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OneWhoFrogs | 15 years ago | on: What did a teenager get out of attending Startup School?

As a fellow high-schooler ("one who high-schools"?), I'm impressed! You certainly seem to be doing everything that I wish I were doing right now.

This is new found motivation for me to start working on the Rails app that's been in the back of my head for a while now. Here's hoping that I can sustain that motivation long enough to build a finished product.

OneWhoFrogs | 15 years ago | on: Language affecting thought - the question arises again.

About 50 years ago, a researcher developed a language he designed to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis called "Loglan." A speaker of its successor (Lojban) posted an AMA on Reddit last year[1]. He posted this in regards to whether or not it broadened his thinking:

I believe that learning lojban has helped me learn to think much more precisely in general. The first example of this that comes to mind is how often I see questions and confusion of family and friends as just confusion about language. I can't actually verify, of course, how much of my perspective is unrelated to lojban, how much is from lojban specifically, and how much is from learning a language that's dramatically different from English.

So while it is superior for communication, it doesn't affect our thought process.

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9c90z/i_speak_a_constr...

OneWhoFrogs | 15 years ago | on: Poll: Why don't you have your email in your HN profile?

If I may speak for him, ezl does this on his profile:

  you can email me @: "@".join(['quotesentinel.com', my_hn_username,][::-1])

(http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ezl)