I'll probably start up another company January 2. I have a dream about educating the world's future smart people.
Needless to say, I'm still in the very early stages of this idea.
About your textbook, what branch would you _like_ to write about?
Basically a Chicago clone of this:
Type in your address.
We figure out the coordinates.
We place those coordinates in all their relevant political "zones" (neighborhood, district, ward etc.) and give you maps of what they look like, just like the Times.
We show you everyone representing you in those zones with links to the homepage, wikipedia page, twitter results, flickr results, youtube results etc
We show you a newsfeed of their appearances in mainstream press.
Should be cool.
Edit: I do this by doing a full-text search on the citeseer database, which is a couple gigs uncompressed. Right now I'm grappling with the xapian library: http://www.rkblog.rk.edu.pl/w/p/xapian-python/ If someone knows an easier/better way to do this, I'd love to hear. Thanks.
I've got an incremental update to ShoveBox in testing now, but I'm spending most of my resources finalizing the iPhone version of the app and getting it to sync properly with the desktop app. That will probably be 1.8 or 2.0.
I'm not sure if I should charge for the iPhone app or not though. I'm worried Windows people will accidentally download it and get pissed. Hmm. But none of my direct competitors (except for maybe Evernote) have this feature, so I'll be psyched to have it out.
If you're interested in beta testing, you can join here: http://www.wonderwarp.com/shovebox/beta
It's a ridiculously overcomplicated horrible format designed by committee :( Seems like a good job to pick though...
I'm working on a chiptune version of Abbey Road, in order to teach myself a few new trackers that I've never used before (the last trackers I used heavily were OctaMED and ProTracker on the Amiga). I'm mainly tinkering with Renoise, which is an awesome multi-platform modern tracker with VST/LADSPA support. But I'm also playing with a cool sounding SID emulating tracker called Goattracker, and NitroTracker for the Nintendo DS. I probably won't finish all of Abbey Road in two weeks or spare time, since it's quite elaborate, and I'm only about half of the way through one song two days in, but I'm sure I can make three or four nice tracks. And I'll probably get faster as I get more comfortable with the tools.
Okay, so I guess I'm not a real hacker.
I wrote a novel during nanowrimo and ignored it since then, I may use my free time to edit and maybe publish copies for friends/family.
but mostly, I'm going to knit, work on some iPhone and Mac app ideas, and generally just have fun.
Instead, since we both rely heavily on freelance work, we're positioning it as a directory of approved designer (with specific specialties), copywriter, and developer freelancers so clients looking for work or partners can find them easily.
Given my focus on delivering great designs within my focus-time of 24 hours, this should be a good help in finding clients, as well as any revenue we scrape together through the site if we choose to monetize it.
Any HN members interested in being listed?
I've noticed this is common for most tee labels, especially as they start out (no coincidence), and rather than be a salesman trying to move shirts, I'll be a salesman moving brand equity, which I'm much more comfortable with.
Exit strategy: get rid of crappy service without having to pay for the 'privilege' of doing so.
I'm going to take it and make it committable.
Yes, I'm risking my sanity.
* Load average based on the amount of CPU cores in the machine, so that 100% is busy anywhere you run it.
* Figures for memory unused by apps, more apparent usage of page cache
* Figures for IO alas IOtop
* IO nicing
* Not doing silly thing like opening and closing a file handle every loop.
* Zebra striping, other niceties.
Also making a working, simple, stable dock for Linux - a GNOME panel applet to replace the window list.
(Yes, I've thought about turning this into a startup.)
And that reminds me, I really should be working on that right now, if I'm going to have time to do my college apps...
And oh, learning prolog as I go.
At the moment I'm working on automatically generating maps from a small base dataset, and shortly I'll start working on a Django based wrapper to host this for many people's use.
Spiked egg-nog... here I come!
Also writing up an article about the soda machine card reader I built, as well as some other blog posts.
Apart from that, I'm just taking the time to get a simple portfolio/resume site up. Working full time during the year makes it hard to get time for these things.
Basically, what I do on free evening/weekend hours, but I'll get to focus on it for longer blocks of time. :-)
Also beginning work on a new project that is essentially an online site editor like Weebly but for a very niche market. Still figuring out exactly how to do that though.
I'm also trying to start a project with my Arduino, though I'm not sure what I'll create. Maybe a simple robot.
Also some updates to my current iPhone apps (http://www.awaytalk.com).
... after re-learning 1st & 2nd year calculus
... after re-learning trigonometry
... after refreshing my memory on algebra & geometry
