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by steveridout 4y ago
Thanks! I'll fix this
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by steveridout 4y ago
It was a mix of cash and stock options which vested over a few years. There was a confidentiality clause in the contract so I can't be super specific. But I asked ChatGPT what a typical price per employee is in an acquihire and it give
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by steveridout 4y ago
Not a ton of methodology behind it! I started at $10 per year, then gradually raised prices as the product got better, always keeping existing subscribers happy by grandfathering them. At one point it was $4.99 every 3 months, which is the
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by steveridout 4y ago
Sorry to hear that. I imagine it would have been a lot harder in my case if we'd actually integrated Readlang with Duolingo, sharing user accounts and that kind of thing. Luckily it was quite separate. I was a little stressed dealing w
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by steveridout 4y ago
Hmmm... I'm actually not sure if I can talk about the numbers from the original sale in 2017. But I'll say that the original sale was paid partly in stock options which vested over a few years and ended up being worth a lot. And t
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by steveridout 4y ago
Good question! There was a lot to do and I was kept busy just with internal communication, so didn't feel the urge to share externally so much. Also, getting outside attention didn't feel as important given my role at the company
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by steveridout 4y ago
Yep, I've got nothing but good things to say about Duolingo :-)
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by steveridout 4y ago
It's mainly for intermediate and advanced learners who want to tackle longer texts. I originally made it so that I could read novels in Spanish. Readlang may not ever be appropriate for complete beginners. But it could do better at pro
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by steveridout 4y ago
Tucan actually works in reverse compared to Readlang. Say you're a native English speaker learning Spanish. With Tucan you browse the English websites you're already used to browsing, and it'll automatically translate some of
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by steveridout 4y ago
Yeah, it was pretty easy. Relatively low offer and not much negotiating. From their point of view it wasn't worth maintaining. I'm just very happy they offered it back to me instead of shutting it down.
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by steveridout 4y ago
Hi! Steve here. Happy to hang around here for a while if anyone wants to ask anything! :-)
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by steveridout 4y ago
Good point! I just made the first mention of Readlang into a link to the website: https://readlang.com It's a web-app and browser extension to help people learn languages by reading texts or websites in the language they ar
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by steveridout 4y ago
This blog post of mine hit HN and led to Duolingo's CTO and co-founder offering me a job back in 2016: https://steveridout.com/2016/01/04/readlang-3-years-as-a-one... I joined them shortly after and a ye
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by steveridout 4y ago
> The price of Shared and Dedicated compute plans will increase by 20%. Disappointing. My expectation is that compute should get cheaper over time, not more expensive.
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Akamai (acquirer of Linode) raises their prices(linode.com)
7 points by steveridout 4y ago|2 comments
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by steveridout 4y ago
As a long time Linode user this makes me nervous. Will give them the benefit of the doubt for now though.
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by steveridout 4y ago
I thought the same thing. Surely it must be a function of the prevalence of these fonts though. In a hypothetical world where 90% of text you read is in sans serif I'd have to imagine that this would tilt the readability study results
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by steveridout 4y ago
It's because it's not supported out of the box by the mathjs library I'm using: https://mathjs.org/ I agree that this would be nice.
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by steveridout 4y ago
This should now work regardless of your locale. Please let me know if you notice any more bugs!
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by steveridout 4y ago
Sounds cool, I was about to try this but it lost me (for now at least) with the .NET SDK requirement.
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by steveridout 4y ago
This is pretty cool!
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by steveridout 4y ago
There's no completely offline version. But if you don't sign in then none of your notes are sent to the server, they stay in localStorage in your browser.
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by steveridout 4y ago
Right now they are stored as plaintext on a VPS server (or in localStorage in your browser if you aren't signed in). I was wondering whether encryption might be compelling as a premium feature if this ever got enough users to think abo
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by steveridout 4y ago
That was the inspiration for this site a few years back. I wasn't a Mac user at the time so couldn't even try Soulver myself but thought it was a cool idea.
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by steveridout 4y ago
I'm the creator of this site. It's a very nice surprise to see it appear here! I created it a few years ago and recently added the ability to create multiple notes and to sync your notes to the server. Interested to hear your feed
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by steveridout 4y ago
Thanks for reporting this, I'll work on it. In the meantime, there's a workaround you can use to change the locale by entering the following in the JavaScript console: localStorage['locale'] = 'en-US'
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by steveridout 4y ago
> we all know that Musk has never in his life used a regular city Bus or even a train I’m skeptical, and this CNBC article quotes Elon refuting it: > According to Musk, he does, in fact, "actually love trains, most subways and Lo
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by steveridout 4y ago
Nice work on the interactive elements in this guide, they're delightful!
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by steveridout 4y ago
I think it's useful as a counter to Postel's law. Postel's law (or robustness principle) states that you should be liberal in what you accept, conservative in what you output. Hyrum's law shows the danger in being libera
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by steveridout 4y ago
I'm working on an open source terminal based flashcard app called Flashdown which uses a simple plain file format both for storing both the card data and your learning progress. I just made it public: https://github.com&#x2F

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