Since many months, I am building back my very own base tools.
Alternatives to: grep, cat, apt, tail, head, cut, awk, sed, inotify, macro recorder, gif recorder, etc...
Yes, reinventing the wheel, my very own set of.
It appear to be an incredibly good experience.
Both of my tools performs over the originals, this wasn't my first goal!
Using them in other projects is amazingly faster than i can imagine.
Facing real cases, I modify them to perform better and better.
I can't advise it much than anything else.
This is exactly what an old mechanics do. His tools perfoms over anything you can gift him..
;)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#12I'm working on a piece to go into my portfolio. It's a guidebook for companies navigating crisis communication during and after security incidents occur, such as breaches. I'm only an undergrad so I don't have much experience, so a lot of it is compilation and synthesizing professional advice (properly attributed of course), but with my own recommendations and criticisms of specific cases.
note: if anyone has particular advice to give me with this project, what you might want to see featured, i'm all ears.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#13I'm working with my family managing our supermarket. It is not cool at all . I got a Bachelors degree in CS at UFPE. I have been studying for a while to get back to software developer career.
You could so some pretty cool stuff. Have you been hyper optimizing it? Product shelve to sale ratios? 80/20 type optimizations on revenue by skus? Traffic flow maps? I'd love to hear some result or stories if you do end up doing some of this.
Doing some basic image processing and tracking customers flow through the store would be fascinating.
You could categorize what people are shopping for, how long, and what buying one item tends to mean for the rest of their shopping cart.
I'd read that paper!
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#14Thanks for the opportunity for some self promotion! I'm working on a new data serialisation language that focuses on character efficiency. It's around 30% more character efficient than JSON at a basic level but 60%+ more efficient for complex objects.
Minimal Object Description Language
It's cool because MODL makes it possible to store objects in places that have extremely limited capacity like DNS TXT records, QR codes and RFC tags.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could so some pretty cool stuff. Have you been hyper optimizing it? Product shelve to sale ratios? 80/20 type optimizations on revenue by skus? Traffic flow maps? I'd love to hear some result or stories if you do end up doing some of this.
Doing some basic image processing and tracking customers flow through the store would be fascinating. You could categorize what people are shopping for, how long, and what buying one item tends to mean for the rest of their shopping cart. I'd read that paper!
Which paper ?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#16I'm working with my family managing our supermarket. It is not cool at all . I got a Bachelors degree in CS at UFPE. I have been studying for a while to get back to software developer career.
You could so some pretty cool stuff. Have you been hyper optimizing it? Product shelve to sale ratios? 80/20 type optimizations on revenue by skus? Traffic flow maps? I'd love to hear some result or stories if you do end up doing some of this.
I am into consumer goods distribution, wondering how I could apply any of the above ?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#17Electrical Vehicel Routing Highly theoretical stuff that let me transition well from university
Is it possible to allow me to be part of your adventure?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could so some pretty cool stuff. Have you been hyper optimizing it? Product shelve to sale ratios? 80/20 type optimizations on revenue by skus? Traffic flow maps? I'd love to hear some result or stories if you do end up doing some of this.
I am into consumer goods distribution, wondering how I could apply any of the above ?
Can you get into a little more detail regarding your primary business? I'd love to brainstorm? Whatsapp or Skype maybe?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am into consumer goods distribution, wondering how I could apply any of the above ?
Can you get into a little more detail regarding your primary business? I'd love to brainstorm? Whatsapp or Skype maybe?
If you can send me a mail , I would exchange cellphone number so that we can chat via whatsapp.
My email address is in my profile.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doing some basic image processing and tracking customers flow through the store would be fascinating. You could categorize what people are shopping for, how long, and what buying one item tends to mean for the rest of their shopping cart. I'd read that paper!
Which paper ?
I was implying that it would make an interesting academic paper.