 17y ago
From a certain perspective no one speaks a "language," everyone speaks a dialect of a language. My mother language is Greek but I speak the Cypriot dialect. Mainland Greeks have great difficulty understanding Cypriots talking but not the ot
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by yannis 17y ago
I watch TED videos with sub-titles!
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by yannis 17y ago
There is one other advantage, being able to read in another language opens up a literary world that is hidden and even a technical world which is difficult to extract with translations.
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by yannis 17y ago
My son is fully bilingual in Afrikaans(sort of a Dutch Dialect) and English. When he was a toddler he would speak fluently to his grandmother in Afrikaans and would turn in the same conversation and seamlessly talk to me or his mother in En
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by yannis 17y ago
Besides the useful contents I enjoyed this: >If you see a typo, a spelling mistake, an error, or any other issue, please tell me about it by opening a case in my issue tracker or by sending me an e-mail.
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by yannis 17y ago
This is an excellent resource and done very professionally. I like the clean site look and nothing is more than two clicks away. Surely it will be a winner with developers. Let us know when your new year's resolution traffic is on target! N
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by yannis 17y ago
Just simply not good and with a lot of bugs! I loved the previous version, which I considered as one of the better UIs around. In addition if you try and visit the old site link as listed on the blog you get a security warning in Chrome.
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by yannis 17y ago
You should allow me to give you a bit of a background. In the eighties I got involved with a Package called Pastel (previously known as Pink Software), the external Accountants created most of the demand for it (they never actually sold it
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by yannis 17y ago
It will get more than $46 million to provide these tools and by-pass censorship. Current countries on my list that are censoring are: - Afghanistan - Algeria - Australia (in the queue to censor) - Azerbaijan - Bahrain
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by yannis 17y ago
For one it's going to be free and for small businesses that is always a really key thing Your questionnaire on registration asked for how much I was prepared to pay a month. This threw me out :) Perhaps you need to say so somewhere. I als
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by yannis 17y ago
Just a guess google power meter? http://www.google.org/powermeter/index.html
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by yannis 17y ago
Having a very good background in accounts I wanted to see what the application could do for me. Maybe I missed it but I desperately needed a tour! What is your unique selling proposition? What is Google Application Engine to a non-hacker ie
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Learning Styles Debunked(sciencedaily.com)
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Users find newsmedia websites best for usability(bizreport.com)
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by yannis 17y ago
Kurtzweil's predictions are mostly on target so far and his arguments hold that if he is a couple of years off on a prediction, the prediction is still essentially correct. I am not sure though that I agree with him on the timing of the 'si
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by yannis 17y ago
Not everybody can be a Gandhi, but here is a suggestion. You can light a room with a candle but not a City, you can help by helping in your 'little corner' and I don't mean charity. India has come a long way. I remember when every other yea
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by yannis 17y ago
On the premise that you are expecting your start-up to be a success you should look for another domain and you should register the .com, .net .org .info etc... Besides your application you will be building a brand don't share it with a doma
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We hate plug-ins. Except our own(theregister.co.uk)
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Science and Engineering Indicators 2010(whitehouse.gov)
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by yannis 17y ago
Thanks! I quoted this one as it is very simple (about 10-12 lines of code) and hence crying to be extended :)
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by yannis 17y ago
That List of cognitive biases almost reads like a list of software bugs! Thanks.
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by yannis 17y ago
It is difficult to comment without knowing more as to why you need to write a server, perhaps you care to give a few of the reasons. However, the way you explained it, you need low level control. How about Lua, it has a beautiful syntax,
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by yannis 17y ago
The interview has some good tips http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/business/17corner.html I especially liked this part: 'My advice to young people is always, along the way, have a sales job. You could be selling sweaters. You could be sel
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by yannis 17y ago
NS will only let you read 3 articles - then it will ask you to register and you will be able to read another 7 in one month and then you need to PAY, since I normally buy the dead tree version this is just harassment!
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by yannis 17y ago
I am really sorry to see New Scientist behind a paywall. There is little point in posting articles that are behind paywalls on a site like HN.
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by yannis 17y ago
Maybe for a fortress program http://projectfortress.sun.com/Projects/Community/wiki/Integ... my brain will allow proportional fonts, but for anything else it is actually wired in such a convoluted way by now that it expects monospace!
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by yannis 17y ago
This sounds like a Marshall Plan for the mother of all Games. Hope they make it multi-player open source:)

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