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standalonematt

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standalonematt··on I Published an Offline Reader for the Jargon File
Wow @speckx. Thanks for sharing this. I've never had one of my posts submitted here before.
standalonematt··on Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life
Thanks for the quick response.
standalonematt··on Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life
One thing I noticed is the app doesn’t support larger fonts very well. Kind of a deal breaker for a lot of us. For example the login screen has text that overlaps making it very difficult to read or use.
standalonematt··on Linus Torvalds for Nobel Peace Prize?
Thanks for that - I don't really know much about the criteria for awarding the economics prize.
standalonematt··on Linus Torvalds for Nobel Peace Prize?
What about the economics prize (I know, not a real nobel prize) going to members of the free/open source software community. Their works have really shown that great things can be built by a community of people, with limited central leadership and without a clear profit motive.