Polishing my web app http://prettygraph.com to Ask HN for a review on Monday.
Ask HN: What are you working on today?
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#82my finances, however I wish I hadnt as its depressed me considerably. So im going to go work on a few pints at my local after work.
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#83a hacker news rss filter written in haskell that uses redis to store feed information. i've found a few filters that are like "only show feeditems which have 10+ votes" etc. I'm going for something a little more complicated - most popular n posts by hour, day, week and month.
I've been thinking about something like this.
Basically, seeing the Top 'N' posts for a given time period. Like a digest of the Top 20 posts for the previous 24 hours delivered by email or RSS. I want an option to retrieve some/all of the comments for these stories as well.
Does something like this exist already? RSS is not an optimal delivery method for crowd sourced news sites like HN, Reddit, etc.
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#84working on the ui components of the next gen Kindle :P
Other than that, finishing up the ipad/iphone version of a children story I have been working at home. Almost there.... kinda cute actually.
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#85Same project I've been working on for the better part of 3 months, unfortunately: a web based chat using GWT to replace a flash based one. The primary reasons are: we wanted to control the source code and remove dependecy on third-party products and becase we want the chat to work on iPad so flash is out. Running into tons of stumbling blocks primarily around keeping the app near realtime and stable. It's GWT on the…
I'm surprised that was your conclusion. Why do you blame HTTP if the point of failure in your case seems to be the database?
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#86Configuring more cell phones for an open and cheap GPS bus-tracking project. And messing with the UI too -- http://dutrack.com .
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#87Tornado, MongoDB and using Emacs to do it.
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#88Writing ADA code; It's about as exciting as it sounds.
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#89Today is my last day at work in Connecticut -- in two weeks I'll be moving to San Francisco and seeking a new position. (Anybody looking for a solid, well-rounded front-end guy who wants to dive into more stuff? I'm huge on detail and a quick learner.)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?
#90Using Ruby to create a better way to specify CSV exports from our system.