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by timwis 10y ago
Hey Jake! What about something like geocoding, where you have to query an HTTP API for each record? It seems like doing transformations in SQL will always have a ceiling relative to a scripting language like python, no?
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by timwis 10y ago
I can't believe all the other responses to this question were either positive or from someone abroad! Perhaps I live in a bubble (Philadelphia), but there is a pretty unified view of how it "feels" right now: embarrassing. Aw
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by timwis 10y ago
In Philadelphia, the city government publishes election results to phillyelectionresults.com as they're counted. The local civic hacking group (code for philly) built a nodejs scraper of the site (and an API for it) and a mobile-friend
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Ask HN: Why am I a jerk about code?
2 points by timwis 10y ago|4 comments
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by timwis 11y ago
Here's some info on why this was built: https://usopendata.org/2016/03/28/jkan/
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Show HN: JKAN – A light-weight, backend-free open data portal, powered by Jekyll(jkan.io)
5 points by timwis 11y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What would business process workflow tools look like in 2016?
2 points by timwis 11y ago|0 comments
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by timwis 11y ago
No idea what it is but I reserved my username in case it becomes a thing
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A spot on (but unexpected) answer to, “How should I learn to code?”(youtube.com)
1 points by timwis 11y ago|0 comments
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by timwis 11y ago
I used Koding.com and c9.io extensively but got really frustrated when they were down or slow due to high usage, so just got my own $5/mo box and began doing it there. I use [codebox]( https://github.com/CodeboxIDE/