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by gmjoe 13y ago
Oh I know. :) That part's only semi-automated, though, I bring the new data in, in manual batches. If the overall artist popularities in the new data don't match the existing data to within a certain degree (and also watching IP a
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by gmjoe 13y ago
New data comes in through http://ifyoudig.net/page/contribute To incentivize people to keep contributing, the plan is to build a notification service around your favorite artists, so you'll find out about new arti
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Show HN: Site for musical artist recommendations (and anti-recommendations)(ifyoudig.net)
51 points by gmjoe 13y ago|48 comments
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by gmjoe 13y ago
If anyone's looking for music recommendations, there's a site I recently launched, "If You Dig": http://ifyoudig.net . I don't mean to hijack the thread, but thought it might be of interest, since we&#x2
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by gmjoe 13y ago
I've never used Mongo... but if the author is adding support for this in the Node.js driver , then this CANNOT be real join support. Because the whole point of a join is that it's on the server, not the client. In other words, if
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by gmjoe 13y ago
I wouldn't worry too much, since MariaDB is out there. I'd love to make the switch from MySQL, except Amazon RDS doesn't support MariaDB yet. But since they just added PostgreSQL, maybe there's hope? Presumably MariaDB s
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by gmjoe 13y ago
I'm sure there are going to be plenty of places which refuse to accept anything but an actual credit or debit card. I mean, there's no signature to check. What do you do when 10% or more of the places you go refuse to take this? H
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by gmjoe 13y ago
This article is ridiculous and doesn't even have anything to do with Coin. The first half isn't even criticizing Coin at all -- it's just saying the author wishing there were even better things. The author says "The pr
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by gmjoe 13y ago
Oh boy. I can't wait to see what someone else can do with 60 lines of JS, and two libraries used!! [Note: not being sarcastic. Think this is a genuinely awesome way to respond to first post!]
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by gmjoe 13y ago
This is specifically "for the legal defence campaign of Mr Edward Snowden". The page doesn't mention any of it going to support Snowden himself. And that might be an important distinction -- IANAL, but contributing to someone
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by gmjoe 13y ago
This smells like over-engineering to me... In my experience, including rendering code both server-side and client-side is overkill. Just put all the rendering and templating code client-side, period. If you want your page to appear more qui
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by gmjoe 13y ago
> Seven-table joins. Ugh. What? That's what relationship databases are for . And seven is nothing . Properly indexed, that's probably super-super-fast. This is the equivalent of a C programmer saying "dereferencing a poi
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by gmjoe 13y ago
Exactly. The fault lies with the original author in not explaining the intent behind the function, why it is written in the way it is. I've seen this kind of code time and again from coworkers who have the "code should be self-d
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by gmjoe 13y ago
> Your culture is not: Ping pong tables & beer in the fridge > Your culture is: Who you hire, keep & reward vs. who you don't promote (and why) I wish more people realized this. It seems so rare to hear, but it's so,
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by gmjoe 13y ago
Agreed. However, there's a caveat: not every organization needs 10x engineers. In fact, a lot wouldn't know what to do with them. So as far as they're concerned, they don't exist. After all, a 10x engineer is still onl
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by gmjoe 13y ago
Very interesting, I never saw that before! But I can't figure out, for the life of me, why the bizarre ".container:before" declaration is needed -- it would seem to be entirely superfluous, but if you remove it, the whole thi
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by gmjoe 13y ago
I would argue that, nowadays, many young people expect the government to take care of necessary social work, making charity less relevant. Here's my theory, which admittedly has no data to back it up: Older people, who skew Republican,
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by gmjoe 13y ago
Vertical centering isn't that useful when you already have to know the height of things... I mean, if you already know the heights, you can just put the numbers in straight. The best way to do real vertical-centering that works with
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by gmjoe 13y ago
> In most residential apartment buildings, renting out your space for less than 30 days is illegal, unless you are present when you have that visitor. Why can't NYC come up with some common-sense regulation, like everyone is allowed
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by gmjoe 13y ago
There's always something kind of magical about real-time sites -- like the Internet is a little less lonely, and there are real people out there. Very cool!
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by gmjoe 13y ago
Getting user feedback on fake stuff is great. Tim Ferris didn't know what to call the book that turned out to be The 4 Hour Workweek , so he spent money on AdWords to see which title more people clicked on. [1] [1] http://f
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by gmjoe 13y ago
Is it really the place of the CSS standard to define it? Is that even remotely necessary? I mean, every device is different. You don't want a "px" on your phone to be the same as a "px" on your desktop, which also s
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by gmjoe 13y ago
Exactly. I remember, once a friend wanted to create a tool for designers to use for creating HTML+CSS visually, without having to know actual CSS properties and such. Then I explained, the hard part of laying out webpages is not the basic l
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by gmjoe 13y ago
While an interesting bit of trivia... this is completely pedantic. To say that it is "doesn't really have anything to do with screen pixels, despite the poorly chosen name" is just silly. It's quite obvious that px means