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I couldn't figure out on a quick read if it can be made to work on Raspberry Pi running a Linux variant. It would've been a great holiday project.

Yeah, strange for an expensive premium laptop to not have Thunderbolt or USB-C gen 2. It has just one USB-C gen 1 and two USB 3.0. Yet, it's much more expensive than similar spec machines (Dell XPS, HP Spectre x360, Lenovo Yoga), but without the necessary ports. I'm guessing Microsoft is targeting a different (creative market) audience.

Absolutely, there's nothing better! Contrary to trends & general opinion, RSS usage for content aggregation & monitoring is on an increase, specially in the business world and niche industries.

I'm speaking from our own experience running a little startup, Feedity - https://feedity.com, that helps create custom RSS feeds for any webpage.

Contrary to trends & general opinion, RSS usage for content aggregation & monitoring is on an increase, specially in the business world and niche industries.

I'm speaking from our own experience running a little startup, Feedity - https://feedity.com, that helps create custom RSS feeds for any webpage.

Looks good!

* shameless plug * Our little startup, Feedity - https://feedity.com, also helps create custom RSS feeds for any webpage.

Delimiter has inexpensive storage VPS plans: https://www.delimiter.com/storage-vps/

I use ServiceStack's OrmLite for .NET, and it supports multi-nested database connections for Master/Shard setup: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.OrmLite#multi-n...

ExamDiff, ColorCop, Notepad2.

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I'd say, go for .io if it's a developer-centric product, else .com undoubtedly.

I've been using https://instantdomainsearch.com (no affiliation, just a happy user) for years to find great domain names.

Good luck!

Google's Mobile-Friendly tool seems to have an API, that you can use if you own/run the sites: http://searchengineland.com/google-mobile-friendly-testing-t...

Or have a look at BuiltWith: https://kb.builtwith.com/lead-prioritization/finding-non-mob...

Mainly text files (using Notepad2-mod as editor) for short term or quick takes, and Evernote for medium/long term notes.

Hey James, I did come across some of your bug submissions, and our joint discussions on the headless-dev Google Group.

I've been testing Chrome headless extensively for the past few months, and while it's a good step, but it's not stable for high-volume or even diverse set of webpages.

Memory usage is pretty high, lot of heavy webpages result in crashes/hangs, there are many inconsistencies between features available in full version and headless, their debugging protocol has different APIs that work on headless/non-headless in Linux or Windows, and so on.

Of the bugs I've submitted, some have been fixed in the upcoming M59, so other critical ones may take longer due to their backlog. I suppose for now (maybe until M61-62), Chrome full with xvfb or even PhantomJS are better options. When you realize that Chrome is about the same size (by LoC) as the Linux kernel [1], you can't help but wish for a leaner & faster headless browser.

There seems to be some work going on building Firefox pure headless as well. Great overall, as long as all the browsers try to follow the RemoteDebug initiative [2].

[1] https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/

[2] http://remotedebug.org

Does spaCy have a C# .NET wrapper, or can it be used from other languages/frameworks through a REST API?

I'm using the CoreNLP C# wrapper, so I'm wondering if something similar (.NET Core compatible) is available/doable for spaCy?

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All browsers (except Opera Mini) support it: http://caniuse.com/#feat=webworkers

Give our service at https://feedity.com a try for Facebook pages (or any other public webpage) into feeds. It's stable and scalable.

Assembla is good. I've used more of their SVN than Git, but still good.

Pretty cool example of Lisp's capabilities.

When trying to create feeds from webpages in the real-world, there are plenty of pitfalls involved, for example: handling JavaScript content, graceful retries, bypass IP blocks, throttle & rate-limit requests, accessing public social media (Facebook, Twitter, Google) etc.

At Feedity (https://feedity.com), we've developed our own little system over the years using .NET (C#) and node.js, with a bunch of tweaks and optimizations, for generating custom feeds from public webpages.

Have a look at 'Named Entity Recognition' (NER), particularly a 7-class model to recognize: location, person, organization, money, percent, date and time.

The Stanford NLP Group has a NER project: http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/software/CRF-NER.shtml, and there are many others.

Balsamiq Mockups is great for prototyping/mockups: https://balsamiq.com

For random data, you can use something like https://www.mockaroo.com

If your requirement is mainly indexing and search, then the performance of Sphinx (http://sphinxsearch.com) will be must better, even for large amounts of data.

At Feedity (https://feedity.com), we "index" webpages to generate custom feeds. Over the years, we've designed our system to use a mix of technologies like .NET (C#) and node.js, and implemented a bunch of tweaks and optimizations for seamless & scalable access to public content.

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RSS feeds rock! Just needs a bit of tweaking to lower the noise, which is still very low, and best of all - untouched by algorithmic sorting, compared to social platforms like Twitter, Facebook etc.

Some interesting feeds we've created using Feedity are listed at https://feedity.com/featured.aspx

shameless plug: Using our tool at https://feedity.com, you can create custom feeds for any webpage (including Twitter and Facebook).

It's not that risky, specially for early-stage MVP or prototyping. In my opinion, serverless is the future, at-least for 90% of Web apps, APIs and device app backends. It's great for rapid delivery, high scalability and low maintenance from day one.

Cloud Guru, a local Melbourne startup, is built entirely on AWS Lambda. They host Serverless/Lambda community meetups as well, and write about the tech at https://read.acloud.guru/tagged/serverless

Check out Dediserve - https://dediserve.com. They let you customise the resources (including SSD and NAS storage) as per your needs. Moreover, their performance and support are great too.

Link to petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215

And, as it says: "Government responds to all petitions that get more than 10,000 signatures."

In fact, there was a pretty good recent article on this phenomenon of "social pressure" (and how Slack, Facebook, Whatsapp etc. leverage it): https://medium.com/@satyavh/the-real-reason-slack-became-a-b...