MechanicalTwerk

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   by MechanicalTwerk 9y ago

   Are you saying sane and secure defaults in Django or any other web framework should be enough for a beginner to not have to to worry about this stuff? See another issue for beginners trying to figure it out is they have to deal with people
2. 32.▲
   by MechanicalTwerk 9y ago

   I think the problem is once you get into coding it yourself, docs/tutorials/stackoverflow make you aware of all sorts of things like dev tools (IDEs, editors, package managers, VCS, VMs, containers, the list is goes on...) or secu
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   by MechanicalTwerk 9y ago

   INAL but usually the data, or at least some portion of it, is owned by the users and the service's TOS and Privacy Policy will state how the service is allowed to use it. So they have a responsibility to keep their users' data pro
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   by MechanicalTwerk 9y ago

   I'm guessing you might get a cease and desist. Instagram just shutdown Instagress, MassPlanner and others. Granted this isn't a bot but scrapers usually aren't met with much love either. Especially if you start selling the da
5. 35.▲
   by MechanicalTwerk 11y ago

   Note that this user used to work at Looker.
6. 36.▲
   by MechanicalTwerk 11y ago

   Could not agree more. With all this talk of data and ideas, you would think he could include some data to back up his ideas. He can't, because this is all just opinion.
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   by MechanicalTwerk 13y ago

   Yep. I'm kind of amazed at the level polish in their initial releases given that HashiCorp is what, 3 people? And they're up to 4 products now with Serf being released just 6 months ago and Packer not long before that.
8. 38.▲
   by MechanicalTwerk 13y ago

   Seriously, who does design for HashiCorp? Their site designs, though similar, always kill it.
9. 39.▲
   by MechanicalTwerk 13y ago

   Thinking out loud here...I'm sure this will get downvoted. I've never met PG or Sam - this comes only from videos I've watched online - but it seems not only the way they speak, but their mannerisms as well, are eerily simila
10. 40.▲
    Ask HN: Evenings only coworking memberships in San Francisco?

    1 points by MechanicalTwerk 13y ago|0 comments
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    by MechanicalTwerk 13y ago

    I like how the article introduces Twitter as "Microblogging site Twitter..." as if you haven't heard of Twitter but are familiar with this thing called microblogging.
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    Anyone know who Tim Ferriss is talking about?(youtube.com)

    1 points by MechanicalTwerk 13y ago|0 comments
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    by MechanicalTwerk 13y ago

    Any good examples of a push feed you currently like?
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    by MechanicalTwerk 13y ago

    Thanks. Will definitely look deeper into this. Know of any good sites where researchers make such requests?
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    by MechanicalTwerk 13y ago

    Priceonomics looks like more of a professional service at the moment. I'd like to sell actual data sets in more of an ecommerce/subscription model. Kind of like http://www.cbinsights.com/datastore/
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    Ask HN: Web crawler/data product ideas?

    9 points by MechanicalTwerk 13y ago|8 comments
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    Ask HN: Using mTurk to morally/legally get around a robots.txt disallow?

    1 points by MechanicalTwerk 13y ago|2 comments