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1) I remember the original post. Word Lens lit up #1 on Hacker News for an impressive amount of time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014555 https://news

1) I remember the original post. Word Lens lit up #1 on Hacker News for an impressive amount of time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014555 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014555 2) Looks like jf did the original submission too, I wonder if he knows a Word Lens founder. 3) I like the forward-looking embrace of Google Glass. It's such a futuristic thing to have shades that translate for you. Your phone is essentially a babelfish already - how long before you can buy an auto-translating bluetooth headset?

peteforde 13y ago
So what if jf is a founder of WordLens? Congratulations to them.
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antonioevans 13y ago
What if wordlens is purchased by google and incorporated into glass. stop being so dev-pessimistic (we need a word for this).
veemjeem 13y ago
jf does know the word lens founder, but then many people here in the bay area also know Octavio -- he's a super cool "always positive" person. You'd probably like him if you met him.
- andrewljohnson 13y ago
  I don't mean it in a harsh way, I just noted it because I noticed. When I saw this submission, I tried to Google to find the original post. When I couldn't find it, I thought to click the OP's name, to see if they had submitted the link. If the word lens founder told jf to post this, that doesn't bother me, and I don't consider either party unethical. It's just interesting to think about how social news works.
  - jf 13y ago
    Otavio didn't know about HN when he released Word Lens, so I posted it here for him and made him make an account so he could reply to people in the comments. Ever since then, he's asked me to announce their new products here for him, so I do ...
    - hnriot 13y ago
      how does a san francisco game developer not know of hn...
otaviogood 13y ago
Yeah, jf is friends with the dev team. When we first released Word Lens, he posted it and explained Hacker News us. HN made such a huge difference for getting the word out. Since then I've been reading HN many times daily. So thanks, HN community.

peteforde 13y ago

So what if jf is a founder of WordLens? Congratulations to them.

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antonioevans 13y ago

What if wordlens is purchased by google and incorporated into glass. stop being so dev-pessimistic (we need a word for this).

veemjeem 13y ago

jf does know the word lens founder, but then many people here in the bay area also know Octavio -- he's a super cool "always positive" person. You'd probably like him if you met him.

andrewljohnson 13y ago
I don't mean it in a harsh way, I just noted it because I noticed. When I saw this submission, I tried to Google to find the original post. When I couldn't find it, I thought to click the OP's name, to see if they had submitted the link. If the word lens founder told jf to post this, that doesn't bother me, and I don't consider either party unethical. It's just interesting to think about how social news works.
- jf 13y ago
  Otavio didn't know about HN when he released Word Lens, so I posted it here for him and made him make an account so he could reply to people in the comments. Ever since then, he's asked me to announce their new products here for him, so I do ...
  - hnriot 13y ago
    how does a san francisco game developer not know of hn...

otaviogood 13y ago

Yeah, jf is friends with the dev team. When we first released Word Lens, he posted it and explained Hacker News us. HN made such a huge difference for getting the word out. Since then I've been reading HN many times daily. So thanks, HN community.