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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.

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?

Agreed on this point. The automatic IP rotation is one of the bigger features I think.

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.

What's your business model then?

Porn I'm assuming? I would think that spam dominates internet content.

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?

We had this trouble as well. Our Realtor helped us find a nice infill development by a very flexible builder. He knew we were FTHB that needed hand holding. He dumped us on them and didn't show up until the deal almost fell apart. We did ok on the functional upgrades but botched the design. We're now faced with doing a full house remodel of a brand new house :(

Maybe get the purchase history another way? Use the new Gmail API to search for the Amazon emails. Could easily extend to other stores as well.

Does that work in most cases? Most communities don't provide APIs. A few will provide RSS feeds - not clear if you can legally reuse them like that?

I graduated in 2002 and at the time people were really scared about outsourcing. I chose to go EE however. At the time what scared me was actually that my college education would be useless. I saw too many 13 year olds being invited to conferences, friends who never went to college becoming software engineers, etc. So I picked a field where I felt my college education would be an advantage.

In the end I got the CS masters anyway and now I realize that neither is really a threat and, despite what people say, the degree was very valuable. Depends what you do with it I guess.

You seem to have lost 3 friends between step 1 and step 2.