Me
I’m Nolan Lawson – a meticulous software developer, avid Android fan, and 20-something American expatriate. I work and play in Geneva, Switzerland.
Education
A native of the Seattle area, I studied linguistics and computational linguistics at the University of Washington. I maintain a strong interest in human intelligence, machine intelligence, and how we can use technology to bridge the gap between the two.
Publications
Just one so far!
Annotating large email datasets for named entity recognition with Mechanical Turk (2010)
Other
- I am a branching, merging, rebasing Git fool.
- I still love 8-bit videogames.
- I play a half-size classical guitar unironically.
- I kicked the Microsoft habit.
You can email me here.
Posted by Brandon W on May 27, 2011 at 12:06 PM
Nolan, I am impressed by your demeanor and applications. I’m around your age and I also may be going through a quarter life crisis. I would like you to know that your app is greatly appreciated, while, you may no longer be able to host it I certainly will not remove it from my phone. I play pokemon with my girlfriend and at least once daily she will ask me to look up a pokemon on my phone to find out when it evolves, or what level it learns a move in a particular evolution. Anyhow, I guess I just wanted to thank you for your hard work and share your disappointment over the TPC decision. I would like to donate now to your person instead of your application.
Posted by Connor on May 27, 2011 at 1:21 PM
Nolan, why don’t you just update Pokedroid and make us download it from here?
Posted by Grace on May 28, 2011 at 10:37 AM
I think it might have to do with legalities, and he dosen’t want to get arrested or sued. I have the package file backedup to my phone through.
That said, i started a petition to help keep the free apps on the android market: http://act.ly/3q8
Theres not too much of an argument in favor of paid apps, but free ones should be fine, so feel free to sign. :3
Posted by Dean on July 19, 2011 at 1:26 PM
I am using your Chord Reader app. I am running a G tablet with the HC 3.1 rom. (Flashback)
I like what this does but I have a couple of problems
1. The size of the text does not appear to be adjustable. I have tried the two finger touch and zoom.
2. I have converted my songs from .doc to txt but you reader still can’t see them. Any help as to the exact encoding would be appreciated?
3. An improved help screen would be great.
Posted by Dean on July 19, 2011 at 2:18 PM
I have had a chance to play with your chord reader some more. This is almost exactly what I was trying to build myself. Here are my thoughts
1. The black background is difficult to see the gray letters on. I am sure someone thinks this is a cool idea. For those of us who are older it is difficult. Could the background and text color be user selectable.
2. The text size needs to be adjustable using the two finger approach.
3. The location of my chords changed when I adjusted the size of the text in settings.
4. Need to have a bit of a buffer built in to the left edge. My text is cut off on the left hand side. Can’t see all of the words.
5. Where I play I do not have internet access. I have all of my songs converted to txt and saved on my tablet. Could this be set up so that the internet is not the default. I would like to simply type in the name of my song and have it find it on the device.
6. Songs listed in the default file are slow to scroll to the desired songs. Can you build in a search command that lets you type the first few letters, or have it index the songs alphabetically automatically with little A … B …. C… index keys to help refine the search?
I am very impressed with your work on this. Please continue to develop this app.