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Smeep posted:Do I need to create another app and host it on something like Heroku, and the API info goes in that code ... somewhere? Yes. In their simplest form, APIs just dump out information in a structured format based on a query. However "structured" means "so a machine or application can understand it," not "so a normal human being with no knowledge of code can understand it." So you need to code a thing that A) queries the API based on a set or criteria (user defined or otherwise), B) can receive and interpret the information the API returns, and C) can display results based on said interpretation. You should check out the web design & development megathread if you'd like to figure out how to do those things. Helpful goons await. Smeep posted:STOP LAUGHING YOU CAN'T MAKE ME e: Worth mentioning that how you want the results to be displayed will have a huge impact on what languages you use and exactly which megathread in COBOL you should be looking at. The web design & dev thread is great if you want stuff to show up on a webpage. On the other hand if you want to get push notifications on your phone (for example), it wouldn't be the right place to look. Good luck! kedo fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Aug 26, 2014 |
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kedo posted:Yes. In their simplest form, APIs just dump out information in a structured format based on a query. However "structured" means "so a machine or application can understand it," not "so a normal human being with no knowledge of code can understand it." Thank you! I think that explanation of APIs was the one that finally stuck for me. I'm pretty much exclusively looking at mobile, by the way.
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Flipperwaldt posted:It's pretty much saying "I hate my life and I resent my parents for putting me in this world. I wouldn't like to potentially feel responsible for the same feeling in someone else." Conversely, it could be the equivalent of saying "I have such a negative outlook on the future of mankind that I cannot in good conscience introduce a human life to the cruel world it would be subject to." Which is a sentiment that crosses my mind from time to time honestly, before I realize I'm just trying excuse my inherent selfishness as the actual reason for not having kids.
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Having children seems like an incredibly irresponsible and selfish act, even more than suicide. I'm not going to particularly begrudge anyone as an individual, considering how much social pressure there is to have children, but that expectation in abstract is pretty unfortunate. The specific overheard argument sounds dumb though.
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zachol posted:Having children seems like an incredibly irresponsible and selfish act, even more than suicide. I'm not going to particularly begrudge anyone as an individual, considering how much social pressure there is to have children, but that expectation in abstract is pretty unfortunate. Selfish, really? Having children is only selfish if you intend to work them like the little coal miners they are, or if you are yourself socially retarded and want to try to take every advantage of the modern American legal system combined with having your offspring being offended/injured/traumatized/etc. by life's normal challenges. If you want to be a semi-responsible parent, at best your children will give you a moment of catharsis while you beat them with a belt, and at worst will siphon away your life's savings while putting you in a home that practices FYAD.
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zachol posted:Having children seems like an incredibly irresponsible and selfish act, even more than suicide. I'm not going to particularly begrudge anyone as an individual, considering how much social pressure there is to have children, but that expectation in abstract is pretty unfortunate. Having children - ah yes, that highly selfish act of sacrificing colossal sums of money and adjusting your life to centre around another person's wellbeing for ~20 years. Also, if bringing life into the world is selfish, why is killing yourself also selfish? Sounds like you have brain difficulties and big problems.
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I mean the act of deliberately choosing to have a child, which would be fundamentally rooted in meeting societal expectations (in retrospect, maybe not selfish depending on your culture) and personal happiness. Actually fulfilling long-term obligations over 20+ years depends a lot more on the person's attitude towards their child and the standards of their community. Suicide is selfish because you're putting the relief of your own suffering above the welfare of others. In some circumstances it could not be selfish, depending on who your death will actually affect. However, for most people, suicide comes at others' expense. None of these things can be considered in a vacuum. I don't meant that giving birth or committing suicide are prima facie selfish or bad or good or whatever.
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Believing that choosing to have a child is rooted in societal expectations - care to prove that? Because that is not how I interpret it. Unless you're pulling the old "oh they think they wanted a child themselves, but in fact they were just mindless drones fulfilling society's will".zachol posted:I don't meant that giving birth or committing suicide are prima facie selfish And yet, you post: zachol posted:Having children seems like an incredibly irresponsible and selfish act, even more than suicide. ? As to suicide being selfish because it affects others, that is another dubious point. Assuming a person commits rational suicide, the people negatively impacted by the suicide are being selfish by wishing that person had lived in suffering for their own welfare. Everybody's welfare is selfish, definitionally. Almost without exception, the hurt suffered by those around a suicide are of less importance that the suffering the person who chooses to commit suicide. Of course, there are many who commit suicide irrationally - but that does not impinge upon my claim that suicide itself is not innately selfish at all.
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Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:What are the popular spam blocking services these days? I host a mail server and it has gotten out of hand. Hey try CBL from Spamhaus.
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Jeza posted:Having children - ah yes, that highly selfish act of sacrificing colossal sums of money and adjusting your life to centre around another person's wellbeing for ~20 years. It's selfish in the sense that you're creating an entire other person because, well, you want to, that's why. Most people have kids to fulfill their own needs and desires, not because they're nobly sacrificing the next 20 years of their lives and any chance at financial security to better the world by releasing their seed into it. If you could predict for someone who wanted a kid that the kid they're going to have will never amount to anything, would never contribute to society in any meaningful way, and that the world wouldn't be any better off for their having existed, you're unlikely to dissuade them from having the kid anyway. Usually, they're not having the kid for anyone's benefit but their own. And that's fine, but let's not pretend it's somehow noble or altruistic. Jeza posted:Believing that choosing to have a child is rooted in societal expectations - care to prove that? I'm sure that it's true for some people (at least with respect to family pressures and expectations), but I suspect most people just feel a biological urge to breed. That is what evolutionarily successful species do.
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I'm just spitballing here, but maybe the desire to have a kid is rooted in some primal urge to continue the species and pass on your genes to the next generation, the same way every other plant and animal on the planet does. Just an idea.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I'm just spitballing here, but maybe the desire to have a kid is rooted in some primal urge to continue the species and pass on your genes to the next generation, the same way every other plant and animal on the planet does. Yeah, humans have no choice in their behaviours because science.
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tuyop posted:Yeah, humans have no choice in their behaviours because science. Holy poo poo you're bad at reading comprehension.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Holy poo poo you're bad at reading comprehension. The question is not whether humans want to have kids or why, but whether it's a selfish thing to do. Posting about biology in this case is either a non sequitur or just noise. Unless you mean to say that all things done for biological reasons are unselfish, which is an interesting thought.
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If you look hard enough at it, everything anybody ever does, no matter how nice or thoughtful, is a selfish act, because even in hard work and acts of charity or sacrifice our brain awards us with feel-good chemicals for doing the "right thing." You get this personal and you can't divorce biology from the discussion. Therefore it's a stupid loving argument to have whether something's selfish because of COURSE it is. Anyway, can anybody recommend a good brandy? Like, not several thousands of dollars good, but better than your typical bottle good, like for a nice present?
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Why isn't there a program that sorts photos by colour? Manually sorting sucks.
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Colour is a strange thing to sort photos by. Also the 'color' of a picture is nebulous. Do you mean by hue? By lightness? By saturation?
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Looks like ImageSorter will do it.
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Babygravy posted:Why isn't there a program that sorts photos by colour? Manually sorting sucks. Computers don't really "see" color like we do. Assuming you are talking about hue, that just translates into a 6 character hex code (000000 to FFFFFF) that a computer understands and then displays for us to see, but it's still 1s and 0s at the core. If you mean that the OS doesn't sort picture thumbnails in a folder by color, it's because Windows doesn't really see those colors either. It can display a thumbnail image of the original picture, but it's not looking at the data there for the color information, because it doesn't care. In theory, you could design a program that looked at a picture, analyzed individual pixels (which would be slow) or pixel groups, and determined the hex value average of the picture from there and then spit out a result that says "This picture of a frog sitting on a leaf in an algae covered bog is green" and from there, you could sort by color.
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Actually sorting by color was done by program in the late nineties to make those pictures made of pictures movie posters like the one for IIRC "The Truman Show". Actually I think the Truman SHow poster (or whichever it was) was done by hand and then some computer guy said that would be cool to have a program do it and so he wrote a program to do it. (Yep it wsa the Truman SHow poster: http://www.impawards.com/1998/truman_show_ver1.html
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CzarChasm posted:Computers don't really "see" color like we do.
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CzarChasm posted:If you mean that the OS doesn't sort picture thumbnails in a folder by color, it's because Windows doesn't really see those colors either.
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Google can search by color so it's certainly possible.
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Huntersoninski posted:Anyway, can anybody recommend a good brandy? Like, not several thousands of dollars good, but better than your typical bottle good, like for a nice present? Remy Martin VSOP for maybe $50 If you want to bump it up grab a recognizable-name XO for probably $150-200. I've had luck with Remy, courvoisier, Hennessy, Hine, Camus, and I think Fussigny. I don't have the taste to tell between a lot of the XOs, but can tell them apart from the VSOP, so take this with a grain of salt. With the XOs you get to shop around for a cool looking bottle too.
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:Google can search by color so it's certainly possible. How do you do this?
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pupdive posted:How do you do this?
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uwaeve posted:Remy Martin VSOP for maybe $50 Thank you!
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edit: moved to the Gooncave thread.
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My girlfriend has chronic wrist pain, most likely due to working at a computer all day. I don't recall seeing a wrist guard for her keyboard at work, but if she does have one it's probably nothing fancy. Her wrist guard that she wears is just a flimsy CVS one. We sometimes use an electric palm massager, or use bandages but thats only temporary relief. Shes going to a doctor to hopefully get a script for physical therapy, but in the meantime, can anyone recommend some solid wrist safety products? There has to be something better than the run of the mill gel keyboard support.
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meanolmrcloud posted:My girlfriend has chronic wrist pain, most likely due to working at a computer all day. I don't recall seeing a wrist guard for her keyboard at work, but if she does have one it's probably nothing fancy. Her wrist guard that she wears is just a flimsy CVS one. We sometimes use an electric palm massager, or use bandages but thats only temporary relief. Shes going to a doctor to hopefully get a script for physical therapy, but in the meantime, can anyone recommend some solid wrist safety products? There has to be something better than the run of the mill gel keyboard support. Have you tried athletic tape? Probably similar to a bandage or brace but cheap and rigid.
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I need (want) to get coins for boardgaming that are actual metal coins, and so I thought I might get actual foreign currency, because that should be relatively cheap. However, currency websites are set up for people who know what currencies they're interested in instead of people who just want the cheapest currency available. Basically, I want coins with visible numbers, preferably in denominations of 1, 2 5 and 10. Any help is appreciated!
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BonHair posted:I need (want) to get coins for boardgaming that are actual metal coins, and so I thought I might get actual foreign currency, because that should be relatively cheap. However, currency websites are set up for people who know what currencies they're interested in instead of people who just want the cheapest currency available. Basically, I want coins with visible numbers, preferably in denominations of 1, 2 5 and 10. Any help is appreciated! Do you just need a couple of each, or a ton of them like a set of poker chips?
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DNova posted:Do you just need a couple of each, or a ton of them like a set of poker chips? Somewhere in between, I guess like 20 or 30 of each denomination.
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BonHair posted:Somewhere in between, I guess like 20 or 30 of each denomination. Well, there are a lot of currencies that would fit the bill. I suppose you need to look at some photos of world currencies on Wikipedia or something and choose the one you like the looks of the best, and then figure out how to obtain a set of it. Maybe a person from that country would be willing to send you a set. There are also many defunct currencies that are pretty much worthless even for collectors, but finding a big set might be difficult. edit: If you want euro coins I might be able to help you, but that's far from the cheapest option. Shipping would be the worst part though. sleepy gary fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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Japanese Yen have the values printed largely on them (except for the 5) and since 1 USD gets you 100 Yen, it's probably one of the most cost efficient options.
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BonHair posted:I need (want) to get coins for boardgaming that are actual metal coins, and so I thought I might get actual foreign currency, because that should be relatively cheap. However, currency websites are set up for people who know what currencies they're interested in instead of people who just want the cheapest currency available. Basically, I want coins with visible numbers, preferably in denominations of 1, 2 5 and 10. Any help is appreciated! Is there a place near you that exchanges money? I'd try a place like that.
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Many many years ago I saw a documentary on pbs or something late at night about some possibly Asian tribe somewhere. I think they lived in mountains and they may have been very short people. The big thing I remember though is that they kept their ancestors hair. Like after they died or something they would make wigs out of them. Then, when women got married or got older or... Something, they had some ceremony where they would take the wigs out and wear them. Who are these people?
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BonHair posted:I need (want) to get coins for boardgaming that are actual metal coins, and so I thought I might get actual foreign currency, because that should be relatively cheap. However, currency websites are set up for people who know what currencies they're interested in instead of people who just want the cheapest currency available. Basically, I want coins with visible numbers, preferably in denominations of 1, 2 5 and 10. Any help is appreciated! There's a coin thread in A/T. Mostly they're just US coins but they may be able to point you to good sources.
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BrainDance posted:Many many years ago I saw a documentary on pbs or something late at night about some possibly Asian tribe somewhere. I think they lived in mountains and they may have been very short people. The Guugu Yimithirr make rope out of human hair and are short, wiki doesn't say anything about their burial practises though.
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BonHair posted:I need (want) to get coins for boardgaming that are actual metal coins, and so I thought I might get actual foreign currency, because that should be relatively cheap. However, currency websites are set up for people who know what currencies they're interested in instead of people who just want the cheapest currency available. Basically, I want coins with visible numbers, preferably in denominations of 1, 2 5 and 10. Any help is appreciated! You can probably still get them cheaper using real coins like you planned but Stonemaier Games recently had a kickstarter for an expansion of their Viticulture game called Tuscany that you can get Metal Lira Coins for. Here is the Board Game Geek page for the coins. You can buy them here. 72 coins in three sizes and colors: 36× ₤1 (22mm, reddish) 24× ₤2 (26mm, greyish) 12× ₤5 (32mm, yellowish)
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