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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 ErrantX »

apgwoz wrote: post #65
ErrantX wrote: post #44

I have a couple. Biggest one was a social networking site (which technically is still in my mind, but pretty dead) to compete with the big boys. In the end I was offered enough money for the work I had done on caching and some other bits that it was silly not to take it. :) I'd love to have another go some day. There was Qoppa which was intended to be an extensible Browser game server written in Python. That fell apa…

You don't need fancy art to make an interesting game.

ok then: any art :P

The idea was to make a reusable FOSS engine then build some commercial games on it :) the market is quite competitive, good graphics is becoming quite important.

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

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Post by revorad »

mtrimpe wrote: post #52

Building a native database in Perl. I had already built the storage subsystem, indexing and single-column search ... when I found out that the size of data types differs across platforms and I had hardcoded the size throughout the database.

Haha if only you'd read this - http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/introduction.html

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

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Post by DrJokepu »

tocomment wrote: post #16
rick2047 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

mine was something similar to hoppy.What I basically tried to do was write a ruby script that generated newer ruby scripts.And what did all these ruby scripts do?they scaned the long long equation and then try to put in different values in it and solve them for one variable. All this was so random and vague that I had to abandon it after about 66 minutes into it.

I made a Python script that copied itself and launched the copies (It had the ability to mutate too though by randomly changing the copies). I thought eventually it would evolve into a sentient being. But it would just tie up all my resources and freeze the computer. One time something interesting happened though. I noticed the latest copies had commented out the mutation part of the code. They had "evolved" to not m…

That's exactly what happened when procariotes evolved to eucariotes and dropped RNA in favour of DNA for storing genetic information which is much more stable so mutatuons are much more rare (our body still uses RNA just not for genetic information)

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

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Post by nedwin »

petesalty wrote: post #39

http://glunote.com It was fun to build and gave me a good look at Twitter oAuth and the APIs but I doubt it'll take it any further than it is already. I do use it on a fairly regular basis, as I'm kind of forgetful, and it does work pretty well so who knows.

This isn't so weird or crazy and might even be useful! Have followed and will see how I go.

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

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Post by rick2047 »

tocomment wrote: post #16
rick2047 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

mine was something similar to hoppy.What I basically tried to do was write a ruby script that generated newer ruby scripts.And what did all these ruby scripts do?they scaned the long long equation and then try to put in different values in it and solve them for one variable. All this was so random and vague that I had to abandon it after about 66 minutes into it.

I made a Python script that copied itself and launched the copies (It had the ability to mutate too though by randomly changing the copies). I thought eventually it would evolve into a sentient being. But it would just tie up all my resources and freeze the computer. One time something interesting happened though. I noticed the latest copies had commented out the mutation part of the code. They had "evolved" to not m…

Come on dude that must have been cool.My opinion sell the story at Hollywood they need just such a thing to stitch together another Computer-brings-doomsday movie. I don't care how big budgeted these movies are but they always are a good laugh.

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

suicidespam wrote: post #59

purely for artistic purposes and social commentary, do not take this too seriously ... * welcome to the "anti-social" web * http://www.suicidespam.com * website caters to those who really hate the world, this life, and want to get out ... * ... and to make the biggest splash they possibly can in the process * website offers high-quality, expensive video/audio equipment, great high-power wireless/satellite IP services…

You might be the greatest capitalist thinker I've ever come across. Gruesome, macabre, the epitome of evil genius.

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

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Post by Conservationist »

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.

Reminds me of the "Anus Laptops" saga:

http://www.thescambaiter.com/forum/showthread.php?t=109

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

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Post by JeffJenkins »

old-gregg wrote: post #15

http://pikluk.com I consider this crazy because abandoning the development and having it just sit there seemed crazy to a lot of people. Pikluk was a damn great idea with a few paying customers who are absolutely in love with a tiny percentage of what actually got implemented. But in the end, after exhausting some personal savings, we just could not find the resources to keep working on it and we lacked PR to sell it…

That's really, really cool, although from the domain name I thought it was going to be some sort of online potluck organizer (which would have also been cool)

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

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Post by cmelbye »

tocomment wrote: post #16
rick2047 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

mine was something similar to hoppy.What I basically tried to do was write a ruby script that generated newer ruby scripts.And what did all these ruby scripts do?they scaned the long long equation and then try to put in different values in it and solve them for one variable. All this was so random and vague that I had to abandon it after about 66 minutes into it.

I made a Python script that copied itself and launched the copies (It had the ability to mutate too though by randomly changing the copies). I thought eventually it would evolve into a sentient being. But it would just tie up all my resources and freeze the computer. One time something interesting happened though. I noticed the latest copies had commented out the mutation part of the code. They had "evolved" to not m…

Easy, just use "import evolution".

But really, the source code of that would be really cool to see.

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

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Post by jward »

PebblesRox wrote: post #66
erik wrote: post #19

http://www.imageboard.net/ (possibly NSFW content) It's sort of a pixel art discussion board. You would have to check it out to really understand it. It was fun to build, but it would be hard to commercialize. Plus nurturing a community that is more interested in quality art than anonymous penis drawings would be more work than I have motivation for.

Move it farther from a text-thread format. Explore some undiscovered territory! For example, a slideshow would be a great way to view replies. I love the way people are making little cartoons, but the replies just keep sliding to the right. They should just change, with some way to control the speed. (Maybe the author of the reply can set the default amount of time for the image to appear before the next one comes.)…

This functionality already exists! It was one of my first times futzing with javascript so it's slow and clunky and could be done a lot better.

http://www.imageboard.net/921/slideshow/

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