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nicolasv | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: A New Way to Learn Languages

This is great, I’ve been wanting something like this for a while!

A few points of early feedback after 15min of listening with only “Show Translation” on:

1. Showing only a fragment of each sentence at a time feels hard to follow as in scanning to the start of the next fragment (which can jump around vertically) and lacking the context of previous words

Would you consider a view that shows more of the surrounding words but, like focus mode in iA Writer, grays out the non-current fragment?

2. There are sometimes gaps in transcription/translation

3. I couldn’t find my favourite Spanish podcast, Radio Ambulante, which I feel would probably be quite a popular one for Spanish learners — Any particular reason?

nicolasv | 13 years ago | on: Tidying up after Pull Requests

Bitbucket asks the question about whether to close the branch in a pull request at the time you create it, e.g.,

  https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.hipchat.com/10804/29957/csa3g3hjsk6i27p/close-branch-after-merge.png
since the person creating it is usually in the best position to decide whether the feature branch they're working on is "complete".

Though I really like GitHub's implementation for cleaning up old pull requests (or ones you forgot to tick the close branch checkbox for).

(Full disclosure: I'm a developer on Bitbucket for Atlassian.)

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