Sholmesy

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   by Sholmesy 9y ago

   It's a super successful open source effort. They build a great product and make it super accessible to people to use and contribute. It very much belongs on HN.
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   by Sholmesy 9y ago

   I do the same thing, reading articles on sites like medium is a nightmare since it demands I tweet my currently selected text. Annoying!
3. 243.▲
   by Sholmesy 9y ago

   Did you pay for a whole row? If not, I can understand why people were upset...
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   by Sholmesy 9y ago

   This comment was hilariously miscalculated.
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   by Sholmesy 9y ago

   Totally. Just assumed OP meant the request, as the responses are very clearly valid JSON.
6. 246.▲
   by Sholmesy 9y ago

   Your question doesn't really make sense. You are specifying the data that you want back from the API. What gain would be using key:value syntax be in this situation? The request would just be littered with `"requested_data":
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   by Sholmesy 10y ago

   CGPGrey's vids are awesome. Unique perspective as an American living in the UK. I highly encourage anyone interested to go seek them out. Also, he mentions in his podcasts that he is a HN user.
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   by Sholmesy 10y ago

   I believe Monzo is only offered within the UK at the moment as well, so this is at least a little bit region-related.
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   by Sholmesy 10y ago

   You're right, it does seem unhelpful (just eat/smoke/<insert vice> less!). What is the proposed alternative though? Most people need a general rule they can follow to help them (read: can't afford a nutritionist&#x
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    by Sholmesy 10y ago

    Of course it's more complicated than this, but in terms of a general rule calories in/out is pretty darn accurate. Saying it is 'dangerously wrong', is dangerously wrong.
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    by Sholmesy 10y ago

    I really like apps that nail one specific thing well. Bookmarking this for later, good stuff.
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    by Sholmesy 10y ago

    The most important thing is getting them to have fun, and have a positive association with coding. I use to help out with a CoderDojo, teaching kids of all ages, and the best thing to do was get them to have fun. Kids that actually enjoy th
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    by Sholmesy 10y ago

    echo -n 'test' | sha1 will give you the same output as the article by removing the new line. a94a8fe5ccb19ba61c4c0873d391e987982fbbd3