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by gleitz 12y ago
<3 hackers <3 yoga
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by gleitz 14y ago
My worry is that not everyone will have python2.7 so I'd rather stick to "#!/usr/bin/env python". It would be great if this works but it doesn't #!/usr/bin/env python2
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by gleitz 14y ago
Nice suggestions! We've got a whole list going on at https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi/issues
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by gleitz 14y ago
That's a nice search tool. I found that the relevance is not quite as good as Google (for example "howdoi get referrer url php") but this could be used when you enter a query that contains symbols.
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by gleitz 14y ago
Thanks!
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by gleitz 14y ago
Excellent. Fork away!
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by gleitz 14y ago
Does SO provide data dumps like Wikipedia?
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by gleitz 14y ago
I'm not familiar with the proper way to annotate that. How would I change the hashbang? #!/usr/bin/env python
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by gleitz 14y ago
No way to currently contribute answers. Another commenter mentioned cheat.errtheblog.com that uses a wiki system. The downside is that when the wiki fails (like right now) the application breaks. You may want to just submit a good answer to
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by gleitz 14y ago
"howdoi wittgenstein" is the search of the day. Well done!
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by gleitz 14y ago
Indeed! If only my L1 cache were as large as my disk...
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by gleitz 14y ago
Ah yes I should clarify. -p2 picks the second search result from Google, not the second answer to the question. $ howdoi format dates django templates -l http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7737146/django-template-d... $ howdoi format date
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by gleitz 14y ago
Thanks for playing with it. Sometimes the first answer isn't the greatest but -p2 or -p3 will get it. In this case the following command gets you closer: howdoi format dates django templates -p3 Excellent idea for colorization! I've already
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by gleitz 14y ago
An enhancement I've been considering is noticing when users ask for a second or third answer with "-p2" or "-p3". If it happens often and the user never queries again after reading the second answer you can assume it is probably correct and
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by gleitz 14y ago
Although not user facing, there is also a DuckDuckGo search endpoint if you don't want to use Google for one reason or another.
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by gleitz 14y ago
Precisely! You can pass the "-a" flag to print the entire answer or "-l" to get the link itself. "-p2" will give the second answer. I find myself using the following command quite a bit: open `howdoi print stack trace python -l`
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by gleitz 14y ago
Why keep them in your brain when StackOverflow memorizes it for you?
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Howdoi – Instant Coding Answers via the Command Line(github.com)
245 points by gleitz 14y ago|85 comments
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by gleitz 15y ago
I'll be writing a series of blog posts about the architecture of the game as well as more info about the API at http://blog.wikimaze.me/ At a high level you are mostly right. The incorrect answers are generated using http://www.freebase.
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by gleitz 15y ago
Sure! You can go to the iframe directly at http://www.wikimaze.me/app
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by gleitz 15y ago
I'll be writing a blog post on the API soon. Stay tuned to http://blog.wikimaze.me
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by gleitz 15y ago
I would have thought that too, but I know there are some superfast edge servers that reroute to their datacenters.
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by gleitz 15y ago
If you want to keep your account "secure", login with Facebook, Twitter, or Google. I know that might turn some people off so I included the username login as well. Future versions will let you set an optional password to "save" the usernam
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by gleitz 15y ago
AppEngine all the way!
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by gleitz 15y ago
I hope it makes everyone filthy smart! It is running on App Engine so the server costs aren't too terrible. Half of all the proceeds go to Wikipedia for providing such great questions. https://venmo.com/gleitz?txn=pay&note=for+awesome+
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by gleitz 15y ago
I hope this will be a fun way for you to discover new and interesting articles.
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by gleitz 15y ago
If you guess incorrectly twice, it will show you the right answer. If you click a third time, it will take you to the Wikipedia article for that answer. Sounds like you got sent to the Wikipedia article but it didn't load?
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by gleitz 15y ago
It saves between 10-20 questions, but it could easily go much higher. The cache.manifest says "even if I am offline, still load the page". The localStorage is a database that holds the questions. I'll be writing a series of blog posts about
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by gleitz 15y ago
It is also available as an app in the iTunes Store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikimaze-free/id475157639?ls=... <3 HTML5 apps!
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by gleitz 15y ago
Great suggestion! Will add that in the next version

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