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by frabcus 12y ago
Hiya! Francis from ScraperWiki here. There are a couple of things going on: Firstly, it is about inconsistency between how developers are treated and how people-who-can-use-Excel are treated. Secondly, it is that vetting of "data use
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Why Twitter’s decision on Scraperwiki is bad for data democracy(gravyanecdote.com)
31 points by frabcus 12y ago|16 comments
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by frabcus 12y ago
Legality of scraping is a subtle issue - I wrote up my take on it here: https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/04/is-scraping-legal/
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by frabcus 12y ago
I don't quite get the article... I understand that the shrinking of the black hole will cease, if underlying space/time is discrete. And I understand that that will happen quickly from POV inside the black hole, and slowly outside
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by frabcus 12y ago
Most people are 5ft tall!
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by frabcus 12y ago
I'm told David Brin's (non-fiction) "The Transparent Society" covers this idea in detail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society
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by frabcus 12y ago
I note that queries like https://duckduckgo.com/?q=man+df put in a box from LinuxCommand.org
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by frabcus 12y ago
Please do this!
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by frabcus 12y ago
To be fair, at the time we were terrified the much more closed Apple platform would win. To be honest this time I'd rather there was a monopoly, as at least it is then completely clear the only viable competition is open source, so tha
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by frabcus 12y ago
Sorry forgot to reply to this! No to remote working - we've tried it and we find local presence important to team building.
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by frabcus 12y ago
Is there somewhere online you can talk to him?
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Game development asset marketplace(gamedevmarket.net)
2 points by frabcus 12y ago|0 comments
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by frabcus 12y ago
ScraperWiki, Liverpool, UK. Software Engineer and Digital Marketer. We're that rare thing an open source startup in Liverpool, using things like Node.js, Python, Docker, Salt... We also do consultancy for clients like the Cabinet Offic
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by frabcus 12y ago
The best guess answer to that is making it so everyone doesn't have to work unless they want to via a citizen's income http://www.citizensincome.org/
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by frabcus 12y ago
Not really, having an explicit path seems more useful and clearer to me. Easier to read the code and find the file. Things like "gf" in vim will definitely work on it to open it up too.
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Interview with David Irvine, founder of MaidSafe(redecentralize.org)
3 points by frabcus 12y ago|0 comments
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by frabcus 12y ago
By selling adverts based on the current query. It already does so.
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by frabcus 12y ago
Downvoted, as that is a misunderstanding that design is neither just on the surface, nor underneath. It pervades all the way through. You have to iteratively improve it all.
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by frabcus 12y ago
My view is we need to built a culture of larger shared visions. Obvious ones are - 1) bring decent, sustainable standard of living to everyone in the world, 2) colonise space. I'd quite like 3) understand all laws of physics, and 4) un
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by frabcus 12y ago
Thanks!
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by frabcus 12y ago
Fancy being interviewed for http://redecentralize.org/ ? If so, email me francis@redecentralize.org! (I couldn't see an email or contact form for you on the syncthing site)
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by frabcus 12y ago
Help pivoting.
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by frabcus 12y ago
Right! Quora is before product market fit - it has no revenue, and its core product seems to have stalled (given the valuation its investors need). YC seems ideal for this. Just because they've spent millions, doesn't mean they ar
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by frabcus 12y ago
As well as using it to call international numbers, I also use it for Wifi access at some airports. No doubt I could do both more cheaply another way, but I do them both so rarely that Skype just already being there "and just working&qu
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by frabcus 12y ago
Where did you find that link? Or indeed, the page it points to? I've never seen either before.
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MaidSafe sells $6 million in 5 hours to decentralize storage, apps(blog.mastercoin.org)
1 points by frabcus 12y ago|0 comments
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by frabcus 13y ago
And most importantly, no identity system which end users know about . (i.e. people know about email addresses, but Facebook users use XMPP without knowing how to refer to people on other services)
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by frabcus 13y ago
"A Small Matter of Programming" by Bonnie Nardi is an excellent book which delves into the history of end-user programming. Spreadsheets, CAD and so on, all based on researching users.
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by frabcus 13y ago
We've got quite an old mailing list full of geeks hand-coding web scrapers, if you want somewhere to ask questions: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/scraperwiki
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by frabcus 13y ago
See my blog post about this on the ScraperWiki blog https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/04/is-scraping-legal/

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