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None were particularly common, mostly hapax legomena: typos and wishful thinking like vertical-float and other things like that

I thought long and hard about trying to identify preprocessor usage reliably because that is a super interesting piece of data, but nothing stuck out as a smoking gun. Sequentially…

select count(*) from property where value similar to '%!important%' => 177119

That's what I saw when I spot checked it. Explained both pseudo selector and content prevalence.

Hey OP here, I still have the data around if anyone has further questions to investigate.

Awesome! Thanks for the knowledge

What sort of method would be used to cluster those, statistically speaking? Like, given a data set like that, how would you determine if the distribution is multi-modal or unimodal…

Surely the idea of a one-off crowd sourced mini incubator is at least a little interesting to someone who writes|plans|sells software. Immediate reactions from me include "Should m…

Site's back up, we scaled up some dynos. Thanks Heroku :-)

I use it outside of a Rails project when I don't have the asset pipeline available in my tool chain. It gives me the scalpel to define exactly what happens to my code and files vs.…

A few survey questions about collecting data via the web: Do you have experience with people using web scraping commercially? What field or industry was it being used in? Do you th…

I think it's important to note that if this code never grows or changes, then this refactor is totally unnecessary. It DOES add code, and it DOES almost over-decompose the structur…

Hmm, maybe I'll get around to looking at his vimrc and seeing what proportion of the settings are in the scraped files. I bet I could further validate your cargo-cult hypothesis.

This is the main issue with trying to catalogue event handlers. Backbone.js, and savvy jQuery developers won't use bind for any sort of dynamic pages, because it's too hard to trac…

I have 2 repos on my github account: https://github.com/alexmcpherson One is a scaffolded rails app with interesting folders /scraper and /files And the other is the microsite that…

What is it purported to do vs. what does it actually do?

I'll work on combining these; as a vim neophyte I wasn't totally sure which ones might overlap. At least I got color|colorscheme. Thanks!

Did this for fun mostly to test out casper.js (it's nice!) I'd welcome any feedback on how to better present interesting data, or answer any questions. Thanks!

Incidentally, it doesn't "produce" any markup. There are form generators for at least Rails available, but generally you do whatever to get the markup to conform to their expected …

I was in the same boat. I graduated from a liberal arts college with a degree that no one has ever asked about. After lots of non-profit work after school I was tasked with 'updati…

I like all of this advice. The key threads running through it at which I nodded my head in agreement were: 1) Free software/languages 2) Cut corners (disqus) 3) StackOverflow. This…