notastartup
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Comment · 11 years ago
I certainly don't think this is the end. Was writing a comment but decided I will post it on my blog https://blog.scrape.it/secret-shutting-down-isnt-the-end
Comment · 11 years ago
amazing. its like states are a different snapshots of America during different time periods.
Comment · 11 years ago
corporations want to extract the maximum possible value
from their human assets, without exhausting them or
provoking rebellion or escape
Comment · 11 years ago
you are absolutely right.
Comment · 11 years ago
I think what is not being discussed is debt. Debt is used to finance this type of growth.
Comment · 11 years ago
I think there is another boom that is fading, a potentially more serious one that is China's housing market. It is flooded with supply. Capital flight to the West, with property developers defaulting on debt, li kai shing (richest HK dude) dumping all his assets in China a while ago. The fading or faltering of the tech sector could be related but who knows, this is a government that likes to keep a blanket over everything.
Comment · 11 years ago
Scrape.it works on building a web scraping tool that minimizes effort and time invested to quickly extract data from websites. Web scraping is simple in theory but building a tool that can work with a lot of different websites in the wild is no easy task.
I am looking for a co-founder.
Comment · 11 years ago
Mechanical Turk gets expensive fast, and isn't very accurate, usually with any type of service, there's an overhead.
What this seems like is a quick way to get grunt work done. I can see how web scraping can fit nicely. However, some student with a lot of free time won't value their time as much so they will write a scraper but someone like a manager with a busy engineering team can save a lot of time outsourcing tasks like this.
Another solution is to use web scraping tool like https://scrape.it to scrape a website even for complicated AJAX websites. After you know how to use it, it's way faster than writing a scraper from scratch.
Disclaimer: I wrote scrape.it
fuck HN
im outta here.