No, the main reason this got abandoned was it also tried to do ajax
page loading (lazy loading) and there were not enough people
developing on it.
Yes an image would not be loaded if you go offline but if it's hidden
behind a section I think this is acceptable.
Basically the tdlr is: Let's reduce
I'm necroing this thread so that our new engineers can see it.
The product expectation is that we drop new feature development for iOS 6
when the following features are in production:
- Lead images
- Wikidata descriptions from mobileview
- Search improvements
- Supplement prefix
Luis von Ahn is my hero. This cheesy PBS clip about him with Neil Degrasse
Tyson is my favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp-dRIoj3_4
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Toby Negrin wrote:
> Yes -- we tried to connect him and Lila at some conference but it didn't
> happen. We shall continue
Yes -- we tried to connect him and Lila at some conference but it didn't
happen. We shall continue to try...
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Maryana Pinchuk
wrote:
> We've been talking about this guy for ages (and I think roughly half the
> mobile team uses Duolingo at this point) – wasn't some
We've been talking about this guy for ages (and I think roughly half the
mobile team uses Duolingo at this point) – wasn't someone going to try to
put us in touch? :)
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Toby Negrin wrote:
> Some interesting links from one of the early crowdsourcing people:
>
> http
Some interesting links from one of the early crowdsourcing people:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_von_Ahn
http://www.ted.com/talks/luis_von_ahn_massive_scale_online_collaboration?language=en
His current gig:
https://www.duolingo.com/
-Toby
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