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> I’ve built for hundreds of platforms and any changes to those platforms by default suck. At IFTTT, we've been on the receiving end of platform changes too many times to count. I want to make sure we do it better.

I'm reminded of the Joel Spolsky blog post Where there's muck, there's brass: "The trouble is, the market pays for solutions to gnarly problems, not solutions to easy problems." Presumably IFTTT's value was derived from writing these sucky adapters. Now, you want the target sites to write them and your value is derived from this legal agreement, which gives you ownership of these newly outsourced sucky adapters. You have to see how that rubs people the wrong way. If it's an open standard, then at least you're competing on a level playing field and the work these target sites are doing is not all solely for your company's benefit.

This is Hacker News. JavaScript should be added by users as a browser extension. Only requests to make the website more user-serviceable such as class names and element names/IDs should be considered.

Oops. I retract my comment and denounce myself.

A developer gets upset at unilateral actions by NPM resulting in a project being renamed or taken down unnecessarily (potentially breaking builds). So this dev decides to take down all their projects, as a sort of protest. This breaks a lot of builds. The JavaScript community thinks a clever solution is utilizing Twitter as part of the build process? Because then everything would be dependent on Twitter not adding an "edit tweet" button...

This is satire right?

> an already solved problem

It's a hard problem to generalize.

> balance between people who want to scrape Linkedin to spam people, others looking to do good with the data they scrape, and website owners who get aggressive and threatening when they realize they are getting scraped

Agreed. No one wants to be the bad guy and most clients looking to spam people are awful clients to have anyhow. Btw scraping LinkedIn is fairly difficult/expensive and they like to sue people.

It's because honey can cause infant botulism, not because of allergies. It's thought to be the cause of 1 in 10 SIDS cases.

And living with dogs or with the windows open reduces asthma.

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Java and Selenium expert available for consulting on crawling and web scraping projects. https://github.com/hollingsworthd

More people submitted a post here than upvoted. That kills the thread.

One NSA whistleblower claims they do indeed do blackmail (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6m1XbWOfVk). He even implicates them doing it to Obama. Granted there's no accompanying top secret powerpoint so I'm sure no one will believe it.

At least we've come full circle on PR. Capitalism does often respond to consumer wishes. I tend to think the money I spend is the biggest 'vote' I have in this country.

Besides, Apple was notably missing in the PRISM program during Jobs' reign. I'm not as negative on Apple as some other companies.

I would be curious to hear experiences with Vultr.

Thanks. Wasn't aware of that. Mostly fulfills the requirement.

The problem I have with this is, I don't want a template for the comment a contributor leaves on a PR; I want to display a message to them before they submit a PR. It's not a standard way to display messages, requiring users to read editable text (that has no clickable URLs) and then delete that text after they read it and submit.

Occasionally on Upwork you get lucky and land a good project. But if you're a good developer expecting more than $30/hr you will never be able to stay busy even part time (more like a couple projects a year).

Try building something instead of learning something.

Also while programming I find I can stay productive if I always leave my project workspace where there's a bug or half-implemented feature I can start the next day.

If it plays the same songs, you need to remove your Thumbs Ups and add them as Song Seeds. Too many Thumbs Downs are also a problem. However I think their recommendation engine has slowly declined over the years (either that or I already discovered all the recommendations relevant to my favorites).

Unicode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_supersc...

Church converted to condos: https://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/ky/bellevue/320-poplar-s...

It can be done. The DOJ does this on a case-by-case basis. And FBI has jurisdiction to investigate some of these things. Bernie Sanders has suggested requiring all police killings to be investigated.

Most Constitutional rights extend to people against the states. So if your civil rights (due process, etc) have been violated, it's against federal law.

Increase prosperity by creating a K-12, open source homeschooling curriculum and application.

If you live on a coast or where they treat roads with salt, then wash your car periodically to prevent rust.

Please create a new branch before emergency commits.

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And still just ~5 transactions per second.

"I believe that there is life on other planets, but the vast distances which separate us also prohibit us from communicating with each other... we Americans have a history of being romantics and often imagine the impossible dreams. If you believe in extraterrestrial visitation, then for everyone's sake, present your evidence, state your facts, and let the true scientists of our nation be the judges. Let's quit exploiting the masses; because if you are the founder of an extraterrestrial vehicle, it will be self-evident" -Hector Quintanilla, head of Project Blue Book, https://ia902507.us.archive.org/15/items/ufos-an-air-force-d...

FYI... My monthly living expenses in the midwest, for everything, are less than $1500, and I have a family and a mortgage. If I were single, I could live nicely on < $1K/mo. Starting salaries here are $60K and senior engineers expect > $100K.

Being that you're already on a JVM, you might like my project https://github.com/machinepublishers/jbrowserdriver

I had trouble finding reliable historical data. I didn't trust anybody that compiled the data, as they all had different results, and the powerball set of number has slowly expanded over the years.

I think it's reasonable that some numbers are more likely. Either by their initial placement or by subtle effects of aerodynamics and weight of the painted numbers.

That said I think it's a little absurd to choose numbers. Like it actually matters. Just get computer picks. It's the best chance to not split the pot, assuming a fair computer.

Unrelated: I don't think it makes much sense to buy more than one ticket. The EV is still slightly less than the cost of the ticket and after the initial ticket you cannot boost you odds again like that. Even with positive EV it's still insanely high variance, so I don't see how multiplying your odds makes any difference, compared to raising your odds from zero which your initial ticket does.