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Mike Hankey wrote: Thanks going to give it a try.
It really is a cool method for learning. I first learned about spaced repetition while learning Spanish from Pimsleur language learning series.
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Looks like a good system. There's some things that I just can't remember, simple things that I have to look up often. Had a professor in college that said he didn't remember simple things because he could look them up, but it slows things down and you lose your train of thought when you continually have to look stuff up.
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Mike Hankey wrote: it slows things down and you lose your train of thought when you continually have to look stuff up.
I agree and this is definitely true in relation to programming languages, APIs etc. Especially if you work on multiple platforms.
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raddevus wrote: I agree and this is definitely true in relation to programming languages, APIs etc. Especially if you work on multiple platforms.
Strongly disagree.
This is why fast search (and tools built on it like intelisense) is far more important then trying to remember: changing (evolving, extending, standardising..) API definitions makes memorising a detriment if not a danger and really should be avoided.
"Well when I learned it it started at 1, since when did they change it to zero?"
= not only 'what I memorised is now useless information' but 'it WILL cause my code to fail.'
(Well in vb it starts at one, but c# starts at zero, but they are both .net)
Applicable to any field: If my 50 year old doctor is going to rely on what he memorised back in med school 25 years earlier than I'm going elsewhere. I'm way happier if he looks stuff up and/or asks his peers.
Yeah it's fine for remembering peoples names
and in say programming simple info like what symbol to use for addition and [less obvious] modulo in language X... or even bit deeper such as the logical vs boolean operators (which many compilers might not flag the ambiguity when it looks like the wrong choice may have been made)
but when it comes to API's and interfaces (i.e. communication between 2 entities) particularly between platforms absolutely always far better look it up (particularly if not used for some time), or significant new versions of one or/and the other entity have been released...
Does looking it up slow you down? Rubbish. With google etc, you're talking seconds or less to check.
Whereas, [given these things do change, given platforms do differ, ...] it's "remembering" the wrong thing that'll significantly slow you down and cause failures.
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I have just started learning Hebrew so will certainly give it a try.
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Anyone who has graduated from medical school knows this is how you deal with a firehosed delivery of new facts and has to convert them to "knowledge."
It also helps memorization to write and speak what you learn--and, even better, to explain it to someone else.
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Harrison Pratt wrote: It also helps memorization to write and speak what you learn--and, even better, to explain it to someone else.
That is a fantastic point. That is exactly what Paul Pimsleur of Pimsleur language series also found:you must speak the language to really learn it.
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Back in the 1920's, AT&T wanted to install electrically operated telephone exchanges to replace the operator based exchanges. At that time, you would place a call to "Butterfield 5678" and an operator would manually plug your phone line into the Butterfield 5678 socket.
Almon B. Stroger, an undertaker who believed that the wife (an operator) of one his competitors was rerouting calls for him to her husband, developed the first stepping switch which became the basis for telephone exchanges.
Back to AT&T, they wanted to know how people remembered things so they committed $20 million to a study before they implemented electro-mechanical exchanges.
AT&T found that people remember things in groups of 2's, 3's and 4's. That's why our telephone numbers are xxx-yyy-zzzz (area code, exchange prefix, local number).
Further, they assigned the lower area codes to the larger population centers, like New York is 212, Chicago is 312, etc. to appease the financial industry.
This was good until the mid 1970's when population and phone usage increases overwhelmed the phone numbers and exchanges had to be split.
Then came cell phones.
This is also the basis for IP addresses (plus it works real well for remembering a hex number as 4 groups of 3, e.g., 192.168.1.3).
Just some trivia.
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Although the intro is way more important than everything else, it's about inspiration. If a factoid is interesting to remember, it'll get remembered eventually all by itself.
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The file organization is WAY different. Had to look around a bit for the bootstrap css file.
I think I prefer this to the previous MVC organization.
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Oh come on! Who thought this one up?
The World’s First Remote Controlled Real Flame Candle With Safety Features And An Impactful Social Mission[^]
It's ... not really a candle, but with a remote control ... 
I don't even want to know what the mission is. OK, OK ... I'll check.
Ah. Every time you buy one of these (overpriced) things, they give two books to needy children. Presumably so they can sell them and buy food, I dunno.
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OriginalGriff wrote: so they can sell them and buy food
Nah. so they can bang them together to kill mozzies.
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We were so poor when I was a kid all we could afford was jam sandwiches...take two pieces of bread and jam them together.
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Luxury!
We didn't have no bread, we just clapped our hands together and licked our fingers afterwards!
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I got the crust my little brother got the rest.
Mom always did like him better!
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I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Quote: Illuminating Minds with every purchase
Yeah if you get screwed once you hopefully learn from your mistake and never buy another.
Oooo but they are marked down!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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It'd be cheaper to post a whole box of the kids' old books -- and then not be stuck with a ridiculous fake candle, under the sink for years.
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this ain't IoT
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Hey, only split hares if you're making stew!
And don't forget the dumplings.
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But is bloody useless!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
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...and they are pushing the new series of Grand Tour* with banner headlines. Featuring a hashtag: #amazonshitcarshow
I'm sure they know, but it pleased the small child in me anyway. 
* Which came out yesterday, glad they are dropping the tent stuff for season four, it was very weak this time round.
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I never actually got past season 1 it all seemed way to contrived, it seemed to be all about the people and the slap stik not the cars.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
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Person == daughter or wife. They have a general idea what they want, but for "features"? clueless. Does it turn on, and is it pretty?
Your budget is less than $1K USD. For me, I can almost pull the trigger, then I read reviews. Great, great, .... sucks, sucks. Panic ensues 
Answers:
1) Hand them a credit card. Send them on their way.
2) Less than 1 hour. They are getting your old laptop, *you* are getting a new one
3) Less than 4 hours.
4) Less than 1 day.
5) 2-5 days.
6) Run away
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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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7. Management 5th amendment: "it all depends"
Computer literate?
a. no: MacBook
b. yes:Dell (15 days or so to send back if no like)
(they all suck)
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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It shouldn't take more than an hour or so to pick one out. Remind them that arranging any warranty repair is on them because they're the ones using it.
Given that they're girls, they're probably not interested in the weight associated with a 17-inch laptop, so that should keep the cost down. If they're not gamers, even better in terms of cost. 8GB of RAM is a the minimum Id recommend, and if they're especially clumsy, get a machine that already has a ssd in it. You can't generally kill a SSD when you drop the laptop.
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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