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adjwilli

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    I’ve been running https://pollylingu.al as a single person company for a few years now.

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    Comment #30502399

    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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    Comment #30171806

    Do you have a URL for your project?

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    Comment #30170986

    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…

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    Comment #25380058

    I’ve run the foreign-language education app https://pollylingu.al few several years now

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    Comment #25173756

    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…

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    Comment #22185112

    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 me…

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    Comment #19096114

    FWIW, AP everyday publishes "Today in History" ( https://www.apnews.com/c543085359964ecb9ad6f6a9da21c3d0 ) and even makes a video for syndication.

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    Comment #16925057

    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…

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    Comment #16468618

    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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    Comment #16316551

    A quick Google search and I found https://grammark.org/dist/#/ which could be incorporated into a Chrome extension.

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    Comment #15798612

    What industry do you work in that would give you insight into a coming downturn?

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    Comment #14148233

    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 t…

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    Comment #13599306

    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 trans…

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    Comment #13599162

    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 …

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    Comment #13450538

    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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    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 Poll…

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    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 fla…

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    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 …