AlexMcP

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Choosing webpack and react for new applications(engineering.kapost.com)
2 points by AlexMcP 11y ago|0 comments
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by AlexMcP 12y ago
None were particularly common, mostly hapax legomena: typos and wishful thinking like vertical-float and other things like that
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by AlexMcP 12y ago
I thought long and hard about trying to identify preprocessor usage reliably because that is a super interesting piece of data, but nothing stuck out as a smoking gun. Sequentially increasing selectors tr tr td tr td a could be
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by AlexMcP 12y ago
select count(*) from property where value similar to '%!important%' => 177119
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by AlexMcP 12y ago
That's what I saw when I spot checked it. Explained both pseudo selector and content prevalence.
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by AlexMcP 12y ago
Hey OP here, I still have the data around if anyone has further questions to investigate.
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by AlexMcP 12y ago
Awesome! Thanks for the knowledge
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by AlexMcP 12y ago
What sort of method would be used to cluster those, statistically speaking? Like, given a data set like that, how would you determine if the distribution is multi-modal or unimodal?
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by AlexMcP 12y ago
Surely the idea of a one-off crowd sourced mini incubator is at least a little interesting to someone who writes|plans|sells software. Immediate reactions from me include "Should my company get on board with something like this?",
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by AlexMcP 13y ago
Site's back up, we scaled up some dynos. Thanks Heroku :-)
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by AlexMcP 13y ago
I use it outside of a Rails project when I don't have the asset pipeline available in my tool chain. It gives me the scalpel to define exactly what happens to my code and files vs. a one-size-fits-all option like LiveReload or Brunch w
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Quick(er)-start Rails app(github.com)
1 points by AlexMcP 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Who uses web scraping?
6 points by AlexMcP 14y ago|3 comments
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by AlexMcP 14y ago
I think it's important to note that if this code never grows or changes, then this refactor is totally unnecessary. It DOES add code, and it DOES almost over-decompose the structure. The payoff, however, is if more features or behaviors wer
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Idempotent Backbone Rendering(quickleft.com)
1 points by AlexMcP 14y ago|0 comments
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by AlexMcP 14y ago
Hmm, maybe I'll get around to looking at his vimrc and seeing what proportion of the settings are in the scraped files. I bet I could further validate your cargo-cult hypothesis.
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by AlexMcP 14y ago
This is the main issue with trying to catalogue event handlers. Backbone.js, and savvy jQuery developers won't use bind for any sort of dynamic pages, because it's too hard to track handlers and make sure they're rebound properly as the DOM
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by AlexMcP 14y ago
I have 2 repos on my github account: https://github.com/alexmcpherson One is a scaffolded rails app with interesting folders /scraper and /files And the other is the microsite that was linked in the parent post
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by AlexMcP 14y ago
What is it purported to do vs. what does it actually do?
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by AlexMcP 14y ago
I'll work on combining these; as a vim neophyte I wasn't totally sure which ones might overlap. At least I got color|colorscheme. Thanks!
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by AlexMcP 14y ago
Did this for fun mostly to test out casper.js (it's nice!) I'd welcome any feedback on how to better present interesting data, or answer any questions. Thanks!
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ShowHN: Scraped 800 .vimrc files from github, analyzed for fun(mcphersonindustries.com)
12 points by AlexMcP 14y ago|17 comments
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by AlexMcP 15y ago
Incidentally, it doesn't "produce" any markup. There are form generators for at least Rails available, but generally you do whatever to get the markup to conform to their expected structure. That being said my experience is heavy on the for
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by AlexMcP 15y ago
I was in the same boat. I graduated from a liberal arts college with a degree that no one has ever asked about. After lots of non-profit work after school I was tasked with 'updating the website' one day. Cut to 3 years and $100+ in library
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by AlexMcP 15y ago
I like all of this advice. The key threads running through it at which I nodded my head in agreement were: 1) Free software/languages 2) Cut corners (disqus) 3) StackOverflow. This was a super life saver as I never had someone next to me wh
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by AlexMcP 15y ago
I'd second this notion, but with the added caveat that without a 'mathy' way to solve the problem, you can't get much beyond the first 15 or so (if you're good at math, great, if you just want to put down some code to solve a simple problem
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by AlexMcP 16y ago
What about a way to loop back, so when you make that sweet iOS app, @brenda25056 can know about it?