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by steveridout 14y ago
Thanks for your thoughts. You're right there's a lot of activity in this space, language learning tools seem to be a common itch that developers like to scratch :) I think Readlang's unique position is that it provides a very streamlined wo
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by steveridout 14y ago
You're correct, it uses Google Translate to generate the in-line translation, and offers a more in-depth translation from wordreference.com in a sidebar (for the language pairs it supports). I find the Google Translate result good enough to
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by steveridout 14y ago
The relevant bits of forum discussion: --- Quote LWT --- I don't think that you will make a lot money out of such a language learning website. IMHO you will never earn so much money that all the hours of work will ever get paid. From my L
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Ask HN: Could my language reading & learning site become a startup?
7 points by steveridout 14y ago|6 comments
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by steveridout 14y ago
Wow, living in Spain at the moment I often get the problem where videos aren't viewable outside the UK, but I didn't realise the opposite problem could exist!
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Frustration and failure fuel Dyson's success(bbc.com)
18 points by steveridout 14y ago|9 comments
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by steveridout 14y ago
Looks nice. Spotted some glitchy behavior if you click multiple nav dots at the bottom in quick succession though.
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Essential Javascript Libraries(steveridout.com)
2 points by steveridout 14y ago|0 comments
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by steveridout 14y ago
Doesn't putting the browser in IE8 compatibility mode work? I guess it sucks for an end user to need to use a developer feature like this but could be the best option. All the owners of the site would need to do is add this line to their HT
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by steveridout 14y ago
The retina iPad manages to pull off a resolution close to that with only an ARM CPU. If applications deal with half the vertical and horizontal resolution in logical pixels and leave the X2 image and font rendering to a highly optimized eng