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kevinios

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    Comment #42100505

    Just a suggestion, and I suspect I might have overlooked some drawbacks: what about hosting it on SEVERAL of those websites/platforms/services/communication systems (probably with …

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    Comment #40996047

    Congrats! Little suggestion if I may, don't use the location of the user to set the default language of the website. Everything on my computer is in English, but your website defau…

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    Comment #19698417

    Unrelated (sorry), but here’s what I see when I open that Medium link in Safari. It’s quite a challenge to find the article between the pop-ups. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/XbY…

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    Comment #18692641

    Indeed, and I suppose spelling bees makes sense for any language that is not written exactly as it is pronounced, French being one of them. From what I've read so far, Esperanto on…

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    Comment #18692634

    Interesting!

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    Comment #18692633

    Let me know what you think, but I suspect spelling is not exactly the issue, but rather the fact that there is not a single way to write each sound. There are several sounds possib…

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    Comment #18692617

    Makes sense. Although if the idea is to choose one language because it has been created with the purpose of being as simple as possible, it might be normal that we want this to be …

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    Comment #18692599

    Guilty! Felt like it was the perfect audience to ask for a question that I could not ask people around me :-) On HN, there is usually always at least one domain expert on any given…

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    Comment #18692590

    Completely agree with you that sx doesn't look good at all! My suggestion was not to replace with something that looks worst, but ideally that looks cleaner (didn't actually even k…

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    Comment #18692586

    True, but I suspect they are sufficiently rare not to constitute an argument for a beginner not to learn English (also, correct me if I'm wrong but most of those words have accents…

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    Comment #18689583

    Exactly! And I see that typewriters were invented in 1878, so the difficulty to type Esperanto with typewriters was most probably not taken into account when it was invented.

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    Comment #18689568

    Ok I see. By "Nowadays, you can just type the actual letters, it's not a big deal.", I had understood that you could actually just use the normal letter and it would still be under…

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    Comment #18689550

    Interesting! I see that this refactor was made in 1907. This makes me wonder... in an age where we have tools to open-source and crowdsource software programming, would it be possi…

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    Comment #18689452

    Very interesting. I should spend a few minutes reading about it, but: does that mean that accents do not actually have a utility in Esperanto, and that using ĝ or g in the same wor…

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    Comment #18689426

    I would love that, but there is one potential issue: English is really hard to pronounce well, and therefore it takes years to understand it well. There are many ways to pronounce …

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    Comment #18689364

    Perfect occasion to ask something that I didn't know who to ask: does anyone here knows if it has ever been tried to "simplify" the visual aspect of Esperanto, by getting rid of al…

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    Comment #16535384

    Great job! Thank you. Quick suggestion: could you show the summaries directly on your first page, without the user needing to clicks links? (Otherwise, we are back to part of the o…

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    Comment #16494824

    Google Cloud regroups G Suite and Google Cloud Platform products. Edit: As well as Google Maps API, Chrome & Android devices.

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    Comment #16466528

    To clarify, I do not need more storage, I already have what I need with Dropbox + Drive (that I already pay for). But I need more storage on Dropbox, because that's my preferred wa…

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    Comment #16466398

    I recently sent an email to Dropbox support, asking/begging them to let me pay for their service. But at a normal price for a lambda user. Dropbox is the only cloud service that I …

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    Comment #16150967

    (...) we need to separate the usefulness of the underlying technology called “blockchain” from the mania of people turning bitcoin into a big dumb lottery. Blockchain is simply a n…