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by tmcneal 16y ago
FYI, Octopart recently announced that they are indexing Digikey products. See relevant blog post: http://octopart.com/blog/archives/2011/1/digi%252Dkey-produc...
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Autotest sounds like a great tool. Is there a Python equivalent?
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The Rules of SCRAM(dadhacker.com)
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by tmcneal 16y ago
I don't have any experience with MongoDB, but I am building an application right now using CouchDB and I've found it to be pretty easy to use -- definitely easier to prototype with vs a relational database + ORM framework. CouchDB supports
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by tmcneal 16y ago
I don't agree with the author's argument. Here's one excerpt: "In this case efficiency often means that oxymoron bureaucrafic efficiency. When something was needed fast at IBM they used to be able to fill out the paperwork and hand carry
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Sometimes when I'm in 'idea mode' I like to just plow ahead and get something running even if the code is crappy. It gives me a chance to see the idea in action. I then go back and re-implement the idea with the appropriate code structure
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Being able to see delays via a mobile app might be enough to get me to try BoltBus and Megabus again. In my experience, BoltBus and Megabus have extremely poor customer service. I've had multiple bad experiences with them and as a result I
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Ask HN: Has "Clippy" ever been done right?
5 points by tmcneal 16y ago|6 comments
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#2 reminded me of Directed Edge's generalized recommendations engine ( http://directededge.com/ ).
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I saw your site mentioned on HN a few weeks ago and checked it out then.. I think it's great.. the design and user experience is especially well done!
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This is a play to compete directly with IBM in the e-commerce space. ATG, along with IBM's e-commerce offering (WebSphere Commerce), have been the top players in this area for some time. There seems to be a trend towards consolidation for m
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by tmcneal 16y ago
For those of you looking to do some last minute research before voting today, my web app provides candidate information along with information on the positions each candidate supports or opposes: http://elect.io
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Not that this wouldn't be a cool idea, but why would a large company expose their real-time inventory data via a public API? At the present I don't see how any ROI could be achieved from the expense of making this inventory information pub
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by tmcneal 16y ago
Real-time inventory tracking for as large a company as Best Buy is "fairly trivial"? For large companies, it is a multi-million dollar investment to build a warehouse management system capable of showing near real-time levels of inventory.
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by tmcneal 16y ago
Thomas would you mind expounding a bit or posting a link about the 'content-aware neutralization' approach to solving XSS? I know that Rails 3 HTML-encodes all output by default, but how would this approach fix XSS vulnerabilities using pu
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by tmcneal 16y ago
I agree. I'm developing on Google App Engine now and the lack of a true SQL language in the Datastore is my biggest pain point right now. The expressiveness of SQL and performance of a mature DBMS beats the pants off of the GAE Datastore at
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by tmcneal 16y ago
I've been contributing to a Roth and 401k since I graduated from college. I'm invested in mostly index funds and bonds, along with one or two emerging markets mutual funds. I figure that if the stock market totally tanks and never recover
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by tmcneal 16y ago
Ooh, yuck. I'll look into that issue. Thanks for reporting it.
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I'm using data from Project Votesmart ( http://www.votesmart.org/services_api.php ). At one point I planned on also using data from OpenCongress and OpenSecrets.org, but that functionality didn't make the cut for the initial launch. Thanks
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by tmcneal 16y ago
Thank you for the feedback. The search functionality makes a call out to Geonames.org to get location data, and unfortunately I hit the quota for more free account. I'm going to purchase premium service with a higher quota, but in the mean
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by tmcneal 16y ago
Yep you're right. I'm using Geonames' free postal code search, and unfortunately I went over the quota around midday today, so searches stopped working after that point. I'm going to look into purchasing their paid service, but in the mean
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by tmcneal 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback. You can view details on how I calculate each position by clicking on the position's 'check' or 'x' image. Doing so will open a modal dialog provide that displays detailed information in both a graph and table view.
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Thank you for reporting this. I tested in IE8, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Opera, but it looks like I should have also tested in IE6 and IE7. I will address this issue tonight.
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Elect.io is a side-project I've been working on for the past few months, and is my attempt at providing a tool for voters in the U.S. to learn more about the candidates that are running for office in their area. In addition to providing bas
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Show HN: Elect.io, my side-project that provides objective candidate information(elect.io)
16 points by tmcneal 16y ago|23 comments