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Comment · 7 years ago
I used Duolingo for about 1 month to learn Portuguese and was close to the end of the tree. I learned quite a lot, the grammar drills were useful introduction and basic vocabulary, however I stopped using it due to it requiring me to translate back into English which made it hard to think in the language. I bought other books, like side by side texts, and grammar books to continue and watch YouTube videos from Brazil to drill in the sound of the language.

I learned German at a University in a German speaking country, and the classes were completely in German from day one which I found helpful. I also bought quite a number of books and studied quite a lot before I become fluent.

So I don’t think an app is a one stop solution, it takes a lot of material, I’m not sure why people think any one system is enough, especially considering you never stop learning a language. Fluent just means you know enough to continue to learn in the language on your own.

Comment · 7 years ago
How much UV light is emitted?
Comment · 7 years ago
So they went off and implemented a brand new fancy service discovery tool for I bet a problem they didn’t have, but couldn’t do the basics of tracking 2kb of data for the CA. I don’t think that’s a age issues, that and there’s nothing that prevents companies of any size from self reflection on what they’re doing and what’s important.

Also what’s the point of transparency if you’re not getting critical feedback from it and learning?

Comment · 7 years ago
> After looking everywhere, and asking everyone on the team, we got the definitive answer that the CA key we created a year ago for this self-signed certificate had been lost.

The GitLab outages always make the company seem disorganized and sloppy, and unable to reflect on how to improve how they work. So they don't have a central place to store their CA, and even after an outage, did they improve anything about how they work?

It's ironic that the post seems geared towards recruiting, though I guess it's honest, you know what you're getting into with that team.

Comment · 7 years ago
No sense of humor?
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Comment · 7 years ago
Works with plain old lemon juice too, the soybean process sounds over engineered.
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Comment · 7 years ago
That's the difference between working for a company vs. starting a company, the lower risk of being an employee comes at a high price unfortunately.
Comment · 7 years ago
Ironically film tools have some of the most stringent copy protection systems, and big studios break the licenses agreements without hesitation when they need to get something done.
Comment · 7 years ago
Dish is almost an archaic term a this point. So either someone's pretty old grandparents are working for MT, or people are translating a term from another language using an old dictionary.
Comment · 7 years ago
> In short, to your point: AWS is for builders... who pay. And right now all the growth is in enterprise, where we don’t know how to make API calls from a command line.

Infact AWS's HSM devices intentionally don't have an API, as "security feature."

Comment · 7 years ago
That's surprising since afaik it's a plug door that presses up against the airframe when under pressure. So sounds like a major failure of the door or the airframe itself.
Comment · 7 years ago
I've seen that, and the opposite as well, where you have a huge team of people constantly working and yet mysteriously nothing gets done and managers aren't sure what people are doing on a day to day basis.

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