gesman

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811.
by gesman 11y ago
The best things happened to my career is exactly after i took a job at the bank. From taking a mediocre contractor's position to manage crappy enterprise piece of software to being a speaker at a conference teaching other people from i
812.
by gesman 11y ago
At some point I really loved my job because it allowed me to spend lots of time doing what I really love (outside of main job). Without being restrictive in any way.
813.
by gesman 11y ago
How well do you know Linux system administration / scripting?
814.
by gesman 11y ago
You never get what you deserve. You always get what you negotiate. So cut this crap with unpaid work. You'll only get non-existent clients.
815.
by gesman 11y ago
Maybe they have some sort of trigger on "autositer" keyword? Don't have a clue, never had anything like that.
816.
by gesman 11y ago
http://c.gg - see front page
817.
by gesman 11y ago
solarsprint.com - $500 (although i'll likely donate it to organization teaching kids to build solar cars) conferencecalljournal.com - $100
818.
by gesman 11y ago
Just me the domain owner. Not sure why people re-posting it.
819.
by gesman 11y ago
autositer.com - $200
820.
by gesman 11y ago
Moderator's quiet "nudge" either way works magic too.
821.
by gesman 11y ago
And besides why credit card companies are not implementing super cheap and working security method - two factor auth-ORIZATION? Send me SMS or email saying: "Your card just been used to buy X for $N at Y. Click here if you think it&#x2
822.
by gesman 11y ago
Off all of this - the act of placing an ecommerce order from EC2 (or from any hosting VPS/server for that matter) should trigger manual review. This could cut fraud drastically - that is if merchant has any clues about security.
823.
by gesman 11y ago
It's harder to steal paypal account than to trick small merchant with stolen CC
824.
by gesman 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 In case of drastic economic downturn this is a possibility along with currency devaluation. Back then there were no bitcoin in existence. Today it is.
825.
by gesman 11y ago
Two reasons. 1. US markets are priming for a temporary rise till approx. end of spring / mid-year 2016. 2. Gold is no longer safe bet in the light of a large scale government defaults and rather drastic domino effort that will follow.
826.
by gesman 11y ago
More people are realizing that China and Greece are very close to default. There are more holes in these economies than their respective governments has fingers to plug them in. Flight to bitcoin is the only natural and logical progression.
827.
by gesman 11y ago
http://www.bitcoinway.com/ - free wordpress plugin allowing anyone to build online store to sell anything and can accept payment in bitcoins without middleman and without risk of being hacked. I.e. ZERO risk of losing bitc
828.
by gesman 11y ago
Excellent post. Confirms my original vision.
829.
by gesman 11y ago
Now lets correlate this with "bad" TOR sites downtimes to narrow down their origins...
830.
by gesman 11y ago
You may ask and decision makers quite often will be happy to grant you N worthless stock options for reduction of your today cash rate. You may ask for an actual stock but it still won't be a fully vested grant but some conditional tri
831.
by gesman 11y ago
PS: Forth way which is actually quite effective is to offer non-trial, but limited functionality product. Carefully think about limitation - the approach that works best is something that allows customer to use all features of product right
832.
by gesman 11y ago
Good thing is that they love your service and using it. One way companies do free trials is collect full payment information upfront but won't charge anything until free trial expires. If user won't cancel proactively - charge sta
833.
by gesman 11y ago
"Our fees are just 10% per successful transaction in addition to Stripe's fees. These fees are deducted from sales automatically." Please remove "just" word. Or replace it with "EXORBITANT" to reflect the
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Ask HN: Blocker to prevent auto-playing of videos and audio clips?
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835.
by gesman 11y ago
Q: "How to handle it?" A: Make deliverables contingent upon timely payment. Start looking around for better alternatives to spend time wisely.
836.
by gesman 11y ago
I just found a tiny little drone on my backyard. Poor little thing crashed and now it's mine! :)
837.
by gesman 11y ago
I didn't steal anything, but wanted to assemble my first computer following radio schematics in Radio magazine (that article mentioned). Collected slowly bunch of parts frmo electronics store but never got into completing the project d
838.
by gesman 11y ago
In 1985-87 I worked on plant that manufactured personal computers with russian-translated DOS in Minsk, Belarus. The cost of this computer was close to the cost of car so blue collar workers established multiple schemes to steal either part
839.
by gesman 11y ago
The problem with desperate candidates agreeing with the smile to the law ball offer is that they'll keep looking for a better offer until found. They'll make sure you see code editor while you're looking and be staring at lin
840.
by gesman 11y ago
0 seconds. Just continue using laptop :)

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