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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by hackinthebochs »

mazumdar wrote: post #402

SilverAir - An athletic shirt that doesn't smell and designed to be worn at the gym and for everyday wear. demo@ http://www.yathletics.com It's cool because: It's made using pure silver which kills the odor-causing bacteria in your sweat, so you can -wear this shirt for your entire day and feel fresh, -reuse the shirt more often (i do). The fabric is completely new and something I made with my manufacturers from scra…

This definitely looks awesome, I'm in for a couple for sure.

How long does a shirt stay non-stinky? The video said silver is weaved into the fabric, but I'm assuming it doesn't coat the entire thing. So eventually bacteria will start to collect, correct?

Also, when is underwear coming out.... :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by welder »

Jasber wrote: post #65

I recently started doing more freelance development and didn't find any solutions that I thought did the following really well: - I hate tracking my time, so the app should make this very easy & compelling to do (dare I say fun?) - Should work well with lots of different contract types (hourly, daily, weekly, retainer) - Should earn me more money using best practices (minimum billing increments, etc...) - Should get…

Have you tried http://wakatime.com?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by jreed91 »

rolleiflex wrote: post #456
jreed91 wrote: post #452

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Couldn't get your site to load on my ipad, constantly crashes safari.

Sorry to hear that. Your iPad is running out of memory because of retina imagery, my iPad 3 works fine. I'll change it to serve non-retina assets to mobile devices, thanks for the notification.

I figured it was the retina imagery, dang iPad mini and its lack of RAM

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by jbandela1 »

cppcomponents at https://github.com/jbandela/cppcomponents

With C++, it is hard to use code from 1 compiler with another compiler. In windows, it is even worse in that versions of visual c++, and even debug/release can't use the same binary. cppcomponents, allows code to be written in 1 c++11 compiler and used in another compiler, without giving up C++ features. You can use exceptions, and std:: string, vector, tuple, pair,chrono::timepoint.

I am hoping this makes it easier for people to create more c++ libraries. Currently, if you have anything other than a header-library, you either have to require the user to build the library, or else create a binary for every compiler (maybe even compiler version). With cppcomponents, you can create just 1 binary per platform that all the compilers can use.

Some of the libraries I have worked on are a libuv wrapper, a implementation of async/await in c++ (based on boost.coroutine), and currently working on libcurl wrapper. All these libraries are on github.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by korussian »

alecsmart1 wrote: post #286
tynan wrote: post #275

Sett ( http://sett.com ) It's a new blogging platform that helps people build audiences. Our oldest users (1 year) have seen roughly 100% increase in daily traffic, twice as many comments, etc. My personal blog has doubled daily visitors and growth rate for subscribers went from 1% to 10%.

On a very off topic, how much do you have to pay for a four letter domain like yours and whats the process like. Did you use something like sedo/godaddy? I've always wondered how difficult is it to acquire one.

I bought a 4-letter domain (edofo.com) on Namecheap for the standard .com price but now don't know what to do with it. It just sounded like a good company/product name.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by rolleiflex »

kolev wrote: post #470
rolleiflex wrote: post #447

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I'm aware of this, unfortunately. This is a bug in Qt's Webkit. The font rendering on Mac OS changed in Mavericks, and it apparently does not work well with versions of Webkit prior to Mavericks release. I have to wait until this issue gets resolved. Here's the issue, if you want to take a look: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-34332

It looks great so far. Will patiently wait for a fix!

Thanks! If there is no motion from Qt's side till this Friday, I will release a no-webfonts version that fixes most of the glitches. The bug only happens when webfonts are used.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by robertk »

drugcite-com wrote: post #26

An easy way to enter the name of a specific drug or side effect to see its effects as reported to the FDA. One of the primary ways that the United States Food and Drug Administration monitors the safety of marketed drugs is the collection and analysis of reported adverse events (an event that was not the intended outcome of the prescribed drug and has a negative impact on health) through the FDA Adverse Events Report…

Is the data set publicly available? I'd love to do some machine learning on it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by readme »

adrianh wrote: post #73

Soundslice ( http://www.soundslice.com/ ) -- animated guitar tabs / sheet music. Demo: http://www.soundslice.com/tabs/5680/bohemian-rhapsody-for-so... It's cool because: * The state of the art in guitar tabs is horrible ASCII crap (example: http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/e/eagles/hotel_california_ta... ). Soundslice is a 1000x improvement. * It solves a key problem for musicians, which is: when you're learning a new…

>The state of the art in guitar tabs is horrible ASCII crap

Not powertab

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by schreiaj »

This week I've been making:

3D Printed sprockets for a local high school robotics team.

Building a small quadcopter for learning the technology so I can do aerial photography.

Started developing the materials for a course I'm teaching at the local hackerspace nominally titled - Building your own autonomous ground vehicle. I just took delivery of the parts for my first cut at a kit.

I also just finished teaching free classes to local students about 3D Printing, Git, and Project Management. Not sure it counts as making though.

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