donpinkus

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by donpinkus 9y ago
It's slightly less easy to read than <li ng-each={myList}>...</li> But it means you don't have to learn a library's HTML API. Or when you want to loop through myList, but exclude a few particular items... you
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by donpinkus 9y ago
So, can I use React as my company's front end framework or not? If I do use React, what is the specific legal risk (if any)? PLEASE no emotionally charged comments - I just want a clear answer from someone who deeply understands the le
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by donpinkus 10y ago
Meh, it's more just disrupting premarital pregnancy prevention. Premarital sex has been huge since the invention of marriage, really hard to disrupt something that established. Denial is a pretty good app for it, try downloading that?
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by donpinkus 11y ago
It's meant to make the functions built on Blockspring usable in more places - so that's how it's part of our core value. (by the way, long time no see - hope you've been well!)
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by donpinkus 11y ago
They upped the limit from 400,000 cells - I think it's around 2M now, will try to find the source
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by donpinkus 11y ago
Thanks! Nice observation :)
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by donpinkus 11y ago
nice. who wants to fork this for Rails? :P
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by donpinkus 11y ago
That's a really good question. I haven't hit a limit yet and tested with 200 queries / minute. Will update this comment when I find that out.
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by donpinkus 11y ago
Yea seriously... I thought of it since a buddy has some Tiki Bar that he wanted a site for, and I really didn't want to drop into WordPress or anything serious. Knew he could handle a spreadsheet. Checkout http://www.tarbell
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by donpinkus 11y ago
It's an interesting idea - here are some issues to consider: 1. Joining data will be very slow. If you need to access 500 database to get the "comments" on a "post", you're going to have issues. 2. How will you
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by donpinkus 11y ago
Thanks! Yea I was trying to use Google Spreadsheet, getting annoyed with the JSONP and the goofy way they returned their JSON, so figured I'd just wrap it in something easier to use... What "availability issues" did you run i
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How to use a Google Spreadsheet as a database(api.blockspring.com)
89 points by donpinkus 11y ago|72 comments
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by donpinkus 12y ago
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by donpinkus 12y ago
As we find out about different use-cases, we like to post articles that explains how we solve that use case. Other posts were about the general use of Blockspring. This post is specifically about how we created R Forecasting as a service.
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R Forecasting as a Service(api.blockspring.com)
5 points by donpinkus 12y ago|2 comments
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by donpinkus 12y ago
Wait what? Where did we reference it I didn't even notice it :P
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by donpinkus 12y ago
Truth is most people's APIs really cost us nothing to run, so we'd rather not charge for it :P I'm a really big believer in sites that provide a ton of utility for free, and only charge you when you're actually costing t
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by donpinkus 12y ago
Hey dheera that's super interesting. Since it's about web scraping specifically, I bet the guys over at Kimonolabs.com would be the experts on that! Or if someone on here knows how to do this, and wants to throw up an API on Bloc
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by donpinkus 12y ago
We could totally let people import a gist and instantly API it. Do you have example gists you've want API'd? We could take a look tonight about how to implement this
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by donpinkus 12y ago
I needed to do screenshots in my Rails app, and I couldn't get the screen shotting service to work in Ruby. I already knew how to do screenshots in Python, and was tired of relearning this stuff in a different language for each project
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by donpinkus 12y ago
Different incubators have different focuses. If you need something one of these incubators focuses on, it can be extremely helpful. If you don't need it, then it is a waste of time and your company's equity. Some incubators focus
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by donpinkus 12y ago
Is a non-engineer able to understand this?
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by donpinkus 12y ago
Where would you actually host the webapp? Would you set up a new server on your intranet and share a link to it?
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by donpinkus 12y ago
Thanks bnejad! Overall, what did you think of it?
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by donpinkus 12y ago
Got it - just updated some language in our blog post since this was clearly confusing :) Also added a link to the main page. When an engineer does all that code, it gets posted to the front page of blockspring.com. That front-page definitel
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by donpinkus 12y ago
Hmm, so maybe our blogpost was unclear about that. The BlockSpring library just lets people post their own work onto the BlockSpring home page (www.blockspring.com). Our library just lets you specify variables in your code that a user shoul