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by wrath 14y ago
Say what you want about Microsoft and IE (I'm expecting Microsoft to be bashed as usual in this thread), but for those of us who were developing for the web in the early 2000s IE was way richer in features that any other browser. The event
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by wrath 14y ago
At the bottom of the webpage there's this link: http://liliputing.com/2012/08/gonote-android-4-0-netbook-hea... which suggests it will seek for $235. If that's really the price I'd buy one today for my son.
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by wrath 14y ago
I joined my company as the first employee. I was the co-founder of other start-ups before joining my latest company and had hired "first employees" myself. So I understood the difference and knew what I was getting myself into. IMO, the
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by wrath 14y ago
My company was using AppEngine to host our product but we switched over to AWS (python, nginx/tornado, mongo) last year because of similar problems. On a small amount of load the problems you are describing can be high. On a large scale l
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by wrath 14y ago
Am I missing something here? The transit, bank and account number on the check must all be fake (or I would hope that this get-rick-quick company didn't actually send their real bank information!). So whether or not the check has non-negot
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by wrath 14y ago
It's interesting how we individuals on HN seem to use search in a totally different way then other, non-technical, groups and we think we're the norm. In the past I had the same type of comments (e.g. Google returns better results, I don't
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by wrath 14y ago
well said! Regarding "On job interviews, don't discuss the negative experiences or the bad employer. At all. Bad job experiences are too common to deserve the "silent shame" stigma, but nonetheless, a job interview is just not the place for
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by wrath 14y ago
I think it's the same as many other services from Amazon. It's the fact that you don't have to maintain it yourself. You use their APIs and it works. I don't know if you've ever tried to setup a search engine yourself but it can be a rela
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by wrath 15y ago
Gazaro Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada What You’ll Be Doing 1. Crawl the internet. At Gazaro you’ll help us crawl the internet to find and extract information from web pages. 2. Work with large datasets. We collect lots of data for our custome
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by wrath 15y ago
This is a pretty open ended problem! How to you measure success? After I create my algorithm how do I know that I'm close to what reddit wants? Without answers to these questions, IMO, this is an exercise in futility. I'm not close enoug
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by wrath 15y ago
I'm curious why you used BeautifulSoup when scrapy has its own built-in HTML parser (HtmlXPathSelector). Is there an advantage to BeautifulSoup or is it just the tool that you're most comfortable with?
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by wrath 15y ago
Go here: http://www.bell.ca/Bell_TV/Channels/Theme_Packs.tab Select Ontario as your province and look under the "News & Learning 2" package. Fox News is there. He's a big Bill O'Reilly fan!
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by wrath 15y ago
His first impression was that it was a good thing since it protected right holders. I had to explain to him why SOPA was bad for the internet before he got it. Now that he gets it he's looking out for similar laws in Canada!
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by wrath 15y ago
I was talking to my father over the holidays about SOPA. He's an avid FOX news and CNN viewer. He had no idea what I was talking about. After our conversation he took it upon himself to search Google on the subject to educate himself on
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by wrath 15y ago
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Gazaro is hiring 2 full-time Python developers and a QA Engineer. ( http://www.gazaro.com/careers ) Gazaro specializes in gathering prices from retail products, matching products from different retailers, compiling
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by wrath 15y ago
Unsure if you're willing to relocate but there are 2 python job opening in my company. http://www.gazaro.com/careers
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by wrath 15y ago
It would be nice to be able to use xpaths to get to the data I want to extract. Having done quite a few extractors in the past I find xpaths to be the easiest way to finding the correct data. Just a thought.
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by wrath 16y ago
We've (Gazaro - http://www.gazaro.com ) started to use IndexTank recently and I have nothing but good things to say about Diego and his staff. Their service is super easy to work with, it's fast and reliable. We've had a couple of proble
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by wrath 16y ago
It's not really what I would like to search, but really how I would like to search. Adding filters or restrictions is becoming very important to me. For example, I want to search google and I don't want my search results to return any sta
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by wrath 16y ago
Is it worth the effort involved? Yes absolutely it is. I always tell the developers that I work with that the most important thing we can do is figure out a way to "peek" inside our systems. Keeping statistics o "background" metrics and d
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by wrath 16y ago
One nice and free dataset which you can play with is the BestBuy open data. You can download the full catalog of products from BestBuy in JSON and XML format. http://developer.bestbuy.com Simply register for a key and you'll have acces
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by wrath 16y ago
Not yet, 3 weeks is not a lot of time :) We have looked into it though and it has lots of complexities, not necessarily technically but from a business point of view. Many retailers (including BestBuy) have strict terms on which items can
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Ask HN: Rate my app: Gazaro Protect
2 points by wrath 16y ago|3 comments
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by wrath 16y ago
1. Yes 2. I got that the site was about making creating APIs easier for developers, like me, but I wasn't sure how it would make it easier. 3. Since I wasn't sure how exactly this would help me I had to dig through the guide to find out. S
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by wrath 16y ago
I'm just putting the final touches on my app and I'm planning on announcing it next Tuesday. I'm curious though, what's the best way to announce the app on here? What etiquette should I follow?
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by wrath 16y ago
My company (gazaro.com) got accepted to the AWS Startup Challenge last year, and although we did have a small amount of funding (non-VC), we were essentially running a bootstrapped company at the time. We didn't win the "challenge". We we
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by wrath 16y ago
This is pretty slick and too bad I don't use Word anymore. That said, besides the obvious PR hit that Microsoft takes with this kind of stuff I'm unsure how many people will be using this. People on this site who use Word might, but the e
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by wrath 16y ago
This type of full-text search works on a small dataset or a dataset which doesn't have a wide variety of data. It uses the internal merge-join functionality of AppEngine, which as the name suggests takes two queries and joins them together
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by wrath 16y ago
We love AppEngine for many of the reasons which he gives. Because of its limitations, the platform makes you think and write code with proper design patterns in mind. If you just start to write code without thinking about it beforehand, y
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by wrath 16y ago
Does anyone have any real life examples of what this could be used for? I get what it does, just not quite sure where it fits in. For example, do I push data into S4, does S4 poll for data. Is this like a distributed task system, where I

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