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srobertson··on It's Time For a Hard Bitcoin Fork
Another solution: assuming as the article claims that GHash grew to it's current size because it had 0% fees. Other pools can respond by lowering their fees or introduce negative ones. I.e. they pay miners to join the pool. Or have fees but introduce a lottery system that randomly overpays members.
srobertson··on Uncensored Everpix metrics, financials and slides
Unless all the automation is owned by a monopoly.
srobertson··on Python 2.x vs 3.x use survey
Setting an end of life for Python 2 would be the forcing function needed to ensure Python 3 is reliable and the migration path is clear. Knowing the end is coming would drive us (the community) together to discuss and resolve these issues.

I for one never even considered that C extensions would be a serious road block. Which is obvious now that you mention it. And my main point, I've never bothered to research moving to Python 3 because there's no sense of urgency.

If Guido set a date, say Jan 1st 2015, it would remove allot of the apathy we're currently seeing.

srobertson··on Python 2.x vs 3.x use survey
I have problems with the way this is worded as well. I don't think Python 3.x was a mistake. I think the mistake is continuing to develop it in parallel with 2.x with no definitive end of life for 2.x is the mistake.
srobertson··on A collaborative spreadsheet in less than 45 lines of JS, one library used
very cool, probably need a few 100 more lines of code to stop XSS but awesome none the less.
srobertson··on Mozilla Accepting Applications for its Open Source Accelerator
No, nor do they take equity.. They do provide a ton of "goodies". Credits to hosting providers, lawyers etc... And the mentoring is priceless.
srobertson··on Mozilla TowTruck – real-time collaboration on any site
Well, sure like Google 2005 they don't have to make sure every idea is a multi-billion dollar enterprise.
srobertson··on Share code that uses new URL Search tool and win AWS credit
The main intent of the search is to retrieve a list of urls that the site crawled for a given subdomain, domain or tld. So for now you can do that using reversed url notation. Which I admit is not very intuitive.

We're toying with the idea of implementing some sort of wild card that way we can present the urls in natural order. Something like *.google.com to retrieve all urls under google. But we wanted to judge the level of interest first. After all "done" is better than "perfect".

srobertson··on Share code that uses new URL Search tool and win AWS credit
good suggestion
srobertson··on Share code that uses new URL Search tool and win AWS credit
I think it's just that the site converts unicode urls for display purposes. If you click on one of the links with "@" in it, you'll see the real url in url encoded format

http://%2E%2E%2E@harunyahya.com/Ajax/get.comments/oid/4612 176.34.181.212 20120516214328 text/html 912

srobertson··on Triv.io donates URL index to Common Crawl
s3://aws-publicdatasets/common-crawl/projects/url-index/url-index.1356128792
srobertson··on Triv.io donates URL index to Common Crawl
That would be great. Out of curiosity, mind describing what you'd use such a list for?
srobertson··on Triv.io donates URL index to Common Crawl
Let me double check that for you. Were you using a valid aws-id and secret?
srobertson··on The Ultimate guide for startups applying for Y Combinator
Anyone have a cache copy?