notastartup

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by notastartup 11y ago
I certainly don't think this is the end. Was writing a comment but decided I will post it on my blog https://blog.scrape.it/secret-shutting-down-isnt-the-end
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Show HN: Unmetered Data Extraction Tool in the Cloud(scrape.it)
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by notastartup 11y ago
amazing. its like states are a different snapshots of America during different time periods.
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by notastartup 11y ago
corporations want to extract the maximum possible value from their human assets, without exhausting them or provoking rebellion or escape some continuously turnover people. their business relies on ripping people off and
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Sketchpad Demo (1963)(youtube.com)
1 points by notastartup 11y ago|1 comments
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by notastartup 11y ago
you are absolutely right.
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Show HN: Magic for web scraping tasks(scrape.it)
4 points by notastartup 11y ago|2 comments
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by notastartup 11y ago
I think what is not being discussed is debt. Debt is used to finance this type of growth.
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Ask HN: What can I do to improve my chances?
1 points by notastartup 11y ago|0 comments
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Long Polling Doesn't Suck(blog.scrape.it)
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by notastartup 11y ago
I think there is another boom that is fading, a potentially more serious one that is China's housing market. It is flooded with supply. Capital flight to the West, with property developers defaulting on debt, li kai shing (richest HK d
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by notastartup 11y ago
Scrape.it works on building a web scraping tool that minimizes effort and time invested to quickly extract data from websites. Web scraping is simple in theory but building a tool that can work with a lot of different websites in the wild
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by notastartup 11y ago
Mechanical Turk gets expensive fast, and isn't very accurate, usually with any type of service, there's an overhead. What this seems like is a quick way to get grunt work done. I can see how web scraping can fit nicely. However, s
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How I Spent Six Years Developing a Product(blog.scrape.it)
9 points by notastartup 12y ago|1 comments
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by notastartup 12y ago
Do we really need to reinvent the wheels? Microservice, the async craze feels like, we now need to create a single wheel that is made up of many wheels, and spend an enormous time making it look and feel like a single wheel that was working
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by notastartup 12y ago
this was a really cool effect...but I never found SNL to be funny. I've never even laughed at it once. I don't understand why people laugh...that and jimmy fallon/kimmel
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by notastartup 12y ago
used npm, and started using pip. it was way better because you could use python and not javascript.
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by notastartup 12y ago
don't you feel that if you a language's short coming is addressed by adding more of it in the form of duct tapes is problematic? I love javascript when it was doing simple things on the DOM, not trying to recreate the desktop in t
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by notastartup 12y ago
Do you guys think that we are now moving into a new trend on the client side now? React + Flux vs. Angularjs, Backbone.js? It seems that every job, even backend positions, require Angularjs or Backbone.js knowledge. Having largely ignored t
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by notastartup 12y ago
what is the point of such a long sentencing? 440 years?
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Ask HN: How to be an independent security consultant?
17 points by notastartup 12y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Craigslist is down, any alternatives for jobs?
1 points by notastartup 12y ago|0 comments
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by notastartup 12y ago
so how are people coming up with zero-day vulnerabilities all the time? How are these people able to find a way to inject code in pdf or word documentation year after year? Is software forever vulnerable, even ones written by huge number of
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by notastartup 12y ago
I wonder wouldn't such map invite trolls and griefers that would just come to destroy everything in sight?
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by notastartup 12y ago
I understand Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan are targets. But Saudi Arabia? It strikes me as odd.
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by notastartup 12y ago
this was really beautiful. I almost blurted out it was art but then I was forced to remember we can't call computer generated things art by some hidden rule.
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by notastartup 12y ago
I just use chrome extension
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by notastartup 12y ago
what makes you depressed about it?
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by notastartup 12y ago
how would you get into learning those platforms?
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by notastartup 12y ago
The server side changes I'm not too thrilled about javascript making it's way to server side when so many wheels exist already in form of php, java, python. The client side I've set by on the bench while I continued to hack w

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