Sure the guy did some stupid things but who knows what his life is like and we're all human and do stupid things. The CEO's reaction was simply insensitive. Here's what the CEO should have done: have their lawyers draft a polite letter showing that they're serious about having him shut up. When he doesn't, ask your lawyers to take the next step.
His comments were temporarily mildly irritating to the company at best and would be forgotten within a few weeks (same goes for his reply). There's too many memes going around for anyone to remember stupid AMA posts.
My takeaway? If hiring this guy, then I'd judge him on his own merits. Otherwise, I'll avoid applying to Reddit for some time. I just hate those hard-ass get your shit done kinds of environments.
Quora looks like a nice iteration on Reddit. Reddit should just do a big rewrite to make it look and feel more like Quora. The data model should be able to remain mostly the same, with just some major interface changes, minor feature changes, and major backend updates. It could probably even be deployed in parallel to the existing implementation. Some items that'd be nice are email updates, weekly digests, topic suggestions, anonymous posts, related topics, etc.
I honestly don't think so. There is a lot of value on Reddit, but I bet that 90% of the visits and content are basically memes and imgur pictures. The part that could "become Quora" may die without the other.
I'm a heavy user of both and never made a connection between them. Them are very different I think.
However one thing Quora does way, way, way, way better is your feed (home page on reddit). It's really smart and accurate and unearths lots of great content. Not all of it fresh. Some of it even really old.
reddit should copy that.
Yishan Wong is the biggest power user Quora has ever had, so he surely knows and understands this.
Tempting but extra levels of indentation also lead to poor readability. The other problem is that this style of programming isn't commonplace and will throw off new readers. Better to just stick to a standard program, broken up into pseudocode I think. Technically, the bind time of variables are still the entire function but in practice you can choose to limit the useful scope of a variable to the code block where it is defined. It doesn't take a master coder to notice quickly that the first variable at the top is the one to remember going down the lines. The only remaining problems, then, are that variable names become a little longer to avoid conflicts between the code blocks and the compiler probably won't be able to optimize the function as well as you'd like to, since some extra variables stick around for longer when not needed.
Sorely needed. I've been trying to find a tool that'll grab data from behind a POST form and none of the other scrapers as a service do it. It's so simple! Any plans for adding crawling to the service?
One of the things that has been heavily marketed by other web scrapers is "crawling" as a separate feature.
With ParseHub, all the tools easily combine, so you don't need that distinction. You can use the navigate tool to jump to another page (see our interactive navigation tutorial in the extension for the details).
And you can combine multiple navigations to go as deep in the website structure as you like. For example, say you have a forum that links to subforums that link to posts that link to users. You can easily model the structure of such a site by using a few navigation nodes (one from forum to its subforums, another from subforum to posts, etc.). The result would be a big json (or csv) dump of all the data on the forum, in the proper hierarchy.
We've really tried to make our tools as general as possible. A side effect of the navigate tool is that you can use it to get "pagination" for free as well (another feature that's been heavily marketed).
Sounds really, really great to me. I've got some cell phones, an old Kindle reader, and some control4 stuff at home that's been there for like a year, mostly b/c it's too much of a pain to pack and sell. eBay provided an app recently that makes it easier to sell but doesn't solve the shipping problem. Also, it's iOS only and not available in my area I think. I could take these items to Staples to pack and ship but then I get hosed, such that it's cheaper to throw it away than sell it. I mean shipping a printer is like $100 from Staples but Amazon includes it free in the price of a $90 printer somehow.
So I'd say there's huge potential in this business. I'd actually prefer to see it under Amazon's roof but fine separate as well as long as they can scale quickly and without a lot of hiccups.
We'll charge a small brokerage fee to start but plan to offer $0 commission closings in the future for clients who utilize partner services. There are other revenue streams we are looking at as well.
Porn? No, not necessarily at all, or as I said, "safe for work or not".
Spam? No, not at all. Instead, as I said, searches people want to do and results they want to find, and those are nearly never spam.
Nothing tricky; take my description just the way I gave it.
The content types are primarily still images, recorded music, video clips, i.e., content types where search by keywords/phrases work from poor down to not at all due to far too little text in the content for matching users' keywords/phrases, and a major fraction of blogs and long tail Web sites, that is, where the content is mostly text.
A point is that search by keywords/phrases works well for only about 1/3rd of the content, searches people want to do, and results they want to find. My work is for the other 2/3rds. This description is difficult to understand?
Wow, that is totally cool! I don't have any neuropathies but I could see how it would totally suck. I imagine you'll be targeting the low hanging fruit first (limbs)? I would guess that the tongue is probably the worst place to lose feeling. You'd lose the ability to distinguish between chewing food and tongue.
A question for the RE insiders here. What restrictions are there for building services off Redfin/MLS and Zillow listings?
Am I allowed to blog about listings or do I need to be an agent to use image and listing data? I get mixed opinions elsewhere about whether this falls under fair use.
I notice that Redfin provides OpenGraph annotations but the TOS disallow sharing. Am I permitted to share on Facebook, Pinterest, etc? What about on other websites? Is it possible to build a vertical search engine based on these details?
His comments were temporarily mildly irritating to the company at best and would be forgotten within a few weeks (same goes for his reply). There's too many memes going around for anyone to remember stupid AMA posts.
My takeaway? If hiring this guy, then I'd judge him on his own merits. Otherwise, I'll avoid applying to Reddit for some time. I just hate those hard-ass get your shit done kinds of environments.