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is this condoned by PG?
by dustingetz 16y ago
is this condoned by PG?
- sahillavingia 16y agoFor now, the answer seems to be yes.
- benatkin 16y agoI'm inclined to agree. Remember, pg doesn't provide an RSS feed for his essays. http://www.paulgraham.com/rss.html http://www.paulgraham.com/rss.html
- riobard 16y agoAny words on why there is no API for HN?
- benatkin 16y agoIt might be a philosophical thing. One APIs became popular, scraping started to be viewed as breaking the rules. I think this has discouraged many from writing search engines. Crawlers are just scrapers on a big scale. I know I'd like to see more serious attempts at vertical search engines. I wonder if getting backlash, in the form of people complaining to hosting companies, would be the hardest part of writing a search engine for ruby blog posts that understands regular expressions. I could certainly use such a tool.
- sahillavingia 16y agoTime that could be spent working on some other, higher-marginal-utility thing, I would think.
- ronnier 16y agoHe's aware of it because he responded to an AskHN question about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1702399 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1702399 He didn't say not to do it :)