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 dawson » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 8:31 AM UTC

Preparing for admissions interview.

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

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Post by dacort » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 8:33 AM UTC

Backing out the latest changes we spent the week building because it "wasn't right".

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

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Post by ashleyw » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 8:37 AM UTC

Building a barebones game framework for HTML5 Canvas. Or at least, decoupling the reusable pieces of code from a game I've been building.

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

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Post by jdoliner » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 8:48 AM UTC

A raytracer as part of a class project.

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

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Post by menomnon » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 8:48 AM UTC

As part of writing my first Thunderbird addon, started in the way I usually do by doing a demo. Setting up the parallel dev profile was a little tedious and is not explained in the documentation. I wanted to get actual messages into the dev version (because I'll need them) and ended up flying blind (but correctly) by simply copying the right files from out of the default profile into dev.

The exercise itself was very fast - which was nice. There were a number of places where one could go subtly wrong and I managed to miss them all and at the first pass. Which was even more encouraging.

Now I have to grit my teeth a bit and dig into the Thunderbird API to accomplish my real goal. What I do now know is the landscape.

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

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Post by sshumaker » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 8:49 AM UTC

sketerpot wrote: post #149

Winning National Novel Writing Month. I know that NaNoWriMo is in November, but I reserve the right to change February into another November in my personal timeline. I just have 618 words left. I've never written anything longer than about twenty pages before, and no fiction, so this was really a new and exciting experience for me. To my surprise, the book is actually pretty fun to read; I was expecting it to suck. I…

Try Scrivener. http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html

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

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 8:54 AM UTC

megaduck wrote: post #124

ThinkWriteMute wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's so GAE.

I know you meant it as a joke, and it is indeed clever. However, usage of 'gay' as a pejorative is kind of offensive to some of us. Please be careful with your puns. Edit: Seriously, guys, I'm trying to be as civil as possible here. What's with the downvotes?