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forkrulassail

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www.valuationup.com 12y ago

ValuationUp: Grow your business value, do more of what you love.

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

Hyperloop as explained by Elon Musk (video)

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www.theverge.com 13y ago

WikiLeaks, encryption, and the coming surveillance dystopia

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plus.google.com 13y ago

Reusing your frontend JS on the server with V8/Rhino

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

Falkvinge: Aaron Swartz was a prodigy going up against powers

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: Is there an open source variant of CodeSchool/Udacity type systems?

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: New curriculum needed for university's Web Application Development

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: How do I *easily* edit and sign PDFs in *nix?

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www.youtube.com 15y ago

Goldfish's hat tip to classical video gaming (8 bit music video)

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www.youtube.com 15y ago

Solar flares, how would this impact IT infrastructure?

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www.netprophet.org.za 15y ago

NetProphet: African Startup accelerator workshop

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www.google.co.za 15y ago

Google capital for startups

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kodingen.com 15y ago

Kodingen - The Cloud Development Environment, Online Code Editor, Cloud Hosting

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memeburn.com 15y ago

Major int’l VC stealthily buying up South African eCommerce sites

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www.wired.com 15y ago

Darpa wants a new language to explain everything military

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blog.symbian.org 15y ago

Symbian is dead?

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mapper.nndb.com 15y ago

Building connections with open source information - NNDB network visualizer

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mybroadband.co.za 16y ago

Google music service to take on iTunes.

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I fully agree with you, but Anki (with pronunciation) got me 12k German words in 12 months with 40 minutes daily where Goethe couldn't give me a functional understanding of German whilst travelling. Grammar and the functional language comes ter with constant translation or immersion with sites and experiences like the excellent DuoLingo.

I've been a programmer since a very young age, having both parents as teachers I never saw it as noble or a job with any ROI. Spending my first year, after 3 years of industry, I realized it's more rewarding than anything I've done before (it's been 12 years now). Everything related to development can still be done, interaction with industry and I also get to see, 2, 3, 5 years down the line how successful companies spawn from inspired students.

Besides teaching I could also recommend contributing back to open source projects and just getting active in your community.

Sounds similar but on a lower level (in life) to a game I played in primary school called Jones in the Fast lane. Much fun, maybe you can grab it somewhere for round logic.

Thanks for the tips. I know the german/english (uk) layouts, but want to really give Dvorak a go.

I'll give the gtypist a go. If it's something I can consistently work at I'm pretty happy with doing and committing to this daily. Spent last two weeks learning to use emacs and emacs lisp.

From the recentTranshumanist Reader: "The most frightening apartheid one could imagine is a future world in which extended life is allowed only to a few – the very wealthy, the political elite and their chosen followers, Mafia, military, scientists, sports heroes, movie stars. This is not the transhumanist objective – far from it. It is up to all of us to ensure that this segmented future never happens. We will not best prevent it by denouncing technical advances and trying to blockade them, but in thinking hard, feeling deeply and wisely, debating the issues together, and acting as free men and women".