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I built a small personal service to do this for Japanese. Five words + one idiom every day at 9 a.m. It's certainly not the best way to learn/study, but it is a nice passive way to stay engaged with the language.

I think that's spot on. It's not about writing perfect software for learning a language. It's just a little extra to keep you engaged and reminded!!

Money and quality are rarely correlated.

Journalists take glee in letting the fools expose themselves.


It’s a folkism, but consider this: If a rule doesn’t have any exceptions, is it really a rule? If a rule doesn’t exist how could there be any exceptions?



I could not have picked a worse example


Let's travel back to 2016 ...

> It does feel like Apple innovation is either stagnating or small, incremental gains. Certainly not huge leaps like iPhone or iPad. Apple Watch hasn’t really taken off yet.


My favorite personal project is a Japanese-English dictionary with full-text search (thank you JMDICT: https://www.edrdg.org/jmdict/j_jmdict.html).

It's a Rails app and includes a flashcard system to help me study. It also emails me a daily list of 5 vocabulary words to study.

I use it all the time and it took about a month to get it into a state where I felt comfortable deploying it. I'm about to add a feature that will use the devices camera to scan and extract a vocabulary list from the image using OCR (I'll use this when reading Japanese text).

It's useful for me, but more importantly, it's fun.


Of course everyone will be like "yes" and then the phone will get hacked and the user will blame apple.

* This is not an argument against it. *


Soles do wear out. It's not like the rubber just disappears.


I'm not implying soles don't wear out but that shoe rubber is nothing in comparison to tires. It is not worth comparing the two.


The crime was selling - not editing. Not defending the arrest but it's a pretty big difference.


Sure, but editing is probably still illegal as the save files are encrypted (sections 17-18 of Article 2): https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3629


Don't agree. If you look at the opening of each section, there's prohibitions against 'the act of transferring, delivering, displaying for the purpose of transfer or delivery, exporting, or importing, a device [which allows subversion of some kind][...]' and similarly for transmission of software or the like.

All these verbs relate to some sort of commercial transaction, rather than the modification per se. My read is that you could modify it freely, or even write an article documenting the save file format and how to mess with it. It's the act of commercializing the process that makes the difference between a server ban and an arrest warrant.


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