Ask HN: What are you working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by abecedarius » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 6:07 AM UTC

Zak wrote: post #63

I'm working on newer and better software for controlling stage and club lighting. It's still in the early stages, so the final form of the product(s) isn't clear to me yet. A likely initial release will be aimed at the club market, currently dominated by Martin LightJockey since a decent offering there won't require any custom hardware. I'm using Haskell and functional reactive programming. I intend to expose some so…

Have you seen Mike Sperber's papers on stage lighting using functional programming? http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/sperber/pape... (I haven't read them, you just reminded me of their existence.)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tlrobinson » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 6:10 AM UTC

http://280atlas.com/ - You've probably seen this by now.

http://narwhaljs.org/ + http://jackjs.org/ + https://wiki.mozilla.org/ServerJS

- Attempting to make JavaScript more usable on the server and other non-browser contexts. Bringing it up to par with Ruby, Python, etc. Includes a standard library, package manager, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by vitaminj » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 6:18 AM UTC

fakeempire wrote: post #151

vitaminj wrote: post #95

Slightly off the beaten track - I'm currently in a small developing country in Southeast Asia working on renewable energy projects for rural villages. I've been here for 4 months and am absolutely loving it... it's actually a satisfying use of an electrical engineering degree!

what country?

Laos

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by neuromanta » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 6:19 AM UTC

I'm fresh out from college, having an Msc in information engineering. I have a job, working as a researcher trainee. In my free time I'm working on a game with pygame, and collaborating in an open source project, a software which helps localization.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by david927 » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 6:27 AM UTC

A new approach to the relational database. Relationships are handled differently allowing them to change on the fly. And the query language is straight-forward; no joins, etc.

We should reach private alpha by the end of August. It's a start-up in Prague, Czech Republic, but strangely all four of us are American.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by emilis_info » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 6:29 AM UTC

I am developing a web wiki with a WYSIWYG user interface. It has an in-place editor instead of forms and textareas (stole some ideas from Zim desktop wiki).

I am also creating a new programming language for the wiki - a mixture of many ideas from lisp, python and other. The language can be expressed by HTML lists.

Working from home in Vilnius, Lithuania. Currently on child-care vacation paid by the state.

I will opensource my work, but haven't found out yet how to make it support my further development after my vacation ends and I have to return to my bank job.

If you have ideas how to make some money from yet another wiki/cms -- I would be very thankful for them.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by evgen » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 6:38 AM UTC

I am currently working on what is turning out to be a somewhat funky graph-database in Erlang that will be used to power the semantic recommendation engine for a news/questions/info site targeted at a professionals and industry people in a particular market.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by newy » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 6:41 AM UTC

htsh wrote: post #28

transitioning away from my legal work back to startup work, learning rails while working on 2 early ideas and 1 underway. the 2 ideas i'm at will to share: 1 - .org - wikipedia-style database of case-law commonly used by pro-bono lawyers -- create something that would assist legal clinics manage their information locally but also something that stores that data and shares it with other clinics doing similar work. cas…

htsh - would like to get in touch. give me a ping - me at euwyn.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by utku_karatas » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 6:49 AM UTC

utku_karatas wrote: post #121

Wow. So noone here working on an IDE or text editor? Anyway I do :-) Recently decided to give a break on my degree (physics) and finalize my neverending Python IDE (Windows only - sorry :-)) while making buck on Django gigs for the bills. I don't even remember when I actually started on that. Must be the beginning of 2002. Now is the time.

Indeed please hit me up at m.utku.k__AT__gmail.com to include yourself in the early closed beta process in a month or so. Would be much appreciated.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by emilis_info » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 6:58 AM UTC

Pistos2 wrote: post #106

Continuing on with my console editor ( http://purepistos.net/diakonos/ ). Aiming to get it to live up to being billed "A Linux editor for the masses". A recent version formalized an extension system (even though it has been extensible with Ruby for a long while now). Upcoming roadmap items: modes; window splitting; further development of the git extension; ...

Are there any plugins for Diakonos?