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by dmpayton 13y ago
Use the RaspberryPi Camera, and you've got your scanner!
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by dmpayton 13y ago
Super nifty, bookmarked. Although it's missing API's for Hacker News[0] and Fuck Off As A Service[1]. [0] https://github.com/dmpayton/python-ihackernews [1] https://github.com/dmpayton/fo
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by dmpayton 14y ago
It's not so much a fragmentation issue as it is a migration issue. Everything is -- slowly but surely (and speeding up!) -- moving to Python 3.
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Pick Your Battles(zef.me)
10 points by dmpayton 14y ago|0 comments
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by dmpayton 14y ago
2. Reimplementation of an API, where the resulting software benefitted the original API creator, perhaps by increasing the creator’s user base or otherwise benefitted the developer community. Would this cover a language-specific wrapper a
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by dmpayton 14y ago
Once PostGIS is out of beta, will it be available on dev/Kappa/Crane? (I tweeted @heroku about this, but never got a response)
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by dmpayton 14y ago
San Diego, CA Web Cube is a CMS+eCommerce platform that powers the website and online stores for a number of large well-known brands. http://www.webcubecms.com/our-company/clients/ We're looking for solid Python+Django developers to help
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by dmpayton 15y ago
On the contrary, I think it's great that they're sponsoring PyCon! I'd love to see more companies get involved, including the one I work for. I was merely pointing out the hypocrisy (for lack of a better term) of them sponsoring PyCon and t
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by dmpayton 15y ago
And yet, they're sponsoring PyCon 2012. https://us.pycon.org/2012/sponsors/#sponsor-89 I have nothing but contempt for Facebook at this point. As a user I don't trust them, and as a developer I can't stand them.
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by dmpayton 15y ago
I'm rebuilding my personal website, and wanted to display an activity stream (HN, Github, Twitter). There didn't seem to be an existing library to pull in HN data, so I spent the evening putting this together. It's easy enough to call the i
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Show HN: Python library for the iHackerNews API(github.com)
3 points by dmpayton 15y ago|1 comments
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by dmpayton 15y ago
Something that kind of irked me about Jeremy Stoppelman's testimony: He failed to mention that Yelp provides an API and, in essence, gives away their data. If Google was consuming their API (vs. scraping content directly from their site), w
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by dmpayton 15y ago
One side-affect of having your projects on Github is that they are now backed up and you won't lose all your work if you drop your laptop or your drive goes kaboom.
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by dmpayton 15y ago
What a bummer. I integrated notifo into my (as yet unreleased side-) project, and it was really easy to get going. The main purpose of my app is to send alerts, and I'd planned to highlight notifo integration as one of the features. Good lu
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by dmpayton 16y ago
I'll be out of town. Again. :(
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by dmpayton 16y ago
Much of what I do at my day job involves development of our enterprise eCommerce platform. We've had our share of PayPal issues in the past, and I'm pretty set against using them at this point. [Edit] If it came down to it, I might consider
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by dmpayton 16y ago
Awesome, thanks for posting that. I'd really love to know what the ETA is on a webservice API, even if it's just a rough ballpark. I sent them an email asking about it, hopefully they'll be able to provide further details.
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by dmpayton 16y ago
I really like the idea of Square, but... One of the blockers to launching my side-startup is the financial investment required to form the business and setup a merchant account. Money is tight for me, and I'd like to keep my costs to a mini
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by dmpayton 16y ago
Might this offer be extended to other HNers? :)
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by dmpayton 16y ago
Kinda surprised no one has mentioned Factual. I'm using some of their diabetes data for my side-startup. http://www.factual.com/
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by dmpayton 16y ago
Rah. After going to SDSHDH2, I really wanted to start going to the regular SDHN meetups. Sad to say, December is another month I'm missing out on, as I'll be in San Jose.
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by dmpayton 16y ago
I'm also in the process of building a diabetes related started, and I'm both scared and excited to see someone else tackling this problem. Aza, if you're reading this, I'd love to talk! Contact info is in my profile.
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by dmpayton 16y ago
Has anyone used Tropo in a serious capacity? I'm currently using Twilio for SMS, but Tropo's integration with various IM services and very slightly cheaper SMS pricing may be compelling enough for me to switch.
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by dmpayton 16y ago
While I empathize with the purpose of this posting, I don't personally see why it matters. I want to surround myself with smart people, be they gay, straight, or somewhere in between. Someone posted that Joel Spolsky is gay. I remember hear
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by dmpayton 16y ago
I'm trying to get my side project launched for the November Startup Sprint thing. I'm building an app to help make life easier for people with Diabetes (my wife is a Type I): http://diabeti.ca
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by dmpayton 16y ago
I'm not sure why this was downvoted. While his remark about lawyering up may be overkill (unless you work for a federal agency and have to abide by Section 508 rules), his point about excluding those who rely on screen readers is dead on. I
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by dmpayton 16y ago
Sounds like a most excellent plan, count me in! http://diabeti.ca has languished as a landing page for too long. Time to clean it up, get it out there, and get more people using it besides my wife.
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by dmpayton 16y ago
Another vote for Awesome WM. Like you, it was my first (and, so far, only) foray into tiling WMs, and I'm using it on dual 21" monitors. I usually have Chrome on my right screen, several tabs worth of terminals on my left screen, and Komodo
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by dmpayton 16y ago
Thanks for the tips! MQ and bookmarks look like they could be a solid fill-in for Gits staging area and cheap branching. I'll definitely look more into them.
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by dmpayton 16y ago
I initially decided on HG because I'm a Python developer, and a lot of other people in the Python community seem to recommend it (plus, HG is written in Python). Bitbucket had a free plan with a private repo, so I signed up. About the same

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