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by spulec 8y ago
Yes, we've been improving our scraping technology for the past 8 years as we've worked on YipitData (the #1 provider of web data to wall street). Python is the only supported language right now. Scrapy is an awesome project, but w
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by spulec 12y ago
YipitData, NYC, Fulltime. VISAs welcome. Data Systems Engineer: http://yipitdata.com/jobs/#job-engineer YipitData develops clever ways to learn about businesses from online data. We specialize in acquiring this difficu
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"Sane data updates" series by Adrian Holovaty(holovaty.com)
1 points by spulec 13y ago|0 comments
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by spulec 13y ago
Agreed. We've had success using a very base ubuntu ami and then having the user data install chef and do a chef run. This results in slower startups for new machines, but the flexibility seems to be worth it. Eventually we'll get
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Show HN: Moto - Easy mocking of Boto for your Python AWS tests(github.com)
66 points by spulec 14y ago|4 comments
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by spulec 14y ago
I'm curious about 2012-08 and 2012-11. Pet feature, hackathon, large release with hotfixes?
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by spulec 14y ago
Correct. I've gone with his latter solution for now and added a warning about import order. I'm not very happy with this solution through and will be spending some time with ctypes in the next few days to come up with something better.
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by spulec 14y ago
Hey Timothy, thanks for the response. You are correct. I'll add a warning to the library and work on a solution. Unfortunately, I think it will need to involve ctypes.
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FreezeGun: easy mocking of Python datetimes(stevepulec.com)
88 points by spulec 14y ago|16 comments
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Show HN: My Girlfriend and I built this over the weekend(charmgenius.com)
11 points by spulec 14y ago|11 comments
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by spulec 15y ago
Absolutely. Stashing seemed like the cleaner choice to me, but either would work.
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by spulec 15y ago
Cool. We had looked at doing it that way, but decided that we wanted to have the flexibility of accessing the entire repo so that we can run things like "./manage.py validate" and quick unit tests. A leftover pdb.set_trace() that snuck into
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by spulec 15y ago
If you're still interested in NYC startups, check out yipit.com/jobs and email me(steve@yipit.com). We're hiring and have sponsored visas before.
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by spulec 15y ago
One of my favorite quora answers: http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-tha...
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by spulec 15y ago
New York, NY - Yipit Just off raising $6 million, we are looking for the 12th member of the team(when we posted this last month, we were looking for our 8th). Come join us on the ground floor of one of the best startups in New York. Right n
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Is Groupon Bad For Small Businesses?(techcrunch.com)
3 points by spulec 15y ago|0 comments
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by spulec 15y ago
New York, NY - Yipit Just off raising $6 million, we are looking for our 8th member of the team. Come join us on the ground floor of one of the best startups in New York. Right now, great companies like 10Gen, FourSquare, Hunch, SeatGeek, a
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by spulec 15y ago
Yipit is actually in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
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by spulec 16y ago
Originally it was all done manually, but we've been automating more and more. Feel free to send me any feedback. steve@yipit.com
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by spulec 16y ago
Yipit.com aggregates Groupon, LivingSocial, and hundreds of other daily deal sites(including non-location specific ones like Woot). It will filter the deals based on your location and specific interests you have. Disclosure: I recently star
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Just Manic Enough: Seeking Perfect Entrepreneurs(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by spulec 16y ago|1 comments
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by spulec 16y ago
As someone who just finished an internship, I can provide some insight into the good and bad. As far as a main project, I would choose something new and independent. Think of that crazy idea you've been playing around with for a while, but
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by spulec 16y ago
I can confirm that the security hole was not limited to only friends. I was able to insert non-friend's IDs for the "viewas" parameter.
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Facebook is the new Microsoft, but that may not be so bad.(blog.stevepulec.com)
2 points by spulec 16y ago|2 comments
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by spulec 16y ago
Yes, the title was designed to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
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by spulec 16y ago
Thank you, corrected.
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by spulec 16y ago
I agree that Alice has not provided a substantial argument, but this does not make Bob's response any more legitimate.
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by spulec 16y ago
This is certainly not meant to be comprehensive. More of a 'top hits' for those less willing to look over the entire Wikipedia article.
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by spulec 17y ago
The on-demand approach is not completely eliminated. Users can still watch episodes of previously broadcast shows. I'm hoping that the show owners will be out there encouraging voters. I also thought that some statistics displayed to the us
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by spulec 17y ago
The long-term plan would be to have multiple channels, with at least one that would presumably fit your interests.

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