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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tombert »

It's not exactly the same as what most people are posting about, but I actually restarted my bachelor's degree, hopefully to finish it up this year.

While I'm not super-popular on HN, I've gotten enough karma here to where people probably at least a small percentage of people here recognize my username, and know that I never finished my bachelor's degree. I've done ok as a software engineer, and I'm proud of the progress I've made in my career, but I have always had a bit of an inferiority complex about it, especially as I've wanted to transition to more research-oriented job opportunities.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jsomau »

gerash wrote: post #315
jsomau wrote: post #264

A browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you are on a checkout page and shows you how long it took you to earn enough money to complete that purchase. The idea is about increasing the mindfulness of your purchases and reducing unnecessary environmental waste driven by impulse buying. Here's what I'm planning next: - Detecting the checkouts and extracting the checkout total generally across w…

Your extension sounds cool but what I'd love is a system to suggest if I should go premium or cheap on an expense. For example I'd go super cheap on wired earbuds but premium on a set of knives. Or super cheap on knives but premium on an electric knife sharpener

This is an interesting idea. If people know they should not buy a trashy set of knives that they'll throw away in a year that would indeed reduce consumption. I'll think more on this. Thanks for the idea!

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Post by daugs »

I’m writing a book on concurrency in Python, specifically using asyncio. It covers how to use async await syntax, how a single threaded concurrency model works and how to use asyncio with multi threading and multi processing.

The first few chapters are available and the print book should come out later this year.

Link: https://www.manning.com/books/concurrency-in-python-with-asy...

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Post by celeryhost »

Infrastructure-as-a-Service for Distributed Task Queues.

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Post by viraptor »

I'm writing AutoIT scripts for automating common tasks in medical software. It involves mental balancing the rage at how bad both the apps and the autoit are, with the excitement from the time saving and ROI I'm giving to the clinics.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

ChadB wrote: post #285

https://www.dispoteca.com/ I just launched the marketing site on Monday. I'm 38 with a spouse and two small children. I've been a CTO of two SMBs over the last few years and needed to build something of my own. It's the craziest thing I've ever done. The industry is end-of-life IT assets. It's a big industry with a lot of steak dinners that you can make a decent living at by grinding. I was introduced by a buddy of m…

Love the home page. Instantly tells me what you do and what I need to do to get started. I'm not your target market, but wanted to give you a thumbs up!

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dceddia wrote: post #132

I'm making a video editor that removes silence from videos. After creating a bunch of code screencasts, I've found most of my editing time is spent manually cutting out chunks of silence, and it's always felt like a job the computer should be doing. So I'm making a native Mac app to do it for me. It's in private beta right now, and feedback has been good so far! I'm hoping to hoping to get it launched in the next few…

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dceddia wrote: post #132

I'm making a video editor that removes silence from videos. After creating a bunch of code screencasts, I've found most of my editing time is spent manually cutting out chunks of silence, and it's always felt like a job the computer should be doing. So I'm making a native Mac app to do it for me. It's in private beta right now, and feedback has been good so far! I'm hoping to hoping to get it launched in the next few…

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