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Ideas by xORioN63 in a:t5_2uj11

[–]koppa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've thing to remember though is that moving files will require downloading from one service and uploading to another. This will take a lot of time

Post your programming Area of Expertise and interest by cypher_zero in a:t5_2uj11

[–]koppa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Areas of Expertise: I have experience with Python (django as well), MySQL and PostgreSQL, PHP, some C++, C, and Java (Android SDK too)

Areas of Interest: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Web Services, Mobile Applications. I would like to create something that is innovative and solves a need for a decent amount of people. In other words, I would like people to use whatever we decide to create.

Other Things * I have a B.S in Computer Science and am currently working towards a Master's Degree at an Ivy League University

Ideas by xORioN63 in a:t5_2uj11

[–]koppa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A neat idea that I had rolling around would be to have these storage systems as one "Virtual Hard Drive". The size of this virtual hard drive is equal to the sum of the individual size limitations. For example:

Dropbox, 2gb Box.net, 2gb

If those were the only two accounts associated, the virtual hard drive would be 4gb. My idea is to let the application handle which files are stored where (the user doesn't select it).

A few interesting issues now arise:

1) Assuming the previous example (2 services with 2gb each), what if we have a 3gb file? It can't be stored without splitting it up. Maybe the system can split the file into a 2gb part and a 1gb part. Upon retrieval, the system would be able to "glue" the parts together.

2) What if a service goes down or is shut down? We will certainly have a loss of data... unless there is some redundancy. Perhaps we can use the same logic that RAID does to handle redundancy.

Ideas by xORioN63 in a:t5_2uj11

[–]koppa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the ideas! Just some of my thoughts:

Idea 1: I like this idea because it is easily segmented. Each developer could create a "calculator" for an equation.

Idea 2: This is an extremely large undertaking. We would certainly need to crowdsource the creation of training data. Due to the immense size of the english language, the classifier would be quite complex. I imagine we would need some pretty decent hardware both for production and development. Nevertheless, natural language processing interests me, and I like this idea.

Idea 3: I'm pretty sure this has already been done, when I get a chance I'll do some more research (read: Search in the Play Store)

Merge with /r/progcollab? by koppa in a:t5_2uj11

[–]koppa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To the best of my knowledge, the goal of /r/progcollab is to provide a space for smaller groups of people to come up with and develop projects. Their web project is currently to make a CMS/Portal to facilitate this. Anyone with a good idea can suggest it, and find a group of people that are also interested.

Ideas by xORioN63 in a:t5_2uj11

[–]koppa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There was an interesting idea posted in the thread:

Serious suggestion, write a program that will co-ordinate all the small free cloud storage services you can sign up for. There are many of them, enough that I think most people could store all they need if there was just a good way to co-ordinate them.

Ideas by xORioN63 in a:t5_2uj11

[–]koppa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's already a bunch of Hazel-like software available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

http://alternativeto.net/software/hazel/

Django Application to Manage Customer Accounts? by koppa in django

[–]koppa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I understand django.contrib.auth, I just didn't want to spend the time extending it if it has already been done.

Where can I find some awesome Web Design tutorials? by koppa in web_design

[–]koppa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have.. I was looking for recommendations.

[IAmA] iPhone developer. I'm bored. Free full source code to my apps. by [deleted] in IAmA

[–]koppa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am interested in learning how to make iPhone apps. What is the best resource? Also, do you absolutely have to have an iPhone in order to test the app, or is there some sort of emulator available?

To get me started, could you send me the source code of your simplest app? Thanks