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#92Two years ago I quit my SRE job and took a leap of faith to develop a game I would love to play myself. It's a crossover between Factorio and RimWorld. It is by far the most complex software project I have worked on throughout my 20-ish years in tech, and I'm loving every moment of it.
It will likely flop, and I did ruin my career for this, but it was my childhood dream to make games, and I can finally say I'm doing it. If you're interested to see the progress of my two years of work: https://stardeusgame.com - there is a demo on Steam.
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#93I'm on and off spending some time on a (probably) completely useless and really bad idea: a filesystem based document "database" with very basic indexing capabilities, in nodejs. It sounds so horrible, I can't get my mind off it! :P
I've been working on something (probably) similar in C#. The idea is to tag files/documents with attributes like "auto", "insurance", "2022", encrypt the file locally (using your manually entered key), copy it to a network share/cloud storage/etc., and add the tags and document information to a database. Later on, you can search for documents based on the tags and get a decrypted copy of the file.
Not similar to what I posted above, but similar to another idea I had but didn't pursue as much:
remote storage with local indexes, where the remote storage only holds encrypted data (can be postgres or s3 or whatever), and the only way to make sense of the data is if you have access to the local encryption keys and indexes.
The local indexes would function like your notion of tags, and also be somewhat encrypted (hashed probably) so you can find your data locally but only pull it from the remote when needed.
Re: Ask HN: What is something exciting you're working on?
#94Two years ago I quit my SRE job and took a leap of faith to develop a game I would love to play myself. It's a crossover between Factorio and RimWorld. It is by far the most complex software project I have worked on throughout my 20-ish years in tech, and I'm loving every moment of it. It will likely flop, and I did ruin my career for this, but it was my childhood dream to make games, and I can finally say I'm doing…
Hey, this looks really cool, nice work!
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
How are you planning on collecting data? Seems hard to be a detached trial aid when your dog is in pain…
Currently, I'm approaching this from another angle. Instead of giving training data, I'm trying to use the same inferences vets use to determine if the dog is in pain. For ex: if the dog has flattened ears or grimacing look. I'm still reading research papers to figure what's the best way to approach this problem. This is just the first step and I'll see what can be done regarding collecting data later on.
When a dog is in pain, it makes a short high pitched noise.
Reference: my dog has problems with his hips and likes to jump... Suddenly the pain kicks in.
Hope it helps
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#96I’m building a hosted data warehouse for different verticals. My goal is to target people interested in doing analysis, but acquiring data and setting up even datasette is too complex, especially if the data needs transformations to be easier to comprehend. Then I’m building that into a platform where people can fork any query, modify, and publish with their own analysis in order to build a portfolio. My first market…
For analytics sometimes SQL is not the best query language. In many practical scenarios analytic queries require looking at most rows of a dataset, but only at a few columns.
This is what OLAP-like engines are built for.
When you have these types of queries, the relational model ends up degenerating in a star schema with queries issuing a join for each data column on the first projection, and then a pass on that projection for aggregation, typically working on a time range that's relatively recent.
For these, native columnar stores are usually a better option. Things like Apache Pinot https://pinot.apache.org/ might be a better fit.
If you add a real-time requirement, it gets even more challenging, going into the realm of custom built query engines, such as those that back products as those built by Medallia or other customer experience companies.
It's a really interesting niche.
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#97https://veloren.net/ It's pretty wild that it's possible to make an open source 3D MMORPG where everything is procedurally generated and combat is in real time. That's a combination of words that shouldn't work.
Nice. How about cooperative gameplay? I get the combat appeal, but cooperation ala Minecraft can be truly appealing.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
how is this different from Reason?
Roughly, Reason is OCaml, Derw is more like Haskell/Elm. Derw wears the Elm influence proudly, with similar design decisions and goals, and similar standards for tooling. Reason is maybe more appealing to people from JS or OCaml backgrounds, with support for things like JSX. Derw is like Elm: functions and values.
The Haskell is strong with this one!
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#99I've just released a WebGL experiment that uses music to animate particles. It's meant to be exciting to both watch and create (the music - not composed by me - is pretty epic). https://polygonjs.com/particles-music And it's done with a visual node-based editor I'm working g on. Here is a tutorial of it in action. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2WfjN_pVGgj32-ZJc_VNaZ...
Damn... I need to try it on the machine with the good graphics card...
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#100Just launched: http://PageWal.la It turns Facebook Business Pages into Web Sites. Give it a try!
How's it going?
Thanks for asking, but it's not going well at all. I dumped US$250 into Facebook ads targeting Business Page owners and didn't get a single customer.
Neat trick, but it's a tough market to crack.
Fortunately, I have other side projects that need attention. :)
Next up is Headlamp. It's a Chrome plugin for web test UI coverage & test team monitoring/coordination. It's been offline and broken for years: