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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by foresterh »

olalonde wrote: post #59

A tool/system to manage dot files. Some ideas: - easily install dot files on a new system - keep track of files in git - possible to specify different configurations (OS X, Linux, etc.) - possible to exclude sensible dot files (i.e. .ssh/id_rsa) - easy to update files and keep them in sync - the tool should not be mixed with individual dot files repositories so that it's easy to upgrade to a newer version - eventuall…

All or most of those are available at http://dotfiles.github.io

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by w1ntermute »

bambax wrote: post #58
w1ntermute wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Take a look at CrossOver: http://www.codeweavers.com/

I'm on Debian, this seems to be Mac only? There's a version of LightRoom for Mac, and I believe many video editors too...?

No, CrossOver runs on both Linux and Mac.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by con5aak »

A blogging platform with content delivered in interactive narrative way. Suppose, a user has a story with two possible versions depending on the decision made by the readers at some point of time in the middle of the content. Then provide him with such a platform to write a story in that format.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by vertex-four »

bambax wrote: post #58
w1ntermute wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Take a look at CrossOver: http://www.codeweavers.com/

I'm on Debian, this seems to be Mac only? There's a version of LightRoom for Mac, and I believe many video editors too...?

It's not Mac only: http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover-linux/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by olalonde »

foresterh wrote: post #81
olalonde wrote: post #59

A tool/system to manage dot files. Some ideas: - easily install dot files on a new system - keep track of files in git - possible to specify different configurations (OS X, Linux, etc.) - possible to exclude sensible dot files (i.e. .ssh/id_rsa) - easy to update files and keep them in sync - the tool should not be mixed with individual dot files repositories so that it's easy to upgrade to a newer version - eventuall…

All or most of those are available at http://dotfiles.github.io

Any specific one you recommend? I've reviewed a few but didn't manage to find one that met my criteria.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by stoev »

keithwarren wrote: post #73
stoev wrote: post #23

How about a search engine that bases its results on how unique the information is on every one of them. Every time I try to do an in-depth research on Google about some topic I open up 10 or 20 of the most relevant results, only to discover that at least 80% of the information is repeating itself in at least 50-60% of the pages. One could write a search engine that compares the contents, groups the articles that have…

At some level, DDG does this already.

I've only used DDG a few times in the past. Could you refer me to a link with some more information on this? Thank you.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by bennyhirsch »

A Yelp like review app for colleges. Currently the best way for prospective students to get the best idea of what a school will be like before attending, is to head to the schools cafeteria or quad and ask a student how they like the school. The current students and/or alumni are most honest about their experience with the school. Make an application that requires some proof of enrollment to rate and review a given college, and allow for the most honest reviews of the school.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by syerram2 »

bennyhirsch wrote: post #71
syerram2 wrote: post #61

An insurance plan for APIs - in today's world companies are extremely reliant on 3rd party APIs for a variety of applications (FB Ads API, Twitter's API, etc.), however, in my experience, these APIs are not a 100% reliable & can sometimes go down which impacts the end customer/user. Similar to travel insurance, if you can provide the option as an add-on to buy insurance against this downtime - there are several busin…

Interesting thought. How would this insurance plan work? monthly payment to Twitter for API insurance, and if their API goes down just a financial payout? This doesn't really make me whole again as my business is still impacted.

I don't think you'd pay Twitter - essentially - you would pay this "third" party service similar to any insurance company & when there is an incident - this service would investigate & offer you a payout. Just like any car/home insurance plan - where the payout is based on your coverage plan/incident. Then, based on the payout amount you can potentially give your customers a "discount" for that month. (in a SaaS B2B business)From a technical perspective, it would be ideal if this third party insurance provider can act as a "stop gap" or a "temp API" if the main service provider's API is down. (maybe they have a separate API connection with say someone like Twitter which is more reliable than the one you have - I'm thinking something like a firehose)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by sshine »

con5aak wrote: post #84

A blogging platform with content delivered in interactive narrative way. Suppose, a user has a story with two possible versions depending on the decision made by the readers at some point of time in the middle of the content. Then provide him with such a platform to write a story in that format.

That sounds like an interesting idea.

It reminds me of this XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1350/

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