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1,216 karma · joined August 10, 2012

better known as aaronsw's brother

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bensw··on 2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read
You'd be correct, although "significant" is not a strong enough word
bensw··on Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google
It should be the full archive.
bensw··on San Francisco Tenants Break Leases at Alarming Rates
The Chronicle had an article citing the same statistics (but with a little more investigation): https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/SF-tenants-brea...
bensw··on Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
Seeing as this is something personal to me, while Twitch originally used the CFAA, when seeking judgement they dismissed that claim (page 2 footnote 2): https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.299961...
bensw··on Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
It seems to be back up, but I didn't do anything. I'm still going to find out what happened and make sure it doesn't happen again.

Thanks for posting this. I probably wouldn't have noticed until January.

Edit: it turned out to be a problem with the server. Thanks again for the heads up and for everyone’s kind words.

bensw··on Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
I’ll try to figure this out today
bensw··on GitHub to Seek $2B Valuation in Latest Funding Round
I believe that video is from 2012
bensw··on Rewriting Reddit (2005)
This blog post refers to a rewrite that happened before the Condé Nast acquisition.
bensw··on Justin.tv has shut down
Videos with more than 10 views were downloaded. In addition, many videos that people asked to be saved were downloaded.
bensw··on The New Aaron Swartz Documentary Looks Powerful. Here's the Trailer
It's CC share alike, so you should be able to.
bensw··on Thousands play one game of Pokemon simutaneously
Doesn't it already accomplish this? The game accepts an input every n frames; if the chat has a higher occurrence of a certain key input it has a higher chance of accepting that one.
bensw··on Ask HN: Which books changed your life?
Moral Mazes by Robert Jackall For Harmony And Strength by Thomas Rohlen
bensw··on How Google keeps employees by treating them like kids (2006)
Pretty sure Sean B. Palmer is taking care of it (or at least has taken care of it so far)
bensw··on Coinbase Raises $25 Million From Andreessen Horowitz
Have had a very similar experience. Haven't heard a reply for nearly a month.
bensw··on [dead]
That is his account.
bensw··on SF Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon this weekend
More hackathons around the world at http://aaronswartzhackathon.org
bensw··on 2nd Annual Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon starts tonight at Internet Archive
Yeah, it would be nice if someone could change the title
bensw··on How I hacked my room hunt in SF
That was another problem
bensw··on How I hacked my room hunt in SF
Was considering of doing a similar thing for accepting candidates for my house. My plan was to take all the responses, strip all references to locations, and then randomly send them to every listing in every other major metropolitan area. The one that got the most callbacks I would then callback. In the end, my roommates read through all the responses and I didn't have to do any work.
bensw··on The FuqIt Web Framework
s/Schwarz/Swartz
bensw··on CISPA Passes in the House - Full Roll Call
"If we let them persuade us we didn't actually make a difference, if we start seeing it as someone else's responsibility to do this work and it's our job to just go home and pop some popcorn and curl up on the couch to watch Transformers, well, then next time they might just win. Let's not let that happen"
bensw··on Annotate "How to Get Startup Ideas"
Seems quite similar to rapgenius
bensw··on Creating a simple blog system with a 500-line bash script (2011)
Markdown Support?
bensw··on A remembrance of Aaron Swartz (March 12th)
There will be video of the event posted on youtube afterwards.
bensw··on Your Credentials Are Worthless Here
There's plenty of work to go around; unfortunately many companies blind themselves to only hiring top-rank college grads.

People complain about a lack of talent in the technology world--some of that has to do with the absurd hiring practices of technology companies

bensw··on Aaron Swartz Used this
>I wish that everyone had perfectionist levels of attention to detail.
bensw··on Boston Globe columnist: "Cyber-bullies" are criticizing Aaron Swartz' prosecutor
>But defending principle was not [his lawyer's job]. It was to provide Swartz with the best legal advice, given the charges and the government’s refusal to back down.

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bensw··on Remembering Aaron Swartz: Commons man
>He contributed almost nothing to Reddit

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

It's also a good thing that one of the "minor open-source libraries" that he wrote were not the inspiration for Google's webapp(2) or Facebook's Tornado...

bensw··on ThoughtWorks Mourns Colleague Aaron Swartz, Responds to MIT’s Statement
This was likely what they wanted to say yesterday, but were instead waiting for the PR guys to be back in the office to give it the once over.
bensw··on ThoughtWorks Mourns Colleague Aaron Swartz, Responds to MIT’s Statement
He worked for Thoughtworks. Maybe if you spent the time to actually read the article you would've learned that.
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