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See Language Difficulty of European Languages According to This Map
For English-speakers, Romanian is easier to learn than German. And you’ll be speaking Swahili sooner than Polish. How is that? Because the Foreign Service Institute says so. Located in Arlington, Virginia, the FSI is the U.S. government’s main provider of foreign affairs training, including language courses. As the chief learning organization for the State Department, …
A lazy and flippant classification of programming languages
Sometimes I post in an online community of computer touchers, as one does. When talking flippantly about programming languages, it’s sometimes useful to glob a bunch of them together based on characteristics, whether superficial or not. This started with jokes about common features of “P languages” like Perl, PHP, Python, JavaScript and Ruby, but you …
Beyond TypeScript: Differences Between Typed Languages
For the past six years, I have been working with OCaml, most of this time has been spent writing code at Ahrefs to process a lot of data and show it to users in a way that makes sense. OCaml is a language designed with types in mind. It took me some time to learn …
Technology Shares Move Lower – Tech Roundup
Shares of technology companies fell to close out a volatile week. Across the U.S. and beyond, companies, governments and households that bulked up on computers during the pandemic are drastically scaling back. PC and chip makers say the market slump is hitting their results, often harder than expected. Cloud-computing company Nutanix is exploring a sale …
Procore Technologies Aims to Digitize Construction. Its IPO Gained 31%.
Text size Procore’s CFO says many construction companies still use pen, paper, and fax machines. Pojoslaw/Dreamstime Procore Technologies is looking to modernize the construction industry, which it says has been slow to adopt technology that could save vast amounts of money. Founded in 2003, Procore (ticker: PCOR) provides cloud-based construction-management software that enables its customers, …
Universities Get Creative With Technology Due to Coronavirus Closures
Universities scrambled over the past month to move classes online as the coronavirus pandemic forced campus closures. With social distancing likely to extend through the spring semester, chief information officers are taking stock of their actions, identifying quick solutions that could one day become permanent fixtures on a postcrisis campus. University of Washington “When we …
American Airlines Begins Using Translation Technology at LAX Lounges – NBC Los Angeles
American Airlines announced today that is testing technology at Los Angeles International Airport that interprets 29 languages to help passengers in its airport lounges. American Airlines officials said testing of Google Assistant’s “interpreter mode” began last week at LAX in the Admirals Clubs in Terminals 4 and 5. LAX is only location where the airline …
Now Duolingo teaches the world’s five most common languages
The courses are available on Android, iOS and the web. Whether or not you need to know Arabic, this marks an important milestone for Duolingo — it now teaches the five most commonly spoken languages on the planet. You can generally assume that Duolingo will help you settle in a new country or make your …
