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by jakejake 12y ago
Yep I remember there were password cracker programs that would recover the "LM" version of the password in seconds. I was a network admin at the time and remember having to turn this "feature" off once we discovered it.
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by jakejake 12y ago
Interesting that "failure to monetize" didn't make the list. Either that isn't a problem or isn't recognized by founders as a problem.
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by jakejake 12y ago
That makes sense. I'd imagine though that it shows up on the ISP's radar when major DoS attacks happen. It seems like they could set up alarms for such things. Maybe it could be an opt-in thing.
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by jakejake 12y ago
"We should have built the absolute minimum and then manually maintained transactions through the backend if need be. To hell with formality. We were in the business of proving a hypothesis yet we acted as if it had already been proven&
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by jakejake 12y ago
I'm sure somebody will probably point out to me why this is a terrible idea, but I have thought that ISPs probably can detect traffic known to be coming to/from bot networks and then send a letter of warning to the customer. They
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by jakejake 12y ago
That is true, but the author definitely took a giant leap to leave the field of programming - twice. Getting another programming job would have been a substantially less risky jump.
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by jakejake 12y ago
I don't consult anymore, I have a SaaS company now. But when I was consulting I got to the point where I had a small, loyal group of clients who always needed work every month and always paid their bills without complaint. I would pi
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by jakejake 12y ago
A friend of mine said that working at a corporation gives you the illusion of stability, and working as a freelancer gives you the illusion of freedom. I found that to be very true. Working freelance basically means that each client is a ne
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by jakejake 12y ago
I agree with you which is why I stopped consulting after five years. I started to feel like I couldn't focus on anything because I always had 5-6 projects going on at once. Another thing is that you really begin to feel the pressure o
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by jakejake 12y ago
The terms are somewhat interchangeable to me, and you can refer to yourself either way if you are doing contract work. But I think freelance has a more individual aspect to it - you are working as a solo person (ie Joe Smith). When you sta
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by jakejake 12y ago
I agree that the database is the bottleneck. I wrote a DB caching drop-in for WordPress and got pretty deep into the various queries that are running. There really aren't any nasty joins, but the problem is that the stock WordPress i
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by jakejake 12y ago
I've bought two fix-er-up houses now. I've always been pretty hands-on with building things. However as patient and diligent as I am building software, I found that I just didn't have the same mentality when it came to fixi
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by jakejake 12y ago
I didn't intend any disrespect to farming. Rather, just for me, I love programming so much more than doing other kinds of work. I have in the past worked in the most corporate programming environments writing insurance processing syst
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by jakejake 12y ago
I think this is the result of the relative ease of getting programming work and good salaries. It attracts a lot of people who are not really in it for the love. Some of those people are going to feel like their soul is being sucked out. T
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by jakejake 12y ago
Yea it felt like that. We had zero media connections and in fact were largely ignored by the press until we got signed by a big label. Once that happened the press we got was usually all through them.
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by jakejake 12y ago
No apology necessary! I do know what you mean when people who are connected to someone in the press get lots of attention while other, more talented people go unnoticed.
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by jakejake 12y ago
I wouldn't call something "underhanded" unless there was some malice or sabotage of other people's work. I ran into this attitude a lot when I was a professional musician. We worked our asses off constantly and eventuall
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by jakejake 12y ago
Its true that locking people up costs taxpayer money. But there are people of influence who have positioned themselves to control and receive that money.
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by jakejake 12y ago
They are perfectly aware of how people feel about bloatware. Dell at one point offered clean installs but you had to pay something like $30 extra. This probably provides some type of clue that they make about that much more per machine by
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by jakejake 12y ago
Another one that I only know about because a relative of mine works there is http://kitewheel.com/ . I think it's designed and priced for large corporations, though.
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by jakejake 12y ago
I wouldn't say that I'm the exact opposite of the OP because I do constantly add to my tools, but I tend to be about 1 year behind and prefer to wait until things settle before I choose technologies. I would say you suffer from a
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by jakejake 12y ago
I felt like the article sounded like an infomercial- making an ordinary task sound incredibly bothersome when it really isn't. Signed URLs are incredibly useful, but the examples given dont seem that compelling to me.
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by jakejake 12y ago
The site has only been open for 3 months and looking around at some forum posts it seems to not have ramped up yet to a huge amount of users. I have no idea but I'm gonna guess low 5 figures.
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by jakejake 12y ago
I thought that sounded weird to me too, I could only guess that they're trying to keep their service online while they fix it - which is insane at this point.
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by jakejake 12y ago
I was just playing around with this tonight using PHP and each process was about 5Mb of RAM. I'd imagine if you wrote your server code in, say C instead, then the memory footprint would be much smaller. There's also a limit to th
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by jakejake 12y ago
In the source code /examples folder most of the languages have a bi-directional example called "greeter"
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by jakejake 12y ago
I agree. I find the thinking of developers here is all over the place due to the variety of types of work we're all doing. But some people take a hard-line approach to estimates based on the recommendation of others who are working in
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by jakejake 12y ago
I would say that is probably true but isn't exactly fair to the individual developers on those teams. Product teams tend to be stable, were hired for their domain expertise, and have been working on the same product for a long time. S
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by jakejake 12y ago
This is an interesting article to me as I'm currently making a series of screenshot videos to document a project that we're doing at my company. It is estimated at about 3 months and I'm recording the progress and everything
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by jakejake 12y ago
It appears to me that LinkedIn is splitting their API into separate categories (Profile API, Company API, etc) Going forward everyone will have to register and be approved in only 1 of the categories, meaning that if you are in the Company

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