michaelq

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   by michaelq 12y ago

   As for the clips, that was like 90% of the work. I didn't want mediocre results diluting the really good quotes. I was able to scrape some from abandon websites, but I had to capture most of them myself. There are about 22k in total.
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   by michaelq 12y ago

   It's a rails app using high voltage. After trying Elastic Search, I ultimately went with Algolia for the search.
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   by michaelq 12y ago

   I'll find and add that Godfather 3 quote. It looks like I accidentally referenced the wrong asset for The Sopranos, but the clip plays fine. I'll fix this with the next push. Thanks for spotting this.
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   Show HN: Movie lines at your fingertips with soundbite search(doneliner.com)

   13 points by michaelq 12y ago|13 comments
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   by michaelq 12y ago

   While that may help you in the courtroom, the court of public opinion doesn't wait for a verdict. It confuses silence with guilt. Acquittals are less likely to make front pages than acquittals.
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   by michaelq 12y ago

   I've updated the app to go ahead and generate a new citation when you change styles. This happens pretty quickly, and this saves the user a click. Thanks for the feedback!
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   by michaelq 12y ago

   I've fixed this issue.
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   by michaelq 12y ago

   The BBC doesn't have an author metatag for some reason. I can search for a 'byline' span as a fallback. Thanks for noticing this.
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   by michaelq 12y ago

   Cool, I didn't realize CrossRef had an API. That will be helpful in troubleshooting DOIs that fail to resolve for me. Thanks for your offer. I'll definitely reach out once I've accumulated some more questions for you.
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    Wow, I didn't realize IEEE had their own citation format. Amazon has the ISBN 9781405347587. The only other google result for this is your comment, which Google seems to have already indexed :) Since Google Books doesn't have that
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    I'm amazed Wikipedia doesn't have a first-party tool for this. I can look into it. I'm trying to keep SpeedCite as simple as possible. If there is demand, I could maybe build a stand-alone app for this?
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    OK, I've pushed fixes for the DOIs, and the first two DOIs you listed here are working now.
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    Nevermind - I found it.
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    Thanks for your feedback! Posting on HN seems to have caused speedcite to exceed Google Scholar's rate limit, so I'll be switching to crossref.org for DOIs. Using the new logic (which I'm about to push), I was able to get the
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    Do you know where I can find the documentation for this API? I got MLA style working, but I can't get Chicago/Turabian style working. Once I get this working, I plan to switch to this method for DOIs. Thanks!
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    OK, I've fixed both of these ISBN issues and pushed them to production. So both 014242417X and 978-0142424179, and similar ISBNs, should be no problem.
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    EasyBib has a ton of features and aims to be as comprehensive as possible, and grants you more low-level control over the end citation. SpeedCite optimizes for speed and simplicity.
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    If you could link me to an example of a typical legal citation you would use, I can look into it.
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    I could certainly include it, but doing so is not usually required for MLA, APA or Chicago citations, and it would in many cases, make the citation really long.
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    You're right - sometimes it will truncate the full subject. I'm looking into fixing this.
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    I see what you mean. Thanks for catching this! I agree, this needs to be fixed ASAP.
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    http://www.speedcite.com/?q=9780142424179&f=chi works. I had to remove the dash from the ISBN-14. This is a known issue (as of an hour ago). For the ISBN-10, there's a check digit X ( http://en.wikipedia.
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    MLA, APA and Chicago style guides don't recommend including the full domain unless it would be too difficult to otherwise find. Hence the truncation.
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    Thanks for pointing this out. I thought I'd corrected this problem. I will fix this ASAP!
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    This works great! I looked into doi.org before but I wasn't sure what their ratelimit is. I'm currently using phantomJS and google scholar for DOIs, and I think I might have hit their rate limit already, so I will take a second lo
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    You're right - I could just pass the variables as JS to the client, then assemble the final citation there. Great idea! Regarding the trailing slash, that's a regex problem, and I will solve it! Nice catch.
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    If you already have a DOI on your clipboard or are copying it from your text editor, it would save you a few clicks and page loads.
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    Sciencemag.org uses a special metatag for authors (citation_author). I'm not sure how common this is, but I will add logic to check these. Then SpeedCite would properly cite the author.
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    From the ISBN alone, it's difficult to differentiate between an electronic book (such as one retrieved by Google Books) and a physical one. Would it be helpful to add a switch allowing you to specify whether you want electronic book ci
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    by michaelq 12y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. Originally, clicking the style pill button refreshed the citation (in the selected style), which I think is the behavior you're describing. It sounds like I should go back to that behavior.