Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by exikyut » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 1:10 AM UTC

jd3 wrote: post #347

http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~duncjo01/assets/portfolio.html#mes... Wrote this a couple of weeks before Mozilla removed the XUL/XPCOM add-on APIs

oooooooo. I really really like this webpage :) full of interesting things. The click-to-change background FTW. (Is... are some of the bitmaps from DESQView/X?)

Thanks so much for the Apple fonts, I've been meaning to poke the Alto source for ages!!

Hmm. This idea I've had for a while may interest you, and you may have more success with it than I have: I want to get the fonts off a Psion MC400. https://sites.google.com/view/psionmc400

(I don't have one.) I found whiffs of conversation about ROM dumping one somewhere, but nothing substantive. I'm not sure how the author of that page obtained their screenshots, but if it's possible to convince the UI to display every possible char from every possible font (telnet, anybody? :D) it seems the process wouldn't be too hard.

The chances are if I pipe up in a bunch of retrocomputing forums someone will probably turn out to have one or two, but all my assistance would be remote unless there was a unit in Australia (I wouldn't want to risk mailing one here and back).

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by garysieling » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 1:11 AM UTC

I put time into my search engine for talks (https://www.findlectures.com/). I did two conference talks on it, at Solr/Lucene Revolution (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ia1DRz3l8) and AI With The Best (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvUf9LZxEv8).

I've also been working on extracting the UI components into a library of UI components for Solr (https://github.com/garysieling/solrkit) and a project to generate email alerts of suggested talks based on interests (https://github.com/garysieling/email-alerts).

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by laurentlb » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 1:12 AM UTC

I spent some of my time creating realtime procedural animations in 64kB, as part of the demoscene. 64kB is the size of the Windows executable (including all models, textures, music, etc.).

Youtube capture of my last work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27PN1SsXbjM (but please try the executable if you can)

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by sifoo » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 1:12 AM UTC

krapp wrote: post #382

sifoo wrote: post #337

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like you're preparing/triangulating to me, give it a few years and I can almost promise it will all make sense. Just accept that you're not in control and follow your intuition and all will be fine :)

Thanks. I feel slightly less embarrassed at having spent three months and counting on Pong.

You're welcome :) If you had any idea how many hundreds of thousands of locs I've thrown away over 30 years. Yet I wouldn't want to be anywhere else, and it was all leading here. These days I'm comfortable just going with the flow without rationalizing, it's not as if my stubborn attempts at controlling life were working out that well anyways...

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by armini » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 1:15 AM UTC

ray-hollands wrote: post #390

armini wrote: post #138

We’ve been working on a mobile app that helps people connect locally to conversations. https://imgur.com/a/lJnLe We would love to get a few early adopters and happy to pay people for their contributions. If you value connectivity, commerce & trade we would love to work with you Pilot program application form https://goo.gl/forms/9S7jopCiIVrbiMdt2

What do you need from the early adopters who register?

We basically need some fresh eyes to look at what we’ve built and provide us with honest brutal feedback. Like all parents we think our baby is amazing but good testers are like good teachers. They can tell us about all the imperfections & we must listen with diligence :)

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by egfx » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 1:19 AM UTC

https://www.qkast.com the most influential web app of our time that almost nobody cared about in 2017.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by armini » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 1:20 AM UTC

Stuart-Williams wrote: post #388

armini wrote: post #138

We’ve been working on a mobile app that helps people connect locally to conversations. https://imgur.com/a/lJnLe We would love to get a few early adopters and happy to pay people for their contributions. If you value connectivity, commerce & trade we would love to work with you Pilot program application form https://goo.gl/forms/9S7jopCiIVrbiMdt2

I completed the registration process. Can you explain more about what the app does?

Thanks Stuart, well we have a basic value proposition. We believe that online trust is the most important factor for success. Our app is designed to understand the content of people’s character through community moderation.

Once the trust is established we believe this will enable a whole new world of service offerings. Imagine if you could hire a CPA at an affordable rate similar to how you can hire a car today at an affordable rate using Uber.

Below is a visual representation https://imgur.com/a/WYSfy

If you’d like to learn more my skype armin.nehzat

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by ramsteam2018 » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 1:22 AM UTC

I grew the team for our startup. We hired more people with distinct and complementary skills. Our startup develops virtual reality social productivity applications. We are totally bootstrapped and will officially launch this year.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by songzme » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 1:23 AM UTC

hello_newman wrote: post #364

songzme wrote: post #320

I quit my job as a software engineer at Google early this year to teach people how to code. I started paying people $15/hr to learn so they can make ends meet while learning instead of working at Walmart. I thought about all the missing pieces in my engineering growth and created a curriculum that welcomes students from 0 engineering background and plugs in all the holes that were black boxed to me in my engineering…

I would love to donate time to build you a website/online presence if you need it. email is in my profile if interested!

Responded, I think donating time is the best form of donation. Students want mentorship from industry veterans but its hard to find people willing to commit the time to mentor. Thank you for offering!

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by songzme » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 1:25 AM UTC

thibautx wrote: post #348

songzme wrote: post #320

I quit my job as a software engineer at Google early this year to teach people how to code. I started paying people $15/hr to learn so they can make ends meet while learning instead of working at Walmart. I thought about all the missing pieces in my engineering growth and created a curriculum that welcomes students from 0 engineering background and plugs in all the holes that were black boxed to me in my engineering…

This is awesome! Please keep us posted on where we can donate in the near future.

Will do! I'll respond back to this thread when things are all set up.