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China uses Uyghur forced labour to make solar panels, says report(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by steveridout 5y ago|0 comments
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Eureka on the Clustering of Geniuses(strangeloopcanon.com)
2 points by steveridout 6y ago|0 comments
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by steveridout 6y ago
I'm currently reading "Story of Philosophy" by Will Durant and was struck by this even earlier reference to a process of evolution by natural selection: > Empedocles (fl. 445 B.C., in Sicily) developed to a further stage t
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Ask HN: How does your company manage quarterly OKRs?
3 points by steveridout 7y ago|1 comments
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by steveridout 8y ago
As a replacement for reminders I've been emailing myself and then using the snooze feature to hide it until later. It works but adds extra friction to creating the reminder and is very clunky. I'd love it if someone could create a
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by steveridout 8y ago
I loved 2 player Lemmings! Another Amiga game we played a lot which required 2 mice was The Settlers.
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by steveridout 9y ago
Is it possible that a high quality camera with a small sensor could actually be preferable to a full frame camera like a 5D in this particular case? My thinking is that it might be hard to get more than a sliver of the image in focus with a
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Introducing: Channels – Q&A for Engineering Teams – Meta Stack Overflow(meta.stackoverflow.com)
1 points by steveridout 9y ago|0 comments
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by steveridout 9y ago
Thanks! It worked fine to get some initial feedback and users. A few months later I added some limits to the free plan and offered a premium subscription, currently at $5 / month or $48 / year. Around 2% of free signups end up con
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by steveridout 9y ago
Alongside the "Install Web Reader" link there's a "Start Learning" link which will take you into the web-app and allow you to sign up. I figured "Start Learning" would be more inviting than "Sign Up&q
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by steveridout 9y ago
These got Readlang's first 100 users: 1. This post to a language learning forum: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T... 2. This post to r/LanguageLearning: https://www.redd
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by steveridout 10y ago
Creator of Readlang here. This extension is a little different to mine since it works in the other direction. Readlang allows you to read articles in your target language more easily by offering tap-to-translate. This one gives you occassio
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by steveridout 10y ago
Nice work so far. I'm not convinced by this approach since I prefer to learn Spanish words in the context of Spanish sentences, but I haven't given it a fair shot. Of people who have tried this or similar extensions, did you a) fi
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Making a Case for React Native (with case studies)(blog.agolo.com)
2 points by steveridout 10y ago|0 comments
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Google AI to play live Go match against world champion(bbc.com)
1 points by steveridout 11y ago|0 comments
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Will Someone Please Make a Good Bookmarklet Repository(medium.com)
3 points by steveridout 11y ago|0 comments
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The Readlang Method for Learning Vocab(blog.readlang.com)
2 points by steveridout 11y ago|0 comments
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by steveridout 11y ago
Hmmm, I'm worried that you're right. But $20,000 is at least 10 times what I'm comfortable spending at this stage. Is there no option in between fiverr and $20K that would be a worthwhile investment?
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Ask HN: How do I hire a designer as an indie dev?
3 points by steveridout 11y ago|4 comments
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by steveridout 11y ago
Thanks - I like it! I'll do a split test and let you know how it goes.
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by steveridout 11y ago
I did develop some features for teachers and got a few of them using it with their classes. Despite a few shows of interest, no-one actually paid anything for it. On top of that, they wanted a bunch of features that would take my time in de
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by steveridout 11y ago
By "selecting to view all languages" do you mean clicking on the "I'm learning" selector at the top of http://readlang.com/dashboard ? I'm trying to reproduce this but I can't, although I
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by steveridout 11y ago
One problem is that there's no one "core" reading experience. The distraction free e-book style reader in the web-app and the extension both have similar usage. The small quote I linked to isn't at all representative of
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by steveridout 11y ago
Good idea! If you want to a discount right now for upgrading two accounts, do the following: 1. On the checkout page, there's an "I'm feeling generous" button which increases the yearly price from $48 to $60 (idea borrow
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by steveridout 11y ago
Good luck. Small warning that the experience learning Japanese may not be as good as with other languages since it can't detect word boundaries, doesn't offer Furigana transliteration which I'm told is pretty important, and d
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by steveridout 11y ago
## back end - Servers running Ubuntu hosted at Linode (outages recently have been worrying) - NGINX - NodeJS & express framework - MongoDB replica set with primary, secondary & arbiter ## front end - BackboneJS - JQuery - gulp for b
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by steveridout 11y ago
People can share YouTube videos with sync'd transcriptions which are great for this. Check out this selection for German: http://readlang.com/shelf/5649d1fe60a4e5ef42f258ad Songs tend to be popular, here are a cou
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by steveridout 11y ago
We both contribute equally, and we live in Madrid where cost of living is relatively low. Two people living together can live on £9K / year here no problem (that's about 1000 euros / month each). That said, I do have savings
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by steveridout 11y ago
Sign-in for phrase translations is because that's one of the limits of the free plan, you get 10 / day for free and you can upgrade to premium for unlimited. I could try to make it more seamless by imposing this limit based on coo
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by steveridout 11y ago
Yeah, there's such a difference between a startup like this and contracting. When contracting, you work, you get paid, nice and predictable. With this kind of startup where it's growing say 4X per year, you may earn very little at

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