JamesNelson

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   by JamesNelson 13y ago

   I've noticed a few people say they've just gone out and found an angel instead of working freelancing/etc. during development. Out of curiosity - how do people go about this? Do you meet people through your existing contacts?
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   by JamesNelson 13y ago

   > A lot of us are high level developers, architects, consultants, and so on. Which in the eyes of most people other than those you have listed, makes us geeks. If we're talking about leadership, it isn't so much how we see ours
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   Heart of the Matter(abc.net.au)

   1 points by JamesNelson 13y ago|0 comments
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   by JamesNelson 13y ago

   I've been using Colemak for a couple years now - but instead of learning it with my laptop's keyboard, I learnt it with a new Kinesis Advantage Pro. I now find that if I'm using a standard keyboard, I can type qwerty without
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   Manna(marshallbrain.com)

   2 points by JamesNelson 13y ago|0 comments
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   Payright: A Copyright/Patent Reform Proposal To Make Copyright Obsolete(falkvinge.net)

   1 points by JamesNelson 14y ago|0 comments
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   by JamesNelson 14y ago

   I love the idea - I've been looking for ways to try and "immerse" people in a new language without actually travelling for a while now. I do have two worries about it, though. The first is that they seem to be using translations which aren'
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   by JamesNelson 15y ago

   > Japan has extremely low crime as well, and is probably the least Americanized of all First World nations today. Clearly, it is physically possible for the State to eradicate crime. It is possible that the fact that Japan is the least
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   by JamesNelson 15y ago

   Could I ask what those valuable theories you learnt are?
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    by JamesNelson 15y ago

    There's actually an open source app which functions similarly to super-memo, but uses an older spaced repetition algorithm and doesn't quite have the same feature set. Its called Anki ( http://www.ankisrs.net ), and its been a godsend for b
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    by JamesNelson 15y ago

    Both articles are actually by the same author. His blog is at http://www.fingleton.net/
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    by JamesNelson 15y ago

    This poses an interesting question for those of us building apps - would you get more signups to your app eventually if you didn't make people sign up just to view the content? Its theoretically possible that requiring people to authorize