anthnguyen94

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Cool to see lots of comments on real life algorithm applications, if anyone is interested in diving deeper there's a good book that came out recently called "Algorithms to Live By" by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. It talks about how we often use CS algorithms in real life without knowing.

If you want a glimpse here's a talk they gave at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwKj-wgXteo

Comment · 10 years ago

SyntaxDB (https://syntaxdb.com) was put on PH and HN and that gave it a significant increase in traffic.

It was actually posted on PH once before, but that time it wasn't featured. Almost one year later, I built an API, several extensions, increased the amount of content, and integrated it with DDG. Eventually I decided it was worth giving the PH people a shout to see if it would get reposted (they let you repost if your product makes substantial progress). It successfully got featured that time.

Comment · 10 years ago

Hey Ooshma! I was at Startup School 2016 and absolutely loved your talk! I was just curious about how you built your initial product- you mentioned not being able to find a dev who wanted to play the long game. What did you end up trying and eventually doing?

Comment · 10 years ago

Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, Ruby on Rails, C++, AngularJS, Node, HTML/CSS

Résumé/CV: http://goo.gl/jrDw6X

Email: anthony.nguyen(at)queensu.ca

Github: anthonyn60

My name's Anthony and I'm a CE and Economics student set to graduate in December. I have previous internship and project experience. I've worked on web and mobile, Qt, bots, etc. I'm highly adaptable as a developer and learn fast. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Comment · 10 years ago

Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, Ruby on Rails, C++, AngularJS, Node, HTML/CSS

Résumé/CV: http://goo.gl/jrDw6X

Email: anthony.nguyen(at)queensu.ca

Github: anthonyn60

Comment · 10 years ago

Was addressing the other commenter too! Hehe

Comment · 10 years ago

So many people (including myself at times LOL) have asked for Bash. It'll be on there soon enough!

Comment · 10 years ago

Thanks for pointing that out! As of right now, it all gets updated manually (there's an internal CMS I built and use). As of right now, when people point out corrections they do so via feedback form, and I update accordingly (if I can verify it). Not the greatest but it's what's in place for the time being.

It'll later be open for others to provide new concepts and corrections.

Comment · 10 years ago

Glad you like it! When I designed the page, I thought it would look best if the code sections were split up. Interesting feedback, I'll get some other people's thoughts on this later.

Comment · 10 years ago

Yep, that has to do with the full-text search engine (Solr). There's definitely some optimizing to do, I definitely don't want additional words throwing off the search!

Comment · 10 years ago

The site doesn't actually support Haskell or Obj-C atm (will in the future).

I also need to improve the search engine to handle queries with additional words that might give a null result, as well as words like "foreach" (that has to do with the database). This will be fixed very soon.

It is bad that there are missing concepts, and I'm fully aware that this isn't even close to complete. The goal in the future is to have as few null result queries as possible. I actually make note of queries that don't provide results so I'm glad everyone's making these known, it'll only make the database better in the future!

Comment · 10 years ago

Glad you like it! User contributions will definitely be a part of SyntaxDB in the near future.

Comment · 10 years ago

SO documentation looks very cool actually, and it'll be interesting to see how it turns out. I'm all for documentation being easier across all services, and I care a lot more about having this problem solved rather than pushing SyntaxDB to compete with existing services.

With that being said, I think the current integrations and the ones planned ahead will continue to make SyntaxDB a good option, even if other sites try a similar idea.

Comment · 10 years ago

That's the plan! Just a way to allow community contributions, provide incentives while maintaining the quality of content.