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 ezl » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 1:48 AM UTC

git-pull wrote: post #55

Published The Tao of tmux : https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read . Thanks to the HN readers who bought the book! Created new design for all my open source projects: https://www.git-pull.com (see sidebar at left, e.g. https://libtmux.git-pull.com ) Rebooted CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) language project, cihai: https://cihai.git-pull.com (see also: https://unihan-etl.git-pull.com ). Needs funding. New docutils b…

hsk flash cards seems really cool.

do people pay you for this? seems like a service and content that people would pay for, but i couldn't find any sign that this is being monetized on the site.

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

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Post by godot » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 1:51 AM UTC

c8d3f7b49897918 wrote: post #20

I continued to work on intercooler.js: https://github.com/LeadDyno/intercooler-js http://intercoolerjs.org I'm trying to get people to reconsider the more traditional web development style of server-side rendering of HTML + HATEOAS.

I remember seeing this last year too, I like it. This is a good reminder for me to try using it in side projects.

I fear though that you're swimming against the currents (obviously, speaking about the current trends of everyone using React or one of the other frameworks for frontend development). I hope you'll gain traction in creating a trend of a different path, making traditional web development style a viable alternative for modern web apps.

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Post by iratewizard » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 1:52 AM UTC

adpirz wrote: post #389

olalonde wrote: post #353

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I pay $600 per month for housing, food and bills Is that in the US? Sounds really low...

>smaller town and down sized everything You can very much pull that off in lots of small towns in the US, but yeah, you're living a close to thread bare lifestyle.

Not really. My girlfriend and I together make more than 200k/y and spend less than 1k/month on expenses while we prepare for her to launch a business. We cook food from CSA and our Farmer's market, have a cozy 2 bedroom in a quiet city and generally just don't buy a lot of things we don't need.

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Post by github-cat » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 1:55 AM UTC

Happy new year, HN.

The major highlight is the launch of http://pxlet.com. Apart from this, focus was on work and hope there will be some surprises in 2018.

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

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Post by pimmen » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 1:56 AM UTC

I started working at my first job as a software engineer, in my free time I spent time building game AIs.

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

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Post by thestepafter » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 1:58 AM UTC

jesperlang wrote: post #341

I quit what many would consider a successfull job in programming and had a sabbatical year. Moved to a smaller town and down sized everything in spending to the point where I pay $600 per month for housing, food and bills, so living of my savings haven't been an issue at all. I have focused on things like reading (read +40 books in 2017, up from 1-2 per year), wood working, sketching, running and skiing. To keep up m…

Do you mind sharing the town?

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Post by baron816 » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 2:01 AM UTC

songzme wrote: post #320

I quit my job as a software engineer at Google early this year to teach people how to code. I started paying people $15/hr to learn so they can make ends meet while learning instead of working at Walmart. I thought about all the missing pieces in my engineering growth and created a curriculum that welcomes students from 0 engineering background and plugs in all the holes that were black boxed to me in my engineering…

While your post is getting lots of reads, you should set up a landing page to collect email addresses. That way, when you have your non-profit set up, you send an email out asking for donations.

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Post by rokhayakebe » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 2:05 AM UTC

songzme wrote: post #320

I quit my job as a software engineer at Google early this year to teach people how to code. I started paying people $15/hr to learn so they can make ends meet while learning instead of working at Walmart. I thought about all the missing pieces in my engineering growth and created a curriculum that welcomes students from 0 engineering background and plugs in all the holes that were black boxed to me in my engineering…

You know Wo/Man I think you should put up a page and ask for people to donate as sponsors. I think HN users alone, if we come together, could send 10,20,50,100 people through your program. I would be proud to know my few dollars helped in this way.

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

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Post by songzme » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 2:09 AM UTC

baron816 wrote: post #417

songzme wrote: post #320

I quit my job as a software engineer at Google early this year to teach people how to code. I started paying people $15/hr to learn so they can make ends meet while learning instead of working at Walmart. I thought about all the missing pieces in my engineering growth and created a curriculum that welcomes students from 0 engineering background and plugs in all the holes that were black boxed to me in my engineering…

While your post is getting lots of reads, you should set up a landing page to collect email addresses. That way, when you have your non-profit set up, you send an email out asking for donations.

This is a great idea! Adding this now.

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Post by willj » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 2:15 AM UTC

I made (Let's) All Mine, a site that I hoped would pay for a master's degree in statistics. The idea was inspired by The Million Dollar Homepage [2] which was an experiment in what qualifies as a website. Essentially, that site took people's annoyance by ads, and made a site that was entirely ads, a 1000x1000 pixel grid where each square pixel cost $1. And it was successful.

My project takes people's annoyance by browser miners, and is a site whose entire purpose is browser mining. There's nothing else to it. The goal is to mine 1,000 Monero (an altcoin) collaboratively. After taxes and fees, that would cover the approximate cost of 2 years in grad school. I did the math the other day and realized that with about 1 million miners, I could achieve this task in 1 week (or 1 day with 7.5M miners, or 1 month with 250k people).

I've had very little luck getting the word out. While I'd love for the internet's capricious eye to smile on me and make it take off, I'm not optimistic. Nevertheless, it was a fun learning project!

[1] https://allmine.io

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage