Ask HN: What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made 9 years agoThe most expensive mistake I've made is not focusing on a single goal, task, technology, or stack. I keep changing my goals. Because of that I have learnt nothing today. Any idea to get rid off this habit? 0ThreadHN
Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start? 9 years agoCan the below code be sold to raise money?import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoupurl = "http://www.python.org" response = requests.get(url)page = str(BeautifulSoup(response.content))def getURL(page): """ :param page: html of web page (here: Python home page) :return: urls in that page """ start_link = page.find("a href") if start_link == -1: return None, 0 start_quote = page.find('"', start_link) end_quote = page.find('"', start_quote + 1) url = page[start_quote + 1: end_quote] return url, end_quote while True: url, n = getURL(page) page = page[n:] if url: print(url) else: break 0ThreadHN
Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine? 9 years agoBuild a local search engine for a very focused niche. 0ThreadHN