rgarcia

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by rgarcia 15y ago
Except generatedata has a 200 record limit. Luckily it's open source, so if you can host a PHP app you can bump it up to whatever you like. I did this a few weeks ago (bumped the limit up to 10000): https://github.com/rgarcia/generatedata
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by rgarcia 15y ago
You can define a requirejs module that just consists of data: http://requirejs.org/docs/api.html#defsimple . Then in your app incantation (main.js for requirejs stuff), load this module and pass it to your app instance. If you feel weird a
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by rgarcia 15y ago
I could see it being useful to deploy a Thrift/Protobuf/Avro service. Not everything is a web server :)
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by rgarcia 15y ago
Nit: Client side JS has no module system. Check out requirejs: http://requirejs.org/ I've used it to handle both server-side (node) and client-side module systems, and it's been great.
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Harvard Introduces venture fund with New Enterprise Associates(bostonglobe.com)
2 points by rgarcia 15y ago|0 comments
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by rgarcia 15y ago
I guess I meant the de facto definition. Literally every attempt at a public financing bill/amendment I've seen in Congress has the express purpose of precluding direct corporate financing[1]. Also, I was not arguing whether or not any of
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by rgarcia 15y ago
Unless I'm missing something, this seems to be re-inventing something that Underscore already gives you on Backbone collections, _.each(): var mycollection = new MyCollection(); ... mycollection.each(function(model) { model.set(
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by rgarcia 15y ago
By definition public financing precludes corporate financing.
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by rgarcia 15y ago
I don't understand your point--wouldn't public financing of elections remove the need to hold fundraisers? The problem as I see it is that representatives are forced (due to the exorbitant cost of campaigning) to win over wealthy interests.
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by rgarcia 15y ago
It looks like buzztime has an iphone app? http://www.buzztime.com/iphone-playmaker
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by rgarcia 15y ago
I agree with your point, but I think directing it at the White House program is somewhat harsh. Judging by its description[1], it seems to me more like a program to alleviate the problem of frictional unemployment[2] (something that even th
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by rgarcia 15y ago
Gamification! Add a "wtf?" or "what does it mean?" option. Clicks on this would create/increase a community bounty on an objective, concise summary of the bill's impact.
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by rgarcia 15y ago
Startup idea: a weekly email newsletter containing a list of bills your representatives in congress voted on (or introduced/co-sponsored), along with some "like" and "dislike" buttons. Home page maintains a prominent list of representatives
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by rgarcia 15y ago
This was submitted and heavily discussed two days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3448699
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by rgarcia 15y ago
These are cool, but how much is automatically done for you by the compiler? For example, if I changed all of my calls to min(x,y) with r = y + ((x - y) & ((x - y) >> (sizeof(int) * CHAR_BIT - 1))); // min(x, y) my code would qui
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by rgarcia 15y ago
- Invest in a very expensive espresso/coffee machine. If you don't want to drop a ton of cash, but still want fast and delicious home-brewed coffee, then I would suggest getting an aeropress instead: http://www.amazon.com/Aerobie-AeroPre
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by rgarcia 15y ago
The majority of short-term market participants have deemed Zynga's two-day prospects to be poor, and correctly so. The factors that influence them, for the most part, are very different than the factors that long-term investors look at/care
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by rgarcia 15y ago
In all likelihood most of the fund managers involved have investment horizons longer than the two days that ZNGA has been trading, so declaring them in error seems incredibly premature.
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by rgarcia 15y ago
I had to play around a little with the level. If the level is too high, too many false positives are picked out. I was impressed until I read that--the guy is basically fitting the model/procedure to the training set (of size 1). I'd wait
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by rgarcia 15y ago
Obviously, and my question is why? If they (or GitHub) could easily satisfy demand for this, why haven't they?
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by rgarcia 15y ago
I could see GitHub adding this in the future, e.g. instead of simply voting on/+1ing an issue, let people attach bounties. Is there proof, though, that this is something people want? It seems like Kickstarter has the "funding for big projec
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by rgarcia 15y ago
instacss.com or dochub.io will take you to the same place, so it doesn't matter which one you bookmark. We moved the domain just to make the purpose of the site clearer moving forward. As for the long initial load time, client-side caching
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by rgarcia 15y ago
A little background: this started as a hack I made to have quick access to CSS docs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3222253 Since then, with the help of HNer vecter, it's expanded to encompass some more things. The goal right now is
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by rgarcia 15y ago
I've been following Dwolla for a while now, and I think this is a good step for them. I still have two big concerns, though: 1. Credit cards. Consumers like using them--they offer something that debit cards don't: an "undo" option. Dwolla s
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Groupon Shares Plunge, Trading Close to IPO(bloomberg.com)
50 points by rgarcia 15y ago|33 comments
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by rgarcia 15y ago
The code was actually released November 2nd: http://www.muckrock.com/foi/view/united-states-of-america/so...
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LinkedIn Shares Tumble After ‘Lockup’ Expires(bloomberg.com)
19 points by rgarcia 15y ago|12 comments
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by rgarcia 15y ago
Someone needs to make something like Eloquent Javascript [1] for CoffeeScript. The digital version of Eloquent JS has a console at the bottom so you can do the exercises without leaving the page. It sounds minor but when I was first learnin
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by rgarcia 15y ago
> Recommending that people don't sell the poor food or that we never lend the poor money, what in immoral thing to say. I never even came close to saying that... All I was pointing out was that when one side of a transaction is coerced
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by rgarcia 15y ago
Agreed. I think the biggest problem with applying free-market ideals to these situations is that one party (the poor) is not in a position to act rationally, i.e. there is an element of coercion in their actions, due to hunger/sickness/etc.

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