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Ask HN: If you were better at programming, what program would you write?
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#12Probably not write but if I have more knowledge on computer/programming I would want to understand source code of Linux/Rails.
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#13This: https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis But then I grew tired of waiting and just did it already :)
Could that be a plugin to Thunderbird?
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#14This: https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis But then I grew tired of waiting and just did it already :)
Could that be a plugin to Thunderbird?
Would you mind explaining more what that would buy us? Because I can't see it from here. Snackis uses email as a dumb transport; it doesn't even bother with headers that much since most content is encrypted; it's quite possible that other protocols will be added down the line.
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#15If I had an infinite amount of time, I would write a much higher level equivalent of LLVM. Specifically, I would spend time investigating ways to easily generate code generators from specifications. I'm also very interested to see how things like theorem provers can be used inside compilers.
If I could be bothered, I would write a really detailed political simulator a la Democracy but with much more detail and elections.
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#16The same, only i would have finished some of them.
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#17If I was really really good, I'd advance the state-of-the-art in neural network-based machine translation, recurrent neural network language models, neural Turing machines, etc.
Right now, the state-of-the-art is exciting but falls short in some world-changing areas like question-answering. As much as I want to, though, I have no idea how to push the field forward, however.
For the other things I want to do, I am probably sufficiently skilled to do, but I just need the time and motivation.
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#18If I was really really good, I'd advance the state-of-the-art in neural network-based machine translation, recurrent neural network language models, neural Turing machines, etc. Right now, the state-of-the-art is exciting but falls short in some world-changing areas like question-answering. As much as I want to, though, I have no idea how to push the field forward, however. For the other things I want to do, I am pro…
Intelligent answers are hard to come by, that's why I too would write a a program capable of Spock like question answering facility.
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#19Some kind of procedurally generated fantasy world, designed around generating stories.
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#20I'd find which top python modules have not been ported to python 3 and port them to python 3, working in descending order of popularity. Anything to end version hell with python modules and their related installation, dependencies, documentation, examples, and tutorials.
Sure, it may be possible to get things working smoothly today, but that doesn't mean that all the areas I mentioned (documentation, etc.) have caught up. The primary reason they don't catch up is the straggler libraries keep many teams in a past era.