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Show HN: My NBA + Twitter mashup

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Re: Show HN: My NBA + Twitter mashup

#32

Looks awesome! Great idea and execution. I tweeted it at Jalen Rose and Bill Simmons. Minor things: - You're throwing a bunch of log statements right now. Might be taking down the javascript in IE (I didn't see if you wrapped `console.log`). - Remember, `this.$el` can replace `$(this.el)` (gotta love those convenience methods, I see you're using `this.$(selector)`). - Also, UnderscoreJS provides `_.isUndefined` and `…

Wow, thank you. To be honest I'm quite new to js, especially backbone and those other util libs like underscore. Really appreciate the CR, will fix shortly.

Re: Show HN: My NBA + Twitter mashup

#40
post #4

Cool idea. I'm a diehard Washington Wizards fan (sad, I know) and tend to unfollow a lot of players in favor of reports/beat writers/bloggers. The tweets are just more substantive for basketball junkies. A couple of random thoughts: 1) Remove the directed tweets -- i.e. "@user blah blah blah" 2) Beat writers/bloggers act as a filter and tend to retweet interesting player tweets anyway 3) It'd be awesome to see a real…

+1 for being a tortured Wizards fan

+1 for the comments above (add @moneymetalcakes!)

Also, thank you for making software for sports fans. The stuff from the big media companies is freaking terrible. Let me know if you'd like to participate in a future Sports Hack Day:

http://sportshackday.com

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