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What are you working on tonight? | icey: Alternately learning twisted and writing software |
What are you working on tonight? | awt: ZumoDrive. |
What are you working on tonight? | lawrencegs: working on my future... |
What are you working on tonight? | patio11: Tonight? Nothing aside from routine email. I need a mental health day.Saturday? Nothing aside from routine email. 10 hours of day job followed by going out with friends to karaoke.Sunday: Church, gym, minimum viable achievement system in Rails (was supposed to happen last Sunday but I broke site -- scratch one work day), A/B tests incorporating it, deploy live, blog post about solo founderhood. |
What are you working on tonight? | brandon: Playing with bottle.py and Twilio |
What are you working on tonight? | ConceptDog: Finishing up a presentation for code show and tell at work tomorrow. |
Legal Hacks. | oomkiller: I think the IKEA "legal hack" can top just about anything out there. Check it out: http://www.economist.com/business-finance/printerfriendly.cf... |
What are you working on tonight? | zackham: Working on a JSON stream parser in AS3, reading data with flash.net.URLStream, for loading up GPS data progressively. The JSON for a ride like this (http://ridewithgps.com/trips/2000) is about 300k, and I think it will look much cooler if it draws as it downloads. |
What are you working on tonight? | midnightmonster: Documentation. Or if my eyeballs start falling out from that, a mass mailing engine in PHP for use on commodity-type PHP hosting. (For non-evil purposes, I promise.) |
What are you working on tonight? | brianr: bug fixin' |
What are you working on tonight? | zweinz: Writing an iPhone app / webapp for givingturtle.org to release before SXSW. For that matter, for anyone looking for something worthwhile to spend a few hours on, let me know... |
What are you working on tonight? | houseabsolute: Trying to find a vt100 emulator for lisp . . . not working out so great. Or is it? I just remembered emacs had one . . . reading the source code now . . . god help me. |
What are you working on tonight? | Todd: Working on photo upload in a new web app I'm working on. It spawns ImageMagick to do the conversion into multiple photos of different sizes. I had doubts about this until I read that it's the technique Flickr uses. |
What should I build to support my web app? | nfnaaron: "6) Mailing lists. I did this 3 years after starting my business. Knowing what I know now makes me sad I waited that long. MailChimp is an easy snap-in."I remember the other day you stressed how much you don't spam your customers. So I'm assuming this is an opt-in thing, but: - Do people really opt-in enough to make this worthwhile?
- What do you do with it that makes it worthwhile? New product announcements?
"15) Backups for all that stuff that isn't on the database. I let Slicehost handle that."They just back up whole images, and restore them (plonk) to your slice, right? What do you do for data that's not in your database, that was created after the most recent backup? And do you restore to your main slice or a temporary slice? |
What are you working on tonight? | noodle: getting over some kind of sickness (generic cold, perhaps, but it hit hard) and working on setting up my new 55g saltwater reef aquarium.hooray hobbies |
What are you working on tonight? | JeffJenkins: Making my current project -- a hierarchical outliner -- support multiple documents and user accounts |
What are you working on tonight? | oscardelben: It's 6.16 am now, and yesterday night I went to bed early so I could work on my projects this morning. So far I've written a guest post for my blog (since 5 am) and I'll now work on the backend of a bog engine I wrote myself in rails. I'll probably do many other things before 9 am where I'll start my day-work. |
What are you working on tonight? | pplante: I scratched an itch today while collecting research materials. I had trouble keeping track of all the pages I was referencing, quotes I liked, etc.So I made an app and then open sourced it: http://github.com/pplante/yourcached.infoNot totally finished yet. Waiting on DNS to resolve so I can add FBConnect to it and spread the word.I only spent 4 hours on this so far. So it wasn't a complete distraction from what I needed to do...not yet at least! |
What are you working on tonight? | jonah: Merging the code I wrote on the road last week with the main tree on the dev box. |
What are you working on tonight? | sumeeta: Beer. |
What are you working on tonight? | dazzla: Debating adding the deals from my iDealyzer iPhone/Android apps to the supporting website hoping it will help SEO. |
What are you working on tonight? | benologist: I'm localising the latest Flash game I sold, I was fortunate enough to get a good price and a great buyer on it. It's a ton of work setting up their multilingual and branding requirements but I have to get it done tonight, I got bogged down on my little startup (http://www.swfstats.com/) all week and next week I'm off to San Francisco for the Flash Gaming Summit so that really only leaves today and worst case scenario some of tomorrow to get this sorted out. : )This is my game:
http://www.flashgamelicense.com/screenshots/ss_8ih6r76u9701....11:23pm |
What are you working on tonight? | _neil: Just had dinner with my girlfriend. Now finishing up this months pro-bono work to clear my plate for next month. |
What are you working on tonight? | abi: Working on my awesome blogging software. Here's the gorgeous coming soon page: http://www.heyreverie.com. Email me if you're frustrated with Wordpress, Tumblr, Posterous, etc. and I'd love to have you test my site before I make it public. |
What are you working on tonight? | marltod: MW2 |
Web Application Development? | jaddison: Use a framework that handles user accounts/passwords for you. Twitter, Facebook and other social auth frameworks can be plugged in easily via 3rd party modules.I use and recommend Django, for example. I would imagine Ruby/Rails would have similar capabilities.For Django tutorials/docs:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/Django is also about to release a major update in the first half of March (v1.2). Some GREAT improvements. |
What are you working on tonight? | paraschopra: Working to get one step closer to nirvana :) |
What are you working on tonight? | chadaustin: Gutting ADODB from the IMVU website to eliminate pointless data conversions and several hundred microseconds from each cached query.I love being able to refactor the database layer, relying on automated tests to prevent me from taking down the site. |
What are you working on tonight? | samratjp: writing a SGML parser for a search engine :-P |
What are you working on tonight? | gipsygipsy: Deployed a small app to appengine , to send voice messages via IM using twilio. Mainly to send my wife important messages without having to dial from work phone. |
What are you working on tonight? | dangoldin: Trying to learn Django by coding up a new project and working on an existing PHP site. |
What are you working on tonight? | lambdom: Studying IA for my exam tomorrow. Fortunately, "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition)" is a great book. (I said fortunately because I need to read half of it tonight - I`m half done). |
What are you working on tonight? | dwwoelfel: Drawing Feynman diagrams for my Modern Physics class. Here's the link to the assignment if you want to join in the fun: http://phys309.physics.tamu.edu/PA5.pdfThanks HN for the great timing on this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1150224 |
What are you working on tonight? | devink: I'm writing a Bit Error Rate simulatorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_error_rate |
What are you working on tonight? | dca: TronBot |
What are you working on tonight? | cullenking: Finishing up final negotiations on a licensing deal for some of the mapping functionality on ridewithgps.com -- original lawyerspeak in the agreement had too stiff of a non-compete.Also, put up an issues page for users to publicly register feature requests and bugs, and then comment and vote on them. The idea is that we get alot of duplicate feature requests and reports of errata that take alot of time to personally respond to. By letting users see something is already registered, they can just upvote it and we have one less person to directly contact. |
What are you working on tonight? | pantsd: I'm working on my "day" job. Ask this again on the weekend :p |
What are you working on tonight? | jcmarquezh: I am fixing JMathPlot exception so that we can use it for my graduation project (brazos.cs.tcu.edu) Those 3D graphics will look really good !!! |
What are you working on tonight? | jbyers: Aggregating http log data (request timing, custom fields) in redis. To be open-sourced. |
What are you working on tonight? | robdor: Hacking on a GitHub client for Palm's webOS.http://robmerrell.github.com/gitopotamus/ |
What are you working on tonight? | frisco: Working on a Clojure client for Facebook:http://www.github.com/myfit/clj-facebook/ |
What are you working on tonight? | sulistyo: starring at my phone |
What are you working on tonight? | techiferous: Helping a friend start a business. |
What are you working on tonight? | jashmenn: Listening to jazz, hacking on an iPhone game. |
What are you working on tonight? | mahmud: SOAP, WS-BPEL, and supply-chain modeling in Common Lisp :-/ |
We got an invite to TechStars for a day, should we go? | andyjdavis: You may as well go. One day won't make any difference to your development in the grand scheme of things. Better to go along and at least have the opportunity to meet someone interesting. |
What do you use for search on your app/site? | pedalpete: Are you looking for a specific solution for your site? or just looking to learn more about search algorithms, etc.If it is the later, you can check out some natural language processing tools like ling pipe. |
What are you working on tonight? | jcrocholl: My interactive search engine for short available domains:
http://www.nxdom.com/I'm working to bring the advanced weighted sort order back, but optional so that new users can play with the simple sort order until they understand what it does. Work in progress is here, and full source code:
http://master.latest.scoretool.appspot.com/
http://github.com/jcrocholl/nxdomMy 2-year-old son doesn't want to go to sleep yet, so he's climbing around on me while I write this. |
What are you working on tonight? | rozim: MVP on GAE.
Minimum Viable Product on Google App Engine. |
What are you working on tonight? | jasongullickson: Submitting our latest film to IMDB: http://2soc.net/americancafe |
What are you working on tonight? | aboodman: chrome extensions.... still. |
What are you working on tonight? | Derferman: A Python compiler using Flex, Bison and C++. |
What are you working on tonight? | waterlesscloud: Packing to drive from Los Angeles to San Jose tomorrow. Spending the weekend watching friends' movies at Cinequest film festival.Also meeting with a friend in SJ about a facebook app idea we've been kicking around forever. |
What are you working on tonight? | trevorturk: Working on my web based jukebox project: http://github.com/trevorturk/kzakI'm dropping Bundler support right now because it's still broken in so many ways ;( |
What are you working on tonight? | ax0n: I'm actually poring over the list of projects that I'd like to get done one of these days, seeing if there's anything I can get some traction on with just an hour or two of work. I should be sleeping. I have a job interview in 8 hours. Well, by "job interview" I mean I'm talking to yet another headhunter. Mostly to satisfy the unemployment benefit requirement that I meet with at least 3 companies per week. I really don't feel like doing mid-term contract work without benefits. |
What are you working on tonight? | spoonyg: trying to make my way to Brussels, stuck overnight in Chicago due to a maintenance issue followed by a domestic dispute followed by over the maximum time for the crew. |
What are you working on tonight? | patrickgzill: Starting an artisan-bread "sponge" which is a starter for the bread I hope to bake tomorrow (have started trying to teach myself to cook/bake). With cooking, you can pretty much cover yourself if you don't do something right; baking is much more of a "discipline"...Hacker wise, thinking about ways to use Twitter and Facebook after listening to the recent Mixergy interview about it (Vanderchuyk? I think). I have a friend with a profitable site but it has stagnated and he has asked me to think about ways to improve it. |
What are you working on tonight? | papa: Filling out paperwork to commit to more bandwidth from our colocation facility as the monthly overages are getting high.Guess you gotta spend money to make money :-| |
What are you working on tonight? | cperciva: Just spent 2 hours rehearsing the Verdi Requiem. Next up is probably looking at a FreeBSD Errata Notice. |
What are you working on tonight? | aneesh: Just got back from the YC meetup in Seattle! |
What are you working on tonight? | dylanz: Was running database migrations. I'm now rolling back. |
What are you working on tonight? | farnsworth: Writing a Python photomosaic generator, and an iPhone app for my university bus system (iPhone apps seem to be popular tonight). |
What are you working on tonight? | jrockway: I'm writing a local HTTP proxy that connects to a remote JAWs [1] server, so that users behind a proxy that blocks proxy requests can still get to an unfiltered Internet.[1] http://github.com/jrockway/jawsEntities that think they can censor the Internet amuse me. |
What are you working on tonight? | damovisa: Continuing to hack away at my Footy Tipping site... the start of the season is casting demonic shadows over my shoulder... |
What are you working on tonight? | marcamillion: Trying to deal with hotel issues that come up at the 11th hour of negotiations for my 'Rails 3 on the Beach' event I am hosting in Jamaica in August.Things never go as planned...I know computers can be difficult to deal with some times, but people are even more unpredictable. |
What are you working on tonight? | gradschool: trying a programming puzzle on rosettacode
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/24_game/Solve |
What are you working on tonight? | stevoo: Working on my online game. Hopefully it will be more in a playable condition soon enough ! |
Is there an open-source shared task list app? | samratjp: Remember The Milk is good, but not open source - http://www.rememberthemilk.com/. It is clean and gotta love the vim like shortcuts.I believe it has task sharing. |
What are you working on tonight? | andrewf: I'm going to see if I can make zlib a little faster with some SSE intrinsics. |
What are you working on tonight? | psawaya: Playing around with streaming video and Adobe Stratus, and contemplating making my own Chatroulette-like site.Let me know how well it (doesn't) work:
http://cam-mash.appspot.com/listen |
What are you working on tonight? | dimarco: I'm in the process of leaving my job to start my first company, so my time tonight is split between writing wiki articles for my soon-to-be-ex coworkers and creating a minimally viable product. |
What are you working on tonight? | jkaljundi: http://emp.ly/ - a job posting and sharing tool for hiring via social networks.P.S. Don't forget: It's the last few days to apply 4 many startup incubators: http://shrt.st/cs7 (NYC Seedstart, Openfund, i/o ventures, Sproutbox, YC). Great chance to learn from best of the best. Also let me know if I have missed any from the list. |
What are you working on tonight? | krikor: Finishing up a few homework assignments then keep on teaching myself Lisp. I probably should learn a bit more LaTeX at the rate i'm inserting equations in Google docs though. |
What are you working on tonight? | bch: Just finished plugging memory leaks. |
What are you working on tonight? | RevRal: Learning to use Joomla. |
What are you working on tonight? | ApolloRising: Working on chapter two of a book I am writing on how to increase conversion |
What are you working on tonight? | dangrossman: Writing copy for webpages of a service that helps ecommerce sites with high chargeback rates reduce fraud. |
What are you working on tonight? | akkartik: Copy for my current project: http://readwarp.com. I'm trying to come up with three short sentences for the front page to describe a) What it is, b) What it can do for you, c) What you should do next.If you can figure out what it does, you tell me :) |
What are you working on tonight? | char: Tonight's projects included A/B testing, practicing piano, and making a delicious sausage pizza.I'm currently considering jumping on the Feynman diagrams posted by dwwoelfel, because I kind of miss doing them. |
How did you learn programming? How long did getting good take? | jazzychad: I started programming BASIC when I was 9 after finding some code in my school math text book. I had a VTech PreComputer1000 [1] which had a button labeled "BASIC" - so I put two and two together a figured out that I could type in the code from my math book into the computer and make it run.From there I was hooked.How long did getting good take? Well, that was 16 years ago, and I think I'm still working on improving everyday. But, how long before I felt proficient at it? Probably a few years or so...[1] http://rasterweb.net/raster/computers/images/vtech.jpg |
How did you learn programming? How long did getting good take? | sailormoon: Why did you need to create a new account to ask a question?Anyway, it depends on how much you practise (in both senses of the word) and/or challenge yourself. If you're learning to build web sites, say, maybe by the 5th or so project you're beginning to feel like you know what you're doing. Maybe by the 10th you are confident enough of your skills that you feel like you can apply for a job, if that's what you want.The key is to just start work on something ASAP. |
What are you working on tonight? | gabea: I am working on a fantasy sports business. To be specific, this evening of work had to do not with building features but with actually mending relationships busted up by good ole email miscommunication. My advice is to say what you have to say on the phone or in person. Leave emotional discussions off of paper/email. |
What are you working on tonight? | Huppie: I hope to finish the Rails Tutorial (http://www.railstutorial.org/) and then begin reading (and experimenting with) Agile Web Developing with Rails (http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Web-Development-Rails-Programmer...). |
What are you working on tonight? | DCoder: Reverse engineering a C++ game and patching it. The usual thing fans do to fix their favourite broken games :) |
What are you working on tonight? | nose: Watching some cloudera videos. http://www.cloudera.com/videos |
Selling intangible goods (website) using Escrow, is it safe? | aitoehigie: its most probably a scammer |
What are you working on tonight? | rms: Live jazz hip-hop at a local bar, no cover |
What are you working on tonight? | jbm: Building a hotel site. Fixing some irritating join statements when searching by station name (it's for Tokyo). |
What are you working on tonight? | rdj: My project: a "Foursquare meets Mafia Wars" game. You claim a real location, name it and defend it. Generate virtual currency over time and spend it on weapons. The code is complete and the family will be running some tests this weekend. Next, we will invite a few friends, get some feedback and figure out the next steps. |
What are you working on tonight? | meastham: The serial interface for the MIPS microprocessor that I am going to be spending the rest of the semester implementing on an FPGA. |
What are you working on tonight? | phaedrus: Writing a distributed control system in Io for my robot I'll take to the Sparkfun UAV competition. |
What are you working on tonight? | marze: Patent office action response. |
What are you working on tonight? | harisenbon: Not yet night here, but I'm just finishing writing up a heat-mapping multi-user system for work.I should also be working on 10 other programming projects that are due by april 1st, and 2 other personal projects as well, but don't seem to have the time nor inclination.I think I want to go with MikeMacMan's suggestion and drink. =) |
How was the Seattle YC meetup? | Mongoose: I thought it was great. The format was very ad hoc, with people just standing around and talking. Definitely one of the better networking events I've been to. I talked to a number of YC alums and local entrepreneurs, got good feedback on a few startup ideas, and some advice on grad school. Not to mention free beer. I'll definitely have to start going to more startup/hacker events here in Seattle. |
What are you working on tonight? | sketerpot: Winning National Novel Writing Month. I know that NaNoWriMo is in November, but I reserve the right to change February into another November in my personal timeline. I just have 618 words left. I've never written anything longer than about twenty pages before, and no fiction, so this was really a new and exciting experience for me. To my surprise, the book is actually pretty fun to read; I was expecting it to suck. I didn't know that any of this was even possible for me. This really has been an amazing month, and I look forward to doing it again when the official November comes around.(On a more nerdy note, none of the existing word processors really felt right to me, so I'm using a text format of my own devising, a python script to convert it into TeX with the memoir document class, and emacs. And org-mode to handle the story notes. It's remarkably pleasant, and it was a fun way of procrastinating. Much like writing this post.) |
Is there an open-source shared task list app? | radu_floricica: http://speckleapp.com is good, but I doubt it's open source. |
What are you working on tonight? | acl: Creating fixture data for an old project with no test coverage. |
How did you learn programming? How long did getting good take? | albahk: I was a MAD Magazine fan and in a Super Special issue in the early 90's they included BASIC program source code printed in the magazine. I sat down and typed the whole thing in line by line and printed a full-screen pic of Alfred. E. Neuman. That was why I started going through the BASIC manual at the age of 9 or 10. It took getting a job writing JSP/Servlets to get 'better', but still not 'good' 20 years on. |
What are you working on tonight? | savant: Fixing stupidity, tagging plugins for the cakephp framework. |
How did you learn programming? How long did getting good take? | patio11: I learned programming from a book Make Your Own Video Games which was in the library of my (not so well off) Chicago public school. We didn't have a computer, but I found out you can simulate a BASIC program with graph paper. That was twenty-something years ago.My trajectory as a programmer has gone from sucking lots to sucking less. I might get good someday. |
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