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Learn X by Doing Y – A project-based learning search engine

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Re: Learn X by Doing Y – A project-based learning search engine

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Lol, didn't expected to be on HN. Thanks @didizaja

You're welcome! I saw it and immediately thought it was something that a lot of people might find both interesting and useful. There are so many projects on the site that I want to try out, and I love the fact that it can grow organically as people choose to contribute new projects to it.

Amazing work on the awesome idea and on the execution! :)

Re: Learn X by Doing Y – A project-based learning search engine

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cool site. I've been wondering about building a video streaming app/platform but unfortunately I couldn't find anything related to that here. Any pointers on how one can go about building a Zoom like service? Is Web RTC the way to go?

I just added four video chat / call projects :)

Thanks! I'll check it out later!

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I really like the concept, I look forward to seeing more diverse projects added to the index. I looked for, embedded stuff, virtual reality and high frequency trading and got 0 hits on all of em :(

> high frequency trading

Take a pile of money, burn it.

Obviously I'm joking, but I would assume that the local nature of HFT basically means you have to be a big-gun to play without losing your money.

Re: Learn X by Doing Y – A project-based learning search engine

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I'm really tempted to document my own learning/musings in microarchitecture by making a semi-zachlike "game" to go through it. Really stretching the definition of game though, although I know I'd play it which is enough for me.

There's already one on steam, but I don't think it uses a real HDL - thanks to yosys (Claire Wolf you're a god) it could be completely open-source, and you could even just about gamify the end result (Dhrystone MIPS per gate?)

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Maybe this is an opportunity to create a new kind of Show/Ask HN, called “Who’s got questions?”

For example. I’m a self-described senior electron/react/iOS app dev and I have created exactly one API in my life using node/express/GraphQL/mongo/redis on heroku. It works great! I had a ton of fun learning and deploying and now maintaining.

Now... I want to add some features such as long-running (30s-10m) batch jobs. How do I go about doing this? I noticed Redis has Bull ... but I’m still not clear on the architecture. I feel a bit stuck and nervous I’m going to pick something that’s going to fall over at the slightest traffic.

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I really like the concept, I look forward to seeing more diverse projects added to the index. I looked for, embedded stuff, virtual reality and high frequency trading and got 0 hits on all of em :(

> high frequency trading Take a pile of money, burn it. Obviously I'm joking, but I would assume that the local nature of HFT basically means you have to be a big-gun to play without losing your money.

I'm not super concerned about losing money on a hobby project :P hard limit 1grand let it ride.

Re: Learn X by Doing Y – A project-based learning search engine

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

WebRTC is a good start! I played around with it at the start of the pandemic. It's pretty quick to get to a working demo, and you don't have to worry about any of the gory details with regard to video.

I played with WebRTC as part of a masters project about 7 years ago. I wonder how far it has come. It'd be nice to have some sort of a plug and play cloud service to deal with multimedia streaming in realtime and you can focus mostly on logic and UI/UX

This just showed up on the front page last week! https://peerjs.com/
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