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Re: Shopify real-time orders

#12

That $ per hour is almost 3x too low, it's a bug, we're looking into it. edit: fixed now ;)

I'm running it on two browsers side by side and they show completely different numbers for products sold per minute.

Re: Shopify real-time orders

#13
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks amazing. BTW, looking at your javascript source, the style you've used of: var className = (function() { function classNameConstructor() { //set properties } classNameConstructor.prototype.method1 = function() { }; classNameConstructor.prototype.method2 = function() { }; return classNameConstructor; })(); How's that working out? I started playing with it just before I got other projects which have had no signif…

That's generated by CoffeeScript

Ha, well there you go. I'm trying to write like a compiler.

Maybe I should give coffeescript a go again.

Re: Shopify real-time orders

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post #9

This is cool! I actually "worked" on this with the developer - I recently interviewed at Shopify, and one of the interviews is to work with one of the developer on some of their work. I had no Ruby experience, but in an hour I was able to build an app which read the data from an HTTP stream and perform data analysis, decoding etc. Very awesome to see the final thing in production! Edit: Of course my work isn't operat…

I believe that was me, glad you liked it :-)

I want to do something like this for Bitcoin transactions.

Are there any links that would help me?

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