Ask HN: What are you working on tonight? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by jcrocholl » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 8:31 PM UTC

dzlobin wrote: post #94

jcrocholl wrote: post #90

My interactive search engine for short available domains: http://www.nxdom.com/ I'm working to bring the advanced weighted sort order back, but optional so that new users can play with the simple sort order until they understand what it does. Work in progress is here, and full source code: http://master.latest.scoretool.appspot.com/ http://github.com/jcrocholl/nxdom My 2-year-old son doesn't want to go to sleep yet,…

FWIW, On Ubuntu/Chrome, the 'find available domains, starts with and ends with' lines are all on top of each other.

Thank you, I see what you mean. The headline wraps because the font is too wide on Ubuntu (in Firefox too), hope to fix it soon.

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

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Post by akkartik » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 9:13 PM UTC

snitko wrote: post #187

akkartik wrote: post #132

Copy for my current project: http://readwarp.com . I'm trying to come up with three short sentences for the front page to describe a) What it is, b) What it can do for you, c) What you should do next. If you can figure out what it does, you tell me :)

You should definitely make a for the page

Absolutely. I just added a title that updates with the stories. I've also added a (ugly) favicon so it's easy to distinguish from other tabs. Thanks for the suggestion.

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

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Post by Semiapies » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 9:16 PM UTC

ThinkWriteMute wrote: post #211

megaduck wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know you meant it as a joke, and it is indeed clever. However, usage of 'gay' as a pejorative is kind of offensive to some of us. Please be careful with your puns. Edit: Seriously, guys, I'm trying to be as civil as possible here. What's with the downvotes?

Civility has nothing to do with it. It was a not-so-clever pun. I wasn't actually using it as a pejorative. That should be painfully obvious.

It was a pun on a pejorative use of the word - if you disagree, look up "pejorative".

At the risk of seeming "PC" to oversensitive folks, using social identities as pejoratives is inherently insulting; you're associating their racial/sexual/etc. identity with something undesirable, even if you don't think of it as a slur. "Gay" to mean stupid or annoying is of a piece with terms like "gyp", "indian-giver", or "nigger-rig".

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

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Post by Semiapies » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 9:21 PM UTC

A designer friend and I will likely play with a redesign of some mutual friends' university club's website.

EDIT: And then I notice that this was posted yesterday. :)

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

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Post by sketerpot » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 10:48 PM UTC

recurser wrote: post #212

sketerpot wrote: post #149

Winning National Novel Writing Month. I know that NaNoWriMo is in November, but I reserve the right to change February into another November in my personal timeline. I just have 618 words left. I've never written anything longer than about twenty pages before, and no fiction, so this was really a new and exciting experience for me. To my surprise, the book is actually pretty fun to read; I was expecting it to suck. I…

Good for you :) please post it when it's done. I got a chuckle out of the python/Tex thing - I was chatting with a friend recently about how we both want to start writing, but none of the writing apps feel right, if only there was a markdown-simple native mac app that would spit out latex, etc etc. We ended up agreeing we'd probably spend more time on the app than actually writing - kudos on doing both.

I think you're overestimating how long it would take to get something usable put together, if you're only trying to make it usable by you. It took me about one hour to write the python scripts, and another hour to learn the appropriate LaTeX document class, and then I just opened up Aquamacs and started typing.

(A nice advantage of this is that I programmed it to tell me how far I've gotten on my daily word goals. I don't know any word processor that does exactly this, and it's really handy.)

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

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Post by sketerpot » Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 10:49 PM UTC

sshumaker wrote: post #166

sketerpot wrote: post #149

Winning National Novel Writing Month. I know that NaNoWriMo is in November, but I reserve the right to change February into another November in my personal timeline. I just have 618 words left. I've never written anything longer than about twenty pages before, and no fiction, so this was really a new and exciting experience for me. To my surprise, the book is actually pretty fun to read; I was expecting it to suck. I…

Try Scrivener. http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html

I hear that Scrivener is good, but I don't always use a mac, and I'm a starving college student. I like having something free that I can use over SSH in a pinch.

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

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Post by headShrinker » Sat, Feb 27, 2010, 4:39 AM UTC

There is a merge lane right out my window in NY. Horns honk all day, due to narrowly missed disasters, and occationally theres some contact. Soooooo, I pointed a webcam out my window and created the http://WorstMergeLaneEver.com

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

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Post by ThinkWriteMute » Sat, Feb 27, 2010, 5:05 AM UTC

Semiapies wrote: post #223

ThinkWriteMute wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Civility has nothing to do with it. It was a not-so-clever pun. I wasn't actually using it as a pejorative. That should be painfully obvious.

It was a pun on a pejorative use of the word - if you disagree, look up "pejorative". At the risk of seeming "PC" to oversensitive folks, using social identities as pejoratives is inherently insulting; you're associating their racial/sexual/etc. identity with something undesirable, even if you don't think of it as a slur. "Gay" to mean stupid or annoying is of a piece with terms like "gyp", "indian-giver", or "nigger…

EXCEPT THAT I WASN'T USING IT AS A PEJORATIVE. Jesus fucking christ, this isn't "PC" this is just stupid.

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

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Post by rms » Sat, Feb 27, 2010, 5:07 AM UTC

ThinkWriteMute wrote: post #228

Semiapies wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was a pun on a pejorative use of the word - if you disagree, look up "pejorative". At the risk of seeming "PC" to oversensitive folks, using social identities as pejoratives is inherently insulting; you're associating their racial/sexual/etc. identity with something undesirable, even if you don't think of it as a slur. "Gay" to mean stupid or annoying is of a piece with terms like "gyp", "indian-giver", or "nigger…

EXCEPT THAT I WASN'T USING IT AS A PEJORATIVE. Jesus fucking christ, this isn't "PC" this is just stupid .

You weren't using it as a pejorative, but your pun was based on its use as a pejorative.

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

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Post by ThinkWriteMute » Sat, Feb 27, 2010, 8:52 AM UTC

rms wrote: post #229

ThinkWriteMute wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

EXCEPT THAT I WASN'T USING IT AS A PEJORATIVE. Jesus fucking christ, this isn't "PC" this is just stupid .

You weren't using it as a pejorative, but your pun was based on its use as a pejorative.

And? Some guy posted using the word "nigger". He may not be calling people "nigger", but he used a word that is racially insensitive! Booga booga!

Jesus.