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HNpod: Why programmers work at night, Twitter API Limits, & More(hnpod.com)
8 points by sgrove 14y ago|0 comments
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by sgrove 14y ago
This is one of those projects that looks like with just the right combination it'll take off. I can see Chinese people especially translating a huge deal of dramas, technical articles, news(!), etc. Subtitling would probably be a great feat
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by sgrove 14y ago
There are a few FP-related piece you might want to know, but as long as you understand the idea of first-class functions (passing a function to another function as an argument), then you should be able to get your head around it quickly. It
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by sgrove 14y ago
Thanks for sharing this, it totally blew my mind. He explains each piece and term so clearly that I really felt I could finally get my head around some of the basic music terminology, and maybe even try recreating some basic melodies. Wish
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by sgrove 14y ago
The author mentions defensive object cloning, which is, in general, an unpleasant way of doing things. Using immutable data structures makes for a far saner development experience (although with Javascript as the underlying target, it proba
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by sgrove 14y ago
I wrapped/integrated handlebars templates last weekend, and after understanding how the google Closure library/compiler does things, it took ~15 minutes to have it working beautifully (using basically the same technique as jayq). For a lot
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by sgrove 14y ago
I agree, the support has been fantastic as well. I see so much potential in their offering, I keep hoping they'll open a way for others to contribute modules/libraries in a kind of marketplace. Good tech/product/market fit like this always
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by sgrove 14y ago
It looks absolutely amazing, and I loved the visualizations. If I had this in early calculus, or even before that, in middle school when I was first learning to program but hated maths, it would have been amazing. I see a ton of potential
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by sgrove 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback, there are a few challenges around this - we need to get it order ASAP. We've had a few performance-only hack days, and have another one this weekend. It'd probably be work a blog post talking about some of the chall
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Zenbox CustomData: Make Gmail your customer admin dashboard(blog.zenboxapp.com)
26 points by sgrove 14y ago|3 comments
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by sgrove 14y ago
Fixed! Thank ya' kindly.
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by sgrove 14y ago
Appreciate it - we want small startups to be able to use Zenbox without worrying about the cost until they're getting enough value from it, hence the free tier. Any feedback on the product is hugely welcome, sean@zenboxapp.com
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by sgrove 14y ago
Hey Intropic, Zenbox co-founder here. Zenbox is free for showing profiles (up to 150 per day) from nearly all services, except for Salesforce. Premium accounts let you update the profiles (Mailchimp, Salesforce, etc.), subscribe/unsubscrib
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Built a business on Parse? You need Zenbox(blog.zenboxapp.com)
43 points by sgrove 14y ago|8 comments
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by sgrove 14y ago
One of the best, and certainly most entertaining, explanations and examples of the Y-combinator. I didn't expect much going in, but I was definitely blown away by the quality and understandable nature. Please give it a go, it's a lot of fun
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Y Not? - Adventures in Functional Programming(infoq.com)
4 points by sgrove 14y ago|1 comments
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by sgrove 14y ago
I know what you mean, he's built a following just by being nice, listening well, and happily giving advice. I've really enjoyed working with him personally.
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by sgrove 14y ago
Thanks - Cooper and team really built a legion of passionate users, and it's been great working with them. It's a virtuous cycle when you work on a product that people care about enough to encourage you to keep building and refining.
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Zenbox Acquires Wishery(blog.zenboxapp.com)
66 points by sgrove 14y ago|10 comments
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by sgrove 14y ago
This looks awesome, and something we'd love to have in Zenbox. To that end, just two requests: 1.) Any chance of OAuth support? Our users are in general not technical, and in any case they all appreciate one-click integrations over copy/pas
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by sgrove 14y ago
Ah, yes, I see the context now. I suppose I have less an less exposure to people like that these days, so they rarely factor into my understanding. Probably fair to say there's a mix of different attitudes, understanding, expectations, and
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by sgrove 14y ago
This seems unfair. First, there are absolutely economic and cultural factors that cause noise in the meritocracy. Second, for those Americans who aren't in disadvantaged economic situations, there's certainly an emphasis on 'being happy' an
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Return Path acquires Context.io(blog.context.io)
4 points by sgrove 14y ago|0 comments
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by sgrove 14y ago
Sounds reasonable, very cool. I suspected it was something along those lines - a demographic that had money (and real problems) that I wasn't personally connected to.
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by sgrove 14y ago
This looks very nice, but stepping back for a minute of unsolicited-but-hoping-to-be-helpful advice: "Get a real starter app launched on dotCloud in under five minutes." - 5 minutes is a long time. More or less, it means I'm going to have
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by sgrove 14y ago
This seems ridiculously nice to me, but I haven't heard much buzz around this in the community. Any thoughts on why there's comparatively less noise about dotCloud's offering? It seems far nicer in many ways than others. From what I remembe
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by sgrove 14y ago
I've been meaning to give Vero a try for awhile, it comes highly recommended from some friends, and we have a lot of users who're using it along with Zenbox as well. Awesome to see them providing good material - I especially like the exampl
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by sgrove 14y ago
I've used SBCL quite a bit, and only dabbled with others, but I have no complaints about it in particular. It's amazing in what it's able to do, certainly.
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by sgrove 14y ago
That seems better reasoned - you could expand on it and explain why this is a problem, how it should be avoided, how language packages should be integrated with system packages, etc. That would make for very interesting reading. I'm wonderi
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by sgrove 14y ago
So write a blog post elsewhere about it. It's one I'd absolutely be interested in reading. But posting this 'harsh' comment here is useless and detracts from useful conversation.

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