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by gesman 11y ago
>> whos valuation is based on it's investors alternative views of what value is. ...or rather based upon it's investors ability to convince outside crowd of what the value is.
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by gesman 11y ago
"... or perhaps they don’t care much if they are discovered and exposed" -- Kaspersky Labs
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by gesman 11y ago
If your log files are generating <500MB of log files per day you may use Splunk for free. I wrote and published free splunk app - which i actually built specifically for my dedicated hosting server analytics: https://splunkbas
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by gesman 11y ago
Describe your experience in details and post it in public and visible blog. Also twit about - in other words - let the whole world know about this. With all the recent privacy buzz - this may attract necessary attention to shake out this sw
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by gesman 11y ago
Being high-paid "pure" developer is possible but not recommended. Developers from the top management perspective are seen as expense/liability, not an asset (surprise!). That means that as soon as things go south for company,
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by gesman 11y ago
One of the best job offer I got was from recruiter that was exactly like that. He was some sort of front line caller that was hired by pretty decent enterprise. In fact some of my worst interactions (lots of time wasted) were from perfectl
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by gesman 11y ago
Agree 100%. Essentially Tim Cook said: "Apple is a good girl (we do the same things that bad girls do but better)"
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by gesman 11y ago
If they (likely) use some version control system - they can always revert to previous "non copyrighted version" to bypass this hurdle. But then this whole arrangement sounded like "work for hire" === "they own every
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by gesman 11y ago
No, I mean using more of human intelligence instead relying on expensive machinery and dumb routines on a mass scale.
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by gesman 11y ago
warriorforum.com might be richer source for this type of info
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by gesman 11y ago
My guess is that there is no big red "Stop collecting data" button at NSA headquarters :)
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by gesman 11y ago
http://boycottnovell.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/steve-ba...
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by gesman 11y ago
True. Nothing arouses suspicion of TSA agents more than the sight of >100ml of water in one place.
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by gesman 11y ago
Failed TSA agents would reply - "...ohh but we saw that these were only simulated explosives and we let them through as they didn't pose any danger!"
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by gesman 11y ago
The sooner TSA will (or be allowed to) learn from El Al security - the better it will be for everyone.
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by gesman 11y ago
The general consensus for business software - i.e. software that helps people to make money - these customers are not interested in torrent sharing communities to save $100 bucks. If product helps them to make money and receive support from
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by gesman 11y ago
He suggests using ionCube and alike. The biggest problem with ionCube is that it requires support from hosting company providers. Some do not support it and then your customers cannot use your ionCube-encoded software. Zencoder offers 100%-
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by gesman 11y ago
Yes. And also add to it - infested with malware injected by the one who added it. You grab the software via thepiratebay - and your site or your computer becomes a zombie. Lots of people know that and so that never been a threat to me. And
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by gesman 11y ago
Licensing helped to collect recurring fees from existing customers. Yearly "Maintenance" fee ~= 20% of initial license in my case. So it helped. Actually I welcomed curious customers to buy (for much higher, unpublished fee) fully
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by gesman 11y ago
Yes, but it was enough to distract 99% of kiddies from copycatting it. 1% wasn't a threat to business. Just a sale that would never happen anyways.
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by gesman 11y ago
I've authored commercial membership plugin memberwing a while ago. Total revenues including consulting fees and subsequent sale of it as a business (with more of subsequent consulting) are in 6 figures. It's a good strategy of fre
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by gesman 11y ago
I love Google's investment and dedication to Internet of Things, but not for the reasons Google does.
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by gesman 11y ago
Some people need to learn to lose. Negative emotional reaction from their side means just that. When they decline employment to the next applicant - they're not even blinking over thought of hurting person's feelings. Move on and
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by gesman 11y ago
I interested in building personal, private analytics dashboards to find previously unknown personal correlations between inner moods, feelings, emotions and health states with external factors, such as food/drink intakes, duration of s
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by gesman 11y ago
Does it allow me to access raw feeds data?
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by gesman 11y ago
My wife opened high-end dog collars online store after helping our standard poodles to look pretty :)
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by gesman 11y ago
PS: Kudos for them to list data-gathering apps which is useful.
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by gesman 11y ago
Looks interesting. They should get rid of this though: "...Due to high demand, we currently have a waitlist...". Wtf? are they selling hardware? or their computers cannot keep up with high demand? I call marketing BS.
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Ask HN: How to track everything about myself?
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by gesman 11y ago
I use OVH kimsufi's dedicated server as it can be pretty cheap and VPS in general doesn't serve 100% of my needs.

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