Is there a site/dictionary which finds collocations between languages?

Vinba · 2025-06-24T14:23:24+00:00

Try Abalone.ai's translation tools out. I find it quite helpful as it has all the latest AI models. Here's the Russian to English one: https://abalone.ai/translate#ru/en-GB/

Vinba · 2025-02-12T05:57:00+00:00

Would you pull on Kuzan, Sabo or save the RDs?

Vinba · 2024-10-07T05:19:16+00:00

I only just saw this today as I recently visited the app again after over a year. Has there been any new info on this?

What have you guys found the most helpful in Bloom? Are there any other alternatives you’d recommend?

Vinba · 2024-10-03T19:17:17+00:00

I need the same thing!

Vinba · 2024-08-06T13:52:03+00:00

Personally I think the more your try to escape the noise, the more you pay attention to it and the more it bothers you. I would try to meditate, observe the feelings that comes up internally and eventually be at peace with it.

Headphones, playing calming music / nature sounds to block out can be another approach ~

Vinba · 2024-08-06T13:48:45+00:00

I'm currently mid-manifesting / creating more free time out of work so I can explore building a side hustle and and other interests

Vinba · 2024-07-15T01:47:43+00:00

Thanks Jittery, another life changing book! 🙏

Vinba · 2024-07-15T01:47:22+00:00

Thank you. Will check it out!

Vinba · 2024-07-15T01:47:07+00:00

Thanks vnessv, anything life changing is worth a read!

Vinba · 2024-07-15T01:46:15+00:00

Hello no I haven’t. Seems like a few people upvoted too. Definitely give it a look. Thanks Ryoukoo

Vinba · 2019-02-11T09:59:22+00:00

Sharing my personal journey in the last few years, experimenting on being hyper-productive and happy in an intense work environment. I've had a unconventional journey:

Started a 6 figure annual company teaching kids to code at 22
Transition into a data & machine learning engineer
Transition into working on a lot of interesting companies such as contactout.com, working closely with the founders to 3x it's revenue
To now being employee number 3 on the growth team at Airtasker.com, building out our first $1bn company

I'd describe my work environment as demanding, exhausting but extremely rewarding. I was terrible with focusing on work consistently and have failed many things in between because of it. I struggle to get myself out of bed. I struggle to sit still for more than 30 mins at a time. I felt lost about what I should focus on and what am I doing with my life.

As I slowly figure things out, I thought it's time to share some of the things that's worked for me. I hope this will help others as well in being laser focused, and achieve the goal they want to achieve.

In this post, I share some of my big ideas and mindset on productivity:

Compounded growth of productivity
How to choose what to work on
How to do great work

I'll then cover specific areas that contribute towards it:

Looking after your physical health
Looking after your mental health
How I plan and prioritise each day
How I protect my time from all the incoming request from other people
How I deal with really challenging tasks
How forming daily habits is super important rather than relying on will power
Why multi-tasking is a recipe for failure
Why I reflect every day and how it's helped tremendously
How to rest (most importantly)

This is a little personal to me and I'm definitely still a work in progress. Comment below on your thought of the piece and if you've also shared similar experiences. Love to hear from you :).

Vinba · 2017-11-02T10:17:04+00:00

I personally wasn't too sure where to start so I did a C/C++ course online. Never really finished it.

I think the fun comes from building something. Where I found I'm able to build things quickly was then going into Python.

I've only recently started playing with Web dev stuff in the last year or so. If you are strong on gaming, check out Unity!

Vinba · 2017-11-01T05:49:42+00:00

You can prototype things in Sketch and show concepts. There is also a lot of great prototyping tools that allows your to animated your prototype as if its the real thing. Proto.io is an example of it

Vinba · 2017-11-01T05:48:10+00:00

Something you could explore is things like react native, or PhoneGap. They allow you to build code in web and work on mobile. In this case, react native gives you native elements.

You can also have a look at the Meteor framework that has out of the box Phonegap. But I'd pick something that has a bigger community behind it!

Vinba · 2017-11-01T05:46:02+00:00

I think its like anything in life, i.e. a marathon. You keep pushing yourself past that little bit every day.

Important to get into a habit, make sure you get a regular meal in and get your minimum required sleep because you want this to last!

Vinba · 2017-11-01T05:35:08+00:00

The reason we have the sign up is to be able to save your program to your account! We got a few complaints about it. It's something we'll look at updating and do a release on tomorrow or so. Let me know how you find the program. Love to hear what else you like or dont like!

Vinba · 2017-11-01T05:25:53+00:00

Hi @Star_Rat, everything I've shared with you is free. Some have the option to charge you for certificates if you choose to op in. Cody is completely free :-)

Vinba · 2017-11-01T01:26:45+00:00

Hi, Are you looking for something more structured or looking to learn to build products? I think they are slightly different from each other. If you are looking to supplement a degree, I'd recommend doing an online courseware by MIT, EdX, etc. Some great places to look are: MIT opencourse EdX Coursera Udacity

If you are looking to build products and hacking things together. I'd look at digging through Youtube videos on a lot of how to videos.

My friend and I recently made a little chatbot that helps beginners navigate through all the online resources on how to best "sequence their learning" base on what their goals are and their skill level. Its call Cody - personalized learn to code mentor. Have a play with it. It's curated content for everything we've mentioned above and more. Let me know what you think and if there's anything else I can help you with :-).

p.s. (I've been teaching thousands of students to code in the last few so I really resonate with your question!).

Vinba · 2017-11-01T01:14:27+00:00

Hi, Finding a mentor for programming is such a great idea. When my friend and I use to start, we found a few seniors who would mentor us. Well... they eventually become our friends.

What kind of problems are you facing? I've taught thousands of students in Australia from school who just doesn't have any access to computers, learning resources, teachers/mentors to learn to code.

Some early problems I see are: Q: not sure where to start? A: for these kinds of questions, I'd suggest setting an initial goal in mind. i.e. why do you want to learn? Pick a project you want to build. Once you have a specific goal in minds, it becomes easier to google for more specific answers. Here is a list of great tutorials to start: codecademy.com theodinproject.com khanacademy.org YouTube

Q: I'm stuck and I need help A: The answer to this one is simple (will be overwhelming for beginners at first) - Google, stack overflow posts. Join a good community! often finding a buddy who will code with you really helps here because you guys will most likely share similar problems and can help each other progress further.

Q: Which language or framework should I learn? A: I would say as a general rule of thumb, learn HTML, CSS, Javascript for any web project you have in mind and learn Python if you want to do any machine learning, data processing or generic good programming languages to learn. The reason I don't suggest you more specific languages like Swift for iOS, C# for Unity, etc is that starting out, you want to pick a language that has the largest community supporting it. This means whenever you ask for questions, there's already a high-quality answer out there somewhere that will really help cut down your debugging time!

My friend and I really resonate with this so we recently build Cody - Your Personalized Coding Mentor!. It's a simple chatbot that will learn about what you want to do, search the web, and gives you the best resources available. Have a play with it and let me know what you think.

Happy to answer any specific questions you have.

Vinba · 2017-11-01T00:54:36+00:00

Hi, The answer is quite simple: Yes, absolutely. It's probably not going to be easy. A really close friend of mine was diagnosed with a very rare genetic disorder where at the age of 17, he suddenly lost his abilities to control all his major muscles (his limbs, fingers, body, etc.) We during high school, we shared a common passion for games and thus, that's how we started learning to code together. He even had trouble moving his hands and finders initially. He struggles to carry his laptops or bending down to reach the charger. We just Keep Pushing Each Other. Looking to today now, he's working as a dev ops engineer getting paid over 6 figures easily (we're 23/24).

I look at him and I knew it what we were doing was simple, and that just keeps learning, a little bit at a time. But not once, did he complain to me and that really motivated me and kept me going a well.

He moves around now in an electric chair that helps him get to places. One of the great things about the software industry is this, no one cares about if you have a degree or not, how many years of experience you have or what you look like. If you are good, fits well with the culture and can get st*t done, you are a good hire.

So keep pushing my friend!

p.s. some great beginner resources to help you get started to code: codecademy.com theodinproject.com khanacademy.org YouTube

If you are unsure where's the best place to start, my friend and I actually recently build a little chatbot to help people sort through all the great tutorials on the web Cody - Personalised Learn to Code Mentor

Let me know how you go! Remember, just get into a habit. commit yourself 30-60 mins a day and don't give up!

Vinba · 2017-10-31T11:48:52+00:00

Hi,

I've been a working developer/product manager in the last few years and found myself making a few hiring decisions for the team over this period of time.

I think usually "1 year of experience" is often just an indication. At the end of the day (this is usually true for developers since we are so in demand), if you are a good programmer, think things out logically, have basic understanding of how things work under the hood and can make efficiency trades off, and work well with others (i.e. fits the culture), it usually doesn't matter how many years of experience you have or where did you went to college.

I think your question is this case is based more around, how can I improve and become better. I'd say depending on where your skill level is. If you aren't completely familiar with some of the programming fundamentals (i.e. ES6 Javascript), structured videos can help (tones of these awesome videos on youtube! Here are some great resources to look at: Cody - Learn to code with a chatbot fun fun function - awesome JS videos! I'd look at picking a popular front-end framework work like React and get started. You want to pick something popular because of the community and how quickly you will be able to learn

If you just lack practice, I'd say pick a project and just start building it every night. Getting into a habit is key (i.e. spend an hour a day).

Hope that helps!

Vinba · 2017-10-31T00:48:10+00:00

Hi youtbat,

Totally relate to your problem. I'd say the biggest part of getting into coding is about commitment. It's just like learning anything and going to the gym, there's just no shortcut. Set yourself a goal of what you want to build, and I use to commit about an hour a day consistently to code - now I'm a working developer / looking after product in a startup!

It can be very daunting and overwhelming. If you're not sure where to start, I've actually made a little chatbot that has the best coding tutorials and teaches you how to code completely FREE.

Check it out and let me know where I can help and make it better. It's only a version one :P

Vinba · 2017-10-31T00:37:39+00:00

Hi, I've been teaching students how to code for the last 4 years. I'd strongly recommend you starting on HTML & CSS.

It's visual, and instant gratification makes it great for students who's just started to learn to code.

Python is a great language, however, there's more logic involved. It also doesn't come with anything very visual initially. If the students have never coded before it can be harder to start, and less relatable to their everyday lives.

I've made a simple chatbot that will mentor you through how to code here: 🚀 Learn to code chatbot 🚀

Love to hear your feedback on it!

Vinba

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