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divad12

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About divad12

I'm a student at the University of Waterloo for Software Engineering.

Also a former two-time intern at Sift Science, Khan Academy (past work: http://david-hu.com/ka-ml.html), and Google.

Blog: http://david-hu.com

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    This seems like it could be really useful. How do you deal with sites that might block you?

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    Comment #8052332

    Yes, this is my bad. :) I added an issue to GitHub about it: https://github.com/divad12/vim-awesome/issues/14 Pull requests welcome!

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    Comment #7961990

    Thanks, these are great suggestions! Added two issues: 1. https://github.com/divad12/vim-awesome/issues/40 2. https://github.com/divad12/vim-awesome/issues/39

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    Comment #7953084

    Thank you! The color scheme used is Solarized, courtesy of Ethan Schoonover: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

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    Comment #7953077

    You're right that GitHub stars probably isn't the best metric of how good a plugin is. We try to use a more unbiased metric of relative # of actual users, and this we get by scrapi…

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    Comment #7953064

    Hi! Glad you like the j/k scrolling. All it is is a call to `window.scrollTo()` with some logic to determine the position of the element we want to scroll to. See [1] for the code …

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    Comment #7952279

    In fact, this was the first React project that he worked on -- he rewrote our old angular app within a week of when React first came out, and had been hooked since.

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    Comment #7951625

    Indeed -- https://github.com/divad12/vim-awesome/pull/17 Thanks for pointing this out to us. Will merge when I get home.

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    Comment #7951393

    Oops, that's definitely a bug! Issue raised: https://github.com/divad12/vim-awesome/issues/16 Thanks for finding this.

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    Comment #7951318

    Thank you! Wanting such a thing is why we built it. :)

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    Comment #7951313

    Hi! Thank you for checking this out! The reason for the mis-match between # of plugins and tags count is the tags count only counts plugins with that tag in the category the tag is…

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    Comment #6060135

    We have seen fraudsters reinstall an app over and over, each time signing up with a new email and a new stolen credit card after their previous account was shut down. A persistent …

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    Comment #5403961

    (I work at Sift Science too.) Just to clarify, we charge 10 cents per unique user that you query in a month, not per query. So, you can query the same user as many times as you lik…

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    Comment #3722648

    There is now: click the "+ Add a trivia fact..." on http://numbersapi.com/

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    Comment #3669414

    Wolfram Alpha is great for mathematical properties of numbers, while we have trivia facts and are looking to gather more (eg. from world records, numbers in nature, statistics, alm…

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    Comment #3668538

    Ha, good catch. http://numbersapi.com/1729 (the trivia version) gives the Ramanujan fact, while we have multiple math facts for 6 (refresh a few times to get "smallest perfect numb…

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    Comment #3668183

    Oops, terrible oversight. Fixed now - http://numbersapi.com/#1337 :) Feel free to send entry suggestions to numbersapi at google mail. We may add a feature for this soon.

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    Comment #3667996

    Thanks for pointing that out. The ticker came from some work I did while interning at Khan Academy, and was not originally meant for negative numbers. If I get some time, I may mak…

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    Comment #3667871

    Not right now, but we're looking to possibly add this feature. For now, feel free to send any suggestions to numbersapi at google mail.