foxylad

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by foxylad 14y ago
Sigh... I don't care about the pretty buttons, I just want a payment service that works. After another spate of PayPal randomly refusing my customer's payments, I've just spent most of my day searching for an alternative, AGAIN. Stripe, Dwo
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by foxylad 14y ago
I's be open to exiting my successful bootstrapped startup, except I have absolutely no idea what an acquirer might pay. I've never broached this with potential investors because I'm afraid my asking price might be catastrophically high or l
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by foxylad 14y ago
I agree he should have explained "worse and worse". I assume it's supply and demand - urbanisation and climate change will reduce supply, population growth will increase demand.
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by foxylad 14y ago
Catastrophes have been happening for thousands of years. Read "Collapse" by Jared Diamond. He documents the collapse of a dozen significant civilisations, usually because they used up some other resource (water or wood for instance) require
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by foxylad 14y ago
It is special that the CEO responded AND put his reputation on the line by saying he was going to fix this. If he doesn't fix the problem, in a few months he's going to be inundated with blog posts saying "David Marcus promised this would b
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by foxylad 14y ago
One of the comments in the article mentions gocardless.com for UK payments. This seems suspiciously good - an end run around credit card companies and much lower fees. Has anyone used it? Is there a catch? How do customers react?
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by foxylad 14y ago
Surely the ideal would be a single result with exactly the information you need. But because the search query is seldom perfect, it's good to have several results - and by extension, some paid results too.
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by foxylad 14y ago
Give your parent's email as your recovery email address. If you need to reset, you can call them and talk them through clicking the link and resetting the password. The bad guys then have to crack your parents email account too, and being o
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by foxylad 14y ago
I was thinking the same thing, but then realised how easy would it be to subvert any definition of "active practitioner". The troll only needs to contract a guy (offshore?) who swears he's developing something that will come to market real
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by foxylad 14y ago
I certainly perceive Microsoft to be morally bankrupt. Google less so, for two reasons: 1. They haven't been around as long and so haven't had to decide how far they'll go when the next big thing comes along. 2. I think they "get" trust, an
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by foxylad 14y ago
Trust is far and away my highest priority when deciding on online services, and if it isn't yours... well good luck friend, you're going to need it. Your email is likely to be an important part of your life's documentation, containing an a
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by foxylad 14y ago
Pardon my naivety, but why would a third party want to set bots onto Facebook ads? I guess one could hope to exhaust a competitor's marketing budget, but surely this isn't an established tactic. Even more Machiavellian would be Google doing
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by foxylad 14y ago
Anyone else have alarm bells going off about the statements about buffering? He's very careful to represent storage of the images as an accident caused by the incident, which is slightly odd in itself - why not simply say it records everyth
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by foxylad 14y ago
You can't do a join because the hash table contains only hashes - nothing to relate them back to the user record. This idea uncouples the password from the username and salt, which seems a good idea. But assuming you have access to the data
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by foxylad 14y ago
Marketing used to be about information, letting potential customers know your product exists. Then it morphed into manipulation, but I think that has run it's course - even young children now know when they are being manipulated, and are re
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by foxylad 15y ago
"com/net/info have always been US domain names from the beginning" - Citation? And how come there is a ".us" TLD? It may seem that way from where you sit (USA by any chance?), but I think you'll find the rest of the world sees com/net/org a
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by foxylad 15y ago
As I age, I realise that time speeds by faster. A year in prison now would a much smaller punishment than when I was in my teens, when a year seemed like forever. Perhaps we need an age-related transform to prison sentences.
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by foxylad 15y ago
Actually the cloud IS for our startup. We used Appengine to launch and have had no reason to even consider moving to bare metal. We've been successful and are growing nicely, generating six figures of annual revenue - and paying Google thre
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by foxylad 15y ago
Have you tried this recently? It's practically impossible, thanks to money-laundering paranoia. The closest I got was Western Union, but they said the account couldn't be used for any kind of internet commerce. I'd love to be proved wrong o
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by foxylad 15y ago
Luckily I had warned my mother-in-law about these - she's safely on Ubuntu, but I keep everyone in the family aware of scams. So she played along for at least 45 minutes, before telling them their mother would be ashamed of them and they sh
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by foxylad 15y ago
I moved to Namecheap three GoDaddy scandals ago (the elephant one, before Jotform and SOPA). You've got to wonder how they've got any customers left. Maybe this is a good way to measure internet time - "We launched our first service four Go
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by foxylad 15y ago
Today's sysadmin todo list: 0. Get corporate membership with EFF. 1. Identify all applications with user-generated content. 2. Move all associated domains to a non-US based registrar. 3. Migrate DNS, web serving and other critical services
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by foxylad 15y ago
I think a lot of hackers actually subconsciously sabotage projects when they've done the interesting coding. I think I detect a whiff of that in this article.
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by foxylad 15y ago
Or in case they are working against their will, "Return HELP if you're being held prisoner in a captcha factory", "My location is..." and "Please tell Amnesty International".
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by foxylad 15y ago
For this audience? Gotta be *.geek.nz.
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by foxylad 15y ago
What disturbed me about this article is the lack of testing. For a major piece of software like Wordpress, ANY release (alpha, beta, whatever) should include a test phase that stalls the release if it doesn't pass. If Wordpress was mission
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by foxylad 15y ago
We built http://www.schoolbookings.net on Appengine. Over a thousand schools and half a million parents use it - not enormous numbers, but a very real and profitable business. We pay under a hundred dollars a month for extremely reliable
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by foxylad 15y ago
Right there is why the bad guys always win - they don't care that an effective metaphor is not strictly accurate. We are ham-strung by our integrity, which is a sad state of affairs.
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by foxylad 15y ago
I transferred all my domains to NameCheap after the elephant slaughter, and have had absolutely no issues. Personally I'd like to hear NC's take on the incident before I pass judgement on that post, but if you're not comfortable with them,
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by foxylad 15y ago
Get real. I'm going to sound harsh, but if you're choosing to spend time angsting about this, you're probably better working for someone else than yourself. You aren't making good decisions on how to spend your time, which means you will be

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