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Thanks so much for building this! Just purchased the full 3k Spanish deck. You've saved me a ton of time vs. my plan of writing a script to build my own Anki decks.

One question: is there a recommendation on whether to go with English-first or target-language-first when studying? I prefer to go with Spanish-first, but I don't know if there's any data on which is more effective. Thanks again!

Out of curiosity, are you currently based in Buenos Aires? I'm interested in learning more about the tech scene in Argentina, if you can point me to any resources. Best of luck!

Very cool, best of luck! If you haven't already, I'd recommend posting to the Austin Digital Jobs group on Facebook. I'd give you the link if Facebook wasn't down, at the moment. ;) It's probably also worth posting to the Austin on Rails jobs list: http://lists.austinonrails.org/listinfo.cgi/jobs-austinonrai...

Rather than some aimless techie kvetching, I'd just like to pass along a hearty congrats to the folks who made this happen. Great work, and I'm excited to use it!

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

The extended unemployment benefits could rightly be called the President's, as he proposed and fought for the passage of the extension. The second is, I believe, a reference to the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, which expired last year, and our current Do Nothing Congress has failed to extend: http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-harney-2014...

Unfortunately, simple, time-tested solutions likely won't get food production to the place it needs to be in 30 years.

It's a reference to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Austin_Weird

Yup, that's the HTML Speech Input API asking for permission to access your microphone in order to enable the voice recognition.

Video link: http://blip.tv/fosslc/everything-you-need-to-know-about-cryp...

Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1346711

And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2253336

You should also check out the excellent http://tosdr.org/ project.

I primarily use RubyMine day-to-day, but Atom has become my text editor of choice. I just really enjoy having the ability to hack my editor using technology I'm already familiar with.

number of reported vulns != number of existing vulns

I had the same question when I read this. The streaming API is only a fraction of the data offered by the firehose, but that's not as much of a problem in every use case.

What I believe was meant was that we in Austin will be hearing about this case for the next year, which we undoubtedly will. Thankfully the crime rate in Austin is such that capital murder cases tend to grab the headlines for quite some time.

True, but "far from worst in the country" and "capable of dealing with the city's growth" are two different things. I'm originally from Arlington, Texas, which actually held the distinction until very recently of being the largest city in North America with absolutely no form of public transport whatsoever. I've seen both ends of the spectrum, and Austin still falls far short of where we need to be.

There's also the problem of finding a ride home after the bars close, which is far less doable given our current system. We also need to rapidly expand the light rail system, but efforts to do so seem to be floundering at City Hall.

Long-time Austinite here. This is indeed a sad day, and our thoughts are of course with those who were affected. At the very least, I hope that this situation will cause us to make real strides toward improving the currently deplorable state of public transportation in this city, as it's now proving to be a real danger to human life.

I've lived here 12 years, and the only improvements to public transportation infrastructure in that time have been the addition of a single train line and a few of those long buses that bend in the middle. As the fastest growing city in the country, a city that relies so heavily on the tax revenues generated by the ~2 weeks of debauchery that is SXSW, we'll need to seriously improve the ability to move folks around without automobiles or the maddening traffic and inability to safely be on the roads (or, indeed, standing near the roads) between 1:30AM-3:30AM will continue to plague us.

IDEs, while they have fallen out of favor somewhat in the web development community, offer such a "holistic" development experience already - complete with deep integration into GitHub, in some instances.

I agree that central Texas also has its fair share of conservatives, but how does the Wikipedia article about Houston prove this? Houston is 2.5 hours from Austin.

Election results alone bear out the fact that Austin is still one of the few Democratic strongholds in Texas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Texas#Current_situa...

Exactly. This is why I started using Foundation primarily in the first place. I tried staying on the bootstrap-sass bandwagon, but Foundation won me over entirely by letting me overwrite Sass variables to retheme.

The big deal about GitHub is that they were in large part responsible for the current Open Source Renaissance we currently find ourselves in. Do you remember the world before? Where you would hunt for someone's private SVN repo on their personal site and email them patches, only to hope that something comes of your effort? Compare that with the world of today, where, if I'm using GitHub, I can submit a fix to a project I happen upon entirely from my web browser, if I wish. The maintainer is notified immediately, we can have a line-by-line discussion about the change, and then it can be merged - also entirely from the browser, if that's what you're into.

Introducing DVCS and the pull request model to the wider development world is the reason that the pace of OS software development has accelerated so much in the past half decade. Of course, GitHub did not invent git, but they made it easy to host your repositories, and once Rails migrated to GitHub, the rest of the Ruby world came with it - followed shortly thereafter by a sizable chunk of the wider web development community. If you use one of their many competitors, that's fine - but they wouldn't exist had it not been for GitHub. Remember that Bitbucket started out as a GitHub clone for Mercurial. Gitlab is unashamedly an OS clone of GitHub.

> More holes than a sieve with their Rails setup.

This is just unnecessary FUD. The GitHub and Rails teams have both been fast to deal with security issues as they are raised. Just because a security issue is well publicized, it does not mean that every other piece of software ever written does not have its own security issues.

If you'd like to donate to the mayor who is fighting for gigabit fiber for Seattle (and thus cancel out a portion of Comcast's donations), you can do so here: https://services.myngp.com/ngponlineservices/contribution.as...

Use Organizer for Gmail from OtherInbox: http://www.otherinbox.com/organizer/

It's more customizable, has been learning categorizations for various sender addresses for years, and works with Gmail labeling.

Agreed. That article is so terrible it actually lends credence to the Soylent folks.

I'll attempt to compress everything into one file after he finishes up.

A bit of background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5541880

I'll be uploading PDFs of the files as they come in here: http://www.scribd.com/collections/4230081/-why-s-print-spool

A better thread for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5571387

"humane slaughter"