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The consensus is that U/L's aggressive political campaigning prior to the vote backfired big time. They really screwed up on messaging by not understanding their audience. Had they…

The title and content of this article couldn't be farther from the truth. 1. Uber and Lyft's absence has created a huge void that remains to this day. There are crazy long lines at…

This isn't particularly difficult anymore. The most interesting challenges in web crawling around turning a diaspora of web content into usable data. E.g., how to get prices from 1…

Here's how many URLs we crawl every second with 80legs ( http://www.80legs.com ) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44889964/Descartes%20%20... This translates to about 700MM/mont…

Trying to triangulate based on where players' eyes are looking rarely works. In many cases, the goalie is looking in a completely different direction than where the ball is. I gues…

Any word on integration with Graphite?

Datafiniti - Data Engineer and Distributed Systems Engineer, Austin, TX Data Engineer Data engineers form the core of Datafiniti. You’ll be responsible for turning customer needs i…

Let us know if you'd like to integrate this with http://www.80legs.com !

Our intention is to pay the developer. Of course, there'd be nothing stopping the developer from paying out to users as well. Happy to get more feedback!

We're experimenting with a new way to power our Datafiniti search engine. Essentially you get paid for running a distributed web crawler through any Chrome Extension.

Let us know if you're interested: https://www.datafiniti.net/home/careers

Austin, TX - Datafiniti ( https://www.datafiniti.net ) Datafiniti is the world's only search engine for data. We crawl and index close to 1 million websites each month to create st…

Datafiniti - Austin, TX. We're looking for a Sales Engineer and Operations Engineer. Come help us scale the world's first and only search engine for data! Full details here: https:…