We've all toiled and eventually solved some problem. Would be awesome to see some of the toughest problems HN community members have solved. Could be from any domain though it's better if the problem is somewhat technical.
Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?
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#2I have been programming for a bit more than three years. Making a half decent app in Cordova for some classes was the hardest I have worked at problem solving stuff in programs. Looking back on it now the code is really, really bad.
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#3I have been programming for a bit more than three years. Making a half decent app in Cordova for some classes was the hardest I have worked at problem solving stuff in programs. Looking back on it now the code is really, really bad.
Wow, Is cordova that bad ?
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#4Writing an implementation for parallel Travelling Salesman Problem w/ B&B using MPI and getting some god damn speedup
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#5Setting up a web service that can transcode audio files (namely mp3) that are uploaded to a server using ffmpeg. In fact, I know I could still improve it but I haven't figured out all the things ffmpeg can do.
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#6How to isolate and identify a human hand with the fingers spread and track it in real time on an iPad.
Edit: Whoops, I realized this was ambiguous. I was using an iPad camera to track it and displaying the result as well as using the detection to trigger a camera shutter.
Re: Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?
#7I have been programming for a bit more than three years. Making a half decent app in Cordova for some classes was the hardest I have worked at problem solving stuff in programs. Looking back on it now the code is really, really bad.
Wow, Is cordova that bad ?
Nope Cordova over all is not that bad, I was that bad of a programmer though haha.
I think React Native is super cool right now if its going to make nice UI easier and have good multiplatform support.
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#8Made Websockets working with reverse proxy(IIS) sitting in between the browser and a Golang app server.
Re: Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?
#9NP-completeness for automatic fence placement between two specified instructions in the presence of arbitrary goto statements. Reduction is from negation free 2-SAT to control flow graphs for real programs.
Didn't make it into my first paper, hopefully will end up in my thesis :)
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#10Making android lists scroll smooth