grok1fy
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Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
Gravatar uses hashes for privacy so the email addresses themselves do not have to be transmitted.
To maintain email privacy, you could use a straight pass-through when using Gravatar. In this case, your URL could look like:
http://robohash.org/620050a4db5104bae758cd75171d64ca?gravata...
Comment · 15 years ago
Gravatar is designed that way so you can use any default image.
The technique is described in the Gravatar docs under "Default Image."
Comment · 15 years ago
Here's a modified version with Cyrillic, Greek and Polish (ISO-8859-2) letters, along with a few more for good measure.
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Comment · 15 years ago
Cool. Seems like adding Disqus might be useful.
Comment · 15 years ago
Would it be useful to remove the tabs so you can scan them all at once? I've seen blogs that have both Disqus and FB displayed together.
Comment · 15 years ago
Great webcast. Placeholders are important right from the get go.
I just ported Robohash to Perl using Mojolicious and Moose. You can see placeholders in action here:
https://github.com/grokify/Robohash/blob/master/webfront.pl
GitHub URL: https://github.com/grokify/Robohash
HN Robohash Article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2742367
Comment · 15 years ago
Patent 5,946,647 (filed on February 1, 1996) seems to cover automatically scanning/recognizing data, creating links for identified data and then providing a way to act on those links. It sounds similar to contemporary technology that created HTML archives from email which scanned data and created http and mailto: links which were then acted on by browser and email clients. Hypermail is one package that did this and was initially released on July 30, 1994.
Ref: http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/archives/WWW-TALK/www-talk-1994q...
Comment · 15 years ago
There are similar metrics for job openings. It seems plausible that Python is becoming an all-purpose language while the focus for Rails / Ruby is on web apps. If true, this would be reminiscent of Perl v. PHP.
Comment · 15 years ago
As mentioned, lawyers and doctors are required to stay up to date in their fields in order to continue practicing. In California, lawyers need 25 MCLE credits every 3 years (http://mcle.calbar.ca.gov/) and doctors need 50 CME hours every 2 years (http://www.medbd.ca.gov/licensee/continuing_education.html).
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