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

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Post by bigsassy »

joshfinnie wrote: post #63

Working on a few things: Starting to get the word out for GISQuery.com, a Q&A site for GIS professionals using OSQA. Having an interesting time getting the word out on this one since I need participation for the site to grow. Learning CodeIngniter as a PHP framework to help get a few other ideas off the ground (a revamped 140Pl.us and a new beer website). I am getting tired of trying to build highly functioning sites…

Why create this site when a GIS site is quickly approaching beta on stack exchange. I'd imagine most people would use that site over GISQuery.com, and the quality of Q&A sites is directly related to the size of the community.

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1425/geographic-in...

Honest question. Why make this site?

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

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Post by shaddi »

abi wrote: post #91
yesbabyyes wrote: post #34

Building a live auction application for an auction house, in Tornado/memcache/jQuery.

This sounds cool. Real-time auctions on the web should be a lot of fun. Post a link whenever you're done.

Genuinely curious: how is eBay not a real-time auction?

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

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Post by terryjsmith »

Trying several approaches to get a screenshot of a known rect on the screen that has a flash video in it (that is loaded from an external site) with the click of a button and then save/stream the resulting image to a PHP script to be saved to the server. The end users are not very technically savvy so teaching them Jing or even image cropping is out of the question. Currently experimenting with Flash and Java appplet solutions.

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

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Post by nagrom »

Reverse engineering the communication protocol for a Thorlabs stepper motor and writing a Linux driver for it.

Planning my road trip to CERN from Scotland next week and getting to know a Monte Carlo simulation for physics reactions for when I arrive!

Deciding where to go for dinner...

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

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Post by joshfinnie »

bigsassy wrote: post #114
joshfinnie wrote: post #63

Working on a few things: Starting to get the word out for GISQuery.com, a Q&A site for GIS professionals using OSQA. Having an interesting time getting the word out on this one since I need participation for the site to grow. Learning CodeIngniter as a PHP framework to help get a few other ideas off the ground (a revamped 140Pl.us and a new beer website). I am getting tired of trying to build highly functioning sites…

Why create this site when a GIS site is quickly approaching beta on stack exchange. I'd imagine most people would use that site over GISQuery.com, and the quality of Q&A sites is directly related to the size of the community. http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1425/geographic-in... Honest question. Why make this site?

This is a good question. I think StackOverflow is great for what it is, but I think the success has come from the founders being rooted in the topic at hand.

Now that StackExchange has changed its view and are attempting to start other topics in the same vain, I feel that there is room for someone more invested in the topic to moderate a Q&A type website. I have no fear that the "Web Applications" "Gaming" and "Pro Webmasters" topics are going to work great, but I am interested to see how "Food and Cooking" is going to go.

Also, I am a big proponent of letting the website try and live. The GIS StackExchange committal project has been going on for almost a month and it's only at 81% there. Hopefully my connections in the GIS world can get GISQuery more than 500 people interested in it.

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