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Developer-centric opinions are for Hacker News.

Sorry man. We all worked hard on this and were excited to get it out; it's been well-received by our users and I wanted to post it. Did not mean to offend.

My full blog post: Today we have some great news. It’s been more than three years since we started our company—just a couple of friends in an apartment. There are now over 40 of us…

There will be some Gengo people there for sure :)

This is not necessarily bad advice. However it's kind of arrogant. While "the point of an internship is [...] to learn what kind of work or industry you want to be in once you grad…

I don't really understand why this is on the front page, or what the point of the article is (apart from a grumble). Not saying it ain't so, but struggling to care...

This theoretically true statement "There is no reasonable economic justification for a customer to offer anything but a low-ball figure. " can, in practice, be irrelevant. So unles…

Reading this makes me feel treated like a kid. As if Asana staff will be leaning over my shoulder the whole day like creepy startup Jesuses. Plus Donnie and Kim, peeking round the …

Best part of this for me is that I can now actually pay to watch something outside of the US from an artist I like. If you don't live outside the US or UK you probably don't realiz…

I don't want to in any way refute the referenced article or the findings of the air crash investigators, because clearly the pilots here behaved incorrectly and I am just an outsid…

Bad names are good for SEO. Good names have no intrinsic SEO value. e.g. Twitter, Skype, Foursquare are all pretty good names. But have no SEO benefit. e.g. local-activities.com is…

I think the name is one of the factors, but probably not the primary factor. But the point of the article is not really about search engine business models.

I generally agree with this. I think it's just a suggestion that it's worth thinking about if you're at all considering Chinese market entry, instead of assuming your name will jus…

Just wondering :) Anyone got a back-of-the-envelope calculation they want to share?

Esrauch is right — but they have not announced details.

Guess you could use our services for a different reason instead. But we'll live.

Disclosure: My company. Factual note: Not actually a Series A, was a conv. note.

Hey guys We currently source our API's machine translation from Google, but we're going to be connecting to several other providers in the next few months. Depending on Google's pr…

Disclosure: I'm the CEO of myGengo We offer machine translation for free, and we'll continue to do so... I don't really see how this is spam.

(Disclosure, I'm the CEO of myGengo) We just this damn second announced a special offer whereby you can switch to our translation API and get $25 free credits (AND you'll continue …