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MS Paint IDE
- npodbielski 2y agoBut... Why?!
- cantrecallmypwd 2y agoWhy not? AbsuRdiTy is cool.
- nashashmi 2y agoWhhhhyyyyy? > The IDE may seem like a joke, but the research and development gone into it is most definitely not. > MS Paint IDE uses a custom OCR that can be trained by nearly any font in any size, reading code from images in just miliseconds. The IDE's compiler and program output are in .png's, and automatically underlines any errors present and provides syntax highlighting with Java, Go, Python, and JavaScript currently being supported. > The IDE also allows for arbitrarily editing any text file through Paint via a context menu option, with native-looking button overlays onto MS Paint to perform IDE actions. why?
- INTPenis 2y agoJust think of all the useful software they could have written.
- treve 2y agoJust think of the shareholder value they could have created instead of having fun.
- jancsika 2y agoBut also just think of all the useful software that hasn't been written by people sitting around thinking about all the useful software that could be written. I'd love to see a project on github that mines HN posts for a decent sized list of this. I'll start-- off the top of my head I remember a post from Mike Hearn about starting the web from scratch using a format that announces the size of the incoming message rather than making the recipient check for terminator(s). There must be a dozen dozen such thoughts-without-software of "the web, but good" on here. If we have a list then you could plug it in to a script and have a spit out a random set, and then you could focus specifically on those. Anyway, I'm thinking it should be stored and maintained as a quine...
- prophesi 2y agoIt made me laugh, and that's reason enough for me to code anything.
- haswell 2y agoOn HN, I think a better question is exactly the opposite: why not?! I’ve built bizarre things that no one will use purely to learn about things. Many projects are about the process itself and less about the outcome. Every one of those “useless” projects has informed my productive work throughout my career.
- david422 2y agoI'm gonna guess it started as a fun idea, and the fun continued by solving and implementing fun new features ... But seems like a huge amount of time sunk into something that I can't imagine anyone would actually use for more than a couple of minutes.
- ninetyninenine 2y agoJust in the past couple of weeks someone ported doom into typescripts type system. Even bigger why.
- saghm 2y agoThis reminds me of the classic StackOverflow question (maybe inspired by it?): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5508110/why-is-this-program-erroneously-rejected-by-three-c-compilers https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5508110/why-is-this-prog...
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- omoikane 2y agoI thought it was inspired by XKCD's photoshop as a patch tool: https://xkcd.com/1685/ https://xkcd.com/1685/ (XKCD might have been inspired by the same post since it came later)
- saghm 2y agoI forgot about that one! Normally I'm the one chiming in with relevant xkcds
- omnibrain 2y agoThis is a true piece of art!
- anonzzzies 2y agoIt is lovely. I would, if I created this... art... Relaunch it every 1st of april.
- hombre_fatal 2y agoIf anyone's confused, you can scroll down on the homepage. I didn't realize that until I accidentally bumped my track pad. Sometimes when things fit a little too neatly above the fold, it seems like there's nothing below it.
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- timando 2y agoIt automatically resizes so even though I have a tall screen, I didn't think to scroll down because it looked like a basic landing page and had links at the top.
- SamBam 2y agoNice, although I was disappointed that you program by typing into MS Paint. I would have thought trying to draw the letters using your touchpad would be more intuitive. Every bank seems to accept the weird single line that gets drawn when I try and scrawl my signature using my trackpad, so there must be quite a bit of interesting magic going on there.
- glitchc 2y agoThe secret is that no one is checking that scrawl for authenticity. Not unless there's actual fraud, that's when the forensic experts are brought out to analyze and pontificate.
- SamBam 2y agoYeah, that was a joke. It's the same with the single line I draw across the screen after I swipe my credit card.
- jtwaleson 2y agoIf I ever become filthy rich, I would like to start companies around nonsensical products. Just to see how long you can make it last until potential customers and applicants are like "but this doesn't make any sense". This project is a perfect fit! Other ideas I had were things like wifi for servers.
- emchammer 2y agoSkiFree as a Service
- xattt 2y agoMonetization opportunities include: pay-per-jump and Abominable Snow Monster rescue fee.
- navbaker 2y agoEnterprise tier adds the ability to disable users being devoured by the yeti?
- doubled112 2y agoBeing devoured could be considered not safe for work.
- rzzzt 2y agoJust the SSO login, sorry.
- passivegains 2y ago> wifi for servers I urge you to reconsider. Potential customers and applicants will immediately go all in and the "but this doesn't make any sense" step will never happen. We'll be reading blog posts like "I'm hooked on PCP (the Post-Cabling Paradigm)" from Google SRE's with comments praising the downfall of "Big Ethernet" while the emissions from datacenters vaporize flocks of migrating birds.
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- notepad0x90 2y agoWe need awards for absurdity, I love this. Lots of good ideas and innovation come from the pursuit of the absurd. Don't ask why, ask why not!
- thumb 2y agoI can see utility in something like this where someone sent you a screenshot of code and you wish to compile/execute the code in the screenshot. Anything else is a bonus. I dig the project, keep it up!
- adhamsalama 2y agoIt doesn't have any AI features? Amazing. I might actually use it.
- odo1242 2y agoTechnically OCR itself is an AI feature though lol
- cantrecallmypwd 2y agoOCR predates modern AI including deep learning and LLMs. It worked based on heuristics that were hard-coded. These techniques are faster and require less CPU power but are more error-prone while AI-assisted combined heuristics for written and typed content recognition can deal with more variability. Even still, the USPS employs people (or at least it did) to correct addresses manually that its automated pre-modern AI address scanning software cannot determine with enough confidence. Perhaps modern AI (deep learning) could replace most of those jobs but perhaps not all as some could be read by humans that algorithms might not be able to decide with enough confidence and other labels are truly undecipherable even with all the AI techniques in the world and need to be returned to sender (RTS).
- sakesun 2y agoNext version of MS Recall/Copilot will watch the code you type in any IDE or editor and try to give compiler warning automatically.
- gpderetta 2y agoNeeds StableDiffusion as a copilot alternative!
- artursapek 2y agoincredible
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- code_runner 2y agoAI will never replicate this
- naikrovek 2y agoPeople who have web pages for graphical tools of any kind, where screenshots of the tool are not front & center on the website, I have a question for you: WHY?!
- Lramseyer 2y agoAs of recent, I have had this pet theory that there's a brilliance / stupidity spectrum, but if you go too far in one direction it loops back on itself. Some things are just so stupid that they're brilliant. I really like this! Also, I should clarify that "brilliance" and "stupidity" in this theory are not raw intelligence, but the application of said intelligence.
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- larsiusprime 2y agoWonder how it handles python
- cantrecallmypwd 2y agoCrestfallen as I kinda expected it to have a Morse code interface as an easter egg. ;o(
- grodriguez100 2y agoPlanned features: acquire JetBrains (https://wiki.ms-paint-i.de/features https://wiki.ms-paint-i.de/features) Looks good to me. Solid product and a solid roadmap :-)