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Last year, Oh My Rockness put out an insanely good list of bands to see at SXSW 2016 complete with a Spotify playlist. From my perspective, that list was insanely ahead of its time. "Cutting edge" indie radio shows now are just starting to debut some of the songs by these bands.

So what about 2017? Well, they did a 2017 blogpost, but this one didn't have an all-encompassing Spotify playlist, so here's my attempt:

Spotify Playlist

Bands:

1. Cherry Glazerr

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Data to collect:

• 2017 NBA allstar voting data by player
• 2017 NBA allstar game data by player - time played, points, assists, blks, etc.

Resources:

• http://official.nba.com/nba-all-star-2017-voting-results/
• http://www.basketball-reference.com/allstar/
• http://www.basketball-reference.com/allstar/NBA_2017_voting-frontcourt-eastern-conference.html

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"""
TIL data used/returned in python generators doesn't have any special mutability
properties - they're just like the rest of us!
"""

In [1]: def generator():
   ...:     result = [1, 2, 3, 4]
   ...:     while True:
   ...:         print "before", result
   ...:         yield result

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#!/bin/bash

API_VERSION="20140401"
CLIENT_ID="YOUR CLIENT ID HERE"
CLIENT_SECRET="YOUR CLIENT SECRET HERE"

LIST_ID="YOUR LIST_ID HERE"
# or if you're in downtown Atlanta you could use mine, based on:
# https://foursquare.com/loisaidasam/list/hifi-lunch-eats--atl-edition
LIST_ID="5873b4bb0b56564a748ca1d5"

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• an HTML form with 1 text input, and 0 submit inputs, will submit when u hit enter in the text input
• an HTML form with > 1 text inputs and 0 submit inputs will NOT submit when u hit enter on any text input
• an HTML form with any amount of text inputs, and 1 submit input, will submit when u hit enter on any input

TIL / FYI / TMYK

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Here I was, all this time, thinking that JQuery was how people still did things.

Apparently Javascript has changed since I last looked, and things are simpler/more baked in.

Here are the new things:

Getting Elements

Where JQuery let you do:

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Advice for Contacting Barak
Want to hire me? Send me an email. I read most things.
*Really* want to hire me? Get the output of this Befunge program for a priority address. I guarantee a response.

(Befunge rules here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge)

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A scrape of Buzzfeed's ranked list of Mitch Hedberg jokes, via https://www.buzzfeed.com/mrloganrhoades/a-complete-ranking-of-almost-every-single-mitch-hedberg-joke?utm_term=.ng0r5LEb3J#.pkZw8O5zJ3

Scraped via:

curl -Ss "https://www.buzzfeed.com/mrloganrhoades/a-complete-ranking-of-almost-every-single-mitch-hedberg-joke?utm_term=.ng0r5LEb3J#.pkZw8O5zJ3" | pup --plain 'p text{}' > mitch_hedberg.txt

And then manually cleaned up.

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/**
 * Add actual cost in `Normalized instance hours` column
 *
 * Q: How do you calculate the Normalized Instance Hours displayed on the
 * console ?
 *
 * On the AWS Management Console, every cluster has a Normalized Instance Hours
 * column that displays the approximate number of compute hours the cluster has
 * used. Normalized Instance Hours are hours of compute time based on the

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Ever want to hear your name in Japanese? Now you can!

Steps (to download the mp3):

1. Visit https://translate.google.com/#auto/ja and type in your name

2. Click the audio icon to hear what your name sounds like in Japanese (yay!)

3. [cmd] + [option] + j (in Chrome) to open the console, and click the Network tab.