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Re:Web Scraping: Data for Everyone on Monday October 30, 2023 @11:22PM (#38079878)
You mean something like octoparse.com or serpapi.com?
Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting? on Friday July 28, 2023 @10:13AM (#36907097)
Hey is there a way to reach out to you? Living in berlin and currently looking for a tech job here
Re:Instagram Ads are bad for business on Friday June 30, 2023 @02:50PM (#36540246)
To test this, feel free to spend $1M on ads for one day (and post something new)

1) You will see the hard cap set for your account

2) If close to end of day, no one will see your new post

Instagram Ads are bad for business

Posted by djsegal on Friday June 30, 2023 @02:46PM
from the self-post dept.

Outlined in the following Reddit post, Instagram now sets hard caps on your account's reach:https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/14jt40q/cap_on_daily_reach---An obvious corollary of this is that if your Ads reach the quota, the organic reach of your new posts will be quashed!// this is especially true near the end of the day (California time) where you have already saturated

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Re:A New Yorker’s Guide to Airbnb Pricing [Pre-2020] on Saturday July 11, 2020 @07:02PM (#23806938)
Project is from ongoing work to understand how cities, trains, and rentals interact.

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Source code for the javascript-based website is:

▶ https://github.com/djsegal/pad_pricer

Re:Show HN: Hustling Sunlight – anagrams in black and white on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:13PM (#23227093)
This is based on a book one of my friends wrote:

  + https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/45806
Thought it would make a cool website and the rest is history

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// the stack is rails+fullPage.js

Re:Show HN: Covid-19 Dashboard for MIT's Julia Class on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @04:51PM (#23171688)
May have shortened the title a bit:

"Introduction to Computational Thinking with Julia, with applications to modelling the COVID-19 pandemic"

Re:Show HN: Covid-19 Dashboard for MIT's Julia Class on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @04:48PM (#23171665)
Agreed, that's why I fixed it in another project:

  + https://github.com/djsegal/SimplePlots.jl/blob/6e29e3f6d21e0502f2bdcb2a9ab81480d0bf492e/src/init.jl#L55-L67
Just haven't made the change to this site yet.
Re:Show HN: Covid-19 Dashboard for MIT's Julia Class on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @04:32AM (#23164804)
I was a teaching assistant for 6S083, an undergraduate course on Julia focusing on Covid-19 modeling.

Decided to turn all the problem sets into a set of interactive dashboards. Hope you enjoy!

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// also the stack is julia+jupyter for the data, jekyll+tailwindui for the website

Re:Tetris coming to Julia language for long-awaited v1.0 release next ... on Sunday April 01, 2018 @03:29AM (#16727186)
You can play online at:

+ http://juliatetris.com

Re:Show HN: Julia Observer – Package Browser for the Julia Language on Saturday February 18, 2017 @02:38AM (#13673972)
Thanks!

Here's a couple features you might like:

+ You can view all Julia developers sorted by commit count at https://juliaobserver.com/users

+ You can include unregistered packages by checking a box in settings (accessible through the navbar dropdown)

Happy hunting