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   by davecap1 13y ago

   I recently completed my struggle with AngularJS/Django and the asset pipeline. I was using django-compressor but that was really not pleasant. What I did was completely decouple my AngularJS app from my Django app. I stopped using Django's
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   by davecap1 13y ago

   I built http://www.5by.com on AngularJS in about 3 months, and just a few thousand lines of code. The same thing in Backbone would have likely taken a lot more time and a lot more code. It was my first AngularJS app, and I was learning it
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   by davecap1 13y ago

   I'm not exactly sure what that has to do with anything... but I liked it :)
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   by davecap1 13y ago

   I built twitteraudit.com for fun to find out if people purchased followers. Like the article says, these tools work best for people with less than about 500k followers... because once you cross that threshold, you get closer to the actual r
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   by davecap1 14y ago

   Ah thanks for that
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   by davecap1 14y ago

   I like Persona a lot and I would love to implement it on some of my sites, but I wonder how to best describe what it does to the average user. "Sign in with Persona" will probably look just as bad as "Sign in with Facebook"...
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   by davecap1 14y ago

   I've been using Redis Cloud by Garantia Data for the past few months. They have automated infrastructure for (what I assume are) sharded Redis DBs, and they have a super reasonable pay-as-you-grow plan. http://redis-cloud.com/ They claim
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   by davecap1 14y ago

   I recently read "Failure is not an option" by Gene Kranz (FLIGHT on Apollo 11) so I thought this was pretty cool. Great book too: http://www.amazon.com/Failure-Not-Option-Mission-Control/dp/...
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   by davecap1 14y ago

   I submitted a pull request! Seems that there's a lot of pull requests in front of me :)
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    by davecap1 14y ago

    If anyone's interested, I'm working on a startup called 5by ( http://www.5by.com ) which is all about curated video. We have a HN channel ( http://www.5by.com/hacker-news ). No mobile app yet though, sorry about that!
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    by davecap1 14y ago

    I'm the lead developer on this project. We're looking backend & frontend developers! We use AngularJS on the frontend and Django in the backend. There's some Flask and Node.js mixed in too. email me at dcaplan at 5by.com
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    by davecap1 14y ago

    also.. any way to view it without a tv... in Canada?
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    by davecap1 14y ago

    One way of addressing this issue is putting the labels outside the switch itself... like: off[* ]on -> off[ *]on
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    by davecap1 14y ago

    Seems like the cargo culting of a successful social media startup.
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    by davecap1 14y ago

    One of the main issues here is that medical care is largely non-procedural and intuition-based. That's why doctors have to spend years doing training, followed by years of experience. Their "checklists" are created one step at a time, per-p
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    by davecap1 14y ago

    More people sharing bandwidth = more signups = more customers = more $$$
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    by davecap1 14y ago

    What about a speech-to-text API?
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    by davecap1 14y ago

    I don't really understand how the research led to the result. The survey of Firefox users showed that 34% of users knew about dragging the favicon, and only 21% actually used that technique. Instead, the "star-clicking" behavior seems to be
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    by davecap1 14y ago

    Diggz is the Chief Evangelist at Tropo...
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    by davecap1 14y ago

    Original PNAS paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/27/1212247109.abst...
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    Fraud, not error, accounts for most scientific retractions(wavefunction.fieldofscience.com)

    37 points by davecap1 14y ago|29 comments
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    by davecap1 14y ago

    Just out of curiosity, as someone who agrees with you (and is skeptical by default), how do you typically explain _how_ to actually consider the motivation of such people? For example, chiropractors often offer free assessments which usuall
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    by davecap1 14y ago

    Another two tips for skinny dudes that want shirts: J Crew and Club Monaco. If the sleeves are too long, ask your dry cleaner or tailor to shorten them for you.
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    by davecap1 14y ago

    I forgot to mention SHOES. Shoe quality is not to be overlooked. People will judge you by your shoes.
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    by davecap1 14y ago

    You _don't_ need to wear a suit to be well dressed. A nice, properly fitting shirt (find a store that fits you best, or try online made-to-measure) and fitting jeans (I love Levi's, personally) can go a really long way. Get a blazer or two,
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    by davecap1 14y ago

    Hold on. How do we know this article is even true?!
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    TwitterAudit: How many of your Twitter followers are real?(twitteraudit.com)

    2 points by davecap1 14y ago|0 comments
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    by davecap1 14y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. The site is actually quite lenient with the follower type you mention.. but maybe it's not lenient enough! I'll look into it.
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    by davecap1 14y ago

    I noticed the trend of buying followers a while ago and a couple of weeks ago I built http://twitteraudit.com which simply looks at 5000 followers and uses a few simple metrics to guess whether a user is real or fake. TwitterAudit gives a
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    The scientific communication revolution: Why disrupt scientific publishing?(davecap.com)

    2 points by davecap1 14y ago|0 comments