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by cdr 15y ago
Offtopic: Inputting text with Swype on Android is a breeze once you get used to it.
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by cdr 15y ago
I much prefer Scrapy ( http://scrapy.org/ ). BeautifulSoup is pretty outdated.
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by cdr 15y ago
Only so long as the market doesn't crash.
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by cdr 15y ago
That's certainly true, but it doesn't usually seem to happen.
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by cdr 15y ago
That "new payment system" is quite possibly interfacing with, say, mainframe code written in the 70s. That's often the source of banks' ridiculous account restrictions.
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by cdr 15y ago
I have a passwordless Guest account set up on both Windows and Linux for Predator. It's possible that as stories like this continue to get publicized thieves will get smarter and start removing or wiping disks, but it seems like a lot of th
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by cdr 15y ago
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450424
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by cdr 15y ago
I can't imagine you were living anywhere desirable that you could pay $156/month in rent. People living in high cost of living areas can't reasonably live on $12K/year. Luckily, they mostly get paid a lot better $40K/year because they have
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by cdr 15y ago
I got an invite from dotcloud way faster than any of the other hosting services that're in beta.
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by cdr 15y ago
A blog would be a very good idea - show what your ideas on management are. See, for example, Rands in Repose.
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by cdr 15y ago
If there was a major security hole in 2.2, I expect there'd be a patch for 2.2 that'd get pushed out as an urgent update.
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by cdr 15y ago
Practical Django Projects got an updated second edition in 2010 which would be a good thing, but... It's unfortunately sort of half-finished. The author clearly lost interest halfway through. The accompanying github repo was never finished,
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by cdr 15y ago
At one of my internships they had written a simple server in Java to bridge XMPP and IRC. Sounds like it's been re-invented a few times.
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by cdr 15y ago
Does stuffing so much content in there give it any additional SEO value? I'm not well versed in SEO, but that's about the only thing I could think of.
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by cdr 15y ago
I use JungleDisk on both my desktop and my personal file server. The desktop has it on both the Ubuntu and the Windows partition. I use it for the irreplaceable stuff like documents and pictures on the server, and for application data on th
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by cdr 15y ago
When I wanted to get on forrst, I looked at the request process on the site and it was obviously broken. So I looked into other avenues of recieving an invite - much, much more effective. There are easily researched places where people have
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by cdr 15y ago
I seem to be missing why you think using a framework is a bad thing. With say django or YUI there are performance and abstraction issues that can bite you, but I don't see those mattering for so lightweight a framework and tightly scoped a
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by cdr 15y ago
I just keep my config files in git. Having to commit changes is a good thing, not a nuisance - being able to track changes is hugely useful.
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by cdr 15y ago
The last two go for communities, too. I've been a member of at least a couple great online communities where the owners lost interest but could not handle handing their baby to someone else - so they killed them instead. They seemed utterly
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by cdr 16y ago
I have under a page of code with Scrapy for simple projects, and more advanced features when I need them. That's like saying "jQuery is overkill for just about everything, you should use plain javascript".
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by cdr 16y ago
Even better use Scrapy, which is a whole framework designed specifically for scraping and is built on top of libxml2 like lxml.
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by cdr 16y ago
My impression was that BeautifulSoup is actually getting very long in the tooth - I didn't use it much, but I have used a lot of Scrapy, a beautiful framework that completely supplants BeautifulSoup for scraping.
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by cdr 16y ago
They gave notice years ago that they were phasing it out. You haven't been able to upload anything in years. Frankly, I'm surprised it took them this long.
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by cdr 16y ago
It's because the single video on the account was taken down. The counter might eventually catch up with the fact that the video was reinstated.
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by cdr 16y ago
Yep, videos are automatically taken down after a certain number of flags. I expect it'll be restored if/when someone at Google catches wind of it.
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by cdr 16y ago
Interesting, but I think I'll stick to more mature frameworks like Scrapy for the moment.
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by cdr 16y ago
They can (in the "they have the capability to" sense of can) because it's a US-controlled TLD. They've being doing seizures like this for about a year with smaller fry. They don't a care a bit if a site is entirely foreign-owned and entirel
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by cdr 16y ago
One other significant problem I have is that it breaks "comments by points" search on searchyc.com.
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by cdr 16y ago
Definitely this. Too many teams that do send email make the assumption that I've been following every little bit of information about the site (which hasn't even launched so there isn't any), much less remind me what the hell they do. And t
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by cdr 16y ago
Also, if you relocate from Mountain View, I suspect you'd be able to keep more of your salary than the cost-of-living decrease would strictly dictate.

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