Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

Post by anotheryou » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 9:47 PM UTC

DarkTree wrote: post #98

anotheryou wrote: post #45

better search, always Find me: - an aggregation of everything I have to know to run a porcelain store in my country (taxes, suppliers, how to find staff or better yet: showing candidates directly, best location in my town, etc.) - Fuzzy stuff like: the pic of that tree I took when I was on hollidays in XY a few years ago; or the note I took a few days ago about that band with some greek name - a ready to paste, non-a…

Honestly, it may not be at the level you are describing here now, but I have been overwhelmed by the ability I've had to find small figments of memories with Google search. For example, I had a faint memory of a movie I watched as 4 year old, and could only remember a few generic nouns describing it, and after a few minutes of searching I was able to pinpoint. This wasn't possible years ago, either because the search…

Post by sigjuice » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 9:50 PM UTC

mirekrusin wrote: post #90

goatlover wrote: post #80

Crystal & Julia 1.0. Crystal because it's a blazing fast, compiled and statically typed version of Ruby (or 80% anyway), and it's web server is awesome. Now it just needs full concurrency. Julia because it offers a nice, performant alternative to Python & R in data science, while avoiding Java & C++. It has some really nice features like multiple dispatch and the ability to run R, Python, Fortran and C code inside of…

Yes, can't wait for Crystal 1.0 release, awesome language.

Post by jostylr » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 9:52 PM UTC

devrandomguy wrote: post #55

jostylr wrote: post #39

Textblade: https://waytools.com/ Single row keyboard that has minimal finger movement. It was to be delivered March 2015 or so, but it has yet to be released. They have testers who rave about it and it looks incredible, but it is perpetually around the corner. Originally designed as an ultra-portable phone keyboard, those who have used it tend to use it for all their machines. It has jump slots to quickly switch from…

Wow, that is brilliant! But it's not on the market, you say? Well, it looks like something I can draft and print. I won't be competing with them, that would be rude, but I must have this for myself. They should remove the unresponsive Buy button, that just looks bad.

Post by scottmf » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 9:55 PM UTC

amirouche wrote: post #24

lolive wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And if you can also elaborate on why SPARQL and RDF were a major failure, and how GraphQL is different/better?

> it seems to make sense for things that could be represented by graph False, even if there is graph in its name it's not restricted to graph, and that what is great about it compared to things like RDF and SPARQL. Backend data can be stored in key/value store, document, files, RDBMS or whatever. And you will still be able to make it work. AFAIK you write a "translation" layer that interprets a pseudo-JSON file into…

Post by tjbiddle » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 9:57 PM UTC

jostylr wrote: post #39

Textblade: https://waytools.com/ Single row keyboard that has minimal finger movement. It was to be delivered March 2015 or so, but it has yet to be released. They have testers who rave about it and it looks incredible, but it is perpetually around the corner. Originally designed as an ultra-portable phone keyboard, those who have used it tend to use it for all their machines. It has jump slots to quickly switch from…