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Re:Ask YC: Who's pushing their data to 'the cloud' on Friday February 01, 2008 @05:22AM (#107753)
I've been thinking about the same thing. There's a Flickr tool for iphoto if you use a Mac and I currently use Furl for bookmarking.
Re:Ask YC: Any crawler experts out there? on Friday January 25, 2008 @07:19PM (#104417)
Thank you. I'll look into these. I'm constantly amazed by the power of python - especially in comparison to PHP which is my background
When the intel OS X first came out I spent 3 days trying to set it up on a Dell machine I had. What a joy when I got it running. I subsequently bought a MacBook Pro and it has been a great machine - I run Windows and Linux on it also via Parallels. OS X is a lovely oS (coming from a Windows background) and I'd suggest playing with it - you might be pleasantly surprised

Ask YC: Any crawler experts out there?

Hi. Wondering if there are any crawler experts on here who can help me. We're wanting to create a crawler to visit some sites that have forms, lists of items and detail of items. They're all in the real estate market and we want to capture the properties and pull out the latest ones. I'm being told that we need to create a specific crawler for each site, but I was wondering if we could create...

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Re:Unix is sexy [nsfw] on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @03:22PM (#99421)
I second that! I don't think its the human body thats nsfw, but those two weren't hot enough and in my circle of friends if I'm caught looking at the ugly chicks then I lose the small amount of credibility I had
Good idea. You're going to build it right? :P
Re:Ask YC: Where's the best place for online discussion? on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @01:09PM (#82002)
We should create one off this site. I'd definitely use it