henrybaxter
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Founded & ran some companies, now at university with wife and three great little kids.
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Also, cool game thanks for sharing.
Be sure to keep your tables looking good, look for some resources on it, it's amazing how shoddy even the default tables in LaTeX look, never mind the Excel spreadsheet look everyone seems to go for.
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I spent more than a year writing hundreds of scrapers that ran for weeks at a time. BeautifulSoup did not work out as well as lxml in practice. On extremely javascript heavy pages we used pyv8 actually.
edit: more information at http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/12/10/lxml-an-underappreciat... the comments are useful too.