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by trapexit 13y ago
With a razor blade and a photocopier.
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by trapexit 13y ago
Set up a t1.micro instance on AWS and run a VPN server on it. The VPN instance accepts connections on port 25, etc. and forwards it over the VPN to your home server. Your ISP sees nothing but encrypted traffic between you and your VPN serve
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by trapexit 13y ago
The input space is too small for SHA1 to effectively anonymize. The NANP, for example, has less than 10^9 possible numbers; it would be a very simple task to create a rainbow table mapping every possible phone number to its corresponding SH
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by trapexit 13y ago
Oh, yeah, I misunderstood. I thought he was taking a course on how to build web apps in Rails so he could create his own product, not work for other people. Pre-selling a contract software development service when you haven't yet learn
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by trapexit 13y ago
Yes. Definitely pre-sell. Not only does this fund your development efforts, it is the ultimate validation that you have actually come up with a product that people want to buy. There's a big difference between people saying they would
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by trapexit 13y ago
Welcome to contract work! Customers paying late is a fact of life, and from time to time you'll need to be persistent and/or agressive about collections. Get in touch with your contact at the client company and let them know you haven't bee
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by trapexit 13y ago
Watch the 3rd video (Rob Walling) on this page: http://www.microconf.com/videos-2012.html The whole video is well worth watching, but he covers channels specifically at around 37 minutes in.
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by trapexit 13y ago
Coincidentally, I just discovered today that you can also do a forward-delete on a Mac laptop keyboard by hitting Fn+Delete. Very useful for e.g. sending a ⌘⌦ (Ctrl-Alt-Del) to a VirtualBox VM.
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by trapexit 14y ago
SEEKING PEOPLE WHO ARE SEEKING WORK- Freelancers / consultants, I'm doing some research and would appreciate your input. Help a fellow entrepreneur out and maybe learn something valuable in the process. If nothing else, you may get some ref
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by trapexit 14y ago
The file traversal vulnerability allows an attacker to access unauthorized files outside of the document root, assuming that there exists a symlink from inside the document root to a path that is outside of it. For example: Symlink: public/
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by trapexit 14y ago
Why is it a problem that the project is unfinished? If you really needed the tool, wouldn't you still be feeling the pain, which would presumably give you the incentive to finish it? Maybe you just wanted the learning experience, not the fi
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by trapexit 14y ago
Consider outsourcing your customer support to a company that specializes in it. If you just hire two full-time employees, you're still going to be picking up the slack on weekends or when someone gets sick, goes on vacation, or resigns. A v
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by trapexit 14y ago
This is currently being discussed on https://github.com/tenderlove/psych/issues/119 There is also https://github.com/dtao/safe_yaml (hat tip @patio11, who also points out that this has not been audited for completeness/correctness)
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by trapexit 14y ago
Getting from local user access to root access on an interactively-used Mac is almost trivial. Inject something into the user's bashrc/zshrc that watches their commands and waits for them to successfully use sudo. Then run sudo again immedia
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by trapexit 14y ago
Regarding giving up IP, all of my consulting clients have wanted to own the copyright for the software I write for them and keep it as secret sauce. And I've written some amazingly good stuff over the years that I wish I could reuse for oth
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by trapexit 14y ago
The example hypothesis is: "you do not need to be on the inside, or have a pre-existing connection on the inside, in order to create a successful B2B product". How would you test this? Yes, one way is to build B2B products without any input
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by trapexit 14y ago
These are just limiting beliefs. Don't believe me? Good. Treat them as hypotheses and test them . You will be astonished. (Except for the last bit about why businesses buy; you're right there. The reason that big company decision-makers bu
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by trapexit 14y ago
Don't waste any time or money whatsoever on a custom design until you have validated your app idea by getting people to pay you money for it. Even if you are building an app for hackers / designers who are familiar with Bootstrap and might
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by trapexit 14y ago
Something like this? http://www.cyberlock.com/cyberlock_cylinders.html
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by trapexit 14y ago
I love building software and serving people but don't like giving up my IP and doing the same work over and over again, so I'm actually shifting out of consulting and into product development. But if I were starting over, this is what I'd d
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by trapexit 14y ago
Don't be a freelancer. Be a consultant. Talk to big companies (they have money!). Learn how to discover their problems and then sell them solutions. Don't sell them on Rails apps or even on web apps. Find problems that are taking money out
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by trapexit 14y ago
https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-stripe-membership-saas
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by trapexit 14y ago
"If I can optimize your front-end code, get you higher performance and SEO rankings, are you going to hesitate / ignore me because of my lack of years in the field?" This is a testable hypothesis. Test it. Seriously. Most people who fail ar
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by trapexit 14y ago
Thankfully, someone already did. It's short and sweet. http://www.amazon.com/Small-Step-Change-Your-Life/dp/0761129...
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by trapexit 14y ago
Kaizen. Small improvements. Start now and don't deviate. You grow by constantly pushing yourself just barely outside of your comfort zone. No anxiety or panic needed, just a little tiny dose of discomfort. Start now, with the smallest impr
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by trapexit 14y ago
Folks who have been there before will tell you not to waste a single cent on incorporating until you absolutely have to. Wait until at least one of the following is true: 1. You have investors who are ready to go. 2. You hire an emplo
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by trapexit 14y ago
Next impression: The value proposition is murky. As a visitor to this page, I'm not immediately sure what I'm expecting to get in return for giving you my email address. What am I getting sold here? How is this going to change my life? Cou
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by trapexit 14y ago
First impression: Are you red-green colorblind by any chance? I ask because your landing page looks much better with a protanopia simulation filter applied. If you aren't colorblind, then, well, let's just say I suggest that you start wi
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by trapexit 14y ago
It's a parody. http://www.snopes.com/computer/program/stroustrup.asp
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by trapexit 14y ago
Spot on. If your audience is basically anyone outside of the HN echo chamber, then default bootstrap is just fine . I used to build big internal webapps for big companies. My design skills are only slightly better than those of a drunken

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