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eyelidlessness 5y ago
I owe you an apology. I saw templating and what looks like string concatenation in the first example, referencing unfamiliar APIs in an ecosystem I don’t keep up with. I found that alarming but didn’t dig deep enough to really understand the way that templating is applied. I’m sorry, that was a knee-jerk reaction and not a helpful contribution to discussion.
- babblingfish 5y ago
  No worries, thank you for taking the time to write this comment. I must agree that this article is talking about a niche and surrounding ecosystem that may not be familiar to many readers. I try to write the articles in a way that is approachable to people who do not work in data analytics, but there is certainly a lot more I could do, especially for this article. It's a difficult tradeoff of making it accessible but also digging deep enough for those who have some familiarity. I probably get it wrong more than I get it right. Anyways thank you for your thoughtful feedback and have a great day.
  - eyelidlessness 5y ago
    > It's a difficult tradeoff of making it accessible but also digging deep enough for those who have some familiarity. I probably get it wrong more than I get it right. FWIW, when I came back and read further, I thought you did quite well making it accessible. It’s not your fault I quickly formed a knee-jerk opinion!
throwawaysea 5y ago
This meme is completely unrelated to your article but it brought a smile to my face, and I clicked the article as a result. From there I found your web scraping article, which is timely given the recent discussions around web scraping on HN. Thanks!
UncleEntity 5y ago
I’ve never thought of using a template engine to generate code like that so thanks. Been pondering on how to update something like the IMDB csv files once imported into a db and I think a diff -> generated script -> db update might do the trick. Haven’t really looked into it too much (and there’s probably a better way) because I don’t really need the movie db for anything other than playing around with.

I owe you an apology. I saw templating and what looks like string concatenation in the first example, referencing unfamiliar APIs in an ecosystem I don’t keep up with. I found that alarming but didn’t dig deep enough to really understand the way that templating is applied. I’m sorry, that was a knee-jerk reaction and not a helpful contribution to discussion.

babblingfish 5y ago
No worries, thank you for taking the time to write this comment. I must agree that this article is talking about a niche and surrounding ecosystem that may not be familiar to many readers. I try to write the articles in a way that is approachable to people who do not work in data analytics, but there is certainly a lot more I could do, especially for this article. It's a difficult tradeoff of making it accessible but also digging deep enough for those who have some familiarity. I probably get it wrong more than I get it right. Anyways thank you for your thoughtful feedback and have a great day.
- eyelidlessness 5y ago
  > It's a difficult tradeoff of making it accessible but also digging deep enough for those who have some familiarity. I probably get it wrong more than I get it right. FWIW, when I came back and read further, I thought you did quite well making it accessible. It’s not your fault I quickly formed a knee-jerk opinion!

throwawaysea 5y ago

This meme is completely unrelated to your article but it brought a smile to my face, and I clicked the article as a result. From there I found your web scraping article, which is timely given the recent discussions around web scraping on HN. Thanks!

UncleEntity 5y ago

I’ve never thought of using a template engine to generate code like that so thanks. Been pondering on how to update something like the IMDB csv files once imported into a db and I think a diff -> generated script -> db update might do the trick. Haven’t really looked into it too much (and there’s probably a better way) because I don’t really need the movie db for anything other than playing around with.