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What's the value of this link over the original one?

Original: https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/14/ai-startups-raised-6-9-bi...

There's a pretty actively-maintained Python wrapper for the internal API: https://github.com/bisguzar/twitter-scraper

Sorry, looks like I did not make that clear enough. Was not meant to be an objection, totally understand why they do it.

That quote is supposed to be a neutral summary, so yes, that might be the case :)

Looks like a decent tool, but I personally would not use it in production. Took a few minutes to look through the code: They basically use the HTML pages instead of the APIs. What puts me off is that the code is missing tests altogether and has quite a few separation of concern issues. HTML extraction is everywhere, storage is embedded into the package. Cool proof of concept, not ready for production, I think.

Minor stuff: Printing instead of logging. Would prefer a package that only does the retrieval and nothing else. Hardcoded SQL(ite?) storage.

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Not one comment in here is positive which saddens me. In the end, HN should encourage people to build awesome solutions. But even Dropbox got negative comments when they launched on HN, so maybe this is just how things work.

So here's my (positive) take: Great work, thanks for sharing. I especially like the design of the page, playful but still clean. AFAIK there's a similar app from toggl themselves, what are the advantages of your solution?

AFAIK Selenium is easily recognizable as it inserts itself in the DOM, so I would guess that they will block you pretty quickly.

If you're interested: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33225947/can-a-website-d...

While I believe that it is getting harder to raise pre-seed and seed money, I also see many initiatives to lower the hurdle again. On the one hand, there are announcements like https://www.spearhead.co that aim to empower business angels, on the other hand there are many student investment funds that close the pre-seed funding gap, at least for students. I think other initiatives will follow.

Shameless plug: we're building Germany's first student-run VC to fix this problem for students: http://firstmomentum.vc

If you have pandas installed, you can also use something like:

  pd.DataFrame.from_csv(path_csv).to_latex(path_latex)

More information at http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas...

Pocket was included almost two years before the acquisition: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-po... https://venturebeat.com/2015/06/09/mozilla-responds-to-firef...

Could someone please give some context on this?

While I have not tried the electron version, I feel that my seven slack tabs slow down my firefox noticeably. Especially during startup and after connectivity issues.

While the mobile app is at least responsive on Android, I have problems, too, for example with messages from push notifications that don't show up when opening them.

Subjectively, Slack performed great in the early days but has gotten worse over time.

Okay, cool. Will it update automatically or point to the same version forever?

Very interesting read, will check this out soon.

Same theme, but plain HTML the and not a wordpress theme on both pages.

Of course you don't have to reinvent the wheel. I just wanted others to know if they like the design. And maybe they should change the default picture above "following".

BTW I think they did quite well. I especially like the "live activity" box at the footer that shows recent changes.

It's a template called Porto available for 16$ at themeforest. They also forgot to change some default pictures: http://themeforest.net/item/porto-responsive-html5-template/...