PinnedMember-onlyHow do polyglots learn languages?It’s been six years since I attended the polyglot conference for the first time. It was a refreshing experience. I listened to groups of people vividly discussing the subject of language difficulty; praising novels they had just read in the original (and sometimes extinct) languages; scribbling in the air in…Language Learnin3 min read
Oct 15, 2020Member-onlyHow to conjugate “to be” (होना/hona) in present tense in Hindi?The omnipresent verb Hona (होना) is probably the most important Hindi verb. Similarly to its English counterpart — to be — it got grammaticalized and is used in multiple tense structures such as equivalents of the English present simple and present continuous. …Hindi2 min read
Published in The Startup·Oct 11, 2020Member-onlyWhy Your Nascent Startup Should Use Javascript for EverythingJavascript is eating the world Javascript has been doing the same thing to the world of programming languages that English has been doing to the world of natural languages. Nowadays, javascript is the only language with which you can code both backend and frontend (read more about scala.js ang gopherjs and others below). Besides, you…Java Script4 min read
Published in The Startup·Oct 10, 2020Member-onlyWhy asking about Node.JS speed and scalability in your tiny startup is the wrong questionFirst, can we actually measure the speed of programming languages? In theory It is very difficult to say which backend language is the fastest or the most scalable one. How could we test it? We should probably test something real, like a service running in production! …Nodejs4 min read
Published in The Startup·Jun 2, 2020Member-onlyWhy we use Notion at TiengosHere at www.tiengos.com we decided to use notion as our collaboration tool and we love it. In every company I had worked at as a Software Engineer I had mostly used the Atlassian Jira. …Startup3 min read
May 7, 2020Member-onlyTutearse en vietnamita¿Eres hispanohablante y te molesta que a veces no sabes cómo recurrir a otras personas? ¿Debería ser Usted o tú? En ocasiones ninguna de las dos opciones es buena. Si la persona en cuestión es la madre de tu novia y le tratas de tú puede sonar descarado. …Lengua Vietnamita4 min read
Feb 11, 2020Member-onlyMaximum number of unique verb forms in Big Romance LanguagesNumber of unique verb forms In the previous post we had a look at which of the Big Romance Languages has the highest number of grammatical tenses. This time we will have a look at another metric — number of unique verb forms. Definition The formal definition of number of unique verb forms is: If for…Linguistics5 min read
Feb 6, 2020Member-onlyWhich of the Big Romance Languages has the highest number of tenses?What does big mean? By big romance languages I mean: Italian, French, Portuguese and Spanish, which according to wikipedia have 64, 77, 221 and 480 million native speakers respectively. …Romance Languages5 min read
Jan 29, 2020Member-onlyImplementing stack in Javascript with TDDNotorious Stacks — Stacks are everywhere. Even the most popular programming website www.stackoverflow.com has stack in its domain. Everyone seems to talk about stacks all the time. When we code in Java quite often our computers presents us with beautiful java.lang.StackOverFlowError. When we do it in Javascript we are blessed with Maximum call…Data Structures3 min read
Jul 27, 2019How using emojis can reinforce your Chinese learning⚠️ In this article I assume you know how to type Chinese characters ⚠️ Inputting emojis and learning Chinese If you follow the trends, you have probably started using emoji in online communicators on a daily basis. Perhaps, you even use emojis in private documents and at work. Some apps, for example Whatsapp allow you…Emoji2 min read