Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by dangrover » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 11:37 PM UTC

jpcx01 wrote: post #11

dangrover wrote: post #4

I'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 acc…

Cool! I love shovebox. iPhone sync would be rad

Thanks!

If you're interested in beta testing, you can join here: http://www.wonderwarp.com/shovebox/beta

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by brandnewlow » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 11:39 PM UTC

brandnewlow wrote: post #13

Making a local politician tracker for Chicago. Basically a Chicago clone of this: http://prototype.nytimes.com/represent/

Also, we're hoping to open source it and release as a Django project for others to hack on. Should be cool.

Type in your address.

We figure out the coordinates.

We place those coordinates in all their relevant political "zones" (neighborhood, district, ward etc.) and give you maps of what they look like, just like the Times.

We show you everyone representing you in those zones with links to the homepage, wikipedia page, twitter results, flickr results, youtube results etc

We show you a newsfeed of their appearances in mainstream press.

Should be cool.

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by Darmani » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 11:47 PM UTC

I'm working on a way to play the card game Mao online, except that, as Mao is a game that lets you make your own rules, in order to be capable of playing a substantial subset, it'll have to be capable of playing any card game.

(Yes, I've thought about turning this into a startup.)

And that reminds me, I really should be working on that right now, if I'm going to have time to do my college apps...

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by abstractbill » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 11:48 PM UTC

Hoping to get a bit further with the robotic xylophone I'm building: http://prehacked.com/tag/xylophone

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by silencio » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 11:51 PM UTC

GavinB wrote: post #17

Writing my novel! Okay, so I guess I'm not a real hacker.

Oh please :)

I wrote a novel during nanowrimo and ignored it since then, I may use my free time to edit and maybe publish copies for friends/family.

but mostly, I'm going to knit, work on some iPhone and Mac app ideas, and generally just have fun.

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by bjclark » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 11:53 PM UTC

Working on some super awesome blog software. Just like, uh, everyone else in the world.

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by akeefer » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 11:57 PM UTC

Writing a Java bytecode emitter for my company's language (currently called GScript, hopefully open-sourced under a different name some time in the not-too-distant future). It's currently executed off the parsed AST.

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by bkrausz » Sun, Dec 21, 2008, 12:25 AM UTC

Research into web crawlers for a startup idea, some consulting work, and bartending classes.

Also writing up an article about the soda machine card reader I built, as well as some other blog posts.

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by jasonlbaptiste » Sun, Dec 21, 2008, 12:38 AM UTC

We'll be releasing a new project to hacker news on Tuesday. It's perfectly timed for the holidays.

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by wastedbrains » Sun, Dec 21, 2008, 12:40 AM UTC

My goal over the holidays is to become much better with my editor (emacs). I am also trying to contribute a bit to open source and release some Merb and DataMapper code onto github.