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by mvanveen 15y ago
I found the "Obama for America Tech Volunteer Sign-Up" google form available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHR0WXl... The form was found here, with context: http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2012/03/26/obama-tech
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by mvanveen 15y ago
The idea of proxying ZeroMQ over an HTTP layer is intriguing. I have never used the .*MQ variants, but I understand that request/response is pretty popular. At first glance, HTTP emulation seems like it might make a good, soft introductio
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Anything is better than Python-oauth2 (which, ironically, does not support OAuth2).
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Dreamhost is currently experiencing downtime(twitter.com)
3 points by mvanveen 15y ago|1 comments
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by mvanveen 15y ago
This is neat. I used Eli Bendersky's pycparser a few years back to create a static analysis suite for C. Does your project support C99?
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Cut 'em a break. I sympathize with your statement, but I give Github a lot of credit for correcting their error and reinstating his account. As a general rule, it's extremely hard for organizations to admit their own mistakes.
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by mvanveen 15y ago
This strikes me as a really good point. The onus for proof of merit is on the decentralized currency. Simply put, people trust Visa and MasterCard to safely manage transactions, for better or for worse. Regulation like PCI helps ensure t
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Telemetry and commands for spacecraft at NASA fall under ITAR compliance (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_R... ). Basically, this means that command and telemetry information must be safeguarded against acce
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by mvanveen 15y ago
I disagree. I don't have a button on Facebook for "bookmarking someone." Facebook's news feed has managed to keep the news feed relevant despite massive social changes in my lifetime Facebook usage (everything from high school, to college
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Nice catch, much appreciated! It's fixed. Pushing it up now.
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by mvanveen 15y ago
I wanted to use it! Originally I was targeting this API, but when I was getting a huge number of 500 errors when I was developing. The comments to the right of the page all complain about the stability of the service and it all was just too
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Thanks, I hope so! Glad you like it. It's pretty tiny, feel free to fork/contribute!
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Cool link, thanks! It looks like he's using methods from an existing Python CLI interface project to scrape the site. Definitely a creative way to go, although I personally think starting from scratch wasn't too bad either.
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by mvanveen 15y ago
It should only scrape the front page once per run as an initial condition to unleash the other requests. But thanks for the heads up! I'll be sure to mention this in the docs. Edit : changes have been posted. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Show HN: I wrote a tiny Python-based HN crawler with scrapy(github.com)
53 points by mvanveen 15y ago|28 comments
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Here is the wikipedia article on Turing's paper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Basis_of_Morphogen...
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by mvanveen 15y ago
As a teenager, I helped create a photo sharing site. I am just as guilty as Saeed Malekpour. Software engineers don't deserve to be killed just because of the ways in which people use their software. Technology, by itself, is not good or ev
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by mvanveen 15y ago
This seems like a really cool idea that I'd like to try, except I have no idea how taking a picture will do anything for anyone. Can you please elaborate or provide some explanation so I can understand? Thanks!
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by mvanveen 15y ago
> Flickr is a sinking ship. Great. Why? Why do we have any reason to believe Snapjoy is going to outlast Flickr? s/Flickr/del\.icio\.us/g s/SnapJoy/pinboard/g For the regex-impaired, swap Flickr with delicious and Snapjoy with
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by mvanveen 15y ago
This is not unprecedented. We did this years ago with Zooomr. There was a tech crunch post about it: http://techcrunch.com/2006/06/16/why-is-flickr-afraid-of-zoo... Many Flickr users were not happy when they discovered that the ability
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by mvanveen 15y ago
tl;dr: type `fg`. One nice thing about this setup is you can "stack" processes in the shell. Say you're working on file_x, but file_x depends on header_file_y and file_z. file_x makes sense on its own, so you don't want to split a new pane
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Awesome! I recently came to a similar conclusion for my blog, http://mvv.io . I've released the source code on github at http://github.com/mvanveen/Dropblog
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Your original claim was that one bad anecdote at reddit was enough evidence to consider "that posting public problem to hire people isn't a good idea." Do you think that all public interviewing options are unilaterally unable to defend agai
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Interesting. I recently was evaluating JS and Python for handling time in my app. The goal was not to localize to a specific timezone for the client, but rather to inform the client of where in the world a current time is. I ended up pickin
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Don't you think that's throwing the baby out with the bath water a little bit? I agree that it's a problem that people can easily dupe an interview by copying a readymade result, but that doesn't imply that public problems are unilaterally
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by mvanveen 15y ago
dateutil is really great; j2labs is quick to point out `parse()` which I also think is worth mentioning on its own. I think this project still fills a nice niche. datetime.now(los_angeles).astimezone(minsk).strftime(fmt) is long enough tha
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by mvanveen 15y ago
What does this mean for the Node community at large? I recently had the pleasure of checking out the NodeUp podcasts. A large portion of the first episode is dedicated to enforcing the notion that Node is a new language, and that it will t
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by mvanveen 15y ago
I'm with you. His example of dynamic typing is really an example of inferred typing.
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Followed your advice and added (preliminary, beta) /etc/hosts support, thanks for the suggestion!
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by mvanveen 15y ago
Fair. Probably not the best wording on my part. For context, I've been in contact with the original poster and did not want to separate our efforts. This idea was suggested in the last thread, and I thought it was worth a try. Leveraging

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