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by dgouldin 9y ago
Author here. I don't want to interrupt a good flame war, but I am just a normal dude who posted a tweet about a hack project and was asked by Twilio to write a post about it after the tweet got popular. I prefer not to post pictures of
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by dgouldin 9y ago
Fixed, thanks for letting me know!
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by dgouldin 13y ago
I'd hoped this was something like Napster built on WebRTC data channel. No such luck.
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by dgouldin 14y ago
Fellow Votizen dev. I agree about the white flash. We decided to give nvd3 a try for charts, and it does that as part of its default animation. We'll probably disable animations or figure out some way to keep redraws from flashing like that
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by dgouldin 14y ago
Humility breeds a state of mind which evidences itself through action. There's not really more, except that actual humility isn't something you can measure directly. So the advice "be more humble" isn't actionable. "Work to pay back the deb
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by dgouldin 14y ago
It was specifically prompted by the way I see people headed in software, particularly in the bay area. I used the general term maker though, as I think the same ideas apply to many disciplines.
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Your job is not sexy(d.gould.in)
48 points by dgouldin 14y ago|33 comments
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by dgouldin 14y ago
I'm a developer at Votizen. Just our voter history (whether a voter actually voted in a particular election) is, on average, 10 rows per voter record. 200 million voter records * 10 history records per voter = ~2 billion rows.
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by dgouldin 15y ago
The rate limit has been increased a bit but still remains. So, the bot is up for now, but it's not really a solution, just a temporary fix. Go get your nostalgia on while it lasts! ;)
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by dgouldin 15y ago
Aaand looks like I went over twitter's daily tweet limit. I didn't know that even existed. Its api says statuses/update is not rate limited. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted ... :)
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Show HN: My weekend project: Play Zork on Twitter
25 points by dgouldin 15y ago|3 comments
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by dgouldin 15y ago
It's setting iframe src on a timer to detect when the hosted html file is present. Yeah, that's unfortunate about the back button, something we didn't think about during the hackathon. It would be easy enough to have the user ask to validat
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by dgouldin 16y ago
Perhaps I'm alone or in the vast minority, but I love being an adult and would never trade it for the "good old days" of being a kid. I can completely identify with the complaints of teens Skyes rails about. My work gives me a sense of acco
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Python Core Mentorship Program(jessenoller.com)
2 points by dgouldin 16y ago|0 comments
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by dgouldin 16y ago
I think Neal Gaiman is the only one calling it "The Gaiman Principle" ...
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by dgouldin 16y ago
The kicker for me was discovering that Facebook's PHP shell ( http://www.phpsh.org/ ) is in fact written in Python.
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by dgouldin 16y ago
It is, but I don't get to show you the result of the chain that way. :)
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by dgouldin 16y ago
Doesn't that limit you to potential employees who aren't currently employed? Hiring should be at least as important to the team as to any manager. (After all, they're the ones who have to "live with" the new hire.) I can see this working
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by dgouldin 16y ago
In a previous life, I was a C# dev for fat client windows apps. Without any serious web development experience, a Django shop took a chance on me, and I learned the whole stack on the job. I feel comfortable saying they were happy with my w
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by dgouldin 16y ago
It's not pretty, but you can do it: >>> sum([['a', 'b', 'c'], ['d', 'e', 'f']], []) ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f'] This makes use of the optional start argument and list add operator. However, Python's docs suggest usi