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by bialecki 15y ago
This is a such a great story. It's valuable for a lot of reasons, but I like it simply because it's a story of success from having a passion, working hard and persevering. Kind of the same way I don't think I could never watch too many insp
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by bialecki 15y ago
Quick question, is there any difference between running code in the browser bar vs. running it in the Chrome console? If there isn't, Chrome should just disable this behavior. I don't think I've ever run code in the browser bar vs. the cons
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by bialecki 15y ago
Very interesting, I'll definitely look into that. Thanks!
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by bialecki 15y ago
One of my biggest pet peeves with crawling the web is using XPath. Not because I have strong feelings about XPath, just that I use css selector syntax so much, it's a pain I can't leverage that knowledge in this domain as well. Something li
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by bialecki 15y ago
I worked for a company where there were queries somewhat like this, however they were obscured because they would create views on the fly. So a query would look deceptively simple only to realize (not exaggerating here) there were four leve
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by bialecki 15y ago
tl;dr - By doing a detailed analysis of his app, he was able to discover that a lot of what he was using App Engine for wasn't being used or could be made more efficient with relatively little effort. Having worked on App Engine, I'm sure a
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by bialecki 15y ago
I got blocked two weeks ago when I was playing with creating a "realtime" view of comments so you didn't have to refresh the page. To test I had it polling one story every five seconds and I think I left it running overnight. (Sorry about t
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by bialecki 15y ago
I've wondered this too. I wonder whether "doing" with some hints like Code Academy or watching videos and then doing is more helpful for programming and then how that applies to other disciplines like writing, math, etc. Seems like eventual
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by bialecki 15y ago
He said there was no drinking during the programming contest to choose interns, unlike what they depicted in the movie.
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by bialecki 15y ago
Nice post. For those considering something like this, you might want to consider using scrapy, a Python web crawler, instead of rolling your own crawler. I remember when I was looking for something like this a year ago and found that projec
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Doodle(doodle.no.de)
2 points by bialecki 15y ago|2 comments
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by bialecki 15y ago
Wait, without the checkin, what happens to Facebook Deals? This doesn't make a lot of sense, they must be removing it to relaunch it.
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by bialecki 15y ago
How does this do on minified JS since that's often what's in production?
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by bialecki 15y ago
Alright, loaded question. Can/will this work with other languages? I guess a related question is, does it have to? The only thing the YC note tells me is this wants to be a real business, so the big question is, what's the model? Edit: By t
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by bialecki 15y ago
Skitch is one of those products that only does a few things, but does them extremely well. When you experience taking a screenshoting, annotating it, resizing it, and then dragging it into an email to send to someone, it hurts having to "cl
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by bialecki 15y ago
A big component missing here is location within a city. Having been in DC and Boston, they're on the edge of buy/rent, but a big question is could I live in the same neighborhoods or areas as I rent. If I can't, it's worth renting even if b
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by bialecki 15y ago
Just needed to look at the docs: http://docs.python.org/reference/simple_stmts.html#the-impor... . The relevant bit: "When specifying what module to import you do not have to specify the absolute name of the module. When a module or packag
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by bialecki 15y ago
Quick question on the code. I'm looking at this commit: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/commit/773630b0109c... and wondering what "from .status_codes import codes" does? Specifically the fact that it's not "status_codes" and has
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by bialecki 15y ago
I've always thought there could be an interesting use for Twitter just as a transport system for psuhing/pulling data between applications. You wouldn't follow those accounts, they'd just be data feeds. It's definitely not the use case Twit
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by bialecki 15y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but the title seems to imply that Google makes most of it's cash from the very top keywords, but I don't see any evidence of that. Anyway, very interesting what the top keywords are. Does anyone know why "cord bl
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by bialecki 15y ago
Web based tutorials for learning programming languages and frameworks seems like the future. As much as I love O'Reilly books, you can't beat having the material/instructions and IDE in the same place. Works really well for browser technolo
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by bialecki 15y ago
Because "this" as the second argument to the ko.dependentObservable doesn't refer to the viewModel object (it's still being declared), it refers to whatever the current context is. To check it, console.log or alert "this" inside the functio
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by bialecki 15y ago
I would've thought the same thing until I wrote substantial async code in JS and Python. It's not that it doesn't work and you can't do it, it's that the code becomes a mess and their example gets at that. It probably doesn't seem like a bi
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by bialecki 15y ago
Maybe I'm really old school, but it'd be nice to have a link to some sort of CV or LinkedIn. Clearly looks like a solid UI guy who would be great to talk to, but it'd be nice to know what else he's done. I guess that's only a Google away th
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by bialecki 15y ago
This is good, but some of the advice isn't quite right. For instance "self" is a reserved keyword in JavaScript, so often people use "_self" instead. And camel casing variable names is right, unless they're constants, in which case "THIS_IS
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by bialecki 15y ago
I don't know when jQuery added this method, but for the longest time they didn't have it and made you use closures even while most other javascript libraries had similar methods. Their argument was that you should know what's going on rathe
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Lawyer Clock - How much money you're spending on lawyers(lawyerclock.com)
11 points by bialecki 15y ago|2 comments
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by bialecki 16y ago
This is really interesting especially given that Harvard now offers "Counting People" and "Magic of Numbers" as classes that satisfy the math (quantitative reasoning) requirement. That's not to say the requirements are better or worse than
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by bialecki 16y ago
This kind of comes out in this post, but the way I always look at the "I'll do it myself" argument is in terms of time. If you have a product that people known is easy to use (more on that in a second), you just say, look a license costs $1
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by bialecki 16y ago
I was telling someone about the safe cracking "algorithm" he had. Sometimes a problem seems hard until you recognize special pieces of information that dramatically change the constraints. In the case of the safe, he realized that the preci

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