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by loeber 8y ago
I was always confused by page requirements, which could be trivially gamed. I always thought that word-count requirements were a much better metric.
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by loeber 8y ago
Coalition | Backend Engineer, Product Manager, Product Designer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full-Time Coalition is working to solve cyber risk. We are a small, well-funded team of security experts, insurance professionals, and intelligenc
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by loeber 8y ago
API limits are reset -- up again! :)
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by loeber 8y ago
Hi Everyone! Thanks for the overwhelming interest -- I've hit all my daily API limits. I'll try to get those raised, and JustGetMeFood should be up and running for you tomorrow :) Please follow https://twitter.com/
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by loeber 8y ago
This is a little tricky. I don't use GeoIP, but request a location from your browser. Location selection on mobile is generally pretty good, but it's very spotty from desktops. If the website can't get your location at all (i
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by loeber 8y ago
Thank you! There is a "Read more on Yelp" link under the pictures for any restaurant, over to the right. I can make it more apparent.
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by loeber 8y ago
I'm using Yelp's data under the hood, so that's surprising. Please confirm that those restaurants are currently open -- it's possible that I need to expand my queries.
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by loeber 8y ago
Should be working now -- there was a hanging database transaction. I've had to do a bit of live debugging.
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by loeber 8y ago
It uses Yelp's API under the hood. Is Yelp active in Stockholm? I'll go through the error messages and see what's up.
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by loeber 8y ago
It's a 20 minute walking distance (i.e. about a mile), not a 20 mile distance.
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Show HN: Just Get Me Food(justgetmefood.com)
58 points by loeber 8y ago|49 comments
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by loeber 8y ago
> a US football trading card platform No, it was a Magic the Gathering trading card platform. That's literally what the name stands for: Magic the Gathering Online eXchange. MtGox.
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by loeber 8y ago
A similar realization is that most algorithms/data structures problems posed in software engineering interviews are all about imposing the right mathematical formalisms. If you correctly infer the _structure_ of the problem, then you&#
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by loeber 8y ago
To combat this sadness, I wrote a tool that not only deletes your old tweets and favorites, but also archives them as JSON, along with any relevant media: https://github.com/Datamine/Archive-Tweets
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by loeber 8y ago
This compares stocks to flows, which is incorrect and useless. Article dismissed.
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by loeber 8y ago
Hold on, I'm confused here. You wrote: > we're never going to try to price compete with Tide > we're just a better, cheaper Which is it?
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by loeber 8y ago
I think you mean "Wikileaks", not "Wikipedia".
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by loeber 8y ago
When you say "all of this", that's only true for the browser-scraping part. You still need to use the API's CreateFavorite and DestroyFavorite calls on old tweets. (As discussed, purely calling DestroyFavorite won't
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by loeber 8y ago
You'd still want to collect all the Tweet IDs such that you can archive them (download the JSON blobs).
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by loeber 8y ago
Thank you!
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Adventures in Deleting Tweets(johnloeber.com)
83 points by loeber 8y ago|23 comments
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by loeber 9y ago
Coalition | Front-End Engineer, Data Scientist | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full-Time Coalition is working to solve cyber risk. We are a small team of security experts, insurance professionals, and intelligence community veterans building
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by loeber 9y ago
This is plainly wrong. Rockefeller started dealing in oil because the unit economics were excellent, and because he recognized that no dominant players had emerged in the market yet, opening it up to vertical & horizontal integration (b
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Fragmentation in Cryptocurrencies(johnloeber.com)
5 points by loeber 9y ago|0 comments
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by loeber 9y ago
Coalition | Back-End Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full-Time Coalition is working to solve cyber risk. We are a small, well-funded team of security experts, insurance professionals, and intelligence community v
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by loeber 9y ago
You say "let's get something straight" but follow up with blatant misinformation. Directly from wikipedia: "Even though the H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa, it is one of the few temporary visa categories recognized as
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by loeber 9y ago
This is one popular clustering algorithm. I think "clustering algorithms in general" would be a more accurate answer.
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Implicit Currencies: Commerce Without Dollars(johnloeber.com)
2 points by loeber 9y ago|0 comments
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by loeber 9y ago
Coalition | Back-End Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full-Time Coalition is working to solve cyber risk. We are a small, well-funded team of security experts, insurance professionals, and intelligence community v
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by loeber 9y ago
Have you considered that the problem (static, etc.) might not be on part of the bluetooth earphones, but rather on your phone's bluetooth hardware? I use an iPhone with bluetooth earphones all day and it's a great experience.

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