joshfraser

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Technical cofounder wanted for disrupting the wedding industry(limedaring.com)
224 points by joshfraser 16y ago|143 comments
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by joshfraser 16y ago
you need to be signed in to google to see the followers/following data. it shouldn't be hard to pass a valid cookie along, but it might get a little suspicious for one user to make ~60m requests.
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by joshfraser 16y ago
i get the feeling my machines have a busy day ahead of them.
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by joshfraser 16y ago
pete warden tried that and got sued by facebook. they have since changed their robots.txt to forbid public crawling of their site although they still want the google juice so they make exceptions for major search engines.
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by joshfraser 16y ago
yet another neat product from pete warden. the unemployment map is a really nice example of the value of this type of visualization: http://www.openheatmap.com/examples/us_unemployment_county/
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OpenHeatMap launches(petewarden.typepad.com)
18 points by joshfraser 16y ago|2 comments
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by joshfraser 16y ago
these numbers are easily gamed. the trick is to add some invisible iframes that load up an empty page on your domain. you can fire them after the page has loaded so it doesn't slow your site down. I know it works for compete and i assume
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by joshfraser 16y ago
lots of companies send nastygrams like this even if they have no intention of following through with legal action. it costs them nothing (except reputation on HN) and there's a good chance the recipient will get scared and give in without
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by joshfraser 16y ago
a lot of times articles get resubmitted with a slightly different URL (from feedburner for example). i've not noticed any exact dupes getting through.
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by joshfraser 16y ago
cool, now get back to your 90hr a week startup...
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by joshfraser 16y ago
i'll be curious to see how many people use this for testing and how many end up using it for more nefarious purposes like screen scraping or rigging TIME's 100 most influential people poll.
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by joshfraser 16y ago
maybe just copying ticketmaster and trying to stop scalpers from being able to buy up all the tickets using automated scripts?
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by joshfraser 16y ago
great point
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by joshfraser 16y ago
sorry, my server is having memory issues. i'm looking into it now.
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by joshfraser 16y ago
remember that spam bots can be designed to work just like a browser and so they can execute javascript too.
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Why you should never use a CAPTCHA(onlineaspect.com)
16 points by joshfraser 16y ago|32 comments
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by joshfraser 16y ago
while i agree that's an issue, the real problem is that they only have 2.1 million feeds. don't get me wrong, 2.1 million is a BIG number, but if you're going to start talking about missing data, the feed count is the first place to start.
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Keyword tracking goes real-time with new Superfeedr feature(readwriteweb.com)
11 points by joshfraser 16y ago|5 comments
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by joshfraser 16y ago
i love the j/k shortcuts in google reader. i'd use it on HN too if it was available.
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by joshfraser 16y ago
cool idea, but no reason to wait for PG to do it. it shouldn't be hard to hack up a greasemonkey script or a chrome plugin to add that functionality for yourself. then once you've proven its usefulness, i'm sure PG would be happy to consid
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Friday night at Techstars(twitter.com)
2 points by joshfraser 16y ago|0 comments
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by joshfraser 16y ago
oh and don't get me started on their contact sync with the iphone
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by joshfraser 16y ago
and why do so many of google's properties not work in chrome? like adsense? and google analytics (well some days it works, others it doesn't) and gmail is slow. and calendar is unavailable half the time. if people are having problems wit
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Navigational breadcrumbs in Rails(onlineaspect.com)
20 points by joshfraser 16y ago|3 comments
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From police reports to email subject lines(membercon.com)
1 points by joshfraser 16y ago|0 comments