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Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by Sprint »

_wp3r wrote: post #359

I am working on a visualization of 60k USGS historical maps that are rendered on the fly from geoPDF, which makes the server size under a TB. pdfl, c++, spdy, openlayers https://demo.northavenue.net

Nice project!

5 minute grumpy feedback:

I don't like "flat design", maybe add some subtle color changes at least? For example highlight the text "Go" (I would suggest "Search" or "Locate" rather) to make clear it is clickable. The text in the search box first made me thing it was active, not sure how to solve that, a lighter color might be too light.

I am on a small screen, the map is limited to a rectangle in the middle: http://i.imgur.com/TJJ1zfx.png

There is a non-desript slider in the bottom left (opacity). The list of maps only appeared after I clicked on a different timeframe. I expected the timeframe to switch, but instead it was added to the previous one.

What does the eye mean? What does green mean? What does the + button do? If I hover it, it says "Visible". When I click it I get a (too transparent and subtle) popup saying it was added to my cart. I see no mention of a cart anywhere. If I click the eye, nothing happens.

Browser is Opera 12 something and I pretended to be need hand-holding. :)

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Post by abestic9 »

SuperChihuahua wrote: post #394

I'm improving my Elon Musk biography ( https://leanpub.com/theengineer ), and I'm learning C#, Blender, and Unity by building a tank simulator ( http://www.habrador.com/labs/cv90-simulator/ ) and a Tesla Motors simulator ( http://www.habrador.com/labs/tesla-simulator/ )

Just read some of the sample, I think I'll buy it. Nice simulations, too!

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Post by PurplePanda »

thomaslee wrote: post #421
PurplePanda wrote: post #412

Experimenting with ways of having automatic memory management without either traditional garbage collection or reference counting, but rather by finding proofs of nonliveness at compile time. Trying to find under what language restrictions such a thing might be possible.

You may already be aware of it, but sounds something along the lines of lifetimes in Rust: http://rustbyexample.com/lifetime.html

Thank you, I'll look into it. I haven't studied Rust.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by contingencies »

rbonvall wrote: post #333
mrfusion wrote: post #143

Nation chess! Once at least ten people from a country are logged in they'll matched up in a chess game with people from a different country. The entire nation (or at least those who are logged in) votes on each move. I'd love some help if anyone is interested. I'm still in the planning phase.

I think it's a great idea! I'm sure a friendly chess game between nations will not end up encouraging nationalism and political division :)

Bah! Pure humbug.

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Post by eiriklv »

Right now I'm working on multiple projects;

SpotiPi: https://github.com/eiriklv/spotipi - Set up a Raspberry Pi as a streaming device for Spotify, where anyone can add songs to the queue via a web interface/app.

Express-Passport-App: https://github.com/eiriklv/express-passport-app - An elaborate boilerplate/scaffolding for the nodejs/express stack supplied with social logins, to bootstrap my projects. I try to get it as hexagonal as possible.

Congregator-Sitescraper: https://github.com/eiriklv/congregator-sitescraper - Scrape a website with JSON templates. Feed it a template and it gives you structured data back. I think https://www.kimonolabs.com/ is using something like this in their backend. I'm going to use it for something similar.

Congregator-RssReader: https://github.com/eiriklv/congregator-rssreader - Parse RSS-feeds into structured articles by providing a template. Going to use it for a kind of DIY Feedly.

Picturegr.am: http://www.picturegr.am/ - An Instagram search engine, with integration to Google Maps.

Flytr.no: http://www.flytr.no - Get new Instagram pictures on your screen realtime, by supplying a hashtag or a location on the map.

I'm also working on a project for managing subscriptions for teams/origanizations (like local sports teams)

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by dochtman »

dmarble wrote: post #355
dochtman wrote: post #247

I'm working on a programming language. It's a reimagining of Python as a statically-typed, compiled language. The compiler is written in Python and targets LLVM IR. Currently working towards support for exceptions; raising already works, currently trying to work my way through all the stuff that needs to work for catching.

If you haven't taken a look at Nimrod, it might give you some ideas, or perhaps inspire you to be a code contributor! As a python guy, I'm really liking it for some hobby work I'm doing. The compiler and standard library are MIT licensed. http://nimrod-lang.org/ https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod Also, there's a recent forum posting about the decision not to do LLVM codgen for now: http://forum.nimrod-lang.org/t/480 . Pe…

Yeah, Nimrod is somewhat close to what I'm working on, though my language is quite a bit closer to actual Python in many ways. Also, my language does not rely on GC, instead using annotated pointer types to get deterministic memory management (without requiring very explicit allocation and deallocation).

I don't really buy into their reasons that LLVM is harder than C; it's just a different environment, closer to assembler in some ways, but actually quite readable in my opinion.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by buttscicles »

zo1 wrote: post #328
buttscicles wrote: post #37

I've been working on a little hosted websockets service, would like to ramp up the pace though. https://preview.gorealtime.io/

May I ask where you got your front page image? Stock photo site?

Apologies, I can't remember exactly where as I was trawling through various free stock image sites at the time, but it may well have been somewhere on this list which was posted to HN.

https://medium.com/@dustin/stock-photos-that-dont-suck-62ae4...

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by Hell3D »

enowbi wrote: post #366

I have been wrestling with a solution to help wage and part time workers find work in short distances and avoid unnecessary commuting costs. This is especially true since the type of jobs these people do can be produced and consumed by almost everyone. A beta webapp is here http://1milejobs.com . We will be coming up with mobile versions later.

I great idea but it needs more explanation. May be some video showing the benefits and how to use.
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