jasonlfunk

Yeah, it's a little hard to explain. Unnecessary details are relayed, very detailed descriptions of even minor things that were accomplished, etc.

I have experienced working with two different Indian development teams and both of my experiences were characterized the same:

1) Over-communication to a fault

2) Low code quality

I don't know how can you change my perspective, but I would suggest not trying to change the perspective of Indian agencies as a whole - but rather why you are different than the stereotypical Indian agency.

The app doesn't support all languages that the website did yet. Since the app supports things like telling the time, phone numbers, etc, it takes a little bit of effort to add a new language. The web version supported pretty much any language that the browser knew about.

Thai is on the list to add to the app now. :)

Yeah, that's true. I do plan on having it app be multi-lingual in the future, which should resolve that issue.

Author here:

100 days ago I submitted a side project to HN and it had a great response. You can see the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13745753

Since then, I've rebuilt the service as iOS app. As a web developer, it was the first iOS application that I had ever built. I used React Native to build the application and was extremely happy with it. React Native took a little bit of time to get used to but once I figured out the difference between React Native and 'normal' react, development went rather quickly. The performance feels great and the app looks really good (in my opinion.)

If you are learning a foreign language, I'd love for you to check it out and let me know what you think.

The Planet Money podcast recently did an episode about this case: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/31/522226226/episo...

I typically call `.+@.+\..+` good enough.

How is a business that isn't profitable and has no business model for revenue worth 600 million dollars? How are these valuations actually done?

It's amazing how many of these services I find out about in their "shutting down" announcements.

The constitution we have now isn't the first version. It was created with the ability to be changed with the process of amendments. We have 27 of them so far. More could be added to change the voting system or whatever else, if there was political will to do so; but currently there isn't.

(And this is ignoring the idea of the judiciary reading into the constitution new rights that weren't there to begin with.)

You've found market price when buyers complain but still pay. - Paul Graham.

If this is true, it's obviously different for everyone. And as long as Uber doesn't have a monopoly, this sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

As much as these "manipulinks" are obviously manipulative, it's amazing how well they work on me. It's psychologically much harder to click a link for me that says "I don't need to work out" than a simple "No, thanks." Much like click-bait titles, people use them because they are effective.

"Book snippets are added by hand. It's time-consuming!"

It's going to take a long time to do all 100 million.

It claims that it only needs a minute of audio.

Anyone care to offer their 'tldr' version of the article? What exactly is Musk wanting to do?

I'm curious why you don't want to rely on non-free software for your work.

Usually paying for something helps it not to die, like limetext, for example.

For my work, I'd rather pay for something I rely on to increase the likelihood of it staying alive and keeping up with the work I need to do.

I know that it's probably just change aversion... but I'm not a huge fan of the new icon.

But I'm happy for the update!

I'm also a little skeptical of this. It seems too random. If it were an algorithm, it's hard to know what the parameters were that it was looking for. And if it as a person, it's hard to know why it was so sporadic and limited.

I wonder if it can just be explained by user error? Do we /know/ these tweets were actually ever on twitter? Perhaps the tweet about united failed to post. (It's happened to me). And if that happens to a few people who posted about United, you then get a conspiracy. But if the same thing happens to the cat picture you tweeted, it's chalked up to a bug and forgotten.

Though given Twitter's recent track record with "ghost-deleting" and "shadow-banning", this sort of thing - if true - wouldn't be surprising.

I figured it out. You have to click the 'Primary', 'Secondary' boxes in the bottom right.

The few times I've taken the offer, the tickets were good for a year. But for someone who doesn't fly a lot, that is a relatively short amount of time.

I'm currently building an React Native app for my http://ForeignNumbers.com application. I have experience with React but React Native is a pretty different beast.

If this conversation happened, you should be glad. That does not sound like the type of place you would want to work at in the first place.

This is great feedback!

In addition to this, I think numbers really help with the soft skills of listening and producing - since the actual number of words is rather small but you can mix and match them in an unlimited number of ways. You can't just understand most of it and flub your way through the rest.

Yep, I plan to add this functionality soon.

Yeah, it does. Do you think a short delay might be help?

It's probably on your end as the voice is done in the browser. Which OS are you on? The browsers may require some OS functionality for the speech synthesis to work.

I'm not sure exactly. It is currently using the browser's speech synthesis functionality. I think Chrome has some languages shipped with it while Firefox may rely solely on the OS. I will probably need to switch away from the browser to get a consistent experience.

Thanks! Great idea.

That's a great idea for an advanced mode. Everyone loves math problems. :)

I am planning to add this! If you are interested, be sure to get on the list to know when it's released.