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by pkrein 15y ago
I used Firebase to build thereelbox.com, and enjoyed it thoroughly. It took 2-3 hours from starting into the documentation to completed/nobugs/pushed to production. Credit for that speed goes entirely to Firebase. TheReelBox uses Firebase a
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by pkrein 15y ago
thanks for pointing this out - you can enter your zipcode now :)
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by pkrein 15y ago
good point, removed the arrow for now.
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by pkrein 15y ago
hm, can't reproduce that here with the same setup... the address, latitude, longitude and zipcode returned from google's geocoding api must have been insanely long to exceed the 5MB quota. sorry that happened :(
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by pkrein 15y ago
good idea, will add it soon. thanks!
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by pkrein 15y ago
Good point. The behavior is actually to use critics score unless the critics score isn't available (0 for A Thousand Words triggered that), in which case it falls back to use the audience score, if it's available. I'll think about this a bi
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by pkrein 15y ago
whoa, i had no idea that companies did that? sorry!
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by pkrein 15y ago
all great ideas, thanks. the ads in the trailers are youtube's ads... so probably can't get rid of those. i'll figure out a way to show movie times further into the future, midday bit is frustrating yeah.
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by pkrein 15y ago
sorry we had an intermittent blip. working on it now.
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by pkrein 15y ago
yeah... sorry! i'm not sure where to even get movie showtime data for europe, etc. ideas?
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by pkrein 15y ago
yep, good point. will add that soon. thanks!
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Show HN: TheReelBox, find tonight's movie(thereelbox.com)
81 points by pkrein 15y ago|59 comments
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Using the Heap Profiler in Chrome Dev Tools(reinpk.blogspot.com)
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Mike Bloomberg Pledges to Learn to Code on Codecademy this Year(businessinsider.com)
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How fast could you cross the country (without killing yourself)?(reinpk.blogspot.com)
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Fiber Optic Shape and Position Sensing(youtube.com)
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Show HN: The Clip(kickstarter.com)
46 points by pkrein 15y ago|14 comments
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Codecademy adds jQuery lessons and scratchpad(venturebeat.com)
118 points by pkrein 15y ago|19 comments
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by pkrein 15y ago
Learning Catalytics is cool but different - it's the work of Eric Mazur, a famous Harvard physics professor who created the practice of "peer instruction." It seems to be a very effective method, but it requires a huge amount of work for th
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by pkrein 15y ago
It would be great to have you give it a try - email us at friends@classmetric.com and we can get you hooked up with the alpha version. ClassMetric actually started as Bookxor, where the focus was on document analytics and discussions. We sh
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by pkrein 15y ago
Woops - our apologies. We're currently testing at MIT and Boston University, but we'd love to talk to you more. Shoot us an email at friends@classmetric.com or head over to http://classmetric.com
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by pkrein 15y ago
The crucial thing is that students can now give some feedback - if it turns out that having students more confused improves their learning, then professors can purposefully drive the red line higher. As PG has said, you improve what you mea
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Show HN: We measure classroom confusion(blog.classmetric.com)
133 points by pkrein 15y ago|32 comments
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Starting a Company at MIT(incubomber.com)
5 points by pkrein 15y ago|0 comments
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Blackboard: Just Waiting to be Disrupted and Dethroned(bookxor.blogspot.com)
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by pkrein 16y ago
re: BigEye The Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network ( http://lcogt.net/ ) is building a network just like that, with slightly larger telescopes. It seems to be retirement project for Wayne Rosing, who used to be VP of Engineerin
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by pkrein 16y ago
wow, now that is embarassing in firefox. all fixed(?) sorry.
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by pkrein 16y ago
truth nobody would ever pay for this, but you don't have to cause it's free. yay.
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Alarm clocks wake me angry, lightlywake.me(lightlywake.me)
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A New Breed of Textbook Publisher(bookxor.blogspot.com)
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