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Comment · 12 years ago
i'm sorry, this is all going over my head... can i get this in libraries of congress over football fields?
Comment · 12 years ago
i don't think there is a big difference. without their content[1], his app is nothing; the web browser is still a web browser.

[1]: it's irrelevant whether the school or the partner owned it, he did it without permission (and i highly doubt the reader has the license to do whatever they wanted with that data either).

Comment · 12 years ago
since we've established the data is not public, and is in fact restricted and controlled, how is it anything "mostly like" hacker news? hacker news does not store your NYtimes username and password, scrape the NYTimes site for an auth token, make a login request on your behalf to copy that article and display it, in full text stripping out the NYTimes attribution and branding, on hacker news.

what would happen if they did is a thought experiment i'll leave up to you.

Comment · 12 years ago
really? you honestly don't see how a school allowing their students to sell their technical partner's (not public[1]) content is relevant?

[1]: pre-emptive reply: no, it's not public, half the article is talking about how he's circumventing their authentication system. this is NOTHING like a news aggregator.

Comment · 12 years ago
but it is most certainly subverting the school's technical partner's revenue model.
Comment · 12 years ago
how much do you pay for the use of that gateway? how much do you pay for the use of their data storage? their bandwidth?
Comment · 12 years ago
if you weren't aware, many school districts partner with a private firms for technical services... which include things like selling the school a web site.

looking into this a bit more it would seem these services are provided by http://www.educacional.com.br/home/home.asp

what i'm saying is no, the school didn't reject this app... their partner – your competition – did.

edit: oh wow, i've realized i had missed half the article (i stopped reading at the first screenshot)... you're charging for an app that stores passwords, scrapes 3rd party content, practically bragging about how you removed the company and school's branding... and you're upset?

Comment · 12 years ago
sounds like it works out in google's favor though...
Comment · 12 years ago
light, cheap, strong... pick any two!
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
> our notice told Vivint it was for unnatural/spammy links to their site. It's really not hard to find these spammy posts, so I'm not sure where the disconnect happened.

the disconnect probably happened because you feel that telling people through an internal tool is adequate.

Comment · 12 years ago
web fonts were available in the late 90s... long before css3
Comment · 12 years ago
"seems" is the operative word... here and in the quote you were talking about.
Comment · 12 years ago
to prove a point
Comment · 12 years ago
mission accomplished, probably.

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