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by chill1 10y ago
Through my personal network (specifically a former colleague of mine).
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by chill1 10y ago
Correct, eLance and other similar websites are an absolute waste of time unless you are ok with competing only on price and you have a very low cost of living. * Build a web presence that funnels potential leads to you (blog, portfolio, res
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by chill1 10y ago
You could try freelance work for clients remotely. That would give you a lot of freedom to choose where to live. I am an American living, working (as a freelance programmer) in Czech Republic -- good economy (especially Prague), low crime r
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by chill1 10y ago
Not trolling, serious question: What is the audio/mic equivalent of covering your webcam with a sticker?
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by chill1 10y ago
Fair enough. I don't think this is a "shady" practice either. But I think it's an old, out-dated practice to charge extra money for a feature that should be on by default.
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by chill1 10y ago
All web traffic should be encrypted, regardless of purpose. This increases the work that nation-state level adversaries must do to effectively spy on the population. And it's cheap and easy to do these days.
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by chill1 11y ago
Maybe you could make some life-style changes to improve your overall energy level and/or cure your tiredness. How do you eat? Do you eat right before you go to bed? Do you wake up with an alarm clock? Do you eat a lot of greasy, proces
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by chill1 11y ago
> "What's missing is a solid technological implementation of a distributed, peer-to-peer, trust-less marketplace. It's possible to do it, it's just not that easy." Have you taken a look at OpenBazaar[1][2]? [1]
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by chill1 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Web Developer, Remote (living in Czech Republic) I'm a web developer with over 6 years of experience. I've worked at agencies and start-ups. I moved to Czech about a year ago. The last job I had was at a start-up wh
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by chill1 12y ago
I've had this problem before. Try changing the "channel" for your wifi signal. You can do this via the admin interface for your router. If that doesn't help, the cause might be EM interference from other electronic devic
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by chill1 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote, living in Czech Republic I'm a web developer with over 6 years of experience. I've worked at agencies and start-ups. I moved to Czech about a year ago. The last job I had was at a start-up where I was respon
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by chill1 12y ago
bcrypt is a key derivation function based on the Blowfish cipher. The iteration count can be increased to make it slower, so it remains resistant to brute-force search attacks even with increasing computation power. The hash string includes
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by chill1 12y ago
I assume you mean to point out that it is disingenous to say that any hashing algorithm "cannot be cracked"?
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by chill1 12y ago
From the Contributing doc: > "Do not make a pull request withouth having run the app on your own. This means, you have to manually test (at least) that everything works." Lack of automated testing for large projects makes it di
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by chill1 12y ago
Because that's one more request that your web server will have to handle. And, if logging is enabled, each of those requests will create a log entry for the 404 error. And, apparently, to prevent the errant request from IE11, you have
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by chill1 12y ago
I assume your point is to justify the fact that this page does not load if JavaScript is disabled, because the domain has a web app on it at a separate URL? It is possible to have both static document pages, viewable without JavaScript, and
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by chill1 12y ago
Luck favors the prepared mind.
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by chill1 12y ago
I don't have any websites bookmarked that employ such scripts, but DuckingIt (tm) yields the following links on that topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9042.0 http://www.bitcoinplus.com/mine
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by chill1 12y ago
Allow me to list a few reasons I run with JS disabled by default: - Poorly written JavaScript that causes my system to stall for a time, to the point where I have to kill all my browser's processes manually; more common than you'd
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by chill1 12y ago
I didn't say it did. I was agreeing with the point that this particular site wastes a ton of vertical space with its headers.
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by chill1 12y ago
I don't know if answering snark with more snark is the answer. He/she did have a valid point after all, even if it was delivered obnoxiously.
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by chill1 12y ago
> "Two MIT students have raised half a million dollars for a project to distribute $100 in bitcoin to every undergraduate student at MIT this fall." > "The organizers admit they do not know how students will decide to u
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by chill1 12y ago
I think if your shop is turning into a fraternity because of a few drinks, you've got bigger problems than the drinking.
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by chill1 12y ago
"No drinking at work events." ".. If you want to drink, be my guest. Drink. You're a grown up. I'm not the boss of you. But don't drink in a situation or event that is officially connected with work in any way.
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by chill1 12y ago
I am in a similar situation, except I moved to another country with my long-term girlfriend. I know what you mean, but I think all it takes is time. You must have met someone recently in your new city? A neighbor? Is there a "hacker sp
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by chill1 12y ago
Finding a competitor to a project you have yet to launch can be disheartening, for sure. But, take it this way.. You just got confirmation that there is a market for what you're building. Plus, you can see what they are doing wrong, an
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by chill1 13y ago
Preventing users from pasting their passwords is quite irritating. I don't even understand the idea behind it. Most likely some developer saw a non-technical user copying/pasting from a plain-text password file, and "had a gr
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by chill1 13y ago
I agree with antonpirker here. As long as you're using a version control system, the code isn't lost. Delete the commented out code, and leave a helpful commit message along with the deletion. That way the deleted code can be foun
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by chill1 13y ago
I always find it very frustrating when I open up a github repository such as this, but I am left having to poke around the source itself totally lost trying to figure out what I am supposed to do to use it. You already spent a lot of your t
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by chill1 13y ago
Why was leobelle being downvoted? I can understand disagreeing with what they were saying. It's an opinion after all. But, what they were saying wasn't that far off base..

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