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Comment by llacb47 | Hacker News Reader

This is truly the most advanced algorithm ever seen ;)

    https://twiktwok.github.io/firstVids.js

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That's just the ouput cache of the algorithm's last run. The algorithm itself is pretty advanced and is run on the developers's biological neural net.

Love the term *biological neural net" Great way to say "still in the noggin"

Reminds me of the best no-bullshit algorithm:

  int getRandomNumber()
  {
     return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll.
               // guaranteed to be random.
  }

https://xkcd.com/221/

Also, this one https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25

My favorite Dilbert of all time ;-)

Haha very funny, classic xkcd

So all of the content is manually uploaded to the repo?

I'd do that too but it would be cached and updated hourly. Why hit the Twitter api on each request?

You could set the app up to call the Twitter API but cache the response in memory or something like Redis so you don't need any background jobs/file management etc.

I've used memcached a lot but there's also benefits to caching a JavaScript file for an hour at a CDN and removing all load from that request.

Hahaha

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