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by ithayer 16y ago
I commuted to Google for 4 years. Even with the bus it was tough. I was the same though, living in the valley is not really an option, and I'm glad I didn't. Some advice: - live as close as possible to the highway or caltrain. this means so
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by ithayer 16y ago
Agreed. I put up a side project at http://beta.crunch3.com , which was an RSS-on-twitter concept. The interface is "slidey", similar to Pulse, but it gets relevant feeds from twitter, and takes screenshots like Google Fast Flip. I didn't c
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by ithayer 16y ago
Thanks for the insightful comment. You hit the nail on the head - we're not interested in building another wiki (as you mentioned, we haven't seen one we've liked). We're just trying to think about whether it's possible to solve the problem
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Ask HN: YC S10 startup wants your opinions about wikis
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by ithayer 17y ago
I struggled with a something very similar (complete inability to work, not knowing what makes me happy), a few things I learned seem relevant: 1) Don't assume what other people are thinking or feeling (about anything, but in this case, man
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by ithayer 17y ago
Nice technique. Another idea might be to select some standard text (eg: some news article) that you predetermine, and run it through several online translators, and compare what you get back from the humans to those. You might also include
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by ithayer 17y ago
Do you mind sharing what kind of app you're trying to localize (iphone, web, etc)?
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by ithayer 17y ago
interesting! What type of data are you translating (iphone app text, webapp text, etc)? Can you elaborate on your experience with mechanical turk? What did you notice to be the major problems/inconveniences?