Ask HN: What are you working on tonight? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?

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Post by dangrossman » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 7:13 AM UTC

Writing copy for webpages of a service that helps ecommerce sites with high chargeback rates reduce fraud.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?

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Post by akkartik » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 7:13 AM UTC

Copy for my current project: http://readwarp.com. I'm trying to come up with three short sentences for the front page to describe a) What it is, b) What it can do for you, c) What you should do next.

If you can figure out what it does, you tell me :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?

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Post by char » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 7:15 AM UTC

Tonight's projects included A/B testing, practicing piano, and making a delicious sausage pizza.

I'm currently considering jumping on the Feynman diagrams posted by dwwoelfel, because I kind of miss doing them.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?

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Post by shib71 » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 7:17 AM UTC

waterlesscloud wrote: post #96

shib71 wrote: post #12

A website for people to post latin texts, collaboratively annotate them with grammer information, and read both.

What's the site? I have a couple of latin grad student friends that would probably enjoy that.

It's not in any state for public use yet. The UI is very buggy, and the annotation system doesn't support more than the latin equivalent of "See Spot Run".

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?

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Post by gabea » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 7:22 AM UTC

I am working on a fantasy sports business. To be specific, this evening of work had to do not with building features but with actually mending relationships busted up by good ole email miscommunication. My advice is to say what you have to say on the phone or in person. Leave emotional discussions off of paper/email.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?

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Post by minalecs » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 7:22 AM UTC

psawaya wrote: post #119

Playing around with streaming video and Adobe Stratus, and contemplating making my own Chatroulette-like site. Let me know how well it (doesn't) work: http://cam-mash.appspot.com/listen

working on a similar idea.. :) maybe we should collaborate

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?

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Post by Huppie » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 7:23 AM UTC

I hope to finish the Rails Tutorial (http://www.railstutorial.org/) and then begin reading (and experimenting with) Agile Web Developing with Rails (http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Web-Development-Rails-Programmer...).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?

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Post by DCoder » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 7:23 AM UTC

Reverse engineering a C++ game and patching it. The usual thing fans do to fix their favourite broken games :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?

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Post by nose » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 7:29 AM UTC

Watching some cloudera videos. http://www.cloudera.com/videos

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?

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Post by rms » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 7:31 AM UTC

pg wrote: post #72

jaydub wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

as of ~a year ago: "3.0 GHz Core whatever, 12 GB RAM, 64-bit FreeBSD 7.1" see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516118

It's still that one. We were starting to spend too much time gcing once everything got lazily loaded, but a few days ago I started throwing stuff out of memory and now it looks like we've got performance back into the tolerable range. http://hnstatus.net/

One day, I will be able to load my saved items...