bloometal's comments

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

[bloometal]

We have a 'Who is Hiring' thread over at DataTau (http://www.datatau.com/item?id=3398). Looking for data scientists? Feel free to crosspost there. We have a good chunk of the data science crowd there.

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On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

[bloometal]

We have a 'Who is Hiring' thread over at DataTau (http://www.datatau.com/item?id=3398). Feel free to crosspost there.

On: The Unitedstates Project

[bloometal]

Doesn't www.enigma.io do this?

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Both have to do with open data, but otherwise, there are significant differences.

The Github @unitedstates Project, is an open, relatively decentralized directory to find tools and data related to the United States. Based on the organizations involved in its birth, I'd say its ethos is, broadly, about civic-minded issues. The tools mentioned vary and have different user experiences.

Enigma is a login-required, commercial offering (with a free option, at least for the time being) providing a web application interface to public data, worldwide. It is, at its core, a search engine that lets you drill down into data rows from a common user interface. Its ethos seems to be "find the data you are looking for, whatever your purpose: academic research, business analysis, civics, etc.

On: Google Calendar Charts

[bloometal]

Nice! For those of you that want to play with similar visualizations: http://kamisama.github.io/cal-heatmap/ is a pretty nice js module that does this very nicely.

On: Want Perfect Pitch? You Might Be Able To Pop A Pil...

[bloometal]

The comments really confused me. I thought the article was about delivering a pitch for your startup.

I have a habit of reading the comments on HN before reading the article. Helps me confer some context to it usually, and also see if it's worth spending my time. (Yes I know I should be making my own decision.)

On: Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more effici...

[bloometal]

Fantastic, just set my inbox up using this. So excited.

One other hack idea:

If you use your android phone to send reminders ('Note to Self' voice command)

You can set up a filter for mails with Subject:"Note to self" Apply label 'yellow-bang' Skip: inbox

On: Show HN: Reportr - Your life's personal dashboard

[bloometal]

Wow. I haven't used it yet, but I love it already! I am going to go ahead, open a pull request and work on connecting a time tracker like SlimTimer (though I wish someone came up with a better interface). Opening a pull request because I'll need all the help I can get since I am still new to web development and nodejs.

Also, Spotify!

On: Breakout in 30 lines of JavaScript

[bloometal]

Have you looked at http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/ ? From what I understand, these are similar except it's more about doing things in the least amount of characters than lines.

For example, here's the 552 character Ruby code to print the lyrics of a song.

    i=44
    s="We; n7trangMsL8loT63Ke rules5s8d8I
    AJull commit4nt'sChatFKink: of6CHldn'tRetKisJrom<ny@Ruy-/A= if?<sk 42DS'tLE 4?;Lo8bli=L7ee..
    O,R1)O,R001)/-.."
    "
    I justCannaLE?2Gotta >u=Msta=.|
    Ng1Nlet? downNrun<rH=5desMt?N>cryNsayRoodbyeNtE< lie5hurt?|
    
    We'T3n each@Jor s8lSg6r hear9<ch: but6;Lo7hyL7BInsideCe both3Cha9Ro: S
    We3KeRa45we;QplB|1)O)NgiT, nPgiT
    (G|iT? up| howFJeel:
    | know|me|<= |
    YH|8s|o |t's been|ing|'re| a|nd|make? | yH| othM|A|ay it
    | w|D|ell| I'm|G|ou|I| f|Lh| t|er|
    NP|
    (Ooh|eTrQ|RSna | g|on|ve".scan(/[^|]+/){s.gsub!((i+=1).chr,$&)}
    puts s

On: The Wallaby Card

[bloometal]

You mean '3 out of top 4'? There's a "Protean echo" too.

On: The Wallaby Card

[bloometal]

Wait. Why not both wallaby cards in the coin?