Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement
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Re: Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement
#2It would be great if they added the price of course material in there. Maybe with real time pricing from Amazon or something like that.
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#4Really clever response to clearly decouple the copyright issue from the freedom of speech issue. I'm curious to see how the university will react to this.
Re: Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement
#5Pretty smart move on this guy's part, as it's a win-win situation for him. If they kick him out, the positive attention he gets for fighting the man will just enable him to start working 4 or 5 months early.
Re: Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement
#6Evaluations hurt the professors' feelings and pride, so they are not published. Politics is probably the only area in which evaluations (a.k.a. votes, surveys, news articles/comments) are published.
Re: Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement
#7Really clever response to clearly decouple the copyright issue from the freedom of speech issue. I'm curious to see how the university will react to this.
The data will stop being presented in a form that's easily parsed. Instead, it'll be in PDFs rather than within text+HTML that this guy's extension can move around.
(And the counter to this is a server somewhere that the extension can send the PDF to, that runs pdftotext on linux... so he should prepare for that ...or just prepare to be expelled).
Re: Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement
#8If you matriculate 1 semester at Harvard/Yale whatever - you've got the trademark - so why keep paying to waste your time?
Re: Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement
#9Really clever response to clearly decouple the copyright issue from the freedom of speech issue. I'm curious to see how the university will react to this.
The data will stop being presented in a form that's easily parsed. Instead, it'll be in PDFs rather than within text+HTML that this guy's extension can move around. (And the counter to this is a server somewhere that the extension can send the PDF to, that runs pdftotext on linux... so he should prepare for that ...or just prepare to be expelled).
With the rise of javascript in the browser to a first world programming language it's hard to imagine anything they could do that would put the information out of reach.
Re: Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement
#10Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. The extension:
> (3) not scraping or collecting Yale’s data
Yet in the code[0], there's a function called getRatingsForCourse() that makes an ajax call to url: "https://ybb.yale.edu/courses/" + id. How is this not scraping? Am I missing something here?
[0]: https://github.com/seanhaufler/banned-bluebook/blob/master/e...