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Of course, Wikipedia is the easiest website to scrape. The HTML is so clean an organized. I'd like to find some code to scrape Airbnb.

Yeah, I'd expand on the "API over DBs" based on my experience. I could make it nest much deeper: DBs over Excel spreadsheets, and Excel spreadsheets over PDFs or scraped HTMLs, yad…

Google's Search is dying because of Thousands of self-inflicted cuts. A couple of years ago there were about 3 or clearly marked ads on the first page, followed by generally useful…

I don't have the stats, but seems to me that majority of purchases at convenience stores is alcohol. In CA, you cannot buy alcohol at self-service POS. That spells doom for Amazon …

At one of my previous jobs, I did a project on employee retention. Our goal was to identify valuable employees who were most likely to leave. The results were surprising at first. …

Google is not paying people to provide a service. They are paying a company . I sympathize with the people who are underpaid, but their beef should be with their employers not with…

This is really a great way to sabotage your competitor. Have a bunch of friend and family buy a product and flood Galaxus with bogus returns and warranty claims. We'll see how it w…

100% in agreement on Excel. Even when coding in Python I frequently save an intermediate file as xlsx to explore/debug, or even load into Tableau for viz.

VMS OS from DEC had exactly the "unique password" stupidity in the late 80s. In a way, it was much worse than Twitter's, because where I worked there were only about a 100 accounts…

It could also be argued that "medianism" is the perfect method to hide income inequality, because median is resilient to outliers, so the billionaires will not affect the median at…

I can confirm it. I have a commercial vacuum packing machine, and a bag of rice sealed in it becomes a brick. You can't displace a grain of rice without damaging the vacuum. I doub…

I'm with you - I noticed that little pac-man, but it's not an optimal way to see the difference. Seems like scaling both images and doing an image diff would be much more effective…

And what will stop them from monitoring the alcohol sales?

Really depends on the phase of the project. At the start, getting everyone in the room is really beneficial. Once we decide what we're doing, I'd rather be left alone and work from…

Kudos to Spotify, whether it's a money decision, or a decision to stand up to a has-been entertainer. They stood up to a bully.

In 1961 the KGB would be on any foreigner from day one. No surprise at all. In 1979 I crossed from Poland to Russia by train, and while we were stopped for the axles to be changed …

I thought that for a change Linus wrote something remarkably noncontroversial. Turns out I was wrong.

Double down on stupidity. Nope, we're not gonna fix it. We'll insist that we're right and you're an idiot. I hope that a big consumer country, like US, bans this idiocy.

You can ask the question at little differently. The authoritarian state may not care about most sites, but they do care about a few selected sites which they consider "subversive."…

At one of the Big Four advisory firms we were only allowed one-on-one interviews. I was never able to get a satisfactory answer for this rule. Now I wonder if it was designed to pr…

For me, the worst thing about airline food is that it's notoriously overcooked. I think a lot of the meals would be quite decent if cooked properly, but the service at 35,000 feet …

What Netflix is doing is hiding the fact that they have very little new content. If they implemented all your suggestions, I'd have about 3 titles to watch, which I would like, but…

Yes, without context it's just not interesting. I wanted to map the cities, but without state name, quite a few of the cities are ambiguous. For example, MA, MO, and OR all have a …

It is rampant in consulting business. At least in an internal project it's possible to pull the plug when the results are not promising. In a consulting engagement, when the result…

One of the biggest risks for a startup is becoming a consulting firm. Once you do that, you won't be able to scale up. Been there, done that. That's why the FAANGs are so successfu…