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Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
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#772Just started working on something to attack SharePoint that is based on sensible standards (REST, JSON, etc.) with the front end completely in something like AngularJS or Ember. This is cool as, in my opinion, SharePoint Must Die.
Open source it, I'd gladly jump on board in the war against SharePoint. Arghhhh, I have to put up with this junk every single day !
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#773Just started working on something to attack SharePoint that is based on sensible standards (REST, JSON, etc.) with the front end completely in something like AngularJS or Ember. This is cool as, in my opinion, SharePoint Must Die.
Open source it, I'd gladly jump on board in the war against SharePoint. Arghhhh, I have to put up with this junk every single day !
The idea that I am currently working on is very much to make the back end (i.e. the server part) do most of the heavy lifting (storage, security, searching etc.) and the UI to be completely decoupled in JavaScript.
Ideally what I would like is to have some kind of "standard" well documented interface between the UI and the server - so that different implementations of both could be possible.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#774Never-Bored ( http://mide765.com ) - An iOS app you use when you have some time to kill. It's cool because you can choose between four topics depending on your mood and environment. You can read short-stories, watch interesting videos, learn facts and basic phrases for ten languages or play some games such as Pong. On a personal level, I've started using Xcode for the first time on third of September. This is the fin…
NICE! Would love an android version of this!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#775Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, definitely. The whole point would be to have a completely open hardware design and software library so that people can build off of it.
I'm interested in the idea for sure. Is there any way I can get updates on the project (github, website, newsletter)?
I'm just playing around with designs/dev boards and building the concept privately at the moment. However, I've gotten some funding for it, and the goal is to get a working prototype out by Spring. If there's enough interest then, I'll work on it full-time over the summer to get a product out.
If you want to follow the project, this repo will have more in the future: https://github.com/Hylian/arducard
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Saying flatly "this could never work" is impolite, arrogant, and possibly wrong. "I don't see how this could ever work" suffers from none of these failings.
It could never work (to make animal research obsolete) because there is no human substitute for these: http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/how/areas-of-r... And unless it becomes ethically acceptable to genetically modify human embyros for testing rather than mouse embyros, then this is not going to change. This isn't arrogance or impoliteness, it's just how it is.
Even if animal testing is not made obsolete but is reduced by a large factor, that's huge progress.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#777Earlier quoted context omitted.
Saying flatly "this could never work" is impolite, arrogant, and possibly wrong. "I don't see how this could ever work" suffers from none of these failings.
It could never work (to make animal research obsolete) because there is no human substitute for these: http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/how/areas-of-r... And unless it becomes ethically acceptable to genetically modify human embyros for testing rather than mouse embyros, then this is not going to change. This isn't arrogance or impoliteness, it's just how it is.
Even if animal testing is not made obsolete but is reduced by a large factor, that's huge progress.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#778GeoGraph - http://geographapp.com/ Like imgur for location. No sign up & 1 click to share your current location. If you sign up, you can save your location privately (only you can see it). Use cases are wide open. Save your parking spot. Share location to meetup with a friend. Save a special spot in a forest. Etc. If you use check-in services, GeoGraph may interest you. If you never share your location online, you sh…
I had the idea a while back, it's great to see it implemented so well! One suggestion though, the fact that use cases are wide open could stifle growth. I'd suggest a few different landing pages you could A/B test, each covering a very specific use case. You could have one page explain that you can save your parking spot and share it with others. Another for sharing a meetup location. Another for saving your favorite…
Thanks for the great feedback!
I'm very interested in location and really trying to figure out what GeoGraph can do to deliver the most usefulness to its users
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#779Followletter - no more newsletters in your inbox! http://www.followletter.com
It is cool because:
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- You discover new newsletters based on your interest and you get to know are they worth subscribing to! You see their past issues and followers.
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Interesting. My statistics knowledge has become rusty lately. I want to re-learn the basics before reading this. Can you tell me any resource (doesn't necessarily have to be a book)? P.S: I'm interested in knowing stuff like 'why square-root of variance is standard deviation?". Concepts.
You might find OpenIntro Statistics helpful: http://www.openintro.org/stat/textbook.php It's a free online statistics textbook, also available in print. I haven't used it extensively, so I can't vouch for its quality -- actually, I complain about it a bit in Statistics Done Wrong . But I've never come across a very good conceptual introduction to statistics, so this is roughly the best I know. There are also amusing…
O'Rielly's 'Think Stats' is freely available in html/pdf online and is quite good.