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Own up HN: What are your craziest abandoned projects?

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Re: Own up HN: What are your craziest abandoned projects?

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Post by dugmartin »

An AJAX api library where you specify types and RESTful actions and it builds an object with type-checked methods.

The code looks like:

  var api = new AjaxAPI(
  "page = /testapi.php \n" + 
  "mydate= (^\\d\\d-\\d\\d-\\d\\d\\d\\d$) \n" +
  "int=(^\\d?+$) \n" +
  "text = (^.+$) \n" +
  
  "get_messages : GET /messages/project={int}/date={mydate}/ \n" +
  "get_comments: GET /comments/project={int} \n" +
  "save_comment:POST /save_comment?project={int}&comment={text} \n" +
  "delete_comment :POST /delete_comment/project={int}?comment_id={int} \n" +
  "echo: GET {page}?_method=echo&[foo={int}]&name={text}&[baz=(text)] \n");

  api.call.get_messages({project: 12, comment_id: 21}, function (request, response) {...});
Its done and been sitting on my hard drive for 2-3 years.

Re: Own up HN: What are your craziest abandoned projects?

#33

Post by aarongough »

dfranke wrote: post #24

http://dfranke.us/pfs.html Though, I've recently been contacted by a high school student who intends to implement a subset of the idea for some sort of school project. I'll be interested to see what he does with it.

I would love to see that implemented on a large scale...

If someone like Google were to implement this as a response to every email that had positively been identified as spam then the scammers would spend so much time trying to sort the wheat from the chaff that they would never get anything else done!

At the moment the signal-to-noise ratio is low for us, as spam receivers, but if we made the signal-to-noise ratio lower for the spammers and scammers then they would have a much harder time making money!

Re: Own up HN: What are your craziest abandoned projects?

#34

Post by arohner »

dfranke wrote: post #24

http://dfranke.us/pfs.html Though, I've recently been contacted by a high school student who intends to implement a subset of the idea for some sort of school project. I'll be interested to see what he does with it.

Good job on the presentation. I had a lot of fun reading the GEB-inspired description.

Re: Own up HN: What are your craziest abandoned projects?

#35

Post by hernan7 »

A scripting language that's somewhere between Bourne Shell and Perl: you don't need to spawn a new process to do a grep or sed, and also you use cat and pipes instead of file handles. Maybe when Perl 6 is a bit more mature I will look at implementing it as a source filter.

Re: Own up HN: What are your craziest abandoned projects?

#38

Post by prpon »

aarongough wrote: post #6
pavel_lishin wrote: post #4

Prison Buddy Search. Basically, I wanted something that would let you search for your high school friends in all the jails & prisons, state and federal. Optionally I thought about hooking it into facebook, for automatic updates. "Ben Jerry has just been imprisoned for 5 years for aggravated assault!" Hope someone doesn't steal my idea; then again, if they do that means I'd get to reap the fun benefit without the hard…

Haha, nice. Takes all the hard work out of avoiding jailhouse beatings :-p

Or you can find out whom you are gonna join when you get there :p

Re: Own up HN: What are your craziest abandoned projects?

#40

Post by MaysonL »

apgwoz wrote: post #20

I have a whole directory on my personal laptop of abandoned projects, that I've worked on over the past few years. One that I still would love to see built on is the concept of a Fisheye Editor. I wrote a prototype in Python Tk: http://apgwoz.com/fisheye-edit/ Another idea I had, which I thought was good, was building a Twitter like site to track what you were eating, and marry the concept with Reddit style voting an…

Re: Fisheye Editor - have you seen Dasher? A Bayesian Fisheye Input method. :-)
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