Ask HN: What are you working on today? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by angelbob » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:19 PM UTC

Trying to convert some gnarly test fixtures into a Machinist file in JRuby on Rails. After that, 10% time, but probably still on test-related topics. If I don't think of anything that needs it more, installing Cucumber and getting it hooked up to our build server, so we can use it for testing.

This is all in JRuby, and my editor of choice is emacs.

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

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Post by guiseppecalzone » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:19 PM UTC

Negotiating the purchase of phone numbers for http://www.hellofax.com.

Telecom companies are great at hiding their cost structure. With just one company, I had a preliminary call, plus a conference call and I'm still waiting for their price sheet.

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

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Post by pcarmichael » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:21 PM UTC

I'm building an immutable filesystem of sorts on top of a distributed key-value store, and am about to benchmark Riak to see how it might fare (as the underlying key-value store). I'm also looking to do some visualization for execution tracing of a product using Simile Timeline, but I'm wrestling with incomplete documentation (the default DateTime resolution of 1 millisecond is not sufficient).

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

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Post by bmelton » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:23 PM UTC

Today I am recovering from my first actual mixed martial arts class. My wife and I (recently reconciled, if you're following my posts) went, and she learned her first jab, (vicious) right cross, uppercut, left hook, front kick, body kick, armbar, rear naked choke and a kimura that's still got my arm a little weak.

I used to train in a number of martial arts like, 20 years ago, but now I'm 33, about 25-30 pounds overweight, and VERY out of shape, and decided to jump back in 100%.

Joined a Team Lloyd Irvin dojo (Ivey League MMA) and did the MMA basics course, which nearly killed me during the warm up, but I and my wife kept going through the entire class.

We'll be going back Saturday, and my 8 year old daughter is enrolled as well after watching the other kids enjoy kicking the snot out of the instructors.

As for a picture of the development environment... I suppose this'll do? http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr41/iveyleaguepics/grand...

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

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Post by tjr » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:24 PM UTC

Trying to get an avionics subsystem to display a particular error message, in order to demonstrate completeness in testing. Part of this effort:

http://www.eurocontrol.int/link2000/public/subsite_homepage/...

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

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Post by guiseppecalzone » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:26 PM UTC

filipcte wrote: post #105

I'm working on implementing theme-support for a new travel journal app. I'll also attempt to integrate FusionCharts in http://www.cashbasehq.com , a personal finances app.

Nice. Cash base is pretty cool. I really like the simplicity of the interface. Would be cool if it were tied to your credit card, so expenses get automatically displayed.

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

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Post by m0nastic » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:27 PM UTC

dchest wrote: post #111

Today I released my three-day project "I Write Like". You paste some text, it analyzes it and tells you what famous writer you write like. Link: http://iwl.me

I just spent about 15 minutes messing around with this. Very neat. I then made the unfortunate decision to show it to my girlfriend, who is now angry at me that it said she writes like Dan Brown.

I'd be curious to know how large the pool of authors is.

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

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Post by davi » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:29 PM UTC

Validation of a wiring diagram extracted from a cluster of physiologically characterized cells in mammalian visual cortex.

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

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Post by d0m » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:29 PM UTC

chime wrote: post #103

Today's my last day as an employee at my job of 6 years. I'll become a consultant starting Monday so if they need me, it'll be hourly billing. I'm just reviewing my emails today and reassigning my regular responsibilities.

congrats!

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

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Post by dchest » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:30 PM UTC

m0nastic wrote: post #127

dchest wrote: post #111

Today I released my three-day project "I Write Like". You paste some text, it analyzes it and tells you what famous writer you write like. Link: http://iwl.me

I just spent about 15 minutes messing around with this. Very neat. I then made the unfortunate decision to show it to my girlfriend, who is now angry at me that it said she writes like Dan Brown. I'd be curious to know how large the pool of authors is.

:-) Currently 29 authors. Will feed it with more.