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It seems kind of interesting, what are some use cases you've seen for it?
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#52How visually implement process in the app? I.e. how to guide users over complex process they need to do in the app to achieve success?
The process might span different medium (write email, do something in the app, check twitter, etc) and different activities multiple days. How to make sure they know what they should do next? Checklist? Emails? Slack? Wizard?
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#53Frustrated by the degree of manual programming process in production metal machining. The industry exists largely on inertia. I would like to resolve this by applying standard optimization algorithms to a set of known machining strategies plus machine, work-holding, material, part and tool inputs. Have already analyzed the problem space to some extent and will be touring a huge production facility next week to better…
We run about 40-50 CNC. Lots of our engineering time goes in to planning, on how to step by step machine a component so that it can reach mentioned tolerances. Sometimes required tolerance are at or below the machine accuracy. Are you going to solve this also ?
Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?
#54Frustrated by the degree of manual programming process in production metal machining. The industry exists largely on inertia. I would like to resolve this by applying standard optimization algorithms to a set of known machining strategies plus machine, work-holding, material, part and tool inputs. Have already analyzed the problem space to some extent and will be touring a huge production facility next week to better…
We run about 40-50 CNC. Lots of our engineering time goes in to planning, on how to step by step machine a component so that it can reach mentioned tolerances. Sometimes required tolerance are at or below the machine accuracy. Are you going to solve this also ?
I am looking at the low hanging fruit, 80/20 right now.
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#55We are experiencing very high CPU load caused by tinc [0], which we use to ensure all communication between cloud VMs is encrypted. This is primarily affecting the highest traffic VMs, including the one hosting the master DB. I am starting to consider alternative tools such us wireguard to reduce load, but I am concerned of adding too much complexity. Tinc's mesh network makes setup and maintenance easy. The wireguar…
Apart from some smaller projects building on top of WireGuard, there's Tailscale [1]. One of the founders is Brad Fitzpatrick who worked on the Go team at Google before and built memcached and perkeep in the past.
Outside of the WireGuard ecosystem there's ZeroTier [2] which has been around for a while and they're working on a new version; and Nebula [3] from Slack, which is likely to be maintained as long as Slack uses it.
There might be others, but with tinc these four are the ones I've seen referred to most often.
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#56I am a bit ashamed to ask about such a trivial topic on HN, but I am not really sure how AJAX in Wordpress plugins works.
I have a plugin that exports some WooCommerce orders into XLS. I would like to add a progress bar via AJAX, because the export may take very long for thousands of orders. But I am not really sure how to use AJAX in context of Wordpress specifically.
I would love to see a minimal functional example, a simple plugin that does something similar. So far, all the plugins I saw were pretty convoluted and I lost my track around the code.
(On a related note: a library of elementary examples for Wordpress plugin development would be nice. Like "This is how you create a menu entry.")
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#57I'm not sure if this is in the spirit of the thread but I've been working on a way to allow reviews of gameplay in video games. In short, you upload a video of you playing the game and someone who's an expert can review it. I currently have a UI with the comments down the side of the screen which looks like this: https://www.volt.school/videos/c980297a-417b-416f-947b-58a70... This is good because you can easily: - Se…
So maybe the problem with showing all the comments at once is that there are too many, and when showing one at a time they are not shown for long enough.
How about breaking the play into chapters/zones/rooms/segments (whatever makes sense for the game) then showing all the comments for that segment. Once the segment ends, there would be a replay button if they missed anything on the first play while reading comments, and a next segment button to carry on.
Interesting time spans could be marked for slow motion, boring bits played at double time.
There would be high level navigation between segments with thumbnails and comment counts. Buttons to skip between “pivotal moments”, maybe with voting to highlight them.
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#58I try to find an agile project management tool that works for us. We run on what many would call Scrum (it’s not actually Scrum). We are on JIRA now, and it’s … JIRA. We tried basically any other tool, including Excel (yes, that is somewhat possible). My problem generally is that tools are slow, planning is cumbersome, visibility is limited and reporting for clients is often even more limited. Heck, I’d even write my…
have you tried https://tara.ai/?
Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?
#59I'm not sure if this is in the spirit of the thread but I've been working on a way to allow reviews of gameplay in video games. In short, you upload a video of you playing the game and someone who's an expert can review it. I currently have a UI with the comments down the side of the screen which looks like this: https://www.volt.school/videos/c980297a-417b-416f-947b-58a70... This is good because you can easily: - Se…
How about showing the comments directly on the video, at a specific time, and a specific place.
Something like Soundcloud comments but for video.
Asian video platforms used to do that. Here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOMMQmYwd4I
It's totally crazy but can be made much more coherent. Would be useful to have comments at a specific time and place on the screen just for very accurate pointers/comments.
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#60How visually implement process in the app? I.e. how to guide users over complex process they need to do in the app to achieve success? The process might span different medium (write email, do something in the app, check twitter, etc) and different activities multiple days. How to make sure they know what they should do next? Checklist? Emails? Slack? Wizard?
Interesting... My to-go solution for this would be a detailed wiki page with screenshots, and link to that from a bunch of places. But I guess that's not an ideal solution really.