reinhardt

I checked out a bunch of openings and none of them mention r3mot3

Which has limits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Also how about sole proprietors contractors/consultants based in another EU country?

And an "awesome list" of web scraping open source tools: https://github.com/lorien/awesome-web-scraping

Ugly? She's easily above average in my book.

You realize that the parallel "logic that does not follow" about guns is perfectly legitimate in many/most countries, right? Doesn't exactly help your argument outside of (about half) the US.

It doesn't make much sense to give a number for speed without some specifics about the crawler environment, such as:

  - How many servers (if distributed)?
  - How many cores/server?
  - What kind of processing takes place for each page? 
    Does it just download and save the pages somewhere (local filesystem, cloud storage, database) or it extracts (semi) structured data? And so on.

Specifics aside, these days it's not hard to crawl millions of pages/day on commodity servers. Some related posts:

http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-to-crawl-a-quarter-bil...

http://blog.semantics3.com/how-we-built-our-almost-distribut...

http://engineering.bloomreach.com/crawling-billions-of-pages...

http://engineering.bloomreach.com/crawling-billions-of-pages...

Are QR codes still a thing? Or were they ever a thing? Dunno, my brain seems to filter them out automatically, I rarely notice them.

By "hand code SQL" I hope you really mean using prepared statements of whatever language/framework you're using, not concatenating strings with input values. If not, say hello to SQLi.

Are you me? Though mine lasts for several (many) years and other than exercise (gym 4-5 days/week) I haven't found a something that works or anything resembling a life purpose.

Well said, even it it touches only on the distraction aspect of chat apps. Reposting a comment I made recently:

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web chat is often (ab)used in a way that makes it the equivalent of global variables for communication: if offers the path of least resistance for sharing information (state) at the cost of making this information harder to retrieve, search, structure, associate, leverage in the future. Or to try another metaphor, it's the equivalent of dumping data on flat free-text files instead of a relational database.

Web chat does away with two (at least) properties I have come to appreciate in written communication: being asynchronous and contextual. Although modern web chat systems typically work even when you're offline by sending notifications, they're primarily a realtime system. There is the implicit or explicit expectation that a chat message (especially a direct one) should be answered asap, unlike an email or a tracker comment. As for context, there is little to none. In more than one company I've seen chat effectively replace the dedicated bug/ticket tracker system, with people polluting one or more channels with intermixed discussions that would be better off as comments on the ticket at hand. It's a mess for anything other than transient, throwaway stuff you wouldn't mind purging after a few hours or days.

Looking forward for a "web chat considered harmful" blog post if there hasn't been one already.

"""

Away messages wouldn't hurt but that's not what the GP is talking about. We receive dozens of messages and notifications, we shouldn't have to feel we should be dropping everything we're doing to respond just because it's during "normal work hours". This expectation used to common with email, and maybe still is in some companies, but we've slowly come to accept email as what it is - asynchronous communication. Mobile notifications and chat applications are a step back in this respect.

On the one hand that's some admirable persistence right there.. on the other I don't know.. how would you feel if your doctor had been rejected 14 times from med school before getting his degree?

My experience was quite different. Good content, fast delivery, 10/10 would shutdown again!

Going off on a tangent/rant here but I'll go out on a limb here and say that web chat is often (ab)used in a way that makes it the equivalent of global variables for communication: if offers the path of least resistance for sharing information (state) at the cost of making this information harder to retrieve, search, structure, associate, leverage in the future. Or to try another metaphor, it's the equivalent of dumping data on flat free-text files instead of a relational database.

Web chat does away with two (at least) properties I have come to appreciate in written communication: being asynchronous and contextual. Although modern web chat systems typically work even when you're offline by sending notifications, they're primarily a realtime system. There is the implicit or explicit expectation that a chat message (especially a direct one) should be answered asap, unlike an email or a tracker comment. As for context, there is little to none. In more than one company I've seen chat effectively replace the dedicated bug/ticket tracker system, with people polluting one or more channels with intermixed discussions that would be better off as comments on the ticket at hand. It's a mess for anything other than transient, throwaway stuff you wouldn't mind purging after a few hours or days.

Looking forward for a "web chat considered harmful" blog post if there hasn't been one already. </rant>

I would be more sympathetic if they had "borrowed" (more like appropriated) a term from, say, biology or french literature, but mathematics is not exactly a "largely unrelated context" from programming, even if it's JS that we're talking about. What's next, abusing "binomial" to mean "binary"?

What's confusing? Clearly lawful married gay people engage in oral sex only</s>

Going somewhat off on a tangent here but I'm wondering, what is the factual, tangible harm of cheating that you so take for granted? STDs and unwanted pregnancies, I'll give you that but let's assume that everyone's a responsible adult and wears protection. What else? Trust?

I guess promising to (not) do `X` and not keeping your word makes you untrustworthy but what is the literal harm on someone other than the self-referential belief that breaking promises is bad? To illustrate, let's assume that `X` is something like "I promise to not eat zucchini without you ever again". How is "cheating" by secretly gorging once on zucchini with some friends harmful to the person you give it to, other than their self-induced idea that it is bad?

If you live in Denmark, you are all but guaranteed to be an "end-user": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NemID

# trim off trailing spaces

    alias rstrip='sed -i "s/[ \t]*$//"'

# delete .pyc files

   alias delpyc='find . -type f -name "*.pyc" -delete'

Our burn rate is about ~$200/day (not month), half of it for datastore ops.

It may be free for weekend projects but if you're planning to get some serious traffic, prepare for some hefty bills.

Aren't these "simply" software implementation bugs? Unless I misunderstood what the GP meant by "computer science".

> computer science has demonstrated flaws in foundational technology that weren't widely known 15 years ago

Can you list a few examples of such flaws?

Related: https://github.com/ajalt/fuckitpy

How so?

Not really, most of it is just hacked together with perl: https://xkcd.com/224/

> most people who work at startups aren't interested in money.

That's a bold assertion, bolder than "most people who work at startups usually don't get to have competing offers for $250k to pass up"

Any evidence that the "men looking for sex / women for LTR" hypothesis, to the extent it is true, is more prevalent in online dating, as opposed to dating in general? I think it mostly comes down to anonymity and low cost of rejection. Men online are just less embarrassed to express thoughts and desires that they wouldn't to a dating prospect that is, say, friend of a friend due to the increased social cost of coming off as a creep.