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by gpjt 14y ago
Yes, it would be beautifully ironic...
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by gpjt 14y ago
Nice. But I was a bit disappointed that when I clicked on the "get started now" link it didn't take me to a "coming soon, enter your email address to be first in the queue" form...
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by gpjt 14y ago
Sorry to resurrect after three days... I think it might be worth saying something upfront. I agree that you shouldn't be precise and say how much you're looking for, there's no need to throw away a negotiating point early. But something
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by gpjt 14y ago
Looks like he's fixed this one too. He says that he did it in one of the comments, though.
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by gpjt 14y ago
Are you stating current salary on your application letter/CV or anything else that might make them think you might want banking-level remuneration? Remember that the City-startup transition is likely to halve your annual income or more, esp
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by gpjt 14y ago
Second hit on the Google results for "linode bitcoin incident" is this: http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/cloud-service-linode-hacke...
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by gpjt 14y ago
Interesting idea. I can't quite see how it would work, though -- if I understand them correctly, fail2ban and mod_security rely on knowing what a suspicious URL looks like. We could obviously keep an eye on someone hammering, say "/login"
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Ask HN: How to handle external net access from freely available site?
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by gpjt 14y ago
It's a bit more and less than that. Console sessions run in what amounts to a VPS (it's a bit lighter-weight than that so that we can keep the costs down) but your web apps run in chrooted subprocesses of an Apache server as a limited-priv
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by gpjt 14y ago
We're looking into that, hopefully we'll get it fixed soon, but it's a problem in a third-party library we depend on so it's proving harder to fix than we'd hoped.
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by gpjt 14y ago
Not that we know of, but we'll definitely look into it! If you could drop us a line at support@pythonanywhere.com with your OS and browser versions then we'll try to repro.
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by gpjt 14y ago
That sounds like a great idea! Drop us a line at developers@pythonanywhere.com and let's talk about what would be involved.
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by gpjt 14y ago
PythonAnywhere developer here - sorry about that. we discovered just the other day that our recent site redesign (which was in part to better support iPads) makes the ICS browser very unhappy, so I guess that's what your phone has? We'll g
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by gpjt 14y ago
Hi there - I'm a PythonAnywhere developer. We're working on getting SSH access supported, it's a bit tricky but we have it working in the lab so we should get it live reasonably soon.
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by gpjt 15y ago
I had one of the irritable incoherent ones once. He said "put your forefingers on the fingerprint reader". So I did. He then looked at me as if I was defying him in some way, and repeated himself angrily. I looked at him in confusion, a
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by gpjt 15y ago
I'm reading on Kindle and carefully not looking at the "% read" indicator... that might be helping.
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by gpjt 15y ago
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo -- the book, not the musical. Well worth it.
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by gpjt 15y ago
Surely that's what makes it a valid analogy? Countries that have their own currencies have an escape route from debt in the form of devaluation, which makes them unlike small businesses. Countries that use a shared currency (or issue debt
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by gpjt 15y ago
Gmail does something like that if emails include a List-Unsubscribe header: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=81126#un...
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by gpjt 15y ago
It's by the guy who used to do the Fake Steve Jobs.
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by gpjt 15y ago
While we're on the subject of nationalities -- "interested in" is pretty clear for people in the UK too. I imagine Irish people, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, and many South Africans also know what's meant.
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by gpjt 15y ago
Interesting, thanks!
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by gpjt 15y ago
Indeed. Telling potential customers that you are thuggish and immoral isn't the best way to get them to do business with you. I have to wonder if it's ever worked as a tactic for him.
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by gpjt 15y ago
Exactly -- if you publish something (which includes posting on the net) then you have to be able to prove it's true. I think the US does this stuff better TBH.
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by gpjt 15y ago
Great to hear from a recruiter who's trying to do something good in a very broken industry. On the subject of horror stories... One guy called me a while back (in my role as an employer) who, when I politely said that we weren't interested
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by gpjt 15y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks like you've had 170k unique visitors on your website, not 170k users -- quite different things, no? The advice is good, though.
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by gpjt 15y ago
AOL was originally a closed bulletin-board system, unconnected to the Internet. They had chat rooms, games, and lots of other good stuff, and could charge quite a lot, especially because -- as the largest of a number of closed networks --
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by gpjt 15y ago
That's an interesting point. I guess the distinction we want to make is between creating private APIs that would lock people in, and enabling them to use appropriate standards and publicly-available modules. So integrating with (say) WebG
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by gpjt 15y ago
Right, we're definitely intending to avoid tying people in as much as possible. matplotlib might be a good choice, perhaps? PythonAnywhere currently runs in a chroot jail, and we're thinking that we should have a simple URL scheme for acce
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by gpjt 15y ago
Ah, I see.

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