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by nfm 13y ago
"We will continue fighting aggressively to keep your information safe and secure." - ...Facebook
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by nfm 13y ago
Like almost everything, there's no simple answer as to whether requiring a credit card to start a free trial will be net positive. This is very dependent on your product, market segment, trial length, pricing, and many other variables. You
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by nfm 13y ago
Anecdotally, ~1000+ views can be performant in Backbone. It's hard to say what bottlenecks you were hitting but zombie views that can't be GC'd, rendering to the page thousands of times (instead of to an in memory DOM element), or sorting
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by nfm 13y ago
Good point - weekly billing implies 9-5, which isn't always going to be the case. It'd be prudent to negotiate overtime rates in the contract.
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by nfm 13y ago
I think that's a good scenario for a retainer. You have a long term maintenance relationship set up that typically doesn't require chunks of work at a time. The overheads to doing a 10 minute fix are massive: they email/call you to make a r
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by nfm 13y ago
Obligatory pro tip: Don't bill hourly. Bill weekly whenever possible, and anchor your consulting rate to the outcomes you can achieve in a week instead of to 60 minutes of your attention.
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by nfm 13y ago
When you say "magic", what you really mean is "abstraction", which is a more suitable and neutral word to describe the pros and cons of using a higher level language. Not that I disagree with your premise - if you need to write highly perfo
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by nfm 13y ago
That's a ridiculous set of alternatives.
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by nfm 14y ago
"Linode Manager user passwords are not stored in our database, but their salted and cryptographically hashed representations are." Sounds like it's not stored in plaintext.
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by nfm 14y ago
"Despite the uselessness of these hashes"... Hrm.
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by nfm 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Kaminsky He found serious flaws in DNS and SSL. Of course one code review is not authoritative, but he is pretty credible.
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by nfm 14y ago
I remember reading about someone with neighbours that were stealing their wifi. You can do much more interesting things with a proxy server than just inject ads: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html
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by nfm 14y ago
Linkbaity article title - not remotely a quote.
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by nfm 14y ago
Man, startups are hard. B2C startups are really hard. Best of luck with the pivot!
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by nfm 14y ago
That is a historically naive assertion. Take a look at the list of countries in this article - most of them are still in pretty serious shit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_re... It very rarely works out.
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by nfm 14y ago
I think the whole sysadmin/devops thing is an inescapable problem to some degree. If it's something that nobody on your team can tackle you can easily end up with completely disparate development environments (with devs running different ru
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by nfm 14y ago
Firefox is my primary browser, but I use Chrome to do development, entirely because of the dev tools. I'd really like to move my development back to Firefox. For me, I'm held back more by the UI rather than the features. I find the differen
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by nfm 14y ago
Thanks for the clarification :)
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by nfm 14y ago
Looks great, but the 2.x series seems like it requires Firefox 20. Do I need to get on the beta or is it just an addon version requirement mixup?
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by nfm 14y ago
Obligatory pg essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html . Start here.
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by nfm 14y ago
Thanks Steve :)
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by nfm 14y ago
I don't know a lot about this, apart from the fact that the implementation is a bit contentious. Can you elaborate on some of the opposition to refinements?
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by nfm 14y ago
Can't wait to see refinements start getting used in libraries. I guess it'll be some time until people start requiring Ruby 2.0, but there are some seriously excellent new features in the works. See https://speakerdeck.com/a_matsuda/ruby-2
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by nfm 14y ago
I'm going against my better judgement in trying to critically engage you, but what's your background? Are you a security researcher? Have you audited Django? Have you read the Python source code? Why do you think a given language community
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by nfm 14y ago
Yeah, you can be fined, audited, have your merchant account revoked - all sorts of badness.
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by nfm 14y ago
It does seem crazy, but anecdotally, it's pretty common. The number of people in my CS degree that couldn't program - at all - was astounding. I did a final year subject on databases, and ended up in an end of semester group project with
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New Relic in 2012(newrelic.com)
5 points by nfm 14y ago|2 comments
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by nfm 14y ago
I really hope that the term "Infauxgraphics" gets some more traction.
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by nfm 14y ago
It's been 9 years since the bug was reported - how much have the stats changed since then?
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by nfm 14y ago
What's the browser?

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