DanielN

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by DanielN 9y ago
This is really nice! I was similarly bothered by biases in new sources so I built https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bias-tracker/mhijk...
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by DanielN 12y ago
The servo is mounted to the piece of rubber which is then mounted to the doorknob. The only thing keeping the servo on the lock is friction.
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by DanielN 12y ago
I've been building a lockitron clone using a raspberry pi. The key functionality selling point for me was being able to lock/unlock the door base on proximity like lockitron's "sense" feature. Turns out this is muc
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Behind the Scenes with nil? and empty?(danielnill.com)
2 points by DanielN 13y ago|0 comments
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by DanielN 13y ago
This. I often tutor beginners wanting to learn to code and environment setup is by far the biggest hurdle. Frankly, think about the last time you started learning a new language, it's usually the biggest hurdle for experienced progra
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by DanielN 13y ago
Put your email in you profile under about or drop me a line.
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by DanielN 13y ago
If you ever think of doing this STOP, watch this video http://vimeo.com/22053820 and then reconsider. Better yet, watch that video now, hire a lawyer like every other freelancer on the planet and avoid such a mess entirely!
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by DanielN 13y ago
When I've tutored for web development and CS I've surprisingly been able to change the same as my freelance rates. This might suggest that I don't charge enough for freelancing, but I charge above my hourly rate at work and live comfortabl
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by DanielN 13y ago
yeah, choosing to do this in python might not have been the best idea.
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by DanielN 14y ago
Guys there is an easy way around your problem. if your results are as good as you say they are then its just a matter of tweaking your ux. offload the result delivery to email and pubsub the actual search. If you have thought of this I
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by DanielN 14y ago
There is plenty of third party javascript that is not at all predatory. Pretty much all analytics services, Olark and other similar customer outreach services, A/B testing suites. There is far more of a push to create new more secure aven
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by DanielN 14y ago
My personal favorite: $array = array('z'=>12, 'o'=>43, 't'=>32, 'th'=>85, 'f'=>91, 'fi'=>42); Take a minute look at that and tell me what the keys stand for. When you figure it out you'll realize why this is
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by DanielN 14y ago
Slightly off topic but I enjoyed this and it is a great example of self promotion, something a lot of people here are interested in: The most recent video on Jia's site is of him asking to race someone. He walks up to a high schooler and h
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by DanielN 14y ago
Your email isn't in your profile so if you would like to drop me a line and let me know what you're looking for I would be happy to help or suggest some people that might be able to help.
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by DanielN 14y ago
http://www.siliconprairienews.com/ is a good starting point. KC, Chicago, Minneapolis, Columbus, Madison, Detroit and Omaha all have great tight knit entrepreneurial communities, as do most of the college towns in the midwest. I guarantee
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by DanielN 14y ago
related hn discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3019163
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by DanielN 14y ago
This seems really cool, but I'm having some trouble coming up with a use case for this. Why would I want to translate my django model to a dictionary?
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by DanielN 14y ago
The testing rules I code by: - will someone else be touching the code? If yes then I TDD - Am I likely to be touching the code six months from now? If yes then I at least document with tests. - Is it a crucial piece of code who's specs I wa
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by DanielN 14y ago
Very well put. I'm not a huge fan of php, but find this possibility of resurgence (particularly because I use the language for my day job) very interesting.
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by DanielN 14y ago
Quite possibly never, but it was arguably the best web language in the early 2000s.
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The Lesser Known Contributors Who Are Trying To Make PHP Good Again(danielnill.com)
56 points by DanielN 14y ago|50 comments
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by DanielN 14y ago
OP here, I would be interested to hear how others automate django project creation.
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How I make Django Easier(danielnill.com)
2 points by DanielN 14y ago|2 comments
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by DanielN 14y ago
You might find https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hapackcnjagkljgfjl... helpful. /shameless plug
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by DanielN 14y ago
I haven't and that is great to know. I guess that was part of my question: How does Codecademy attack the balance that hiring companies want to see when it comes to technical knowledge and experience building real things.
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by DanielN 14y ago
So from what I understand Codecademy's long term monetization plans seem to be focused on being a middle man between new programmers and companies looking to hire [1]. But I'm curious how this is actually achieved. The key in such a system
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by DanielN 14y ago
To be honest I haven't used South in about a year so I don't really know how it has changed. But with South I always seemed to be running into issues of it allowing you to modify existing elements of your schema but not add new elements or
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by DanielN 14y ago
I would highly recommend using http://code.google.com/p/django-evolution/ over South
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by DanielN 14y ago
If writing tests for your code is difficult and takes too much time, that is a pretty strong code smell that you're writing unmaintainable code or you are working within an unmaintainable system. As to the OP's question, the only reasonable
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by DanielN 14y ago
interesting implementation. I really liked the idea of just building a restful interface that people could plug into however they wanted to.

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