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by seven 16y ago
Lesson #0.1 make sure she has experience with high load situations.
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by seven 16y ago
Define a timeframe.
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How to Kill Your Servers - Learning How to Scale the Hard Way(highscalability.com)
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by seven 16y ago
You could build (probably yet another) pdf/swf fuzzer to check for bugs in the implementation of the rendering engine.
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by seven 16y ago
Am I over-engineering this? And the classic WTF?!
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by seven 16y ago
It may sound too simple, but you should not hire anybody that you do not trust. For sure, your faith in somebody is no guarantee that you won't get screwed, but in the end that is a risk that you can not avoid and that you have to take. (Or
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by seven 16y ago
http://xing.com does it pretty well... Perhaps more or less like this: Build a notification-queue for each user; store the time of the first item; every x check the queues if the first item is older than x send all items as a batch and fl
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by seven 16y ago
http://scienceblogs.com/
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by seven 16y ago
I agree to what you said, but isn't it the problem that we consider people with political views that we _strongly_ disagree with, as less smart or smart but evil? To answer the question of waterside81: Yes, I rejected somebody just because
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by seven 16y ago
Perhaps it helps you to look at those interviews from a different perspective. Since you would have to spend some time with the company, you have the right to ask questions too. Turn the interview into a discussion. At least for me this is
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by seven 16y ago
We offer a web solution for a niche to do some ERP and CRM. We got our first customer by checking the websites of potential customers to find one that could have our mindset. Although the setup is meant to be done by the customer himself, w
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by seven 16y ago
For those who understand German: Podcast about biohacking: http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre143.html
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by seven 16y ago
Perhaps you should take a look at: http://www.crackmes.de/ They offer tons of so called 'crackmes'. Those are binaries that are written to be reversed for fun. Ranging from 'very easy' to 'wtf'. The posted solutions offer an easy entry to
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by seven 16y ago
ruby -e '%w(proven_to_work_good_ideas_like_task_management_or_erp.txt professions_and_niches.txt).each_with_index{|x,y|puts (a=File.read(x).split("\n"))[rand(a.size)]+((y==0)?" for":" :)")}'
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by seven 16y ago
I use gettext since years in different projects coded in different languages. My main reasons for using it: * it just works, since years * libs for many programming languages * tools to help edit the po-files for every major operating syste
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by seven 16y ago
Those few bigger companies that I have talked to, just do not like the idea of having their sensitive data or parts of their critical infrastructure in the hands of an other company or accessible via internet. I can perfectly understand tha
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by seven 16y ago
Starting as well at the moment, I can tell you about my strategies and tips: * Find somebody who already did work with big companies. Make her your test customer. * I teamed up with an 'old' guy. He is an very experienced businessman and ha
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by seven 16y ago
Actually it seems like this marriage was turked. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk ) The robot was remote controlled. Can only find a German reference for this: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Getuerkte-Trauung-auf...
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by seven 16y ago
Actually this is common old fashioned industry standard: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Injection_Rejection.aspx We where laughing our asses of. My name and the name of the other in-house guy, both contain an 'and'. Just our boss, could
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Best Visual illusion of the Year Contest - 2010 results(illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com)
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by seven 16y ago
Seems like I was on the wrong track. Exim should do the job. Some people do SMTP on their own, without using a mailserver that fully implements the RFCs. Read http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1151123 to get some more insight about grey
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by seven 16y ago
Do you use a proper mailserver to deliver the mails? Could greylisting be the problem? I mean, does your mailserver follow the rules, like resending mails if the other server gives a '450 recipient rejected - try it later' notice?
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by seven 16y ago
I just clicked you username, way too much karma to be evil. But at first you got me. :)
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by seven 16y ago
Hehehe, this is evil. And now, you even know her new name! Even better business is possible now. :) (I assume that you are joking.)
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"This suggests that one reason there is so much spam from Linux could be that many companies that have implemented their own mail servers, and are using open-source software to keep costs down, have not realised that leaving port 25 open to
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by seven 16y ago
I ownly mind thos errorrs that could have been detekted by an automatick check. The other won are to easy too overcook, a lease buy at non naive speaker like me.
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by seven 16y ago
IBM (in Germany) did this at least some years ago. Called the hotline, a nice computer voice told me that all lines are blocked and that they will call me back in 12 minutes. After 12 minutes my phone rang and a friendly lady apologised for
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http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Documents/AVC_TermsS... "For (b) (1) where an end user pays directly for video services on a title-by-title basis (e.g., where viewer determines titles to be viewed or number of viewable titles are
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by seven 16y ago
I am a freelancer, but this is what I take into account: * Can I work for or with a person that can teach me something new? (Hey Marc, thanks!) * Possibility to travel? * Is my team cool? * Is there a challenge? Am I forced to learn somethi
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Ask HN: iPhone developers, how long would it take you to build this.
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