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by qixxiq 15y ago
I use a custom selenium test runner that runs them in parallel (php). I plan on neatening it up and releasing it at some point if theres interest. It also has a 'live mode' which is useful for writing up new tests. It basically follows a fi
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by qixxiq 15y ago
Very good point. I recently got bitten quite badly by having an external email parse api drop a whole lot of our support emails. I'm quite certain the error was on their side but theres no real way to prove it (besides log entries saying it
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by qixxiq 15y ago
Cape Town (ZA) SnapBill - http://www.snapbill.com We're a small team of five in the billing & website hosting space -- looking for our third developer/sysadmin to help out with our website hosting end (EC2 / Node.js / Python / RoR) an
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by qixxiq 15y ago
I was also under the impression it may have been user error. You really should have made mention of this in the blog post.
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by qixxiq 15y ago
There definitely are tons of startups, but yeah you'll probably need to look around a bit. We're looking to hire a developer in South Africa (Cape Town): http://www.snapbill.com/jobs/developer If you're moving away from the US you'll see
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by qixxiq 15y ago
I've been using a similar scheme but without a database. Just a bcrypt hash of my password using the website/systems name as a salt, and then formatted according to an alphanumeric alphabet with symbols. It also has support for sub password
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by qixxiq 15y ago
I've always had the vision that the Windows hosting community were the more serious type of developer. Since they need to invest upfront in additional costs theirs likely funding involved and the 'hacker' attitude fits in less. I'm not sure
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by qixxiq 15y ago
I wonder how much offering this actually costs them. There must be some serious file duplication between users especially if they're offering unlimited mp3 sharing, since many people will have the same MP3 files (they can profit off piracy
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by qixxiq 15y ago
That solution worked well for Javascript, since it is impossible to remove the bad parts since they're embedded in older browsers. For a server side language I would imagine a better solution is taking the good parts of PHP and creating a n
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by qixxiq 15y ago
I agree with most of the changes on your list, but to be honest (as I'm sure you're aware) what you're suggesting is not a viable solution. It would be far easier and more effective to simply create a new language based heavily on the good
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by qixxiq 15y ago
The diff is at: http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&ol... PHP's assert function ridiculously runs eval() on the code too, so to use their backdoor they just include code as their HTTP_REFERER.
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by qixxiq 16y ago
My question is if the multivariate testing is really necessary (at-least for smaller sites) ? With a big budget you can try a lot of designs and find the most effective one by a few percent -- but the changes they made were obviously going
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by qixxiq 16y ago
I've been seriously considering purchasing 18000BTC as an investment. If bitcoins catch on in the next ten years, 18000 will be equal to 0.1% of the total available currency. Just wish I still had the money to do that (startup is busy diges
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by qixxiq 16y ago
They way you've done it seems fine, although if you're trying to find minimums of such large arrays in javascript I'd assume you're doing something wrong. Javascript really isn't a great choice of language for big processing tasks; stuff li
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by qixxiq 16y ago
I understand a fractional machine being wasted, but I'm a little confused as to the pricing. $10/hour => $10 x 24 x 30 = $7200/month? I understand its useful if your running thousands of instances but I don't see the value in it as a pu
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Ask HN: Trust and remote work
8 points by qixxiq 16y ago|4 comments
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by qixxiq 16y ago
I've always thought of setting up a programming language using unicode for a couple extra tokens (that would really assist with things like this). Could simply assign keyboard macro's for « and », and maybe one or two other useful tokens an
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by qixxiq 16y ago
I don't believe that is valid C code; you can't assign a variable to a block.
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by qixxiq 16y ago
I personally would be quite worried about it being used for prank calls. At the click of a couple buttons anyone can create a very awkward conversation between AT&T and a random stranger (or a friend).
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by qixxiq 16y ago
I'm interested to know what you plan on doing for revenue. I'm sure the cost of the calls will quickly outweigh the $.70 you're getting out of the app store. Other than that its a great idea which I'm certain people would be willing to pay
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by qixxiq 16y ago
The idea isn't original by any count (you can find hundreds of existing versions of it). The real thing CrushNotifier had going for it was that it brought with it the attention that BreakupNotifier had. You're still definitely in the runnin
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by qixxiq 16y ago
You should probably include the ?callback= functionality anyway. A great deal of libraries assume it will be a get variable, and cater for it specially i.e. jQuery with http://jsonip.com/?callback= ?
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by qixxiq 16y ago
The main reason at the end of the day is to land up with an API that is: a. Fully browse-able with standard web browsers. b. Acts in the exact same way with a browser as it does with any other client. The api design functions on the simple
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Show HN: A Browse-able RESTish API(developers.snapbill.com)
19 points by qixxiq 16y ago|8 comments
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by qixxiq 16y ago
I'd also be careful about waiting too long before starting the search. Rather than looking once "your efficiency breaks down"; get started early speaking to candidates. If you're bootstrapping and need to find the ideal person - you'll want
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Tell HN: Rejected from App Store - "customer damaging their iPhone."
51 points by qixxiq 16y ago|65 comments
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Ask HN: Expanding into a two-person development team
9 points by qixxiq 16y ago|5 comments
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by qixxiq 16y ago
I know its a little late on this thread, but how about adding some more manager related tasks to the thread: Hiring, Managing Employees, etc I understand its not a completely "hacker" category, but there for a hacker that needs to complete
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by qixxiq 16y ago
Cape Town, South Africa (no remote) -- SnapBill It seems there are a few South Africans around this site so giving it a shot. We're a small growing startup in the recurring billing space that just launched last week (www.snapbill.com). We'v
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by qixxiq 16y ago
Point taken, we are going to get a copy writer to go over the site as soon as possible.

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