>the law explicitly allows scraping and crawling.

Nepenthes also allows scraping and crawling, for as long as you like.

Literally the first line of the abstract.

Agreed, the '#' had a long history of indicating a channel, like on IRC, and by extension text-based communication.

This - the # wasn't a random choice for slack. And there's no shame in that.

And for those not familiar with IRC, the association of "#" with Twitter hashtags says "communication" too.

And for those not familiar with early Twitter, the hashtag was not a feature of the platform, but a shorthand way to indicate a topic. This of course was recognized and formalized by Twitter soon after, but I find it fascinating that it was a feature essentially developed by the users and more simply recognized by the platform later.

99 Percent Invisible did a whole show on this a while back: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/octothorpe/

> a shorthand way to indicate a topic

And I imagine it was also inspired by IRC channels.

100% slack is essentially evolved irc.

The part I quoted was about Twitter, not Slack. Slack's relation to IRC was already mentioned. Essentially, my comment was "Not just Slack, Twitter too was inspired by IRC."

I'd bet that quite a lot of early Twitter users were also IRC users.

When I biked to work, I lived close to the downtown of a mid-sized city in the US - with traffic, I often wound up getting to work faster via bike than car.

Exactly, if they couldn't even get the title right, what else in the article is going to be incorrect?

I think OPs point is you shouldn't be able to kill people by proxy with a simple phone call.

Lucifer means light-bringer.

No, it's definitely 1/20th of a ream of paper.

After I did my phone interview and study problems in Python, I was told when I got onsite for whiteboard problems that they really preferred C++ or Java. It was a little late for me to switch mindsets day-of, didn't get enough recommendations to hire.

Weird. That is definitely not standard practice, at least as of a few months ago. Candidates provide their preferred languages and are supposed to be matched with interviewers who are familiar with them.