CourseBuffet - http://www.coursebuffet.com Trying to have best search results of any aggregator of free MOOCs and we are only one to replicate bachelor's degree with our CourseBuffet Degree Paths. Take courses from different universities and providers but still have a focused learning path.
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#192The sequel to SQL: It's a new approach to the relational database based on years of research.
Brodlist.com (http://brodlist.com) The name is bad, the site is a placeholder, but the project is really exciting.
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#193https://www.grimoire.org - using a graph database (Neo4j) to try to understand the content and relationships between historical texts on magic
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#194youtubedown It's awesome because youtube is (intentionally) annoying, plus, it's nice to give back bugfix/feature patches when someone else (jwz) is kind enough to give their code to the public. EDIT: Thanks detaro. Link removed. I didn't know it was an issue, and obviously, couldn't see it.
For anyone else wondering about the links, I think one of these is the archive.org version of the link jcr removed:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150930225625/https://www.jwz.o...
[edited with more recent version] https://web.archive.org/web/20160310204843/https://www.jwz.o...
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#195I work on the 1km short range and on the 2km medium range probabilistic weather model at MeteoSwiss that is scheduled to go operational this month.
It is awesome because MeteoSwiss is the first national forecaster that is going GPU for their full forecast.
See: http://www.cscs.ch/publications/press_releases/2015/meteoswi...
My line of work mainly consists of porting Fortran code of the Dynamical part of the model to our C++ DSL (STELLA) and maintaining said port.
Before that I developed the Apple Homekit protocol for the OberonHAP devkit (http://oberonhap.com/ ). This is THE HomeKit Bluetooth implementation if you want to use really small and low-cost solutions.
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#196Menucamp - Online ordering for restaurants ( https://menucamp.com ) Restaurants pay way too much for bad online ordering systems. Menucamp is a simple, inexpensive system that gets the job done.
Some Feedback on the site:
"Free demo" makes you register and the description makes it sound like you have to link your account to Stripe right aways. This is quite misleading, imo. "Demo" in my mind doesn't even include registration, it should be a demo of how the service would operate.
"Sample Menu" is something that looks like a demo, but it is quite worthless, because it's not a bit interactive. You can't even add menu items to the basket.
If I was a restaurant owner I wouldn't be very impressed by the "Sample Menu" and I would be very reluctant to register because a "Free demo" doesn't entail signing up for Stripe in my opinion. This sounds more like a trial than a demo.
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#197Currently working on a little tool to create a "repeating" texture of triangular tiles. More or less an implementation of the "Image Quilting" paper but for triangles.
No URL yet (it's on github but not fit for human consumption yet), but you can see progress on my twitter: https://twitter.com/joeld42
When it's done (next week or so) I'll write up a full blog post.
You can find other projects I've worked on (like tk_objfile) on my website http://www.tapnik.com, there's a mailing list signup thinggy at the bottom if you want to get updates when I release things.
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#198I rewrote https://www.w3counter.com from scratch over the past month, and just put it online two days ago. W3Counter was a 12-year-old website offering web stats reports and hit counters with 30-something-thousand users. I ditched all the old code, and the data model, and the business model, and started from scratch. New framework, new way of storing and analyzing stats that scales better and provides more value, and…
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#199The Work Explorer - http://theworkexplorer.com/
It's a personal photojournalism project to learn more about different occupations and the people who work in them.
"We spend about 30% of our waking adult lives working. During that time, many of us experience only a small fraction of the available varieties of work. We may have some understanding of the occupations held by our friends, family, and coworkers. Outside of this subset of jobs, we likely have little insight into the work lives of millions of other people.
Why do we work? How did we choose our occupations? Are we happy with our jobs? I created The Work Explorer to answer questions like these through interviews and photos. I hope to find interesting stories, jobs, and people along the way."
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#200https://www.bicycl.com
Bicycl is a calendar for your life's work. Record what you learn and accomplish each day (or week, month, etc). Organize these micronotes into stories of progress over time. See lots of cool data come to life.
Screenshots coming. I'm testing things out right now in beta, but if you want to give it a twirl, I can send out a few invitations to first comers.
A couple notes: As someone who's struggled with depression, I built this because I found at the end of a day, my mind was putting very little stock in what I had actually accomplished. Fixating on futures constantly would degrade my self-confidence. It's harder to ignore your progress when it's all right there in front of you.
I still journal by hand and use Evernote daily. But found I also wanted somewhere to put my "nuggets", epiphanies, things I learn, etc.