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Scraping and Parsing Sitemaps in Bash(intoli.com)
1 points by foob 8y ago|0 comments
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How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit(intoli.com)
255 points by foob 8y ago|87 comments
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No API Is the Best API – The elegant power of Power Assert(intoli.com)
2 points by foob 8y ago|0 comments
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by foob 8y ago
It is on UserVoice [1], and it has over two thousand votes there. They've marked that as "sorry, no plans," and they've marked previous issues as "by design" [2]. They use Chrome announcing plans to deprecate S
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by foob 8y ago
This is pretty awesome. I'm a big fan of both SVG animations and terminal recorders, so this is right up my alley. I previously built a small library called svganimator for creating smooth animations between static SVG images [1], us
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by foob 8y ago
As the author, I'm really glad that you enjoyed this enough to share it, but I doubt it will get much traction because it was just on the front page yesterday. Maybe you would have better luck submitting the GitHub repository instead :
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by foob 8y ago
There's a table in the GitHub repository that shows the inputs and outputs for various equivalent slices in JavaScript and Python [1]. If you're familiar with the Python slicing syntax, that should make the syntax mapping fairly c
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by foob 8y ago
That would be a neat interface too, but it would necessitate a somewhat different approach than the one taken in the article. You can only use a proxy to trap operations that are already supported by the object that's being wrapped. Th
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Recreating Python's Slice Syntax in JavaScript Using ES6 Proxies(intoli.com)
77 points by foob 8y ago|35 comments
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Slice – Python's negative indexing and extended slice syntax for JavaScript(github.com)
1 points by foob 8y ago|0 comments
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A Slack Community for Developers to Discuss Web Scraping(intoli.com)
1 points by foob 8y ago|0 comments
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by foob 8y ago
The title makes it sound like there was some interesting technical trick or something. As far as I can tell, the article basically amounts to, "humans have ears, and putting slaves in close proximity to their slave owners allowed them
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by foob 8y ago
It depends a lot on the specific field that you're talking about. I studied both music and physics in college, and I think that teaching the history backwards would work for music, but not for physics. You can understand modern harmoni
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by foob 8y ago
The difference is definitely genetic. Colorblindness is generally caused by recessive genes that are part of the X chromosome. That means that the proportion of men who are colorblind is basically equal to the proportion of X chromosomes wi
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A New Dark Pattern: Tricking Browsers into Making Repeated Notification Requests(intoli.com)
3 points by foob 8y ago|0 comments
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by foob 8y ago
I agree, pnpm is excellent. The node_modules directory can easily take up hundreds of megabytes, and the storage space savings that pnpm provides are really convenient when you write a lot of small projects with similar sets of dependencies
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by foob 8y ago
Here's an article which explains in detail how pickles/serialization work in Python, and how pickles can be constructed to evaluate malicious code when they are deserialized. That's specifically about Python, but the same iss
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by foob 8y ago
Nobody evaluates a model based simply on how well it fits the data and its number of parameters; you also look at how well the model parameters are constrained and what the uncertainty bands on the fit are. The existing practice isn'
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by foob 8y ago
I can definitely understand you cringing about the re-encoding, but I just wanted to point out that the reason that we took this approach was simply to give a semi-plausible real-world example of how tools like aws-serverless-express [1] an
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by foob 8y ago
Their equation is cute, but this really isn't remotely surprising and the implications aren't as significant as they imply. The result relies heavily on the fact that their theta parameter has infinite precision. You can encode as
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by foob 8y ago
It's actually been reported that Netflix is significantly ramping up their production of sci-fi television shows [1]. 29% of their upcoming shows fall into the sci-fi category. Here's a quote from that article with some more conte
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Building a YouTube MP3 Downloader with Exodus, FFmpeg, and AWS Lambda(intoli.com)
1 points by foob 8y ago|0 comments
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by foob 8y ago
One possibility is adding syntactic sugar to objects. I posted elsewhere in this thread about how we used them in Remote Browser, but here's a simple example of adding support for negative indexing to an array. This basically creates a
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by foob 8y ago
Proxies are definitely fun. We use them extensively in our browser automation framework, which is largely based on the Web Extensions API [1], to implement syntactic sugar in the interface. The general goal behind Remote Browser [2] is to m
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by foob 8y ago
The packages that Exodus produces are actually quite similar to those introduced in this announcement. Both tools generate simple tarballs that can be extracted anywhere to relocate programs along with their dependencies, and both tools boo
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Running FFmpeg on AWS Lambda for 1.9% the Cost of AWS Elastic Transcoder(intoli.com)
214 points by foob 8y ago|53 comments
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by foob 8y ago
I'll have to checkout Ken Forkish's book, but, in the meantime, I feel the need to throw out a quick mention of Jennie Shapter's Bread Baker's Bible [1]. I'm not much of a bread eater, but it's one of my favo
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by foob 8y ago
I used to be part of a collaboration at a particle accelerator called RHIC. It was the most powerful accelerator of it's type before the LHC was built, and a lot of really great research was done there. One year, the budget got slashed
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A Tour of Remote Browser – The Web Extensions API's Browser Automation Framework(intoli.com)
1 points by foob 8y ago|0 comments
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by foob 8y ago
Thanks! You can use the extension in a CI setup by first installing the remote-browser extension, and then using it in your tests. You can check out remote-browser 's own tests for an example of integrating the project with CircleCI

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