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by conesus 16y ago
How about if the original link is small enough to fit in without truncation (bit.ly), then show the original link as well as a bit.ly link to the comments. I hate losing the domain information in bit.ly links, and the @hackernewsbot ( http:
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Migrating Django from MySQL to PostgreSQL the Easy Way(ofbrooklyn.com)
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by conesus 16y ago
Thanks a lot! I'll fix the link pronto. :)
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by conesus 16y ago
The default view is the last used view for that feed. I'm planning to have that in later today. Drag and drop moving feeds is coming sometime this Summer, but you can delete a feed right now. There is a "manage" button at the bottom of the
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by conesus 16y ago
Most importantly, I'm writing it all as open source. The iPhone app I'm writing, the feed parser and fetcher, and the front-end reader are all on GitHub: http://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/
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by conesus 16y ago
I think I created a very nice feed reading experience with NewsBlur: http://www.newsblur.com . It shows the original site, allows you to read as you normally would, but keeps track of the stories you're scrolling past. It also allows you t
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by conesus 16y ago
This is quite a good idea. I'm working on a very similar idea myself, except I use the feed's main page and link the feed stories to where they are on the main page. My criticism is largely the same, but I want to echo it so it becomes that
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by conesus 16y ago
If iterating over a list, try iterating backwards. That way you can delete items from the list without effect on iterator position. This doesn't work on dicts, of course, but this way you can delete in-place without creating a copy data str
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by conesus 16y ago
> I really miss a "just give me an ascii version and ignore any errors, because I really don't care in this case" option... You can use options to either ignore or replace invalid characters. >>> unicode('\x80abc', err
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by conesus 16y ago
Absolutely you can start using it. I evolve it every single day. I use Protopub exclusively as my feed reader, and have been for about a month. Right now, Protopub is an experiment, but it also serves as a beacon to other likeminded hackers
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by conesus 16y ago
Raphaël was written by Dmitry Baranovskiy. I only made very minor contributions to the library (animation easing, which are pretty ubiquitous in the examples now) and presented the library at the SVG Open 2009 at Google. I made Protopub to
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by conesus 16y ago
In Python there is a wonderful library called the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) available free and open source at http://www.nltk.org/ . With NLTK you can build classifiers, decision trees, and train/predict with bayesian classifiers sim
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Evolution of a visual design(blog.jwegener.com)
1 points by conesus 16y ago|0 comments
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Comparing Android, Blackberry, and iPhone App Sales(blog.jwegener.com)
9 points by conesus 16y ago|2 comments
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by conesus 17y ago
Maybe not on, you know, the day the iPad is released.
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by conesus 17y ago
I suspect a slightly different scenario will play out, at least at first. Instead of folks cutting back on laptops outside of their homes--afterall, they left home to work--we will see iPads in more places than anything before. Laptops will
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The problem with taking seed money from big VCs(cdixon.org)
25 points by conesus 17y ago|1 comments
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by conesus 17y ago
AFAIK, he used to work at Apple, but on apple.com. I don't think he was a software engineer, but I remember reading that he used to work on the web side. This was probably the mid- to late-90s.
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by conesus 17y ago
The reality is that this 13 year old kid has positive reviews on his app, has the increased confidence to go along with actually making something, and will undoubtedly use that confidence and passion to create more substantive projects as h
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by conesus 17y ago
Oy, Computer Engineer Barbie gets a bluetooth headset and bad taste in clothing. Shouldn't she be selling the industry, not mocking it?
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by conesus 17y ago
Third graders are 7-8 year olds. They are probably reading Beverly Cleary's Ralph and the Motorcycle. Their ability to comprehend negative numbers does not yet exist (for the vast majority of them). At this age, children learn best with a s
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by conesus 17y ago
I pay for software. TextMate isn't free. Neither is Fireworks. Safari comes free on Snow Leopard, which isn't free. I paid for NetNewsWire, Tweetie, etc. Of course I pay for software. So do many other people. The folks and companies behind
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by conesus 17y ago
My conclusion stems from his primary example: A collection of ninja videos slathered with adsense. It's half-way to a spamblog, but he considers it something to be proud of.
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by conesus 17y ago
This is a sure-fire way to create a lot of spam and hack products. The creative element of fostering a project and putting real intellectual effort is gone, for sake of trying to turn a measly profit. There is nothing artistic or genuine ab
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by conesus 17y ago
This is an excellent guide. Very clear on usage and writing with the correct Django pattern. Thanks for submitting this.
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by conesus 17y ago
Thanks jeff18 for submitting this. I am attending the SVG Open 2009 conference in a couple weeks to present a paper and a workshop on RaphaëlJS. As a quick intro, Raphaël can be used to create rich interactive graphics, generating vector el
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by conesus 17y ago
Yes, I can certainly point you in the right direction. Toby Segaran, author of the highly esteemed and good-read Programming Collective Intelligence (published by O'Reilly, so you know it's good), released all of the source code that he tal
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by conesus 17y ago
Yeah, I also have experience in hacking together a multi-threaded task queue with ugly results. Try getting messaging in multiple daemon threads to communicate with the web client (who is spawned off early in the process, only to be reunite
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by conesus 18y ago
Right here, too. NYC seems to be an attractor to tech. Maybe it's Pecha Kucha. Or maybe a very well attended Ignite. Tech Meet-up anyone? Or it could be Williamsburg... and the creatives it attracts.
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by conesus 18y ago
I like your style. Do you keep a blog? You probably should start with making yourself established, at least to a few people, over the internet. If people know you by your writing, then it will become easier to ask them for accommodations an

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