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

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by lyime » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 7:02 AM UTC

Zak wrote: post #129

petermarks wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, awesome to hear there are other people into lighting on here. I'm spending my weekend working on a Max/MSP patch that spits out patterns onto an LED grid controlled by a 4/4 time signature. I plan to tie these patterns to music clips within Ableton once Max for Live comes out later this year. The idea is to have layered patterns corresponding to my layered music clips (minimal techno) during my dj performances.

I think you may have just signed up to beta test... something. We'll see what it turns in to. When I'm not coding for money, I'm a lighting designer - mostly live concerts, but I do some club stuff as well. I've found the options in that market very unsatisfactory. There are some good options starting in the $4000 range and up, but they all require a trained LD. The average DJ is unlikely to be willing to deal with t…

This is really interesting. I am running Mugasha.com. Electronic dance music service. Essentially making it really easy to listen to long dj sets. We should all talk more.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by raquo » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 7:12 AM UTC

I'm trying to create a web analytics SaaS for blogs that is usable and provides some publishing-specific metrics (unlike GA and most other services). I started it because I love design and visualization and it was a pain for me to derive any insights from available web analytics services.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by mv » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 7:18 AM UTC

I have been learning Python by implementing genetic algorithms.. Anyone else interested in machine learning? I'd love having someone to shoot ideas with. I'm in medical school so most of my friends don't know too much about programming.

moejoe16.geo@yahoo.com (this is my spambox that i only check when expecting email)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by 8plot » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 7:27 AM UTC

I'm working on revolutionizing the fiction publishing industry.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tome » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 7:27 AM UTC

Trying to polish off metapaw-dip in my spare time http://www.metapaw.co.uk/projects/metapaw-dip/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jellisjapan » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 7:30 AM UTC

miles wrote: post #105

jellisjapan wrote: post #81

I've been slowly creating a site to help japanese students learn kanji reading and context at readthekanji.com. I'm quite happy with it as it gets much better with every release and I'm learning a lot as I go.

Insanely well done! Love the clean look, context-based learning, and web-based IME. The IME is especially cool - I've never seen it done anywhere else. Great job.

Thanks, I'm really glad you like it! The IME wasn't difficult because unlike most cases of Japanese input, there is no need to convert it to kanji, which saves sooo much extra work.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by davidw » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 7:50 AM UTC

pg wrote: post #30

Besides YC, I've been working on Arc. (No writing lately. I can't seem to focus on more than 2 things at once, so it's always a choice of Arc xor essays.) Specifically, I've been trying to do things to Arc that will make News shorter. I'm running out of room, though: News is 1886 LOC, and it's rare now when I can find something that will cut as many as 5. So I'm going to try writing some other types of applications t…

> Besides YC, I've been working on Arc. (No writing lately. I can't seem to focus on more than 2 things at once, so it's always a choice of Arc xor essays.)

Fatherhood, Arc and YC are three things, though:-) Don't know if it's your intention to share anything about the first one, but I'd be curious if you did, and very understanding if you didn't.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by davidw » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 7:54 AM UTC

utku_karatas wrote: post #121

Wow. So noone here working on an IDE or text editor? Anyway I do :-) Recently decided to give a break on my degree (physics) and finalize my neverending Python IDE (Windows only - sorry :-)) while making buck on Django gigs for the bills. I don't even remember when I actually started on that. Must be the beginning of 2002. Now is the time.

Solved problem: Emacs :-)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jasonkester » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 7:54 AM UTC

Polishing Twiddla. It's amazing how much work you can put into something and have it still look sort of the same from the outside. It does a lot more though, and it does it a lot better. Our customer service load is as low as it's ever been...

I'll be tweaking the revenue model a bit over the summer, to make sure it keeps bringing in enough to finance the next 6-12 month roadtrip. I'll be flying one-way to Guatemala in October and slowly working my way south for some surfing in El Salvador and Nicaragua, and bullet dodging in Columbia. Just picked up a used Thinkpad X60 that will fit in the bottom of the bag without bogging me down, should hopefully survive the trip, and will be powerful enough to run VS.NET from the beach.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by davidw » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 8:08 AM UTC

Not as much as I'd like to be. Lots of consulting, and http://BikeChatter.com for fun. Hopefully going to be doing some more with Hecl soon. Being a dad takes up a lot of time.