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Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by ernestipark »

slig wrote: post #52
ernestipark wrote: post #14

xBoard: https://github.com/eipark/xboard xBoard is a canvas based drawing tool like many others - except it can be recorded and played back like video. There are many iPad sketch recorders, but this one works right in your browser. I originally wrote this in about a week for a college senior project, and haven't been able to give it much love since. I've poked into adding web audio recording with the goal of creating…

Just wanted to let you know that I studied your code couple of months ago. It got me interested in the LZW compression algorithm, which I studied and learned a lot from. Thanks for sharing.

That's great to hear! I don't know much about LZW... I basically just looked up some common compression algs and tried them out. Glad it helped you out though.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by arcameron »

https://github.com/qq99/echoplexus

Echoplexus is an anonymous, web-based, IRC-like chatting platform that makes its best effort to respect your privacy. It allows you to create public or private channels. You can encrypt your chats. You can secure a pseudonym for linkable anonymity. You can code and draw together in real time. You can make free and secure Peer2Peer video and voice calls with the people in your channel using WebRTC.

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Post by kevinsundar »

kartikkumar wrote: post #24

Tudat: A modular, generic, robust astrodynamics toolbox http://tudat.tudelft.nl This project has been my life for the last 4 years. Was fed up with the fact that no one was collaborating within my research group in terms of software, so decided to set this up at the beginning of my PhD. Learned a lot of C++ along the way (and a whole lot more still to learn!). If you're interested in getting involved, feel free to si…

If this was integrated with Kerbal Space Program my life would be complete

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by jessedhillon »

mnemonik wrote: post #46
bennyg wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any plans for a Firefox iOS browser? I know UIWebViews use webkit, but I think it'd be pretty cool to have a good Firefox mobile experience on the app store. I primarily use Chrome for iOS, and I think it could be way better. I develop natively for iOS and would definitely down to help out in any way possible there.

I forget the nitty gritty details, but as I understand it: Apple's restrictions dictating what can and can't go in iOS apps makes it impossible for us to use Gecko on iOS. Edit: Here is a more thorough answer: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/945460#answer-392...

Question: how is this any different than the scheme Microsoft instituted in the 90s to artificially keep Office and MSIE superior to alternatives? Wasn't it this same regime which ultimately was ruled as anti-competive?

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by opendais »

basicallydan wrote: post #39
amirmc wrote: post #36

This would be a great addition to the monthly "Who's Hiring" and "Freelancers" posts that go up. Not sure who runs the whoishiring account but maybe they could consider this. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

Yeah, I agree. I thought maybe in a month's time I'll post it again if they don't. Would be better for a bot like that, though.

Would we be better off with a site to link to that was searchable based on language/project/etc?

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by paulbaumgart »

jessedhillon wrote: post #105
mnemonik wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I forget the nitty gritty details, but as I understand it: Apple's restrictions dictating what can and can't go in iOS apps makes it impossible for us to use Gecko on iOS. Edit: Here is a more thorough answer: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/945460#answer-392...

Question: how is this any different than the scheme Microsoft instituted in the 90s to artificially keep Office and MSIE superior to alternatives? Wasn't it this same regime which ultimately was ruled as anti-competive?

There's a big difference in market share. You need to have a monopoly and abuse that monopoly to violate anti-trust regulations.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by bjourne »

http://factorcode.org/ (https://github.com/slavapestov/factor)

A new programming language based on the concatenative programming paradigm. Not my project, I'm just an enthusiastic contributor. It's the most intelligent and powerful language ever. But a lot of library components are missing and needs to be written. :)

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by daleharvey »

hmsimha wrote: post #99
daleharvey wrote: post #28

PouchDB - https://github.com/daleharvey/pouchdb A reimplmentation of CouchDB in the browser based on indexedDB / webSQL, its designed as a library for web devs to build applications that work offline and sync data seamlessly when their users login to other devices. Theres a contribution guide @ https://github.com/daleharvey/pouchdb/blob/master/CONTRIBUTI... and we try to tag good patches for beginners @ https://githu…

I'm really interested in Couchdb, and have probably spent about 20-25 hours on tutorials so far (and probably another 10-20 perusing the Apache couchdb-dev mailing list archives). Honestly, I don't feel comfortable using it on anything serious yet, though I really want to get there eventually. What level of familiarity with CouchDB + indexedDB&webSQL would you suggest is necessary for a potential contributor?

Hey

Absolutely none, there have been quite a few contributors without prior experience in the related tech, I mean not all contributors are / need to be programmers, trying to make that easier too.

If you are interested then look around this issues, or get in touch on irc or email and certain to find something that you will be comfortable working on.

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