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by jtheory 14y ago
I'm not sure about all security questions, but I have noticed many credit card support lines ask me for my mother's maiden name, and the answer I give is long and not easily spelled but they always confirm -- instantly -- "that's it" and an
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by jtheory 14y ago
That's the trouble... the "sensible" options aren't so sensible when you really sit down and think about how they can be dodged, broken or abused. Imagine I'm trying to crack into your site, and you lock any account after 5 failed logins in
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by jtheory 14y ago
It's a very good point, and reminds of the "Confessions of a Recovering Lifehacker" post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4012852 It's worth doing some approximate cost/gain math now & again.... E.g., my core goal is to better com
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by jtheory 14y ago
One probably-very-relevant thing you aren't addressing -- the "business relationship" started with a very clearly illegal cold call to a Do-Not-Call listed mobile phone number. I also suspect that the company actively breaking the law as pa
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by jtheory 14y ago
That's the thing -- the telemarketing company knew perfectly well they were breaking the law, and thus took pains to hide their own identifying info even when the person did seem interested. Sure, the fact that the bad guys are "playing d
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by jtheory 14y ago
So, you're being sarcastic, but aside from the fact that you're scorning blind people for crying out loud, there are laws that might well apply to you. Do you do any work building government websites or sites that serve other large public
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by jtheory 14y ago
Thanks for this; I'm in the early stages of looking in Cambridge, have never lived in the UK before whatsoever, and had no idea (yet) of the low quality of the listings on rightmove, etc.. [Side note: current coverage is London, Manchester,
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by jtheory 14y ago
Also worth noting -- if they offer more money, and you stay, that implies that you were leaving (or just threatening to leave...) because of the money (rather than discussing money with them in a more upfront way). That would change your re
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by jtheory 14y ago
Burning bridges with the founders is usually more than just not working with them again in the future. Everyone has their own network, and the founders may be good friends with other potential employers, potential co-founders, etc. with
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by jtheory 14y ago
I had my wallet stolen several years ago -- I set it on the bar at a cafe momentarily while paying, and somehow left without it (maybe someone subtly laid a paper over it? maybe I was just distracted?) and it was gone when I realized about
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by jtheory 14y ago
I suppose people tend to think of rms as an idea more than a person, almost -- someone who adheres to a small set of principles with complete disregard for practicality or anything else. It's not true, though -- and this shouldn't be surpri
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by jtheory 14y ago
In particular, more social. My suspicion is that when recipients see the cc with a name they don't know, they're suddenly in the position of making a first impression on someone that don't know yet, but will probably be working with in the
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by jtheory 15y ago
I can't speak generally, but in my case it's not primarily a cultural issue. I also spend a decent amount of time in urban Malaysia, and the cultural gap to that (from the east coast US, where I grew up) is a much further jump than I get c
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by jtheory 15y ago
I suspect it's getting hammered at the moment -- the Iran check returned an error for me, and the Google page rank check for "google.com" or "yahoo.com" still reports "Sorry, we couldn't seem to find that domain in Google's cache." To the d
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by jtheory 15y ago
I thought of both of these things -- but look at the places he interviewed. They spent a lot of time with him (sometimes several days!) and he was largely dealing with technical folk, not HR people. I'll bet if he asked them all in the rig
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by jtheory 15y ago
Complementary advice: while you rebuild the outlines in your head again, re-evaluate your old decisions about what really needs to be there. If your overall vision is too solidified in your head, there may be some minor decisions that wer
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by jtheory 15y ago
Neat followup: ask the companies who declined for a little insight. Particularly now that you've found a position and they know you're not going to argue with them about their conclusions (that'd be my worry, as the interviewer, if someone
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by jtheory 15y ago
Great; now please submit this to the Sublime Text folks so they can work on creating an actual installer, if that's possible. There's something permanently frustrating about the time involved in setting up anything other than the core softw
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by jtheory 15y ago
Flash is getting less fashionable, but browser support is pretty much ubiquitous. What good is HTML5 if you're trying to set up calls with people working in large, locked-down corporations, hospitals, etc., where they don't have the choice
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by jtheory 15y ago
WebRTC seems comparatively low-level, and I'm not sure it would support the basic use case for webex, gotomeeting, etc.: i.e., conference calls with audio, screen-sharing, and (less importantly) video of participants. We use GoToMeeting (Ci
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by jtheory 15y ago
I have many years of first-hand experience; I'm an American who has lived in (mostly rural) France since 2006. This may well be true; but I've found that in actual, real-world interactions, the fact that I'm speaking a non-native language i
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by jtheory 15y ago
Sure; calling someone a modern-day Neanderthal isn't suggest they are "modern", either.
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by jtheory 15y ago
There are also pretty strong influences on parents choosing to homeschool, which filters down the parents as well (and who the parents are has a huge impact on what the child's experience will be). Obviously the parents who homeschool bec
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by jtheory 15y ago
This isn't bad advice; though I feel it's only a small part of the picture. My desire to work on side projects definitely increases as I head towards burnout in whatever I'm supposed to be working on. And giving myself permission to work on
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by jtheory 15y ago
They have a project of mine on there (eMusicTheory.com), and I admittedly didn't ask to be removed, but the paranoid side of me worried... if there's a particular security flaw in Stripe (or websites' common implementations of Stripe for pa
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by jtheory 15y ago
Yes; the info that returns is in headers, though, which could work just the same even if the OPTIONS response also includes REST action details in the body and/or other headers.
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by jtheory 15y ago
It's important to remember that deterrents that can be circumvented is not the same things as pointless deterrents. That's sort of like saying that security by obscurity is pointless -- certainly it's NOT pointless, and banning IPs (lik
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by jtheory 15y ago
I'm sure that's true for many sites -- here, for example -- but on Kickstarter I imagine they have policies about real names. They're going to need your real info anyway (to give you any money you raise), and it seems like a bad idea to le
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by jtheory 15y ago
Right on -- I've found I have to use 3-4 different browsers for normal, everyday usage, because it seriously creeps me out when, for example, I open a YouTube video for my daughter in the wrong browser, and the banner at the top reminds me
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by jtheory 15y ago
Yup, I agreed with that already, I think, though it's a special case. If you're switching major/minor, for example, it's about equal... for some pieces slightly easier on piano because the scales are horizontally laid out more obviously, w

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