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geza

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About geza

https://www.gkovacs.com/

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    Comment #33667874

    Note you might be interested in looking at interactive machine translation systems and the associated research papers - for example Lilt [1, 2] or TransSmart [3, 4] - while those a…

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    Comment #29847366

    The names of all countries that are written in any right-to-left languages (e.g. Arabic or Hebrew scripts) are written backwards. They should be right to left, but the letters are …

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    Comment #28412624

    You would likely be interested in Literary Chinese, specifically the way they read it in Japan ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanbun )

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    Comment #28175857

    程序错误=cheng2 xu4 cuo4 wu4 漏洞=lou4 dong4

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    Comment #28175563

    Chinese: 程序错误 (程序=program, 错误=error) is used for the generic sort of software bug. If the bug is a security hole, then it's instead called 漏洞 (leak). Though sometimes the English w…

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    Comment #26139673

    Ah I meant P2P in the "from user to user with no transaction fees charged, doesn't go through Visa/Mastercard/Unionpay" sense (similar to Venmo, except that in China businesses acc…

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    Comment #26139314

    Sites and apps in Chinese: Baidu Wangpan (百度网盘): file-sync service like Dropbox, but gives you 2TB (terrabytes!) of free storage Tengxun Ketang (腾讯课堂): similar to edX/coursera, the…

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    Comment #23287217

    I meant distribution as a zip file that you can load in developer mode, like the installation instructions for Bypass Paywall ( https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome…

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    Comment #23287086

    A Chromium fork is going to be a pain to maintain. My contingency plan if it gets removed from the Chrome store is to try to get it accepted into the Edge and Opera stores, and ask…

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    Comment #23287057

    It works fine with the current versions of Chrome (and Chromium-based browsers like Edge), you'll just need to sideload it once it gets removed from the Chrome store. Alternatively…

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    Comment #23287038

    I tried porting the extension over to Firefox when Firefox switched to WebExtensions, and at the time there were tons of incompatibilities, mostly with Firefox's Shadow DOM impleme…

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    Comment #23286724

    I definitely feel for the author - the Chrome Extension team has been growing increasingly developer-hostile recently. My own open-source extension HabitLab ( https://habitlab.stan…

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    Comment #23185980

    I suspect the reason for few users is because it's relatively simple to build such an app and so you have tons of competitors, such as Pleco. For example, the visualization you hav…

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    Comment #23172534

    I got the same notification yesterday morning for my own open-source extension HabitLab ( https://habitlab.stanford.edu/ ) - same vague request for "you're not using the minimal se…

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    Comment #22939666

    This is quite similar to HabitLab https://habitlab.stanford.edu/ which also includes a number of other options (such as pausing videos on youtube before playing them, hiding commen…

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    Comment #17455420

    Happened to my own extension this week too ( https://habitlab.stanford.edu ), except without warning - especially frustrating since I've been developing it for nearly 2 years and C…

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    Comment #14443511

    I actually solved this problem back in 2013 with a slightly more advanced technique (taking into account other signals such as motion), see http://up.csail.mit.edu/other-pubs/chi20…