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cowholio4··on Facebook quietly deprecated their Python/Ruby libraries for Instagram API
Me neither but it seems like it's Instagram's attempt to stop the spammers.

Unfortunately, I have not seen a significant decrease in Instagram spam since the changes. So the changes just hurt legitimate developers.

cowholio4··on Facebook quietly deprecated their Python/Ruby libraries for Instagram API
As a user of the gem I can say it was effectively deprecated over a year ago. I ended up just writing my own requests to do what I needed to do.

But at least they now give you a notice. :)

cowholio4··on Hacking my Tesla Model S
Yes they do. Although they are not necessarily the only IPs that a company uses.

Tesla's ASN is 394161 and I only see one block of IP's allocated to them 209.133.79.0/24. So that's obviously not enough IPs for the entire company.

cowholio4··on Coffee wars: South Korea's cafe boom nears saturation point
Most places actually give you a $1-2 discount if you order "take away".
cowholio4··on Sbux Math: Calculate Your Starbucks Reward Program Changes
I spent about $1,100 if you include accessories on a Rancilio Silvia Espresso Machine and the doserless Rancilio Rocky grinder. Once you get to the know the machine, you can pull consistently great shots and even do latte art.

I have had this setup for about 5 years now. I drink more coffee than ever, spend much less for it and it's at the point where I would much rather drink my coffee than go out to a cafe.

But yeah, I would love a La Marzocco. When and if my faithful Silvia kicks the bucket I am going to definitely head that route.

You should try it! There is something just so satisfying about making yourself an awesome cappuccino and it's great for guests.

cowholio4··on Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
Sure, we have dumb apps on our iPhone that we don't use and some of the preinstalled applications on OSX aren't that great.

But bashing Preview and touting the alternative Adobe Acrobat Reader!? Are you serious? Firstly, they are different products. Preview handles multiple file formats and Adobe Reader is meant for PDFs. Secondly, Preview allows you to edit, combine and covert pdfs all of which you would have to pay Adobe to unlock these features.

Preview is such an amazing tool and I would go as far and say it's one of OS X's killer applications.

cowholio4··on Show HN: Make a website from a Facebook page
Not only do we integrate Facebook we also link their Foursquare, Google Places, Twitter, Yelp, Instagram accounts.

Here are some good example pages:

http://www.goodbeernyc.com/ http://www.seadogkeywest.com/ http://www.dcfdavis.org/ http://www.rescatefamilycenter.org/

Any feedback would greatly appreciated.

Protip: If you don't want to actually auth our Facebook app. You can put any facebook page id or user name in this url. Example with 'goodbeernyc' username. http://facebook.12engines.com/goodbeernyc

cowholio4··on Foursquare, Quora, Path: What Becomes Of The Underachievers?
Actually that brings up another thing I really like about Foursquare. You don't just see tips from random people, page's can also leave tips. I have learned all sorts of fun facts from tips left by the "History Channel" or "Food Network".
cowholio4··on Foursquare, Quora, Path: What Becomes Of The Underachievers?
There is so much more to Foursquare than just checkins! It's such an amazing service; and not for what you may think. It's the best tool to find new, popular or places that I would like based of things I already like or do.

Not only is Foursquare's recommendation engine great; the lists are awesome. It's actually been sad to see them gradually make lists less visible. At least, they still have the TODO list which gives me an easy way to find a place I have been meaning to go. On the venue profile, they used to feature the lists that users made containing that venue. So what I would do is find a place I like and then I could easily find other places based on the list's it was a member of. It makes traveling so much more fun.

The whole social thing about Foursquare is it's weakest point. I don't know why they are emphasizing it so much. Firstly, only an extremely small subset of my friends are on Foursquare and secondly I have enough social networks.

Yes, because of Foursquare I ran into some friends in my neighborhood that I would not have otherwise. But really that's not nearly as cool as the random hotel costume party I found that was trending one night. Or the countless coffee shops, bars and restaurants I discovered while traveling.

So to me the strengths of Foursquare are: * Recommendation engine. * Lists ( TODO and Public Lists ) * International usage. * chance social encounters with friends.

cowholio4··on Show HN: Cibarsi.com - Create a website for your restaurant
I am currently, working on something that does that. We have a couple clients now and we do the full website that includes Donations, Photos, etc.

We are trying to avoid the hackernews traffic right now as we improve our product for our current customers. You can PM me on twitter for more info. https://twitter.com/cowholio4

cowholio4··on How Facebook Gets Away With Being Broken On Purpose
Well they do have a specific feed for pages.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/feed

cowholio4··on Show HN: Multiplayer Snake in Go
Removing the background makes it much more useable.

$("html").css("background","white")

cowholio4··on Why you should not use Twitter for corporate customer service
Best part of the article:

"Wait your turn, like everybody else, like we all learned in elementary school. It's much more satisfying in the end.

Unless the corporation you're going after is Time Warner Cable, in which case you should use every tool available to you to take those f-ing mobsters down."

cowholio4··on The Standard Hotel - HTML5 Video Loop and changes with time of day
Actually they have about 4 sets.

I went through the loops and there about 80 of them.

cowholio4··on The Standard Hotel - HTML5 Video Loop and changes with time of day
I saw that kickstarter team page and it reminded me of the standard hotel's website.

I think they have 3 sets of videos for morning, noon and night that correspond to the location's time. It's pretty fun.

cowholio4··on [] are like Facebook
Doesn't handle punycode :P

http://ƒ.arelikefacebook.com/ http://xn--3ha.arelikefacebook.com/

cowholio4··on Please Don't Kill Feedburner
I can see why people think RSS is dead, however with services like ifttt RSS has become so much more useful.

Here are some of my more useful recipes involving RSS.

* The obvious. Getting the latest and greatest post from a small selection of high quality sites delivered to my email. (this amounts to about 4 emails a week)

* Github commits rss feed get texted to me.

* Github wiki page edits RSS feed are emailed to me.

I know I'm speaking to the choir but standard structured data is vastly useful.

cowholio4··on Please Don't Kill Feedburner
One of the feeds I to which I subscribe, preemptively moved off of Feeedburner a couple days ago.

http://badassjs.com/post/32738175366/moving-off-feedburner-p...

The primary reason the author was using it was for the subscriber count. He created a quick script to wrap his feed to give him counts.

https://gist.github.com/3816875

cowholio4··on What is Modern Perl
Thanks for the interesting insight.

There has also been quite a bit of change in the perl Web Framework world as well. IMHO Catalyst is no longer king. Mojolicious has really taken the spotlight. It's fast, the community behind it is really creative and it supports websockets. :D Mojo really does make perl web development fun again.

There is also a Sinatra inspired framework, Dancer.

cowholio4··on Software Engineers Will Work One Day For English Majors
Eh... I wouldn't write off the author that easily. I had him as a professor at UC Davis.

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/matloff.html

cowholio4··on NameCheap Overtakes Go Daddy In Google
I am a big fan of http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net
cowholio4··on Fight SOPA/PIPA -- let your visitors call their senators in 1 click
I made this into a Facebook app for Page Admins to have this as a tab.

http://sopa.cowholio4.com/add/

Once you have it as a tab. Edit your page and make it the default tab. This way it's the first thing fans see on your page.

See it in action: https://www.facebook.com/cowholio4

@kandalf Thanks for making this. I can make you an admin of the app if you want. Also https support would be awesome. :D

cowholio4··on Bootstrap for Facebook apps
Facebook actually passes the path from the canvas url to your iframe. So what I do is make all the targets "_top" and point to my canvas url. No need for complicated JS stuff. :D

So a link in my iframe app would be something like this: <a href="https://apps.facebook.com/defensio/archives/index target="_top">Deleted</a>

This will create an iframe with https://facebook.defensio.net/archives/index

cowholio4··on Cassandra 1.0: 400% read performance improvement
I'm sure the Reddit admins appreciate this. :D
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