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insert_nickon Sharpee – A TypeScript Interactive Fiction Platform

This intrigues me.

> Sharpee was a lot of fun to build and it took all of my 40 years of IT experienced to master the complexities. I hope others find it useful.

Especially because it's clearly a work of love.

P.S. Let me know if you need help with the Italian parser.

insert_nickon Mathesar – an intutive spreadsheet-like interface to Postgres data

Any chance it’s going to support PostGIS, with a map to show geometry data?

insert_nickon building an international startup with 5700 English words. Suggestions?

Eh. Actually the true advantage is that I can see more easily - or at least it's more natural to see - also the perspective of non-native English speakers that will make use of the service, so that I can optimize it for a greater world population; at least avoiding common mistakes that keep occurring in services that I use/try, but also taking that into great account while designing the whole thing.

Nice read on the topic: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178211966454607.html

insert_nickon building an international startup with 5700 English words. Suggestions?

You can be that guy and it won't have any harmful consequence on me, or you :) Because I'm already aware of that.

There were other requirements for the cofounder, you know it's not easy to find the right one. I took English knowledge into account (also tried to have a native speaker as a cofounder) but it was just one out of several parameters with some weight.

Regarding the early employee option suggestion, so I should take that into account when estimating the size of a needed seed funding.

insert_nickon Estimate your English vocabulary size

Be happy my friend: I've scored a shameful 5700. I see it is very low compared to many others reporting here, anyway my English is more than ok when compared to most of those around me.

I believe language knowledge is very influenced by the surroundings, the place where you live, the people you deal with.

Aware of the weakness, a few days ago I posted a call for suggestions on Google+; now the vocabulary test moved me to ask the same to HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2772950

PS: I'm from Bari, Italy.

insert_nickon Girl born with half a brain retains full vision

It's called neuroplasticity. I've read "The brain that changes itself" by Norman Doidge and it uncovers a whole new world.

insert_nickon Six best start-ups from Y Combinator demo day

> I don't think the applications for that deep magic could be fully exploited yet.

No, they're not. That's why we applied for Summer 2009 funding. [...mystery song in background...]