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by geelen 14y ago
That's our dataset of user ratings at Goodfilms.
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by geelen 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. The lines just link together the 6 selected points, which are whatever's nearest to where you clicked.
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Show HN: An interactive graph of film ratings built with D3 and AngularJS(goodfil.ms)
77 points by geelen 14y ago|16 comments
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by geelen 14y ago
This is so pro. I don't mind that the algorithm's a little wonky, or the availability isn't quite right, it's just a sweet little mashup.
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by geelen 14y ago
Source here: http://plnkr.co/edit/IfpBH4 This was as big as I could get it before my computer started to grind to a halt, but it's more of a demo of how little code it takes to do this sort of thing in AngularJS than anything else. Took m
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Xkcd's world - pieced together with AngularJS (warning: big images)(embed.plnkr.co)
220 points by geelen 14y ago|47 comments
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by geelen 14y ago
My uncle pointed me to the BBFC site, apparently their database is the bomb. We've considered integrating with it for Goodfilms. They've got an iphone app too, if that helps. edit: oops, the link: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/
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by geelen 14y ago
Thanks for the suggestions. And you should have a new follower as of me, now :)
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by geelen 14y ago
Spot on. It's a really good way of separating films.
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Show HN: A better way to find films to watch on Netflix(goodfil.ms)
53 points by geelen 14y ago|44 comments
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by geelen 14y ago
You've absolutely hit the nail on the head. Knowing the rating of a friend is worth so much more than a bunch of strangers. That's what Goodfilms is all about - it puts your friends' opinions ahead.
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by geelen 14y ago
This a big reason we went with scatter plots - when there's only a handful of points you don't get misled.
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by geelen 14y ago
We actually use this whenever we do any ranking within the site. On the film page though, we think presenting the raw data as a scatter plot is better than a single number.
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by geelen 14y ago
My point was you can't create a scatter plot from a single dimension of data, and that histograms are awful because they don't allow you to see patterns. But of course you're right, it is just my opinion.
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Why Ratings Systems Don't Work(goodfil.ms)
196 points by geelen 14y ago|162 comments
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by geelen 14y ago
Angular supports using data-attributes or using classes, I just prefer using custom attributes: http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive
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How AngularJS helped us ship our mobile site quicker - Part 1 (Directives)(goodfil.ms)
131 points by geelen 14y ago|33 comments
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by geelen 14y ago
We actually use Rails in the back end, but AngularJS makes your life far _far_ better when dealing with the front end. I think they work perfectly together.
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by geelen 14y ago
We actually do, within our controllers. I'll add something about that in our detailed AngularJS blog.
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by geelen 14y ago
My eyes!
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by geelen 14y ago
Thanks for the suggestion! I met you half way :)
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by geelen 14y ago
John and I wrote the post. We're the cofounders of Goodfilms: http://goodfil.ms/help
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by geelen 14y ago
And fixed. Thanks for the heads-up.
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Yammer acquired by Microsoft - $1bn+(wsj.com)
6 points by geelen 14y ago|1 comments
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by geelen 14y ago
A bit by accident, but then I realised I was in <80 lines and decided to compact it where I could. I wanted to keep it fairly readable, though, so didn't go too far.
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by geelen 14y ago
That's awesome! I wish I'd seen that before spending all day... Actually nah, it was fun!
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JsFiddle alternative in 56 lines of Ruby. Supports Coffeescript/Sass/Haml.(2879097.run-a-gist.herokuapp.com)
54 points by geelen 14y ago|13 comments
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Don't just write good code, write less code.(benhoskin.gs)
4 points by geelen 14y ago|2 comments
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by geelen 14y ago
Agreed!
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by geelen 14y ago
That's true, but given that Netflix and iTunes have libraries of similar size (~10k), the comparison is meaningful. For subscription services, there's a lot publicised about the number of titles they offer for their fee/month, sometimes inc

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