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Post by DominoTree »

ethav0 wrote: post #473
DominoTree wrote: post #329

I'm in a volunteer role as CIO for a nonprofit focused on human trafficking, and we're building a new investigations and case-management platform using Svelte/TypeScript/SvelteStrap, Rust/Rocket, and Postgres (and likely Neo4j at some point) because the options out there are either poor or very expensive. Once we have something working and solid, we're going to open-source it and provide it to other groups in similar…

I’m interested in learning more about this! Email is in my profile.

Wasn't able to email the address in your profile - nevada.und.edu doesn't seem to resolve. Feel free to shoot me an email at nick dot price[@]nightowlrecon.org!

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Post by wanderingstan »

Sirajchokshi wrote: post #488
wanderingstan wrote: post #148

Typography of code : Design meets the IDE. How can the visual presentation of code be made more functional and aesthetic. Syntax highlighting doesn't have to be the zenith of how code is displayed. (Once upon a time indentation was a radical new idea!) I'd love to ideate and build prototypes with like minded coder-designers. Blog post I wrote about the steps in developer experience up till now: https://wanderingstan.…

Interested in learning more/working on this. Any reading you recommend beyond the blog post you linked?

Sadly there really is not much. Glad that you're interested!

This talk from 2018 is asking the right questions, though I'm not a huge fan of all his ideas: https://hilton.org.uk/presentations/beautiful-code

I have a rough Google doc I've been dumping ideas and links into that I'd be happy to share.

You can email me at @gmail.com

Would love to collaborate to develop some ideas and build some prototypes to try them out!

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Post by mch82 »

aliljet wrote: post #152
mch82 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a great project. Orbi systems are so expensive. Are you basing your work on any open source mesh projects? Do you have a project site or GitHub where people can follow along?

Great question. The *WRT (OpenWRT primarily) communities are clearly the winning universe around this and we should take (with generous attribution) what we can from that world, but I've yet to see a real DIY hardware implementation. These Orbis are honestly very powerful individual routers, so I suspect there's a real thing around their hardware, but I bet DIY can find a way... what do you think?

OpenWRT is a good community. I made a garden sprinkler controller using OpenWRT and an Arduino Yun a few years back. Seems like OpenWRT has since added support for a few mesh standards.

Another mesh community is Thread, which seems to have Zig-bee, Apple & Google involved https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(network_protocol)

I haven’t looked into mesh networks in a few years. Back then, Germany seemed to have a few open source mesh projects.

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Post by john_keo »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #161

I was thinking it would be nice to exercise in VR, but I would have to pick something aerobic I wouldn't mind doing blindfolded, which rules out a lot, but I think a row machine could work. So I'm imagining a pacific-island-navigate-by-the-stars simulator, maybe speed up time so 8 hours of night become 30 minutes of cardio. Choose a couple of islands to row between, get some directions of which star to follow, and ge…

I wrote a VR rowing simulator a while back using Unity, it's in the Apple app store as VR Rowing (with me as the author, John Keogh). The motion tracking is really easy, adding things like sealife is complicated. I was thinking about adding x, y, z, and yaw motion to make it more immersive.

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Post by ianbicking »

muzani wrote: post #397
ianbicking wrote: post #321

I've been interested in conversational bots and how they might be used for purposes that are more fun than customer service. I'm specifically interested in ideas that are silly, or emotionally salient, or weird, or anything that's not productive and not commercial. I have been poking around with some stuff, but mostly just ideas in my head. So for "collaboration" I mostly imagine getting ideas from each other, trying…

GPT-3 does a lot of this very well, albeit expensively. Sample scenario: A woman discovers her husband's infidelity and struggles to hide her anger when he asks for a stack of pancakes. Output: She said, "It can't be done. We're out of flour and eggs." He asked, "No powdered eggs?" She said, "We're out of everything." He said, "I was hoping you might have some pancake mix in the pantry." She replied, "It's so dark in…

BTW, you don't have your email in your profile. The email field is only visible to admins, if you want to make it public you'll have to also put it in About. But maybe we'll chat sometime :)

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Post by DamnYuppie »

boringg wrote: post #57
DamnYuppie wrote: post #4

What you mentioned seems to be the point of www.polywork.com. They want to make meeting people who want to collaborate easier.

Yeah but that site has a strong monetary angle from what I can tell. This is just a simple list board of people sharing ideas.

From what I can see there is no monetary angle to polywork. Their goal is to empower collaboration.

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Post by fouc »

psb wrote: post #191

I'd be interested in building a listening comprehension tool for foreign language learners. I'm thinking having a slider for vocab (top 1000 words, top 2000 words, etc) and a slider for speed of speech plus an adjustable timer for how long the user has to understand the sentence.

This seems interesting to me, I wouldn't mind collaborating on this. My email is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30169039

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Post by fouc »

thelastinuit wrote: post #177

I'm in for some Rust and/or Elixir. I'm in for literally impossible things.

I'd be up for collaborating in elixir on something, I have a bunch of ideas and half finished side projects. I'm curious what impossible means to you. My email is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30169039

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Post by secondstring »

jlevers wrote: post #480

Well, it's not programming-related, but here goes... I'm building a cooperative hands-on workspace in Brooklyn in an old warehouse. I have lots of interests that require space and tooling (old motorcycles/cars, woodworking, etc), and lots of friends in a similar boat (with fabrication, music, art, etc). I spent the last 6-8 months searching for a suitable space that I could actually afford, and finally found one abou…

Heck yeah mate! There's one or two of these here in SF (I'm currently working in the one I'm a member of) and glad to see others are opening up other options. Best of luck with everything going forward, I might reach out to check on your progress the next time I make one of my occasional trips to NYC.
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