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Re: Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes

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Post by lifeisstillgood » Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 11:36 PM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #70

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #66

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Thank you. In the spirit of understanding, can I try to summarise your points as I get them 1. Programming as it is currently practised is still very focused on implementation / procedural. 2. Anyone who uses a DSP / other system to perform a task they want (agency) is doing some form of programming, and that is valid, as it is a step on the path of literacy. 3. The path of literacy might not be towards the current e…

2. Anyone who uses a DSP / other system to perform a task they want (agency) is doing some form of programming, and that is valid, as it is a step on the path of literacy. Well, it's the path to literacy in signal processing (or whatever domain it happens to be). I learned to code >25 years ago and I still sort of like doing small things in assembler or throwing something together quickly in C. But I really don't lik…

I think I meant DSL.

But, a graph of a novel is not a novel.

We are story telling chimps who have created a tool in our image - a tool to tell stories to other chimps, but based on rigid symbols and calculations.

Or maybe it's just late

Re: Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes

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Post by anigbrowl » Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 7:13 AM UTC

quarterto wrote: post #60

k__ wrote: post #55

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A service like this needs booth. Writing processes in a programming language AND a possibility to reuse them for different stuff. IFTTT is a nice idea, but I can't do stuff like: 1. check rss feed for new stuff 2. generate links to the real data from the links in the rss. (most RSS feeds just suck, because they don't have the full articles and sometimes they link to crazy pages where the article is split in 10 sub-pa…

Most of the time the real stuff isn't easily crawleable without writing a pice of software just for the source. But you're right, there should be a possibility to get such apps to work without any code. If I wrote a crawler for images from a DA-artist, I didn't want to rewrite it for every other one... Shameless offtopic plug: that's exactly what we at http://import.io are trying to solve. We're in Developer Preview,…

Looks very interesting. I like that it's a desktop app!

Re: Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes

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Post by quarterto » Sun, Mar 17, 2013, 8:48 PM UTC

k__ wrote: post #63

quarterto wrote: post #60

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Most of the time the real stuff isn't easily crawleable without writing a pice of software just for the source. But you're right, there should be a possibility to get such apps to work without any code. If I wrote a crawler for images from a DA-artist, I didn't want to rewrite it for every other one... Shameless offtopic plug: that's exactly what we at http://import.io are trying to solve. We're in Developer Preview,…

Do I get this right, this is not a web-service but an application, which runs on my PC?

The application is for building extractors and connectors, which then get published to our platform so you can query using our web service.