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At the bottom it has a list of websites with the title: "Who ever made these websites with the lists of People, you made a pretty bad job!" What is the story b

At the bottom it has a list of websites with the title: "Who ever made these websites with the lists of People, you made a pretty bad job!" What is the story behind this comment?

fastball 9y ago
Those are all the websites for the various cantons in Switzerland, as it seems the creator of this site needed to get the data from each canton's registry individually. I would assume some of the sites had harder to scrape data than others, and that is the reason for the differentiation. Or maybe those sites allowed him to easily download the entire registry from those sites in an insecure way, so "you did a poor job obfuscating / firewalling your data"? Those are my two guesses.
- m_mueller 9y ago
  Maybe it's just a Swiss acting according to the stereotype of Germans on steroids [1]. [1] http://countryballs.net/_nw/9/18482749.png http://countryballs.net/_nw/9/18482749.png ;-)
  - faebi 9y ago
    Fits pretty good! Probably I should add a description why I didn't like certain websites. Also the comment of KamelAufAbwegen hits the nail on the head https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15958534 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15958534 For me it was astonishing in how many different ways the Kantons publish this data and also how horrible certain websites are. Some publish a nice simple HTML table with all data, the best ones even publish an excel file. Like this, most people at least could generate a series letter in word. Many websites are an insane mess of javascript and tons of requests for even the simplest informations. Some websites are insane slow. Some websites seem to have a broken server and every N-th request fails. Some are even barely navigatable by a human. And then I think how much I probably paid for that horrible piece of software with my taxes.

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At the bottom it has a list of websites with the title: "Who ever made these websites with the lists of People, you made a pretty bad job!" What is the story b

by mosselman 9y ago

At the bottom it has a list of websites with the title: "Who ever made these websites with the lists of People, you made a pretty bad job!" What is the story behind this comment?

fastball 9y ago
Those are all the websites for the various cantons in Switzerland, as it seems the creator of this site needed to get the data from each canton's registry individually. I would assume some of the sites had harder to scrape data than others, and that is the reason for the differentiation. Or maybe those sites allowed him to easily download the entire registry from those sites in an insecure way, so "you did a poor job obfuscating / firewalling your data"? Those are my two guesses.
- m_mueller 9y ago
  Maybe it's just a Swiss acting according to the stereotype of Germans on steroids [1]. [1] http://countryballs.net/_nw/9/18482749.png http://countryballs.net/_nw/9/18482749.png ;-)
  - faebi 9y ago
    Fits pretty good! Probably I should add a description why I didn't like certain websites. Also the comment of KamelAufAbwegen hits the nail on the head https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15958534 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15958534 For me it was astonishing in how many different ways the Kantons publish this data and also how horrible certain websites are. Some publish a nice simple HTML table with all data, the best ones even publish an excel file. Like this, most people at least could generate a series letter in word. Many websites are an insane mess of javascript and tons of requests for even the simplest informations. Some websites are insane slow. Some websites seem to have a broken server and every N-th request fails. Some are even barely navigatable by a human. And then I think how much I probably paid for that horrible piece of software with my taxes.