nbashaw

>> User.find_by_nickname('bean').calc_score
Mainstream: third eye blind - 2.9411764705882355
Mainstream: eminem - 2.9411764705882355
Unknown: rebelution
Hipster: the beatles + 2.9411764705882355
Unknown: lotus
Unknown: the dangerous summer
Unknown: city and colour
Unknown: the spill canvas
Hipster: death cab for cutie + 2.9411764705882355

nbashaw

>> User.find_by_nickname('cwhitaker').calc_scoreMainstream: audioslave - 1.9230769230769231Unknown: cage the elephantHipster: chiddy bang + 1.9230769230769231
Hipster: girl talk + 1.9230769230769231
Hipster: helmet + 1.9230769230769231
Mainstream: incubus - 1.9230769230769231
Unknown: stone temple pilots
Unknown: 311
Unknown: 40 below summer
Unknown: tide down
Hipster: soundgarden + 1.9230769230769231
Unknown: a perfect circle

nbashaw

Enough To Be Dangerous

Learn enough code to build a crappy prototype of your idea in a week.

Preface

Two years ago, I became obsessed with startups. I was in school at the time, and constantly had a notebook out sketching my web-app ideas. It was entertaining at first, but soon I realized that in order to make progress I had to build the damn things and put them in front of users. So I did what most people do in that situation - began looking for a technical cofounder. I started trying to meet as many programmers as possible.

I got lucky and met a hacker that liked my idea, so we started working together and he suggested I code the HTML and CSS for the front-end of our rails app (it was to be a publishing platform for authors). I resisted at first but quickly realized that I'd lose all credibility if I was unwilling to dabble in a little simple code. So I went through some tutorials and found that coding actually wasn't too hard. Every time I reached an obstacle, an hour or two of googling usually yiel

nbashaw

foo

nbashaw

olark.configure('system.start_hidden', true);
window.setTimeout(function() {
  olark('api.box.show')
},5000);

nbashaw

To show only parts of the pre-chat survey (or to make some of them required), use the model below, changing the numeric parameter and text parameter as appropriate:

<!-- 2 == required, 1 == show -->

<script type='text/javascript'>
olark.configure('system.require_name', 2);
olark.configure('system.require_email', 0);
olark.configure('system.require_phone', 0);

olark.configure('system.habla_offline_phone_text','\u003Cclick here\u003E and type your Phone Number');

nbashaw

// Hide Olark before 8am and after 5pm
// (Pacific Time Zone)

var d = new Date();
var utcHour = d.getUTCHours();
var pacificHour = utcHour + 7
if (pacificHour < 8 || pacificHour > 16) {
  olark('api.box.hide');
}

nbashaw

<script>
// Hide Olark before 8am and after 5pm Pacific time
var d = new Date();
var utcHour = d.getUTCHours();
var pacificHour = utcHour - 7;
if (pacificHour < 8 || pacificHour > 16) {
  olark('api.box.hide');
}
</script>

nbashaw

nbashaw@nbw-mbp:~/projects/coinbase(feature-nathan⚡) » port search memcache          1 ↵
Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider using selfupdate
apr_memcache @0.7.0 (devel)
    memcached client in C

java_memcached @2.0.1 (java)
    A high performance, distributed object caching system.

libmemcache @1.4.0.rc2 (devel)
    C library for memcached.

nbashaw

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke