Travelling down a stack of dependency woes – How to parse HTML in Windows with Python
I was hoping I could parse HTML in Python in Windows. As it turned out, every step I tried ended up leading to another step. In case you are about to lose an entire day dealing with all these steps, I wrote them here.
Problem 1: Beautiful Soup isn’t supported anymore
Beautiful Soup is the de [...]
Facebook: the Wikipedia of you
Facebook is trying to be the new Wikipedia.
Lately there’s been a lot of privacy backlash over Facebook making a lot of information public by default. But one question that’s getting lost in the controversy deserves more attention. Why are they doing it?
I was lucky enough to be at a semantic web conference just after Facebook [...]
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