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I had a similar experience learning Chinese. Output did not follow comprehension.

The rule was never sleep without giving your brain something to work on. I spent an hour in the morning and an hour at night practicing the precise pronounciation of syllables, words and phrases, using tapes as a reference. There was little improvement during sessions, but noticeable improvement between them. Thus the rule about sleep.

As my pronunciation improved, so did my comprehension. I can't imagine it working the other way. Comprehension is passive, and no guarantee of accurate or even coherent production.

Following such a method you can learn a language in 6-12 months.

EDIT: I just read up on Krashen, and well, no, his theories are wrong. I wasted years on that crap. I doubt fluency is even possible with such a method. Just do what sounddust said and you'll be set.

EDIT2: The average person acquires fluency despite the Krashen method, rather than because of it. In my case, due to very poor audio recall, the Krashen method was a complete failure, so I was forced to experiment with other ways.

It turns out perception of foreign sounds is very weak in adults. We recognize a subset of possible sounds and toss out the rest, or munge it into something heavily accented. The repetition & production method compensates for this by making such sounds "real". Once they are real, the actual language follows more quickly.

EDIT3 (sorry): More on Krashen, from http://www.sk.com.br/sk-krash.html:

The only instance in which the teaching of grammar can result in language acquisition (and proficiency) is when the students are interested in the subject and _the target language_ is used as a medium of instruction.

This is so fucking wrong. The study of grammar is analytical. Language is the vehicle of analytic thought--if your proficiency in a language is weak, your level of analytic thought in that language is also weak. So if you want to study French grammar and you've only just started learning the language, by all means, study it in English.

Wow. So this is why the English-speaking world can't seem to learn a foreign language. Thank you xccx, you opened my eyes.
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Asians rarely value individuality. Doesn't the American system do better in teaching kids to be different from the norm?
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This is a great modern fable. It overstates the moral imperative, however, by casting people as agents of the dragon, making them actively responsible for the death of others [1].

The truth of the matter is that working to defeat mortally is supererogatory -- as a young Spock put it, an act which is morally praiseworthy but not morally obligatory.

[1] Similar in spirit to the TOS episode, "A Taste of Armageddon," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon
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I'm going to guess that whichever study came to this conclusion, it took "good for students" to mean "higher grades" or some other bogus measure.
I would have liked to see this choice:

The title is the overwhelming factor, but the domain sometimes influences my decision.
They frequently sell Windows for less than $129 when it comes on a new computer. Big computer sellers (Dell, HP, etc) pay very little for Windows. I'm not sure if the numbers are public, but I think that it's no more than $50, at least for the base version. The cost of Windows is in development. It costs them nothing to put it on an additional new computer and maybe 50 cents of packaging and a CD to sell it in stores. So they really can make it up on their huge volume pretty easily, as they already do when they practically give the OEMs the basic versions. If every Windows user were to upgrade to Windows 7 for $50, they would make huge profits.

Now, not every Windows user will, but if they can get a lot more to upgrade with a cheaper price, it might be worth it.
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More and more languages are acquiring functional-programming features, so, may be we will see a hybrid of Python & Haskell.

languages like Haskell, which have no side effects

Haskell does have side-effects. Most programs have side-effects. Functional languages like Haskell are designed to separate side-effects and pure functions. It gives the interpreter/compiler the ability to parallelize the pure function.
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Banksy's incredible, they'll talk about him in 50 years the way we talk about Picasso today. I've spent a lot of time in England over the last 3 years, and seen a number of his pieces. Gone out of my way a bit to walk past a few.

My girlfriend lived near Angel station, I'd walk past the children saluting the Tesco flag every day on the way to the gym. Tesco is an English grocery store, and the piece is pretty marvelously weaved into the environment.

Closeup:
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In context, zoomed back a bit:
http://www.jay-han.com/images/banksy/banksy-tesco.jpg

You walk past his art, and it makes you pause and look and think for a moment. Great stuff. Wish I was in the UK right now to go check out the museum.
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This is Sterling's basic mode of blogging: the original, plus commentary. Granted, usually it's a lot more commentary.

A lot of people lately are being prodigal with the P word (the other P word, I mean: "plagiarism") in referring to blogs that quote at length. The blogs in question almost always make it clear that the quote is a quote. Sterling is less good at this, but his regular readers have no trouble and PageRank is not his goal. Can we please reserve our ire for the real plagiarists, which are plentiful?
Sometimes I think there is always a cynical response to any sensational news story, regardless of its validity. I guess it is important to see a controversial position from all sides, but in this case I think there is a clear conclusion (that the voting process was tampered with), that still stands regardless of one faulty statistical analysis of the data. In this case I wonder if it is a way to internally differentiate ourselves from what we would consider blind ignorant sheep of the liberal media.
You know, I actually found that I read the text more quickly because it was so small to the point where only fragments of the words were visible. I'm assuming that's because my brain had to process and interpret less.
I don't know about that, I think it's good that someone is looking at the risks of runaway AI and similar things. Progress relies upon a certain diversity of thought, and that means that some people (and nearly all scientists) will end up wasting their lives looking down blind alleys, and none of us knows whether EY is one of them. Your Dostoyevsky quote could well apply to Einstein, for instance, in his later years.
@Misuba -- I couldn't agree more. This happens to be a common occurrence in closed communities, academic or otherwise. No one writes within a vacuum, there is always a prior influence.

When someone within the community is dubbed a "plagiarist", that person is cast out to protect the false idea that everyone in the community is creating completely original work all the time.

Your point is apt; There are real spammers and plagiarists out there. To nitpick over a clear quote within a blog post is just our antennas perking up and realizing that most of what we write isn't as ground breaking or original as we'd like to believe. It's convenient for us to rally around how original we are, instead of coming to grips with how unoriginal it all really is.
People: stop voting this guy down. I thought we tolerated dissenters here.
Yeah, if anything it would be copyright infringement, not plagiarism.
Keep your eyes open -- basic office chairs seem to often be on sale at one place or another. And sale prices often seem to knock a significant percentage off the normal price. People can be rather particular about their chairs, though. Make sure whatever you get is comfortable. Some may want to pick or bring in their own.

You'll also want to make sure they roll ok on whatever you have as a floor. It gets tiring quickly if every tuck in to and every pushing back and standing up is an effort. Chair wheels are one factor. But if the flooring is just uncooperative, there are plastic chair mats that can help. They can also protect less durable flooring, if that is a concern.

With the Persbo table/desk, if you try that route, I would suggest getting just one at first and seeing what you think of it. Tastes and performance needs vary, and I'd hate to steer you wrong if yours don't match mine. You might also look at some of the other table tops, e.g. if you decide you need a harder (laminate) surface or something capable of a higher load. Pay attention to the edges, though. I find that sharp angles on the edges are significantly less comfortable. I tend to lean on the table/desk edge at times, and they really dig in, then.

Good luck!

P.S. Try typing on the Persbo top, as well, if you can. I realize now that since it's lighter weight, it resonates a bit more with the typing and so makes the typing sound somewhat louder. Especially in a shared workspace, this might bother some people (I know others' typing noise bothers me; however, the workspace I described is my own, private one, so this is not a factor for me in using the Persbo top).
There's a common perception in the academic community that they face heavy resistance from those who think that "death gives life meaning," and that ending aging would harm "human dignity."

These feelings may be strong among philosophers and ethicists and the debate may rage in journals, but I don't think there's nearly so much resistance in the general population.

The challenge is proving that dramatic longevity extension is really possible. Most of modern medicine is really treatment of symptoms, not cures. We don't understand or have effective treatments for the underlying causes of most conditions.
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So once the port to LLVM is done, how would that compare to say something like Jython?

I always thought(not based on actual experience) that running Jython or IronPython would give you all the mentioned benefits.
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Maybe he loves the iPhone more than he hates DRM?
I'm not sure it makes sense to say that he "discovered" the microbe.

Isn't it more like he "created" it?
I looked over Sterling's other posts before submitting a "this guy's stealing from pg" post, and came to a similar conclusion. I thought about it, and came to the conclusion that I don't like it, but it wasn't worth raising the alarm over. I still think this is a Bad Thing to do. His post didn't quote the whole thing, and links to the source, which are good. However, here are some of the things that bother me: He doesn't make it obvious that it is a quote -- the link doesn't have any helpful text; it's just a link. It doesn't say "from pg". He adds nothing of value. (This is arguably similar to reddit, boingboing, or, indeed, hacker news itself, but differs in that on those sites either a very small amount is quoted, or the quoting is obvious (see boingboing's quotes)).

So you're right -- this isn't plagarism, but I still think it's unethical, especially for someone at Wired.
It doesn't matter if you agree or not, -6 is not appropriate for a non-spam comment.

If you don't agree, post about it. Don't mod down.

Mod to 0 for an incorrect comment (maybe -1, sometimes), but no lower. Lower is only for spam and things like "lol", "me too", etc.
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Yep. I used to read any HN post from Posterous, because most of those early ones were from the actual Posterous founders and I was interested in what they had to say. Most of the more recent "Posterous.com" links are just from people with Posterous blogs, so I've stopped reading them unless the title is very compelling. Too many were a waste of time. I wish people posted their blog's sub-domain information when they post on HN so that readers could make a more informed decision about whether or not to click through...
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For the kiosk situation I'd assume the best solution is for the end of a kiosk session to involve a full cookie wipe. If you can't verify that the kiosk does that (or do it yourself), obviously you shouldn't use it.
Reversing and binary patching are two different but related arcane arts. Reversing is the understanding, patching is the modification. Many people do both, but just understanding one doesn't mean you can understand the other. When it comes right down to it, binary patching can be done in a million different ways, regardless of how the reversing was done, and it doesn't get nearly the respect it deserves. Most people tend to lump reversing and all related (binary patching, anti-anti-debugging magic, etc) arts together, but they all deserve separate discussions and explanations.

(Sorry for the extremely long winded, slightly off-topic reply.)
While I can't speak to the specific claim, there's no reason to expect that two disconnected populations will necessarily develop the same adaptations in response to similar pressures.
Get a Japanese girlfriend.

If that's not possible, sounddust's method seems the most likely for a hacker with limited access to Japanese people.
Also "you get what you measure". They should have tried to find out how good a car of that model would typically be, rather than how good a rigged demo of it could possibly be.
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"I hated having 85 employees. It had become a little hell. I needed to get away and clear my mind."

My Advice: Start a business where you need no more than 2-3 people period (outside of your other partners legal, and financial advisors).

85 employees shivers NFW, you couldn't pay me enough. Classic ball and chain.
I learned Kanji (or Hanzi, as it were) by rote practice and careful attention to the calligraphy of each stroke. It turns out each stroke has a rhythm, and the sequence of strokes have a composite rhythm unique to the character.

Rhythm is an important mnemonic aid. The Homeric epics are poems because poetry has meter and rhyme, and people needed that to remember the whole thing. Same thing with Kanji.
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Sort of but not exactly. Meeting your neighbors can only go so far.

I am connected to a co-housing community in my city. There is a street of houses with their backs joined. They removed the fences separating their backyards; creating an enormous community space with communal gardens, common areas, and a common house for parties, gatherings and community dinners. It is very easy to knock on their door and stop in. It is also very easy to meet everyone in the community because of the interconnectedness. Everyone in the community chooses to be part of the community and are therefore glad to help out, chat, or hangout.

Essentially, the advantages are that you don't have to make as much of an effort to meet your neighbors. You are already interconnected and the infrastructure is there to support everyones needs. There are also aspects of sustainability that add to the benefits.
This is how simple it should have been from the beginning.
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V8 goes down to machine code, not bytecode, btw.
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There are some pro-engineered-longevity ethicists. This fellow, for example, is a good example of someone mired in stereotypical ethicist viewpoints (e.g. social justice, redistribution, equality uber alles, etc) nonetheless constructing a rationale within his paradigm for all-out longevity research as fast as possible:

http://colinfarrelly.blogspot.com/2009/06/idealism-meets-rea...
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Background:

I've owned laptops for the past 13 years, starting with a Toshiba satellite pro and latest with a Lenovo Thinkpad X61. I've played around with various flavors of windows from '95, NT 4 to 2000, XP and server 2003. Also played around with linux flavors, focusing on Slackware, Redhat then fedora core and now Debian.

I just bought a Macbook pro (base 15" model). For my work I need to develop platform specific software for all 3 major platforms (Linux, OS X, Windows XP (thankfully our IT staff has deferred Vista. )), in addition to server software which will run on Linux for production.

So I'm reading through the Apple bootcamp docs and looking over my web searches for tutorials and info on triple booting Leopard, Debian and Windows XP. Do any of you work with this kind of configuration and what suggestions do you have?

I'm assuming that I'm going to just scrub my factory install and create four partitions (one for each OS, and one win32 for share)

The thing I'm concerned with the most is dealing with weirdness in maintaining the configuratino.
Any advice is appreciated.
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I would say yes, the plow is much more simple than excel. However, I disagree that the loom is too. You can do amazing things with a loom if you take the time to learn the complexities of the machine.
Show me an entry level office job posting/ad where calculus is a requirement ...
"Even entry level office jobs jobs now require an understanding of calculus, statistics, excel, etc."

This is simply not true. Entry-level office jobs require a piece of paper saying "this dude knows calculus"; they don't actually require the knowledge. If you don't believe me, visit an average office, go around, and ask people to take the derivative of sin(x)*x^2; this is a fairly simple problem which any first-semester calculus student would know how to solve.
It's sad. All of the teachers that are forced to teach to the status quo do so because money is on the line. If a school doesn't conform to the guidelines set down by the government, then they don't get funding. This is a classic example of a law that is meant to help failing miserably, and even making things worse.

And you can't really blame the teachers. They need to make a living, and they barely do as it is. I hate the fact that we seem to value our teachers so little.
I used to have a really open schedule. I started working in the morning and then kept on going untill I was fed up ( usually somewhere late in the evening). But after a while I suffered more writer's block related problems and finally said to myself "you're not allowed to work beyond 7pm" this put more pressure on me since I had to have stuff finished before that time, resolving most of the blocks and increasing my total output per day. Nowadays it's not as strict anymore, but I do try to keep to regular workdays as much as possible.
The music industry isn't necessarily getting smaller, it's just going in a new direction. Video games are evolving and getting bigger and bigger with each year or more specifically each generation of consoles. I can definitely see that video games could be twice as big as music by 2011, but I just don't see music getting "smaller" just video games getting "bigger." There are problems with the music industry that will be fixed over time. CD sales are pretty low compared to a few years ago, it doesn't even take half as many sales to reach #3 as it did 3 years ago (Case Point: see 311's new album "Uplifter" highest debut ever, 2nd lowest debut sales ever)
Is it just me, or does the second font there give an optical illusion that it's moving?
Interesting, do you remember anything else, like which languages were involved?
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I don't think it's that unusual that the executives would only be presented with the best sample for demonstration. You have to remember that each car represents the hard work of many people, and I know that if I was the last person in that chain responsible for preparing the demo model for the CEO, I'd certainly take the time to make sure everything was perfect!

In fact, I think the author buried the lead in the last paragraph. I've never been turned off of a car because of a loose fitting joint on the dash, or a persistent rattle (my current car has both). Rather, the real problem is that they've removed the human element from the design process. I can't find the exact quote at the moment, but I recall Jonathan Ive once said something to the effect that he could pin-point when each car manufacturer moved from clay model prototypes to CAD design, because that's precisely when the cars lost their "soul".
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<blink>Aren't browser-specific features one of the things that mozilla was supposed to cure?</blink>
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Canadian schoolyear is 10 days longer than American, none-the-less.
The demo also works in Safari 4 on a Mac.
if you say:

Clojure is a member of the family of Lisp languages

x is the set of features that all the members of the Lisp family share

Clojure has all features in x

then this is trivially true and not surprising.

But if you compare the specific language and implementation called Clojure with, say, the specific implementation Clozure CL (CCL), then I would say that there are quite a few features (and their benefits) of CCL that are both available in a lot of other Lisps (for example direct support for object-oriented programming or the ability to save and restart the state) that Clojure lacks. Also true, Clojure has a few features (especially features that are not widely shared among Lisps like STM) that CCL lacks.
"Virtually all technical jobs of any kind requires calculus. This includes almost all engineers, virtually all scientists, and most analysts."

Engineers and scientists, yes, but these are a small percentage of the population; scientists maybe 0.5%, engineers maybe 5%.

"Also, most finance jobs involve math far beyond algebra."

No, they don't. A lot of finance people can't understand the Capital Asset Pricing Model, let alone anything more complicated. "... if you really do like math then banking is NOT for you, it’s a joke quantitatively." - http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/investment-banking-sal...
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Can you elaborate?
I've run VPC on Mac (I bought PVC with office 2004 for my G5), but this leave a LOT to be desired. I'd rather avoid the virtualization. the only success I've had with virtualization is with Xen. Other virtualization attempts (VMWare and MS VPC) has failed for performance and driver reasons. This could very well be different on the X86 architecture, hence why I'm asking for advice.
Seems like a highly Euro-centric view presented with no reasonable evidence whatsoever. And they're begging the question, trying to argue the point that everyone prefers blondes with blue eyes by assuming it to be true and backwards rationalizing from there.
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