msglenn

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Show HN: Please Critique My Vocabulary Building Tool for Japanese
1 points by msglenn 13y ago|1 comments
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by msglenn 13y ago
Makes sense. My designer and I used a shared board on Pinterest in the beginning and that worked fine. The part that got hairy was going back and forth with the actual PSDs of the design. It might be nice to add simple drawing tools for giv
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by msglenn 13y ago
Lots of designers seem to be using Pinterest to collect inspiration. How is this different?
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by msglenn 13y ago
Which is sad, because I've found Medium to be a terrific blogging tool for people who don't want to be full time bloggers. The interface is really very easy to use, with the only annoying thing being the difficulty in browsing Collections w
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by msglenn 13y ago
But isn't there a certain lack of humility in attempting to solve a set of problems that you have no insight into because they do not affect you at all? There is nothing wrong with trying to address "third world problems" if you have the sk
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by msglenn 13y ago
I found Oblivion to be an homage to some of the best sci-fi over the past few decades (Moon, The Matrix, Independence Day), an effect that was ruined by the feeling that it took itself too seriously to realize it was an homage. In terms o
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by msglenn 13y ago
Ideally we would help ALL students improve, but isn't it better that we give the kids with more involved parents a fighting chance by letting them opt into a more rigorous school? Otherwise we create a situation that looks like this: 1. Par
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by msglenn 13y ago
Access to quality education is not a right in this country, but attendance is required for a variety of reasons. Most of them related to creating and maintaining a functioning society. The more lofty goals of compulsory public education are
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by msglenn 13y ago
As we fight to improve the quality of education in urban areas, it is critical that we pay attention to the results we're getting. That is the point, after all. That said, this article fails to mention one of the most salient arguments in f
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by msglenn 13y ago
The A player rhetoric makes it easy to discard an employee without reflecting on how your actions as a company might be affecting that person's performance. The blame for poor performance immediately falls to the employee. Sometimes the emp
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by msglenn 13y ago
Might I suggest a third reason: Maintaining your sanity. Not just in terms of remembering that there are other people out there struggling alongside you in the entrepreneurship game, but also in giving you a modicum of control over your nex
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by msglenn 13y ago
People often look worse in photos than they do in real life simply because they don't know the tricks for adjusting their face and bodies to achieve the best effect. This photographer positions people in unnatural ways to ensure his subject