Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by ploggingdev » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 7:59 PM UTC

austenallred wrote: post #137

Lambda School - a rigorous, live online computer science education that’s free until you’re hired. https://LambdaSchool.com/computer-science Started as a side project in January, and I had no idea it would take off like this. We now have 20 employees, including instructors from Google, Apple, Blizzard, etc. and our first graduating students are getting hired for great salaries all over the US. (Average is $85,000 in…

> Started as a side project in January, and I had no idea it would take off like this

Would be interested in learning about the backstory. Did you blog about it somewhere?

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by weichsel » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 7:59 PM UTC

I open sourced a ZIP library written in Swift for macOS/iOS/tvOS/watchOS and Linux: https://github.com/weichsel/ZIPFoundation and wrote an article about it here: https://thomas.zoechling.me/journal/

Also improved my Mac app to record and export Animated GIFs: https://itunes.apple.com/app/claquette-animated-screenshots/...

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by metahost » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 8:00 PM UTC

1. A real time chat app to lean more about Socket IO.

2. A link shortener to learn about Redis and atomic transactions.

3. An interpreter for Pascal (based on the "How to build an interpreter" series of blog posts)

4. And many more..

Summary is here: https://sayan98.github.io

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by j_s » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 8:01 PM UTC

dvdsgl wrote: post #88

A friend and I created https://quicktype.io to generate TypeScript, Swift, Go, C#, C++, etc. from JSON sample data and GraphQL queries. Many have tried to solve this problem – we've found at least 20 projects that attempt to turn JSON sample data into code to represent that data, but they're almost all abandoned and they all have the same fundamental flaws (they generate invalid code for most non-trivial inputs). In…

What is the best C# GraphQL back end?

There is probably a small market for quickly translating SQL Server DB schema into a C# GraphQL provider with easy authentication/filtering hooks. Not sure if the market would be any bigger cross-platform since the momentum follows free open source options.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by franze » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 8:01 PM UTC

of my own projects:

finished my book (3½ years in the making, so my new years resolution 2015, 2016, 2017): https://www.fullstackoptimization.com/b/understanding-seo now in a second print

my obtrusive live testing app (chrome extension) now v 1 0.1.5:(so, ready for production) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/f19n-obtrusive-liv...

next year: book marketing & distribution and a focused mini community around obtrusive live testing

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by vemv » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 8:01 PM UTC

swlkr wrote: post #32

I finally released my full stack Clojure framework: Coast on Clojure, tepid response so far probably because the community doesn’t really like frameworks, but I’m a rebel

Cool! Will have an in-depth look at it as I also love both Rails and Clojure (which can get you strange looks from both camps).

TBH I have pretty clear that my next Clojure project will use https://github.com/arachne-framework given its robust architecture / baked-in best-practices.

But yeah always valuable to know how are people writing their backends.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by jszymborski » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 8:01 PM UTC

Two machine-learning models for the detection of breast cancers from medical imaging of breast cancer biopsy tissue. Big focus on making models accessible to clinicians.

The models are:

(1) PPReCOGG, one of the models based on Gabor filters and k-NN (https://github.com/jszym/pprecogg)

(2) DeepDuct, the second model, based on a pre-trained VGG16 network and the Grad-CAM algorithm, localises lesions _and_ informs clinicians about why the model has chosen the lesion type it did.

You can find more details in my master's thesis, for which the models were written: http://cs.mcgill.ca/~jszymb/thesis/260528685_Szymborski_Jose...

(Edit: Also, if you're hiring machine learning people, medical or otherwise, please get in touch at hn at jszym point com)

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by BlackjackCF » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 8:01 PM UTC

firefoxd wrote: post #159

I've worked at the highest paying job i ever got in my career. But then i quit in july to focus on a startup I joined after we were featured in techcrunch and received angel investment. Now i realized that the money was the least of our problem and the startup is on the brink of death. I replaced the source of my income from job to stock market investments. Now i am focusing on a new side project that poped in my hea…

Can you tell me more about the problems you faced with your startup? My experience with 2017 has been the same in terms of working at the highest paying job I've had in my career. However, I AM thinking about leaving the traditional job market at some point to start my own start up in the next 3 years. I want some reality checks though.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by newhotelowner » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 8:02 PM UTC

rblion wrote: post #7

8 months of life without alcohol, pot, meat. Launching an agency/consultancy with a sister company that resells hosting and optimization.

Last year I started meditation and as a part of it, I quit alcohol and pot. I wish I can quit my bad habits.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by adamnemecek » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 8:05 PM UTC

I’ve been working fulltime for an IDE for music. None of the currenct DAW and MIDI editors really understand music. Notepad : IDE = DAW : my thing. Sign up here I’ll ping you when it’s ready https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-aQzVbkbGwv2BMQsvuoneOUPgyr...