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721.
by calebm 12y ago
Nvm, I see: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=...
722.
by calebm 12y ago
How can I find the current rank of a story via the API?
723.
by calebm 12y ago
This story via the API: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8422599.json?prin...
724.
by calebm 12y ago
Why could you not have released it 1 day sooner? :) I just wrote a scraper: https://github.com/calebmadrigal/hn-tracker
725.
by calebm 12y ago
I'm getting a 301 when I try to upload to chuck.io.
726.
by calebm 12y ago
Thank you for this.
727.
by calebm 12y ago
They could also simply power off the iPhone or put it in a Faraday cage.
728.
by calebm 12y ago
They have a really good root beer drink they call "Sassafras" at the Bristol Renaissance Faire in Wisconsin ( http://www.renfair.com/bristol/ )
729.
by calebm 12y ago
Lo-dash is a good place to start: http://lodash.com/
730.
by calebm 12y ago
I wouldn't use Node for everything. I use Python more often, and also use some C#. I'd like to do more Clojure.
731.
by calebm 12y ago
Correlation vs Causation, yes.
732.
by calebm 12y ago
Closer to homoiconicity, but not quite there.
733.
by calebm 12y ago
I don't prefer the verbosity of Java; I do like C# pretty well - it certainly has its place, but Node.js also has its place. My current project is a proxy between a modern web app and a legacy Java system; Node.js was a much better cho
734.
by calebm 12y ago
Nothing special about it, but a REPL is almost a must for me. Python hooked me on them. (And I love IPython - especially IPython Notebook).
735.
by calebm 12y ago
+1 for mori. Lovely Clojure goodness :)
736.
by calebm 12y ago
It was not ONLY the good stories, but the combination of things I listed. I work in the enterprise world, and the languages my company most often uses are Java and C#. I've been trying to push Python, but it has been difficult. Node ha
737.
by calebm 12y ago
I didn't mention that, but I totally agree. Maybe it's because of the lack of good OO support, but people don't freak out when you do functional programming in javascript.
738.
by calebm 12y ago
Ha :)
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Why I changed my mind about Node.js(calebmadrigal.com)
86 points by calebm 12y ago|100 comments
740.
by calebm 12y ago
I see what you did there: "We deserve a simpler, more elegant solution for a more civilized age"
741.
by calebm 12y ago
How about a "Classifying@Home" (similar to Folding@Home) - you wear an EEG helmet while you sleep to offload "unused" brain cycles to classify words for science! :)
742.
by calebm 12y ago
Same here.
743.
by calebm 12y ago
There is another company already doing this: http://myhealthdirect.com/ . (Disclosure: I did some consulting work for them).
744.
by calebm 12y ago
The truth lies in the happy median: math is absolutely necessary for some programming applications, and helpful in the others - being able to distill a problem into easy-to-reason-about abstractions is helpful in any domain of programming,
745.
by calebm 12y ago
Potential cool application of GoTenna: communication with a robot without having to pay for a data plan.
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by calebm 12y ago
I've been using Markdown + Pandoc for my resume for the last couple of years: https://github.com/calebmadrigal/Resume/blob/master/resume_c... . It's definitely nice to easily update it on Github
747.
by calebm 12y ago
I suspect most of us here use Ctrl+W to close tabs :)
748.
by calebm 12y ago
Looks similar to http://www.justbeamit.com/
749.
by calebm 12y ago
She is no longer a caged bird. It's really odd timing: I had never heard of Maya until yesterday, when I discovered her beautiful poetry. I even looked her up on Wikipedia to she if she was still alive...
750.
by calebm 12y ago
I like the Unix philosophy: Do one thing, and do it well.

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