grok1fy

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by grok1fy 15y ago
Minor correction: Identicons were created by Don Park who open sourced a Java implementation. Scott adapted it for WordPress and gives credit to Don credit for the idea in your link[2]: "A couple weeks ago I made a WordPress plugin to gener
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by grok1fy 15y ago
Gravatar uses hashes for privacy so the email addresses themselves do not have to be transmitted. To maintain email privacy, you could use a straight pass-through when using Gravatar. In this case, your URL could look like: http://robohash
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by grok1fy 15y ago
Gravatar is designed that way so you can use any default image. The technique is described in the Gravatar docs under "Default Image." http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/images/
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by grok1fy 15y ago
Here's a modified version with Cyrillic, Greek and Polish (ISO-8859-2) letters, along with a few more for good measure. ǏñҭëՐŋâťḯṏṋαłїżæŧíøṅ
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by grok1fy 15y ago
Cool. Seems like adding Disqus might be useful.
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by grok1fy 15y ago
Would it be useful to remove the tabs so you can scan them all at once? I've seen blogs that have both Disqus and FB displayed together.
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by grok1fy 15y ago
Great webcast. Placeholders are important right from the get go. I just ported Robohash to Perl using Mojolicious and Moose. You can see placeholders in action here: https://github.com/grokify/Robohash/blob/master/webfront.pl GitHub URL:
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by grok1fy 15y ago
Patent 5,946,647 (filed on February 1, 1996) seems to cover automatically scanning/recognizing data, creating links for identified data and then providing a way to act on those links. It sounds similar to contemporary technology that create
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by grok1fy 15y ago
There are similar metrics for job openings. It seems plausible that Python is becoming an all-purpose language while the focus for Rails / Ruby is on web apps. If true, this would be reminiscent of Perl v. PHP.
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by grok1fy 15y ago
As mentioned, lawyers and doctors are required to stay up to date in their fields in order to continue practicing. In California, lawyers need 25 MCLE credits every 3 years ( http://mcle.calbar.ca.gov/ ) and doctors need 50 CME hours every