andrewjshults

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Using Selenium to automate testing Google Maps in your application(tech.adstruc.com)
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by andrewjshults 14y ago
Sudden deceleration (or acceleration) is probably the last thing you want if the remote disconnects. I'd guess some audible alarm letting you know the remote is no longer functioning + disconnecting the drive system (motors and brakes) so i
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by andrewjshults 14y ago
As a side note to the article, it's interesting to contrast the author's RoR school ( http://flatironschool.com/ ) where the goal is to get people from zero to junior level with that of Hacker School ( https://www.hackerschool.com/ ) th
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by andrewjshults 14y ago
This is actually something we considered (we originally built this tool to import data from one of the major vendors). Their data was consistent enough that we were able to achieve a high enough hit rate, that it made sense to do it this wa
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by andrewjshults 14y ago
They actually filed a patent in 2008 to do that http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_could_soon_augme... (direct link to the patent: http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec... )
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by andrewjshults 14y ago
If you're living inside the PHP world, I'd take a look at Phing ( http://www.phing.info/trac/ ). It's very similar to Apache Ant and uses a XML file to describe the build tasks (include/exclude files, copy, tar, SCP, run PHPUnit tests, et
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by andrewjshults 14y ago
Having taken over a project that uses CI at it's core, I've found a number of things that definitely put it in a league below frameworks that were built with PHP 5.3 in mind. * Way too much magic - everything (libraries, models, etc.) is gl
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by andrewjshults 14y ago
Redis (C): https://github.com/antirez/redis Underscore (JS): http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/docs/underscore.h... Backbone (JS): http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/backbone.html
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by andrewjshults 14y ago
There's also a PHP port of Resque that's fully compatible with the Ruby resque web interface - https://github.com/chrisboulton/php-resque I've used it in production for a few different projects and highly recommend it (both the PHP and Ru
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by andrewjshults 14y ago
The biggest cost (once you get into those multi GB levels) is the weeks to months it's going to take to get everything up. That being said, I'd be very tempted to use drive to backup my photos (raw files, so sitting at 400GB or so). The pri
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
The biggest problem I have with CI as a specific application framework is the insistance of being extremely backwards compatible (PHP 4 support was dropped less than a year ago, and they only very recently stopped supporting 5.1). I underst
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
Same problem happens with Lastpass (which at least requires you to click the fill form button, rather than auto populating the fields).
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
For work, no. We're heavily based around mapping tools which don't degrade well (if at all) so optimizing for the non JavaScript users makes little sense for us. Most of my personal projects also require JavaScript because they're things th
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
There are many non-traditional routes to get to know investors besides the usual networking events/cold email/calling. I'm friends with the author (Charlie) outside of just the tech world. We became friends a couple of years ago when he twe
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
We're currently using it to generate static map images for a powerpoint export feature we introduced a little while ago. We initially were going to use Google's static maps API but quickly ran into limits (only 5 custom markers, needing a d
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
While it's not a submarine, the FLIPresearch vessel is an interesting example of laying out a sea going vessel in a vertical manner ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP_FLIP and http://worldphotocollections.blogspot.com/2009/06/flipping-s...
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
To validate that the mailgun response actually came from mailgun add this at line 17: if($_POST['signature'] !== hash_hmac('sha256', $_POST['timestamp'] . $_POST['token'], MAILGUN_KEY)) { exit; }
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
It's interesting that HireHive (YC S10) did a similar thing with video interviews during YC[1] but pivoted to Hack Recruiter[2] and now Hacker School[3]. Will be interesting to see how HireArt tackles the challenges that caused Nick and Dav
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
They also did a notification when you tried to push: ERROR: Hi andrewjshults, it's GitHub. We're doing an SSH key audit. Please visit https://github.com/settings/ssh/audit/<removed&#62 ; to approve this key so we know it's safe. Finger
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
From my experience of paying with Square, I only had to manually enter my email + phone number the first time I paid. Every time since then it's been automatically populated. Swipe, sign and the receipt is in my email second later.
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
One place Path definitely falls flat on the click through links parts is in emails they send out. If I'm not on a mobile device the "Someone wants to share their path with you" links are frustrating since they just lead to a download the ap
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
If Canon or Nikon wanted to produce a stupidly high (100MP+) megapixel full frame 35mm sensor they could. The pixel density on their compact cameras is about .3MP/square mm, a full frame 35mm sensor is 36x24mm (864 square mm), yielding a ~2
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
If you signed up for an account, then technically, they're exempt under the "transactional or relationship messages." exception[1]. The wording is broad enough, that combined with their TOS, you pretty much end up agreeing to get any emails
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
Not sure about now, but for the summer 2010 batch, Amazon handed out a good chunk of AWS credits (enough to cover the hosting costs of most early stage startups for a while).
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
Agreed/is there a way for alumni/others to get involved? SAS '09 up in NYC and would love to be notified when these are happening if to just come down and see them in person (would also be glad to help out).
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
Homebrew ( http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ ) is a significant improvement over MacPorts. The formulas also seem to be updated much quicker as well, as far as I can remember from when I last used MacPorts.
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
Another site that does a great job of paying attention to the details in the signup process is rdio. They parse out the domain of major webmail providers and give you a link to sign in page so that you can quickly jump in and complete the r
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
It looks like the December bar (yellow) is actually for November if you take each bar as a month (which lines up with the rest of the marked points). The labeling on the graph is wrong (the yellow bar should be slightly below 10 billion and
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
Probably not to achieve a level of accuracy better than just following an on screen calibration wizard. I say this having done studio photography where we used a GretagMacbeth Color Checker ( http://www.rmimaging.com/information/colorchecke
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
Have you tried OneNote? It's the one program that really highlights the benefits of a (pressure sensitive) stylus based tablet. To this date, it's one of the things I miss about my old Toshiba M200. OneNote allows for freeform handwriting,

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