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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by covercash »

Last month my mom emailed me asking if I knew of any new/good places she could take her friend to eat in Philadelphia. I went on Yelp and found a few suggestions for her. Had my mom known about Yelp, she could have done that herself. I went over the next day and showed her Yelp and now she uses it every time she wants to go out to eat.

I'm tired of my mom treating technology like it's a chore so I'm working on something that will introduce her to new tech that can really make a difference in her every day life. Like most of you, I'm immersed in the latest and greatest technology every day but she's too intimidated and too busy to discover it herself. I find that once I get her past those two bumps in the road, she actually enjoys the benefits of whatever it is I introduced her to.

Right now I'm compiling a list of awesome sites, services, gadgets, etc. that I think my mom would actually like and benefit from... if she only knew they existed.

Then I'll send her a weekly email with a 2-5 minute video showing basic use of a new piece of technology and explaining how it can benefit her.

My gift to my mom.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by RiderOfGiraffes »

silentbicycle wrote: post #179
RiderOfGiraffes wrote: post #165

I seem to have invented a new datastructure, so I'm analysing it to check its performance before writing it up and announcing it. I've also invented a variant of an existing data structure that has some nice features. That will accompany it. In the meantime I'm starting a re-write of my alpha 0.1 web service to help connect people with friends and friends of friends. The existing one still exists, and I'm still colle…

If you don't mind me asking, what do you do once you've invented new data structure? I think I have recently, too, but (besides thoroughly documenting it and posting a library based on it, soon), I'm kind of at a loss. I'm not in academia, so publishing in an academic journal isn't the clear choice. I've been trying to find prior art, but thus far haven't found anything similar. My e-mail address is in my profile.

To be blunt, I'm not sure. I've spoken with the head of computing at my nearest university and he seems quite excited by it. We may publish a joint paper - not least it will give him an Erdos Number of 3. Failing publication, I'll just write it up, put it on my web site, and announce it in a few place.

What ever happens, I will announce it here for sure.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by koenbok »

DTrejo wrote: post #218
teej wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can get a lot of the good looks on any platform by using 280North's open source UI pack, Aristo. http://github.com/280north/aristo

Is there a way to use the UI pack and nothing more?

Sure you can get the photoshop file here: http://github.com/280north/aristo

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Tichy »

jdrock wrote: post #191
Tichy wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While in principle I think the approach is great, I have recently learned that some of your "volunteers" are in fact people infected with spyware. Can't find the corresponding article atm, though :-(

They're not infected with spyware. Some of the computing power comes from the users of freeware applications, who are asked _during install_ if they want to enable the grid system that powers us.

The article I read was about one of these freeware applications (something starting with "G", and a green Logo or mascot I think, I can not remember unfortunately), which installs the spyware if the users does "Express Install". Buried in the TOS is "we may use your computing power". It was by a third company, which in turn is supposed to be used by 80legs. Perhaps 80legs is not even aware of the shady practices of that company.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by koenbok »

grasshopper wrote: post #209
koenbok wrote: post #32

Making our e-commerce platform http://www.enstore.com available to everyone. With a nice frontend built in Cappuccino/Atlas.

Just curious, is the storefront in Cappuccino, or just the admin section?

The storefronts can be anything. Most of them are html templates (we use django) with css and jquery. So for now just the admin is Capp.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by koenbok »

csytan wrote: post #204
koenbok wrote: post #32

Making our e-commerce platform http://www.enstore.com available to everyone. With a nice frontend built in Cappuccino/Atlas.

I've been following your company's work on HN and the Appengine group. Just wanted to say, you guys have some very talented designers!

Thanks, I'll pass on the love...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by covercash »

thesystemis wrote: post #199

I just finished editing documentation of this outdoor projection / interaction project we did in new zealand: http://vimeo.com/8525186 I'm working on an open source eye tracker: http://eyewriter.org and a c++ toolkit for creative coding: http://openframeworks.cc

that looks like so much fun. nice work!
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