lars512

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1. 181.▲
   by lars512 13y ago

   Thanks for reporting it -- that's a bug.
2. 182.▲
   by lars512 13y ago

   Yeah, weighting based on speed would be a cool idea. Thanks!
3. 183.▲
   by lars512 13y ago

   There's some DevOps and some marketing lessons in here for me. But, long story short, the server's back up and running smoothly today. If it felt sluggish for you yesterday, please try the game again and enjoy it as it's mean
4. 184.▲
   by lars512 13y ago

   Mandarin's in there, keep at it!
5. 185.▲
   by lars512 13y ago

   Try it again today, when the servers are actually running smoothly. You'll find the experience different.
6. 186.▲
   by lars512 13y ago

   That's a good suggestion, I should layout the same buttons but with the incorrect one marked. Thanks!
7. 187.▲
   by lars512 13y ago

   On the first point, the game's randomness is biased towards easier languages earlier, and harder languages later. But I didn't want to bring with me a preconceived notion of what languages people would find hard. If you were to tr
8. 188.▲
   by lars512 13y ago

   Thanks for reporting it, I'll take a look.
9. 189.▲
   by lars512 13y ago

   That's a solid effort! Pruning immediate repeats is in the todo list, thanks for the recommendation.
10. 190.▲
    by lars512 13y ago

    Thanks guys, apparently my server is overloaded: https://support.cloudflare.com/entries/23670002-Error-522 I'll see what I can do about it.
11. 191.▲
    by lars512 13y ago

    Thanks for the support! I'll definitely have a think about it. I'd have to collect my own sound samples to make a commercial product, but it's an interesting option.
12. 192.▲
    by lars512 13y ago

    Awww, that sucks. I hope you refreshed and reposted your guess.
13. 193.▲
    by lars512 13y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. Many of the languages have multiple aliases, I can't say I've made a principled choice in every case. But, updating to "Bengali" is in the todo list.
14. 194.▲
    by lars512 13y ago

    First db switchover has occurred, so far so good.
15. 195.▲
    by lars512 13y ago

    Volume's been normalised using mp3gain. I manually screen all the snippets for English, music or other noise, and obvious giveaways. Looks like a Ukraine case slipped through -- it's in my todo list to remove. Thanks!
16. 196.▲
    by lars512 13y ago

    I'm recording GeoIP country and the Accept-Languages header from their request. Hopefully this generates some interesting data to pore over later. Monthly data snapshots might be useful for researchers.
17. 197.▲
    by lars512 13y ago

    Yeah, sorry about that. I'd planned a little more infrastructure work before submitting it to HN. Wish me luck :)
18. 198.▲
    by lars512 13y ago

    Hi guys, I'm the author. Here's a related blog post I did introducing the game: http://quietlyamused.org/blog/2013/09/01/introducing-the-gre... Feedback's much appreciated, and if you enco
19. 199.▲
    by lars512 13y ago

    You're dead on. Whether or not MOOCs reach the standards we want today, they allow far more scrutiny than the closed courses they'll end up replacing. Over time, this will help them improve, a great boon to everyone. I like to thi
20. 200.▲
    by lars512 13y ago

    The flip side of noise, distraction and interruption is people. I still find it hard to get this part of my working life just right. On the one hand, to do really thoughtful work does require quiet and isolation, something that's diffi
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    by lars512 13y ago

    I was deadly serious, and I agree with you. I'm a Swedish/Australian dual-citizen, and although both countries have higher costs of goods, it seems a most reasonable price to pay to have functioning public health care.
22. 202.▲
    by lars512 13y ago

    Move outside the US to a country with socialised medicine. Done.
23. 203.▲
    by lars512 13y ago

    If you read the page, right under the quickstart script is the manual version describing all the same steps yourself. This indicates precisely what the script does, and leaves it to you to decide if you want to run it or just do the steps y
24. 204.▲
    by lars512 13y ago

    Hi guys, I'm the author. I've been playing with this for a little while, and trying to work out an idiomatic style for it. Suggestions for improvement are most welcome. Some pleasant parts have been writing metapackage rules. For
25. 205.▲
    by lars512 13y ago

    You describe the desired state in your met block, or more properly, tests meant to indicate if your desired state is met. Your meet block is the scripting which is supposed to get you there, but which is considered fallible. The met block c
26. 206.▲
    by lars512 13y ago

    Perhaps the restaurant should raise its prices.
27. 207.▲
    by lars512 13y ago

    A small product built in one of today's modern frameworks? Sure, that'll be much faster. 5+ years ago when 99designs was kicked off, the landscape looked much different. Importantly, the founders choices allowed them to iterate qu
28. 208.▲
    by lars512 13y ago

    Thanks! Even moving to CJK will be fun, though a right-to-left script sounds like it could break all kinds of layout assumptions.
29. 209.▲
    Internationalizing 99designs(99designs.com)

    39 points by lars512 13y ago|8 comments
30. 210.▲
    77 days of measurement(quietlyamused.org)

    2 points by lars512 14y ago|0 comments