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andrewberls

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About andrewberls

Software engineer interested in functional programming, distributed systems, and all things data.

http://www.andrewberls.com https://github.com/andrewberls

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    I agree, a discussion of ventilation seems like a critical omission from the article. Do vent hoods help, and to what degree? Is installing more effective / higher CFM hoods a prod…

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    (I'm the author of the library) I'm almost certain you're correct - we (thought) we had compression enabled on our feature builder and never found the root cause, but regardless we…

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    I like this idea! Having spent so long in Ruby land, I'm not as familiar with the Scala|Clojure|Haskell library scene, but I'm sure that's easily remedied.

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    I'm not terribly interested picking up another web framework. I've looked into Play before but am looking for a non-web project for now!

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    Ask HN: Favorite projects for learning a new language?

    Most of what I do day to day is web applications with Ruby/Rails. I'm looking into picking up a new language or two for fun (so far toyed with Scala, Clojure, and Haskell), and I f…

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    Goodmate looks fantastic! You definitely have a lot of features that I would love to try and build into Payback. I'm actually thinking of doing my next project in Backbone too - do…

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    Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're looking for, but you should be able to do this already. For the first one, you can select specific group members (a 'group' expense is just t…

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    Ah yeah, the screenshots that are on there are hidden from small views. I really like your version, especially the graph idea - I would imagine there are lots of possibilities for …

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    I think the same can be said of windows phone :p In all seriousness, I love the design of the app! I would definitely use it if I wasn't on Android. How do you have 'taking' set up…

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    Very cool! Flatmin looks like an awesome service! Payback is definitely still feature-minimal :p Everything you suggested is actually a major item on my to-do list! Facebook integr…

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    Ha, I'm aware this is a well populated space! I made this mostly as a learning experience for myself - I'm trying to improve my skills with Rails and I wanted to make something use…

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    Is your version still available? I would love to check out your take on it! I built this for the exact same reason - I'm in a shared apartment of 6, so I'm hoping people in similar…

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    I agree that this is not a perfect solution - mistakes are still very possible and in some cases double entry may be the best option. That being said, this is still a good way to c…

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    Hey Derrick, glad you liked the post! v1.1 sounds awesome - I'll be sure to keep an eye out!