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

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Post by jokermatt999 »

ivenkys wrote: post #75

No one is doing something more mind-numbing than me. Waiting for I.T Support to give me Admin rights on my PC to get something/anything working.

That was last week for me. You have my utmost sympathy, but at least you can browse HN in the meantime. I was once stuck doing that without anything to read and no browsing capabilities. It was mindnumbing, but I was at least being paid.

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

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Post by iamanet »

dchest wrote: post #111

Today I released my three-day project "I Write Like". You paste some text, it analyzes it and tells you what famous writer you write like. Link: http://iwl.me

It is a fun app. It mostly said I write like Issac Assimov except when I gave it a bunch of python code it said I write like Edgar Allen Poe. I guess this is a clear signal that I should drastically improve my Python programming skills.

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

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Post by Grinnmarr »

dchest wrote: post #111

Today I released my three-day project "I Write Like". You paste some text, it analyzes it and tells you what famous writer you write like. Link: http://iwl.me

This is a lot of fun but the great variety of results I received left me without any sense of who I may actually write like. I analyzed a series of correspondence, all written within several weeks, and similar in tone, and I was told that I write like: Dan Brown, James Joyce, Isaac Asimov, Stephen King and Douglas Adams. Anyway, I love the concept. Please add Robert Louis Stevenson (Strange Case) to your collection. Thank you for the narcissistic pleasure :D

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

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Post by qeorge »

Client side image resizing for an image uploader, part of a larger web app build. Saves a ton of time/bandwidth/CPU. So far its turned really well.

Its pretty easy actually, thanks to the most recent beta of SWFUpload. If you want to implement yourself, make sure to grab the patched .swf or you may have trouble queueing uploads.

SWFUpload 2.5 Beta: http://code.google.com/p/swfupload/downloads/detail?name=SWF...

Patched SWF: http://code.google.com/p/swfupload/downloads/detail?name=swf...

Demo: http://demo.swfupload.org/v250beta3/resizedemo/index.php

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

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Post by dchest »

iamanet wrote: post #163
dchest wrote: post #111

Today I released my three-day project "I Write Like". You paste some text, it analyzes it and tells you what famous writer you write like. Link: http://iwl.me

It is a fun app. It mostly said I write like Issac Assimov except when I gave it a bunch of python code it said I write like Edgar Allen Poe. I guess this is a clear signal that I should drastically improve my Python programming skills.

Ha, I had an idea for an easter egg that would tell you that you write like Guido van Rossum if you put some Python code there, but decided against it to avoid false positives :-)

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

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Post by PStamatiou »

Working on redesigning Notifo's website. I started by nuking all the css from the last design, removing divs I didn't like, reorganizing the site with a page div, some wrappers for header and footer so I could stretch them out 100%. Worked on the logo a bit to get a slicker look that blended in with the background, in addition to a subtle letterpress effect.

I still have lots left to redesign in terms of content pages, in addition to adding a few new sections to the site but I've been tinkering around with some typography recently. I really want to use TypeKit but last night Chad and I found that - possibly related - scrolling on the site is incredibly slow when TypeKit is enabled than when it's not, or when using a Google WebFont instead.

Using lots of CSS3 throughout - combined with Sass it makes it super easy. for example, my box-shadow mixin:

  @mixin box-shadow($ho, $vo, $b, $c)
    -webkit-box-shadow: $ho $vo $b $c
    -moz-box-shadow: $ho $vo $b $c
    box-shadow: $ho $vo $b $c
    filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.dropshadow( OffX=" $ho, "OffY=" $vo, "Color=" $c ")"
    -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.dropshadow( OffX=" $ho, "OffY=" $vo, "Color=" $c ")"
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