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

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Post by dchest » Sun, Jul 11, 2010, 9:32 AM UTC

Pistos2 wrote: post #310

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

Cool. A couple suggestions: When you get your result, make the name clickable, and go to some sensible place, like a Wikipedia page, or such. Also, to be able to see a listing of all possible names, and perhaps a few stats (how many people get each name as a result, etc.) would be cool. :) Good work; show me more (I subscribed).

Thanks for your suggestions!

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

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Post by tudorw » Sun, Jul 11, 2010, 11:35 AM UTC

au contraire, it would appear most of you are wasting time reading HN like me :)

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

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Post by yesbabyyes » Tue, Jul 13, 2010, 4:40 PM UTC

detst wrote: post #297

shaddi wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuinely curious: how is eBay not a real-time auction?

I assume they mean like an in-person auction. People increasingly bid until their max and when there are no more bids, the auction ends.

Sorry for the late reply. Yeah, this is for a more classic auction house.

It's called "open outcry", I think. The kind with an auctioneer, a room full of people with paddles and the object (or a photo of it) up front.

It's an English auction with a pre-defined bid ladder, and people can also pre-register with a maximum (hidden) bid, according to which the clerk will bid for them.

We are streaming their auctions online, and now they want people to be able to bid at home as well. Christie's (in England) already does this.

We think it might become a big deal when smaller auction houses in small towns can have this - today, the prices are not as high as they "should", since the market is local. If we can open it up, more people, and more knowledgeable people, will bid and more of the money will flow to the original seller (or so I think).

It's a fairly simple server on Tornado, which receives the bids etc and passes messages with long-polling, with a memcache backend for scaling.

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

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Post by dreur » Tue, Jul 20, 2010, 8:59 PM UTC

raphaelb wrote: post #293

dreur wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would recommend Symfony as a PHP framework.

I like symfony as well but as of late I've found several things in the documentation to be segmented - such that you need to read around in several parts to find the secret recipe that actually works. I'm planning to contribute to the docs soon hopefully but with a brand new baby boy I haven't had a tremendous amount of time.

I've discovered Kohana recently and it looks promising and the only HMVC Framework I know. As for the Symfony doc, I think it is wonderful ... offering free online books is one of the main reason for its popularity.