I just finished all of my work for this semester. Now I am free to do whatever I want until about the middle of January. My plan is to learn more about Objective-C. Since a lot of us are college students, I was wondering: What projects are you working on over the break?
Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?
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#2Flock simulator in either ObjC, some form of lisp/scheme, or Erlang. Haven't decided yet but Erlang really makes me happy.
I'll probably start up another company January 2. I have a dream about educating the world's future smart people.
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#3Flock simulator in either ObjC, some form of lisp/scheme, or Erlang. Haven't decided yet but Erlang really makes me happy. I'll probably start up another company January 2. I have a dream about educating the world's future smart people.
Explain your "educating the world's future smart people." I have thought about writing a free online textbook for some branch of undergrad mathematics.
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#4I've got updated versions for all of my products (http://www.wonderwarp.com) in the works.
I've got an incremental update to ShoveBox in testing now, but I'm spending most of my resources finalizing the iPhone version of the app and getting it to sync properly with the desktop app. That will probably be 1.8 or 2.0.
I'm not sure if I should charge for the iPhone app or not though. I'm worried Windows people will accidentally download it and get pissed. Hmm. But none of my direct competitors (except for maybe Evernote) have this feature, so I'll be psyched to have it out.
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#6I have a 5000-line, awfully written and horribly slow (but working!) patch from an offshore team that implements the rather complicated MBAFF features of H.264 in the open source x264 encoder.
I'm going to take it and make it committable.
Yes, I'm risking my sanity.
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#7Finish XMPP/Jabber support in Mibbit.
It's a ridiculously overcomplicated horrible format designed by committee :( Seems like a good job to pick though...
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#8I'm going to be improving metapaw-dip: http://www.metapaw.co.uk/projects/metapaw-dip/
At the moment I'm working on automatically generating maps from a small base dataset, and shortly I'll start working on a Django based wrapper to host this for many people's use.
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#9I'm not a college student, but I have been taking advantage of a little bit of a slowdown during the holidays (sales always drop off a bit for a couple of weeks).
I'm working on a chiptune version of Abbey Road, in order to teach myself a few new trackers that I've never used before (the last trackers I used heavily were OctaMED and ProTracker on the Amiga). I'm mainly tinkering with Renoise, which is an awesome multi-platform modern tracker with VST/LADSPA support. But I'm also playing with a cool sounding SID emulating tracker called Goattracker, and NitroTracker for the Nintendo DS. I probably won't finish all of Abbey Road in two weeks or spare time, since it's quite elaborate, and I'm only about half of the way through one song two days in, but I'm sure I can make three or four nice tracks. And I'll probably get faster as I get more comfortable with the tools.
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#10Working on finishing up two web applications and an iPhone app that compliments one of the web apps.
Also some updates to my current iPhone apps (http://www.awaytalk.com).