jdrock

14 ms·

91.
by jdrock 16y ago
I thought this would be instructions on how to configure my TV to cancel out all frequencies EXCEPT the vuvuzela. Alas :(
92.
by jdrock 16y ago
I'm kind of surprised Celiac was not tested before. I know a quite a few people with it, so I thought it was a fairly common thing to test for and identify.
93.
by jdrock 16y ago
Understood. We do work with folks on custom per-use plans, but we just need to figure out what your requirements are so that we can see if there's some way for us to help.
94.
by jdrock 16y ago
Tooting my own horn, but this takes all of 1 minute in 80legs if you've got the right regex.
95.
by jdrock 16y ago
I have a fairly nice car. Have owned it for 7 years now. While there have been minor problems like scrapes on the rims, trim peeling, etc., the engine, transmission and all the real guts of the car have performed flawlessly the entire tim
96.
by jdrock 16y ago
No, it's not. If you're steadily earning a 10% return on your investment, year over year, you are doing amazingly well and should stop doing whatever day job you have now.
97.
by jdrock 16y ago
I kind of think you're countering yourself here. Just like only showing relevant news is an interesting challenge, so is only showing relevant ads. Advertisers don't want to show you ads you're not interested in; they want to show you ads
98.
by jdrock 16y ago
I suppose it depends on your personality, perspective and how you grow your company's culture. I just finished reading Tony Hsieh's upcoming book, Delivering Happiness. He describes how LinkExchange, his first big company, became boring to
99.
by jdrock 16y ago
A local intern would be full time. Remote work would depend on the ability of the programmer. We have a few dozen 80apps that need to be produced for various crawl packages right now (more coming). I expect each one would take 1-3 days of
100.
by jdrock 16y ago
Java is the only language we can use on the JVMs that run on the nodes in our grid computing system. Other languages (Jython, JRuby) require techniques that break the security sandbox used by the JVMs.
101.
by jdrock 16y ago
Anyone we hire will be compensated properly. The descriptions on the pages are fairly specific about the difference in responsibility for local vs remote. The remote work is admittedly more straightforward, cut-and-dry programming. It's su
102.
80legs is looking for interns or contract workers(80legs.com)
11 points by jdrock 16y ago|8 comments
103.
by jdrock 16y ago
Soccer should be much harder to quantify with stats because the game is basically a set of two continuous events. As a contrast, baseball is easier to quantify with stats because it's a series of discrete events. In most sports statistical
104.
by jdrock 16y ago
You can still experiment with pretty much everything except the API using the basic (free) plan, as long as you crawl fewer than 100,000 pages per job.
105.
by jdrock 16y ago
We increased prices at 80legs from on-demand ($2.00 per million pages) to subscription + on-demand (starting at $99 per month + $2.00 per million pages). It was a success for us. Here's why: 1. It was early on - just a few months after our
106.
by jdrock 16y ago
80legs participated in a business plan competition at Rice University while I was still getting an MBA there. We were one of the finalists, but not the top winner. That was a year ago. I have since done some basic searching to see what th
107.
by jdrock 16y ago
I wonder if this would make bi-pedal movement obsolete, or at least less important to innovate. There would still be need to move up and down steps, but this form factor seems much more compact than current bi-pedal robots.
108.
by jdrock 16y ago
I can't see how Match.com could possibly defend their case in court if they tried to sue. They'd essentially be asking a competing firm to reveal their trade secrets.
109.
80legs makes it even easier to crawl the Web(venturebeat.com)
1 points by jdrock 16y ago|0 comments
110.
by jdrock 16y ago
"For its part, the Justice Department has taken a legalistic approach: a 17-page brief it filed last month acknowledges that federal law requires search warrants for messages in "electronic storage" that are less than 181 days old. But, As
111.
80legs Cake of the Month(80legs.wordpress.com)
1 points by jdrock 17y ago|0 comments
112.
by jdrock 17y ago
The API lets you control job submission, result delivery, etc. 80apps control how you process the content on a per-page basis.
113.
by jdrock 17y ago
The Ruby API is still on the to-do list! Note that a Ruby API is in the works, but Ruby 80apps are not.
114.
by jdrock 17y ago
Our customers do things like the following: 1. Monitor online ad distribution 2. Build directories of people on the web 3. Check for IP violoations (digital watermarking, etc.) 4. Build niche, localized search engines (picture searching, re
115.
by jdrock 17y ago
User-agent: * Disallow: /directory/people/* Disallow: /directory/pages/* Done. Google crawls Facebook. Every social media monitoring company crawls Facebook (and every other social network). Tons of other companies do the same every day.
116.
by jdrock 17y ago
What's the monetization strategy??
117.
by jdrock 17y ago
We use Google Checkout. Fees are comparable to PayPal.. documentation is much better. There are plenty of other 3rd party solutions, but GC and PP are probably the best two.
118.
by jdrock 17y ago
If anyone wants to use 80legs for this challenge, just drop us a line at http://www.80legs.com/contact.html . We might be able to set up some custom free plans.
119.
by jdrock 17y ago
Interestingly enough, Jolie didn't approve my comment on her blog that suggested she might be out of the loop.
120.
by jdrock 17y ago
Well I think your definition of tech-focused is too narrow for me, but fair enough. User Groups are more for that stuff. The cool thing about SXSW is that you can totally set up an impromptu user group and get 20-50 attendees if you want.

More ›