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Re: on Friday April 04, 2025 @02:08PM (#43585895)
A while ago I did some exploration into scraping recipes with GenAI (it works ok, but better when using JSON-LD), and this was just a fun response.
A write up of using Diffbot's APIs to search for articles, ranked by sentiment and time, to create a process to report on (possibly) negative reviews.
Re:Death Clock on Saturday January 08, 2022 @12:58PM (#29854233)
Smoking and BMI and other stuff came after I sold it. I used to have hardware models too - I forget who I partnered with. It never did earn any real $$.
Re:Death Clock on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:08AM (#29852950)
I built another version of this about 30ish years ago, you can see it now at www.deathclock.com. I sold the site about 15 years ago (helped pay for an adoption). It was my first "successful" website, getting near 5 million views per day. It was also a useful programming exercise (learned the painful way that one ColdFusion function wouldn't support large numbers and others would, so had to do so wrangling to get the final number right).

The best part was the emails I'd get. Wow.

OpenWhisk - an open source project (http://openwhisk.apache.org/) supported by IBM, Red Hat, and others. I've got quite a few blog posts on it if you want to see some examples (https://www.raymondcamden.com).

Disclaimer - I work for IBM.

Re:Show HN: A tech conference aggregator on Sunday November 13, 2016 @02:21PM (#12945073)
I see multiple conferences with "Invalid Date" - is that expected?
Also remember that's 13 bucks to get custom SSL, redirects, etc. If you have simple pages w/o the need of https, it costs nothing.
Re:Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview on Monday May 12, 2014 @05:13PM (#7735446)
You can also debug with Safari Remote Debug and Chrome Remote Debug. Ripple is nice, but you aren't limited to it.
Re:Marvel Comics API on Saturday April 26, 2014 @08:40AM (#7651186)
Back when this was announced, I blogged about it and built a demo. This demo simply finds a random cover over the past 50 years. It updates every - 30 seconds - I think. Anyway, here it is:

http://marvel.raymondcamden.com/

And the code: http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2014/2/2/Examples-of-...

Re:Brick. Webfonts that look good on Sunday March 16, 2014 @02:22PM (#7410530)
I thought you meant this first - http://mozilla.github.io/brick.
Re:America's underground market for adopted children on Sunday November 24, 2013 @03:37PM (#6791003)
I'm currently in China now adopting my fourth child. I would not agree with this comment, although obviously I'm biased. When you adopt you have the choice between accepting a child that is healthy and one with special needs. Sometimes these needs are severe, sometimes minor. If you accept a child with special needs, the wait for placement can be much quicker. That is what we did and our child has a minor issue that can be corrected with cosmetic-level surgery. In my opinion, that is nothing. But to be clear, there are perfectly healthy children open for adoption as well.

I've seen multiple people now talk about how unprepared the adoptive parents seemed to be. From my view, this is the minority. We are currently at the end of our stay and are at a hotel with maybe 10-15 other families. Every one we've spoken to were very prepared and knew what they were getting into.

Re:America's underground market for adopted children on Saturday November 23, 2013 @05:21PM (#6787674)
I don't have numbers, but people from outside America can adopt American children.
Re:SQL Fiddle on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @05:38PM (#6524055)
As we (I work for Adobe!) have talked publicly about the next rev of ColdFusion, and have shown features, talked about focus areas, etc, it is certainly not dead-end in terms of active product development.
Re:Yeoman at your service - A getting started guide on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @02:31PM (#4507002)
Did you actually read the article? It is more in depth then the QS on the yeoman.io site. At the end of the day, introductions are going to cover similar material, but I think this version is a bit friendlier than what is up on the main site now.
Re:Preparing Yourself for Modern JavaScript Development on Friday July 06, 2012 @11:29PM (#4210625)
That's not really an answer. What _about_ their way of doing things do you consider to be wrong and why?