Oh, sorry, SUMO is a traffic simulation for research purposes.
Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#732Nothing. I'm completely impactless.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#733Very humbling and fascinating to read all the amazing achievements in this list. Here are mine:
1. The first and only app (I believe) to chat with dolphins using underwater whistles.
2. The structure of the knowledge component of an app that ensures the safe use of extremely poisonous pesticides produced by a large chemical manufacturer.
3. An expert system used to generate the complete source code, including the UI, of 13 operational expert systems for the configuration of telecom equipment.
4. The complete software for the safe transport of extra dimensional loads on a very large train network, the first of its kind in 1973.
5. Flight testing the first commercial autopilot RNAV flight management system, originally for the 747, back in 1974.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#734For some people the most impactful thing they have done in life is create something that makes obscene amounts of money. I designed and built nanoshelters.com to help homeless people secure uninterrupted sleep. I should be worth more than most of you 'money is god' programmers but we live in a world that values how you much money you make rather than how you treat other humans.
If they made obscene amounts of money means that what they did was obscenely useful and valued to many people. Nothing wrong with that.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#735Earlier quoted context omitted.
can you please explain what is JavaScript Host-Based Intrusion Detection/Protection System?
It is simple. Too many malicious and privacy-violating JavaScript abounds, especially after being boiled down to seemingly-indecipherable WebAssembly bytecode. And a typical enterprise NIDS would not be able to see beyond those encrypted packet containing JS over 2-way-signed TLS/SSL, or HTTPv3 (QUIC) (or a few other E2E protocols). Since JavaScript won't be banned (unlike Adobe Flash/ActionScript, BTW Adobe's JavaSc…
Quick and dirty cleanup - convert to, then from postscript.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#736My depression after reading this thread
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#737Probably bsdiff; a few hundred lines of code hacked together over a weekend has saved people over a hundred thousand years of waiting for software updates to download. Next up is probably scrypt; it would rank higher if cryptocurrencies used it, but instead they use nerfedscrypt which defeats the entire point of scrypt. Third is probably FreeBSD/EC2. Of course I didn't do all the work for that, but I can certainly cl…
I'd also like to add that your "Cache Missing for Fun and Profit"[1] paper is an excellent read for people who are just getting into Timing Side channels. It's both so crazy (yet so believable) to me that it wasn't taken more seriously by academics when it was published. Quite frankly, the endless commentary from reviewers critizing work for being "incremental" is a big part of why I'm walking away from academia.
I'm currently procrastinating my master's thesis on transient execution attacks, and just re-read it a few weeks ago while drafting my background section. So, thanks a ton for writing one of the most helpful introductory texts on timing side channels!
1: http://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2014/readings/ht-cache.pdf
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#738Not necessarily noteble but-
1) I integrated PayPal into Gap.com
2) I’m currently building a game agnostic game provisioning platform that will serve 10+ DAUs once finished.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#739I think it's likely some of the video games I've helped build. They were each the combined effort of hundreds of people, mine was just a tiny contribution. I still have people contact me sometimes about how Mirror's Edge: Catalyst is one of their favorite games. The other, larger, titles I worked on after have provided valuable escapism, friendship, and fun for many people in a way I'm certain was/is impactful.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#740Earlier quoted context omitted.
I simply added the "library id" as a prefix to almost every table's primary key. Every lookup specified it with an equality filter, so essentially it was thousands of standalone libraries in a single schema. One hiccup was that when the query cardinality estimator got confused, it would occasionally ignore the partition prefix and do a full scan somewhere, bloating the results by a factor of 2000x! This would cause d…
is this symphony or horizon or spydus or koha? or?
All those commercial systems existed before his (going by his use of SQL 2005).