I was interested in my seemingly varying ability to remember new people’s names. I thought that it would be interesting to try out various different techniques that claim to seemingly improve this skill.

Remember the Name

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Facebook API

To find people’s random pictures we hit Facebook’s API with different ids:

deferred = $q.defer()
  $http
    .get("//graph.facebook.com/#{utils.randomer()}/?fields=picture,name")
    .success (data) ->
      deferred.resolve data
    .error (data) ->
      failure data
  deferred.promise

We can then parse the result to determine whether or not they have a public profile picture:

success = (data) ->
  if data.picture.data.is_silhouette
    # try again...

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