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by wkrause 9y ago
Eventually yes, my vision for the app is to effectively use NLP to solve some common challenges readers have when learning a language. I'd like it to be more than a news reader with a flashcard system. So to do that properly, I would n
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by wkrause 9y ago
Sorry about that, I really should keep an updated list of supported languages with the call to action download at the bottom of the article. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I'm looking to support German the first half of t
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by wkrause 9y ago
Glad you like the concept and thanks for the suggestion. I actually had a blog post lined up more befitting a Show HN: https://langliter.com/blog/launch/ But I guess the combination of a graph and curmudgeonly art
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by wkrause 9y ago
Ha ha, yeah you caught me. I was fighting with the Vector tool in Sketch. My old econ professors would be disappointed.
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by wkrause 9y ago
It's definitely something I hope to get to explore. Langliter is only a side project at the moment, so I'm focusing on languages that I have a little experience with. But as long as the licensing is compatible, I've built Lan
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by wkrause 9y ago
I'm running it on Google Container Engine, Go for the main API layer and CockroachDB for the DB. I actually have a blog post in the works for why I chose CockroachDB. The tl;dr Langliter is offline first so most of the data is synced i
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by wkrause 9y ago
Funny you should mention that, in about a week I'm planning to make public a frequency list collected from a corpus of over 40k Spanish news articles (I've been working on Langliter for a long time). Since I'm finding the lem
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by wkrause 9y ago
Glad you like it so far, and that's valuable feedback regarding Portuguese as it's not a language I'm personally studying. I'm leveraging RSS feeds from popular papers in the languages I'm supporting with some weigh
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by wkrause 9y ago
Thanks, the lemma issue is literally the reason I started building Langliter.
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Language Learning for the Dispassionate(langliter.com)
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by wkrause 9y ago
I feel the same way regarding the importance of a migration back to Postgres if needed. I haven't been given a reason to doubt cockroachdb's stability, but you never know what could go wrong. The fact that I can have a break glas
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by wkrause 9y ago
Mattress companies provide some of the highest payouts through affiliate marketing. As a result, there are many more bogus reviews for that product category than most high ticket items like good sound systems or cars.
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by wkrause 9y ago
My only recommendation would be to not skip the prototyping phase, even if it's just a pen and paper. No matter how fast you are mocking things up in html, you'll almost always going to be faster sketching it out. When I started m
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by wkrause 9y ago
I'd start even simpler and use a tool like Figma to prototype the UI and workflows that are at the core of your app. Then start actual development based on the feedback from showing it to potential users. A lot will depend on why you n
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by wkrause 9y ago
Depends on the problem you're solving. I've seen a ton of ionic apps written for in-house use at large enterprises. Often the lower cost of maintenance and development costs more than justifies the slightly poorer UX that usually
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by wkrause 9y ago
I think you're reading a lot into the comment you're replying to that wasn't there. Sounds more like he's coming from a rawlsian perspective of what constitutes a just society.
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by wkrause 9y ago
If people are paying for a subscription then the market is clearing. Or in other words the customer has decided that they are better off with the service than without. I think part of why people dislike subscription models is due to the red
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by wkrause 9y ago
Sounds like a narrow application of the fundamental attribution bias. Not sure that explains everything, but I'd bet it plays a big part.
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by wkrause 9y ago
I was a big proponent of the "ban the box" movement, but this article in The Atlantic has given me pause. tl;dr "when employers cannot access an applicant’s criminal history, they instead discriminate more broadly against dem
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by wkrause 9y ago
The guy didn't agree to do an AMA. He posted about job openings which I think is fair on an article like this. The only comment that is even somewhat related is the one asking about whether the company is accepting interns. I'd be
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by wkrause 9y ago
I was planning to give Blue Apron a whirl, but decided against it for the reasons mentioned. Plus my wife is a picky eater. Instead I use a service called plantoeat which lets me import my own recipes and optimize my grocery store runs. Onc
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by wkrause 10y ago
I guess for the same reason home owners associations exist. Personal choices that are visible in the communal space can affect property values and people's enjoyment of the area. For many living next to a constant stream of strangers i
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by wkrause 10y ago
I have the new 13 inch model and one of my main frustrations is that if I apply pressure to the area just the the side of the track pad, it prevents two finder scrolling from working. Basically if I rest my palm to the right of the trackpad
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by wkrause 10y ago
Could you share a link(s) to the study that establishes a strong negative correlation between trade deals and the average American? I think the closest thing to a concensus among economists is that free trade produces some winners and lose
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by wkrause 10y ago
I wrote a skill that lets me ask what tech events are coming up, or are on a given day. Took half a day, and most of that time was spent figuring out aws lambda for the first time and writing the scraper for the event list I was pulling fro