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

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

Do you have a URL for your project?

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 would like to find some people to collaborate with, specifically people who know about promoting NFTs or Solidity development.

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

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 design for averages you're actually designing for no one. They tried to make a scruple of the "average woman" based on average measurements, but no woman they found actually had the average measurements

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 methods used (presentation skills, conceptualizing in a problem space, fast iterations, etc.) have a lot of overlap.

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

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 and self-select into the community.

The message from Indianapolis is either "try really hard, so you can move somewhere else" or "take care of your front yard".

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

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

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 the mindset that you will now always be working, you won't be as productive from home. Maybe once you get some experience you can lighten up a bit, and you should always keep some off-time scheduled for the weekend, but as they say, you can't go home again. And good for some people for not wanting to trade that (along with typically a lower salary and opportunity) for having to show up 8~6.

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 transparent as the US in publishing that data? Do Russia and China? Could be an interesting project that serves the public interest globally. Sort of like crime maps, but at world scale.

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 in that language. Usually a day or two after that, I'll feel like I've finally acquired that skill. I remember this very clearly happening when I was about 22 and was playing around with Javascript and AJAX calls. It happened a couple other times after that, I think when learning Objective-C for iOS too, and maybe once again when learning how NSLayoutConstraints work.

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!

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 Polly Lingual. It's been a lifestyle company and sort of priced that way. The goal has always been to not be annoying, but maybe that's been bad for business.

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 flashcards for this. We aimed for small lessons that move more quickly, with optional follow up for difficult items. For casual learners this doesn't deter them, and for advanced students, they can still go back and see where they need improvement or just simply do the lessons again.

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 next time I see him", sort of a social-fencing rather than a geo-fencing.

I've been wondering if AMP isn't an play to actively decreased app installs. You can't include a Smart App Banner in an AMP page.

I got redirected to the http //www.thesofttic.com/ZiWblMur/win-f/gi/?SiteID=4905&conversion=11ee233b-a3f6-4b44-8d5f-9c578b58eb29 from the link. Anyone who know why or what that is? Is phys.org really infected with malware?

Totally agree. I started "programming" at an early age which just made me feel like I didn't need to pay attention when I took actual CS classes. The results were that I missed out on learning a lot of lessons the easy way (in school) and had to learn them the hard way.

I was looking for someone to write this answer. I admittedly don't write tests and have been seriously questioning this lately. Maybe it's a desire for confirmation bias, but I'm glad someone said this.

App installs.

I had something similar thing happen several years ago when I was a grad student. Me and a couple friends were putting together some Facebook apps (when they were a new thing), and one guy didn't escape user input correctly. Some teenager from an Eastern European country (I can't remember which anymore) ran a script to figure out that we were vulnerable to SQL injections. He was a nice enough guy and didn't want anything besides some experience "hacking". We patched up the code and told him thank you.

I understand you're running a business which makes it that much more scary. If he's not asking for ransom, you might ask him how he'd fix it. I know it might seem like blackmail, but you might even offer him a "consulting fee". He's probably just someone looking to try new things out and not malevolent.

I've been running Pangaea Learning (https://www.pangaealearning.com) solo for about 6 years now. I recently found a guy who helps me manage the community around Polly Lingual (https://pollylingu.al), but it's mainly me and a small cadre of freelancers. All of our projects have been bootstrapped. Since you're curious about profitability, I'll be honest and say that the golden years of the App Store are probably behind us (or at least me) and I'm starting to seriously entertain other work possibilities.

That's only cured by watching people splash themselves with cold water.

I guess I'll never know how exactly it's bursting since that information is behind a paywall.

We tried using Swift for a new app but the language isn't ready for prime time. It's an impressive language by itself, but the support for it just isn't there yet. Since it's still in infancy things change too much and documentation/stackoverflow is pretty weak. Our app was simple but we spent more time trying to make it work than actually programming and ended up doing an obj-c rewrite in less time. I'm sure this scenario won't be the case for long, but it's the case for now.

Thanks for posting those links. The original link isn't to explanatory about what types of content the mailing list will have.