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  1. Comment on What did you do this weekend? in ~talk

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    Went to the farmers market and got lots of goodies (veggies, jam, honey mustard, bread, etc) and had brunch outside (to-go from the restaurant since it was packed with people). Really enjoyable...

    Went to the farmers market and got lots of goodies (veggies, jam, honey mustard, bread, etc) and had brunch outside (to-go from the restaurant since it was packed with people). Really enjoyable weather since the days prior were in the high 90s...

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  2. Comment on Email sucks in ~tech

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    It's prety awesome, except I wish you could use more than 5 relays.

    It's prety awesome, except I wish you could use more than 5 relays.

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  3. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I used DarkSky for weather forecasts for quite a while, including the Android app. Apple has recently bought DarkSky, disabled the Android app and closed access to the API. I figured this was a...

    I used DarkSky for weather forecasts for quite a while, including the Android app. Apple has recently bought DarkSky, disabled the Android app and closed access to the API.

    I figured this was a great opportunity to play with a Python web scraper. Then, once that is done, my original plan was to create an API based off of the web scraper for personal use.

    Here is the output of the program, as it stands now:

    Now: 88˚ Humid. It feels like 95˚.
    High: 92˚
    Low: 70˚
    exec time 0.18 seconds

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  4. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Nice job. I wonder if you could integrated memcached after you switch to Postgres. That'd make it snappy and not rely on database so much. Thoughts?

    Nice job. I wonder if you could integrated memcached after you switch to Postgres. That'd make it snappy and not rely on database so much. Thoughts?

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