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by samsnelling 13y ago
I will admit that I use Slim for just about all of my PHP needs. Absolutely love it. Simple enough that I don't feel bad for just using it as a router when needed.
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by samsnelling 13y ago
Not to be rude... but are you sure people fully understand this? Snapchats are supposed to be seen at most 10 seconds. Snapchat frequently has little bugs where the snap doesn't show up for it's full amount of time. I hate to say
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Voice and Tone - Mailchimp helps you understand users feelings(voiceandtone.com)
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by samsnelling 13y ago
Yep. Keep learning. Read as much as you can. Start lots of projects. Try and finish them. I am 21 and just sold my first startup while finishing my last year in college. I started programming at 13ish, and have never stopped reading and lea
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by samsnelling 13y ago
... And that's what I get. Legitimately if I had read 3 more sentences...
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by samsnelling 13y ago
> There is, of course, only one explanation for Snowden’s absence: He never existed in the first place. Please tell me I am not the only one who stopped reading here.
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by samsnelling 13y ago
I like the idea but I'm not sure I would subscribe to this business model. It's confusing. IMO, you need to simplify what you are offering and be extremely clear and up front about your plans. If you want to make money, charge for
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by samsnelling 13y ago
Wow that sounds like it was quite an issue. Where are you thinking about migrating to? IMO, I can't really trust Linode anymore. MediaTemple is stupid expensive for VPS... Maybe SoftLayer? I've heard mixed reviews.
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by samsnelling 13y ago
That's kind of where I'm at right now. Normally all of my side projects are hosted on PAAS (Appfog is my current choice, but we will see since their acquisition). I really just want to practice setting up and tearing down configur
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by samsnelling 13y ago
Completely off-topic: Is that a custom WP theme? I love the look and feel of this article. On-topic: Thank you for this. I am going to purchase a DO box this weekend and play around with nginx instead of apache. For some reason when I last
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by samsnelling 13y ago
Okay, I am going to summarize my thoughts here: 1) Love the domain, love the name. Simple. To the point. 2) Looks like a bad clone of the Medium homepage. Not that big of a deal, just what I noticed. 3) Needs a lot of UI work. A lot. Images
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Building Know Your Company(37signals.com)
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Director of National Intelligence issues fact sheet on PRISM(docs.google.com)
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by samsnelling 13y ago
That's crazy I have a Westie also, and you are right on point with trying to find the right balance. The reason I posted this was that I love the concept of tracking the amount exercise "Toodles" is getting to see how it affects her mood. T
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Fitbit for Dogs(whistle.com)
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by samsnelling 13y ago
Just wanted to say thank you for this. I have been searching for a good article explaining the details of thinking through building an API. This really could not have come at a better time for me! Cheers!
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by samsnelling 13y ago
My best attempt at explaining how it works: 1) you put in you Facebook info (which asks for friends, friends locations and the ability to post [I denied that]) 2) Your friends either see the automatic post then also log in and see what they
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by samsnelling 13y ago
Excellent post on the basics! As you mentioned in your post, the real work begins once you have the algorithm in place. Scraping is a challenge as Readability, boiler pipe and so on are only so effective. Sentence parsing is extremely trick
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by samsnelling 13y ago
I love tldr.io and use it frequently. Really amazes me. Of course I think this approach might be more scalable. I agree with adding a rating layer would be a great addition. Thanks!
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by samsnelling 13y ago
Personally my experience is really on the web side of things. I am however looking at the option of doing an HTML5 wrapper around it so it can be published as an application in the stores. Should be an interesting path!
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by samsnelling 13y ago
I know you aren't. In fact, you taking time out of your day to post here with your opinion about my site really does quite the opposite of discouraging me. Summly getting bought for that much really confuses me as well.
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by samsnelling 13y ago
I tried to do email digests. I really did. I am signed up for a few of those. My problem is they get lost in my inbox. Personally I like to check into news sites several times a day. The feature is really interesting to me however. I person
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by samsnelling 13y ago
jmduke, I started with ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_summarization ) specifically the unsupervised keyphrase extraction. In terms of libraries, there aren't a huge amount of small packages out there outside of the monolithic Stan
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by samsnelling 13y ago
Peter, So funny that you mentioned github docs, as I am working on something custom for that (my sentence parsing works really bad with code... who would've thought!). You are exactly right on the potential of things that can be summarized.
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by samsnelling 13y ago
Thanks for the kind words! To be honest I am just looking to beef up my portfolio before I go job hunting next year (yikes!). :)
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by samsnelling 13y ago
Bayan09, I will look into adding it tonight to what I scrape. I will comment and let you know how it goes! Thanks!+
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by samsnelling 13y ago
Thanks for the suggestion! That could actually be added really easily. :)
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by samsnelling 13y ago
Hyperberry, You are on point with that comment! Actually all of the tech is my code (outside of scraping the image and a few packages via npm). To be honest, I worked pretty hard on some of the NLP for sentence parsing. With that said howev
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by samsnelling 13y ago
Danso, You just opened up an entire new wave of thinking in my head with this line I'd rather see something like, how many popular users on Twitter (i.e. not spambots) have tweeted this post, and what are the best comments that are not mer
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by samsnelling 13y ago
Well I guess it depends on how you look at it. My goal with this version of my project is not to produce a summary that includes everything. When I approached this project I looked at it with this problem: I currently read 10-15 news sites.

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