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adjwilli
3y ago
I’ve been running https://pollylingu.al as a single person company for a few years now.
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adjwilli
5y ago
I’ve never hired any other developed to work on https://pollylingu.al with me, but obviously there other who work as tutors and translators
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adjwilli
5y ago
Do you have a URL for your project?
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adjwilli
5y ago
I’m a full stack dev for a large media company, and made https://nftpaint.app/ in my free time as an experiment. I have some ideas for turning it into a social drawing NFT app, but would like to find some people to collabor
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Want to make NFTs but suck at Photoshop?
(nftpaint.com)
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6y ago
I’ve run the foreign-language education app https://pollylingu.al few several years now
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6y ago
The last bit about how none of the sampled rocks was actually a cube reminded about this article ( https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-... ) on how when you design for averages
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7y ago
They do. While founding a company and attending graduate school are in fact very different things, the personal virtues (persistence, diligence, originality, etc.) and the daily methods used (presentation skills, conceptualizing in a proble
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Chromium: Network Requests Bypass Blockers
(wilderssecurity.com)
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8y ago
FWIW, AP everyday publishes "Today in History" ( https://www.apnews.com/c543085359964ecb9ad6f6a9da21c3d0 ) and even makes a video for syndication.
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8y ago
The design of Hacker News operates on a similar principle. It looks vaguely like an error page. Non-developers look at a think something is wrong, but technical people stick around and self-select into the community.
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9y ago
The message from Indianapolis is either "try really hard, so you can move somewhere else" or "take care of your front yard".
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adjwilli
9y ago
A quick Google search and I found https://grammark.org/dist/#/ which could be incorporated into a Chrome extension.
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9y ago
What industry do you work in that would give you insight into a coming downturn?
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9y ago
It definitely requires a change in your mental state at home. It goes from "my place of relaxation" to constant anxiety about whether you should be working. Unless you start with the mindset that you will now always be working, yo
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10y ago
How difficult would it be to create a map of worldwide military strikes, not just by the US, but all countries? Where is data like that available? What other countries are so transparent as the US in publishing that data? Do Russia and Chin
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10y ago
Usually when I'm learning a new programming language or technique, and just at the point where I'm starting to grok it but still having challenges, I'll dream that I'm programming in that language. Usually a day or two a
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10y ago
Polly Lingual https://pollylingu.al is a little mom-and-pop software creation. We're probably in the lightest shade of green on that chart. Someone help us!
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'Rich interactions' – a blind spot in HCI research
(transground.blogspot.com)
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10y ago
Thanks, it's been around in various forms for a few years, recently moved from "Salaam Arabic" https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learn-arabic-salaam/id646808... to a the unified Polly Lingual. It
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10y ago
Agreed. It doesn't matter how efficient the algorithm is if people get bored and stop using it. At Polly Lingual ( https://pollylingu.al ) we tried to tune our space-repitition flashcards for this. We aimed for small lessons
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10y ago
There are lots of privacy issues involved, but it'd be cool if Siri/Alexa/Cortana/etc count respond correctly to something like "Remind I need to ask my brother about whatever the next time I see him", sort of
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10y ago
I've been wondering if AMP isn't an play to actively decreased app installs. You can't include a Smart App Banner in an AMP page.
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10y ago
I got redirected to the http //www.thesofttic.com/ZiWblMur/win-f/gi/?SiteID=4905&conversion=11ee233b-a3f6-4b44-8d5f-9c578b58eb29 from the link. Anyone who know why or what that is? Is phys.org really infect
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10y ago
Totally agree. I started "programming" at an early age which just made me feel like I didn't need to pay attention when I took actual CS classes. The results were that I missed out on learning a lot of lessons the easy way (i
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10y ago
I was looking for someone to write this answer. I admittedly don't write tests and have been seriously questioning this lately. Maybe it's a desire for confirmation bias, but I'm glad someone said this.
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10y ago
App installs.
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10y ago
I had something similar thing happen several years ago when I was a grad student. Me and a couple friends were putting together some Facebook apps (when they were a new thing), and one guy didn't escape user input correctly. Some teena
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I've been running Pangaea Learning ( https://www.pangaealearning.com ) solo for about 6 years now. I recently found a guy who helps me manage the community around Polly Lingual ( https://pollylingu.al ), but it'
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10y ago
That's only cured by watching people splash themselves with cold water.
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