yego.me
yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

$30 Giveaway Winner!

2m read
·Nov 3, 2024

Hey guys, this is Matt.

I get 10 on with the conclusion to the giveaway which we initiated last week. Now, to do this, I'm going to be picking a random winner and verifying that they're actually subscribed to us. Then I'll be sending them thirty dollars to iTunes. So, I'm just going to walk you through the process that I'm using to do this so you can make sure that it's actually fair and because some of you might actually be interested.

So first off, I went to the commenters section of the video to get a list. I threw up the JavaScript console and ran this nice script which I created. I'll just run it to show you what happens. It lists all of the usernames of everyone who commented on the video. Then I copied these usernames into this text file and deleted those who specifically said they didn't actually want to enter the contest because they don't use iTunes or whatever. So now, this basically includes each line is a different contestant.

Now, to pick a random line from this file, I wrote a Ruby script, which I'll just show you now. It reads all the lines into an array, makes sure there's no duplicates, and then picks a random person. So now, I'll go ahead and actually run this script, and it will determine who won the contest.

And the winner is Sim! I'm not going to try to pronounce that one, but they won. So now, the last step to the giveaway is to determine that they actually commented on the video. To do this, I've set up this little curl command which calls YouTube's API to get a list of a user's subscriptions. I'll just get the list of this person's subscriptions.

I haven't actually verified that this method will give a list of all the subscriptions if there's too many, but if it doesn't have us in the list, I'll verify that. But I suspect that it will. So, let's go ahead and get this list, open it up in XML, search for "Mac," and so on.

And there it is! They are subscribed to Mac Heads 101 on YouTube. So that's all we needed to know. This is the winner, and I will be messaging them the thirty dollars to iTunes.

Um, so I really appreciate all of you guys commenting on this video. It's really refreshing to see so many people who watch our videos come together and leave a message, even if you just want thirty dollars.

Um, so thanks! Thanks for all of your guys' comments. It was well appreciated. Thanks for watching, and goodbye!

Ballet Shoes: The Craft Before the Dance | Short Film Showcase
Why Don't We Shoot Nuclear Waste Into Space?

More Articles

View All
The Fermi Paradox II — Solutions and Ideas – Where Are All The Aliens?
There are probably 10,000 stars for every grain of sand on Earth, in the observable universe. We know that there might be trillions of planets. So where are all the aliens? This is the Fermi Paradox. If you want to know more about it, watch part one. Here…
How Are National Park Trips Different From What They Used to Be? | National Geographic
I think that every generation experiences the natural world differently. Like the 50s and 60s, like this glorified Yellowstone, go see the bears. Maybe during my parents’ generation, the park system was sort of blooming and emerging, whereas now it’s a bi…
See Antarctica Like Never Before | National Geographic
[Music] I think there’s no place on earth like Antarctica. You can spend days and days and days here without seeing any other human being. It’s just as close as there is to being alone on this planet. It’s just so beautiful, so majestic, so overwhelming. …
2015 AP Calculus 2c | AP Calculus AB solved exams | AP Calculus AB | Khan Academy
Let H be the vertical distance between the graphs of f and g in region s. Find the rate at which H changes with respect to x when x is equal to 1.8. So, we have region s right over here. You can’t see it that well since I drew over it. What you see in re…
Once You’re Rich Do This for Your Parents (Cheap to Expensive)
Did you know that by the time you’ve reached 19 years old, you would have already spent 95% of the time you’ll get with your parents in your lifetime? It doesn’t sound right, but it is true. You get your own life, your own family, your work, your passions…
Frank Lantz - Director of NYU's Game Center and Creator of Universal Paperclips
I was watching one of your talks earlier this week, and you said something that essentially in game design the most compelling experiences are made out of gaps. But then in another talk, you said games of the aesthetic form of thinking and doing. And if y…