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owainlewis

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About owainlewis

Software engineer. Haskell, Scala, Clojure etc.

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    The idea I had was roughly to make some sort of extensible voice driven agent you could customise to do pretty much anything you want. Did you get it working on a Raspberry Pi? Wou…

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    Comment #11075977

    Looks great. I was actually trying to do the same thing. Run an agent on a raspberry pi and use it to automate stuff around the house or at work. Thanks for sharing :)

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    Comment #10818234

    The Github repo is here. https://github.com/owainlewis/apidoc

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    Comment #10457324

    Test instance running here https://systemstatus.herokuapp.com

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    Comment #9776496

    That's a good point. I pretty much wrote this in an evening or two so haven't had time to refine it much. But yeah error messages will definitely be improved. It's because of the w…

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    Comment #9776486

    Thanks. This looks really interesting. I may well borrow some ideas ; )

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    Comment #9774100

    Will definitely do something with caching and rate limiting when I get some time. These queries are quite expensive so definitely needs a bit of work in those areas.

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    Comment #9774068

    Hey. Thanks. Yeah I will add a ton of features over the next few days. JSONP should be an easy one. Feel free to add an issue in Github and I'll get it done for you. Only really st…

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    Comment #9773977

    An example showing how to grab all the stories from the Hacker News homepage https://falkor-api.herokuapp.com/api/query?url=https://news....

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    Comment #9773960

    An example query that extracts all the images from the Digg.com homepage. https://falkor-api.herokuapp.com/api/query?url=http://digg.c...

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    Comment #9637989

    I found forth a pretty interesting language. Started collecting some useful links if anyone else wants to get started. https://github.com/owainlewis/awesome-forth

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    Comment #9476301

    Thanks for the review. The markdown editor is a great suggestion and will be implemented ASAP.

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    Comment #9438650

    I'd see this being more useful to a non technical person who doesn't use Github for example and just wants to start a quick conversation. They can create a discussion and open it u…

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    Comment #9438639

    That's a good way to look at it. The motivation is basically when you want to have a quick discussion about something but email or twitter aren't suitable. Like you mentioned twitt…

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    Comment #9438564

    Nice. Looks like a neat tool. How did you come up with the name?

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    Comment #9438555

    That's a great idea. I think the homepage probably needs some more work around explaining the product and screenshots would be a good move. I'll take a look at improving it today.

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    Comment #9438370

    Thank you. A few people have raised this. Will roll out a fix now. Stupid mistake. Sorry about that.

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    Comment #9438250

    Over the next few months we'll add some more features to discusslr. It's pretty basic at the moment. Next up are private conversations, better media handling and a dashboard to tra…

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    Comment #9438241

    That's a fair summary. One of the use cases for discusslr is just to throw up a topic online and get a discussion going without needing anyone to sign up. You might want to get fee…