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by billpg 5y ago
If you'll excuse me, I'm going to implement GIT in 6502 assembler.
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by billpg 5y ago
Oh-Dear-How-Sad-Never-Mind.gif
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by billpg 5y ago
Usenet used to be like this for me. With high cost dialup, I'd download batches of posts, read them and respond offline, uploading my responses at the same time I download the following day's batch.
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by billpg 5y ago
"Huh. Must be a rule about usury and credit card interest." "Oh, Korean, as in Korea."
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by billpg 5y ago
True, but the analysis was done on files downloaded over the span of two or three days. If someone had decided to change the CSS class of an infobox during that time, I'd have noticed, investigated and adjusted my code appropriately.
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by billpg 5y ago
For three minutes, something I wrote was cited on Wikipedia.
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by billpg 5y ago
(Author of original article here.) That's the great thing about HtmlAgilityPack, extracting data from HTML is really easy. I might even say even easier than if I had the page in some table-based data system.
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by billpg 5y ago
(Author here) In an act of divine justice, my website is down. https://web.archive.org/web/20210711201037/https://billpg.co... (I'll send you a donation. Thank you!)
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by billpg 5y ago
(Author here.) Perhaps, but I already know how to scrape HTML and I know the data I wanted to pull out was in there. I have no idea how to query wikidata and it could have ended up being a blind alley. Also, it was only my reading your comm
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Data-Mining Wikipedia for Fun and Profit(billpg.com)
207 points by billpg 5y ago|95 comments
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by billpg 5y ago
"10.000 websites" A lot of fuss over ten websites.
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by billpg 5y ago
There are two types of video. Ones recorded in landscape and ones recorded badly.
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by billpg 5y ago
Through my university.
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by billpg 5y ago
Which TLD is that? Because I never want to use that domain and I'm thinking about hacking my DNS to fake-NXDOMAIN it entirely.
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by billpg 5y ago
For a long time (and maybe still) you had to have a phone number to register a .com domain. This was a particular annoyance when I wanted to do this but I didn't have a phone number. It was the days before cell phones were really cheap
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by billpg 5y ago
That would be useful energy, which thermodynamics says is impossible to extract from heat.
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by billpg 5y ago
I don't care if the energy is useful, I just want it gone.
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by billpg 5y ago
I don't know about blasphemy. My intended tone was "telling a joke". I know what I proposed would require our understanding of thermodynamics to be wrong, but this is in response to an article about a material that converts h
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by billpg 5y ago
Heat is energy. In summer, the sun (rudely) gives me excess unwanted heat in my house. I need to expend even more energy to get that heat from inside to outside my house. (We call this process "Air Conditioning".) What would be id
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by billpg 5y ago
Are you sure? I use BT and I all of the IPv6 testing websites I found report no-support.
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by billpg 5y ago
If I want to give (say) £100 to a charity, I give £75 and sign something agreeing to allow the charity to get the rest from the income taxes I already paid. (I forget the exact percentage.)
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by billpg 5y ago
I just emailed you. Thank you for following up on such an old comment thread.
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by billpg 5y ago
Hello there. I just spoke to your colleague in sales and she tells me that Cloudflare Tunnel is only available to Enterprise customers. I forget the exact price but it included the word "thousand". (I almost fainted.) My needs are
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by billpg 5y ago
"Read this story with a free account." I'll pass thanks.
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by billpg 5y ago
If you'll excuse me, I'm going to be looking at HTML cache add-ons for my WordPress site.
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by billpg 5y ago
Wait, your web server is a Raspberry PI, and its holding up while being on the HN front page. Do you have a caching service in front maybe?
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by billpg 5y ago
Here's one. (Only just read your response. Sorry.) "There will be no change for EU citizens already lawfully resident in the UK. These EU citizens will automatically be granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK and will be trea
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by billpg 5y ago
Not them, but the people who lied to them.
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by billpg 5y ago
Given the structure seems simple, what would prevent someone making their own QR with fake data and a randomly selected ID number? If the answer is that a service can validate the data, then why not just have the ID value if its all going t
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Show HN: POP3 Listener – A Pluggable POP3 Service(github.com)
1 points by billpg 5y ago|0 comments

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