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What happened to your research proposal? Did you do the research?
by atsaloli 14y ago
What happened to your research proposal? Did you do the research?
- jacques_chester 14y agoI submitted 4 proposals; I wound up doing a different one. The others were: * a robust user-tracking protocol for websites (this is the project I went with). Inspired by a business idea I had in 2008; currently the basis of my "big" startup project. * a "whole-machine" architecture proof-of-concept -- basically a blog app targeting a VPS. Gives you a lot more design options if you can control the architecture from the OS up. Inspired by my eye-blistering hatred for Wordpress. * "A model of player Agency for software-created, interactive, just-in-time plot generation". There's simply no way this would have fit into a one year project, but it would be very interesting to pursue some day. I was particularly proud of my little taxonomy of plot generation mechanisms. Inspired by chatting to mates about what's wrong with MMORPGs.
- biot 14y agoThe last one sounds fascinating. I assume the generated plot would be a few levels beyond "Fetch X units of Y and take it to Z"? :)
- jacques_chester 14y agoEmail me (see profile), I'll send you what I wrote. Offer is open to other HNers.
- dirkk0 14y agoI indeed would be interested in the taxonomy of your last proposal, too.
- atsaloli 14y agoGreat!