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trapexit
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Hint #1: Your naming service is hugely underpriced. You could probably charge 10x-20x as much. See http://www.namedatlast.com/ Hint #2: You have an audience (your customers) Talk to them! Ask them what their challenges are. Call them
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14y ago
Check out Elastic: https://elasticsales.com/what-we-do/ (I don't work for them and haven't used them, but it sounds like they're doing exactly the thing you're looking for.)
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14y ago
Not difficult at all. For a simple fix, one just needs to add a timeout between receiving the mouseOut event and hiding the menu. OS X appears to do something slightly more complicated; it hides the menu immediately if you mouse out away
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trapexit
14y ago
Replace it with a Briggs and Riley bag. It won't be cheap, but they will repair it for free, for life, even if the damage was the airline's fault.
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14y ago
You'll also want to implement some defense against short-term replay attacks (i.e. before the token expires). You could include a sequence number in the token, but this, of course, involves a database write, which is what you were trying to
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14y ago
Not as unlikely as many people would like to think! If the two drives are from the same production lot, they may suffer from a common manufacturing defect. And because they are in the same chassis, if a server fan fails, both drives may s
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15y ago
Make sure you also set the Strict-Transport-Security header to prevent attacks against the HTTP-to-HTTPS redirect.
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15y ago
Intercept HTTP requests that the target site tries to redirect to HTTPS. Then proxy the HTTPS connection. If the user doesn't notice that the lock icon is missing from the URL bar, then they're being effectively MITM'd (and anyone on the
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15y ago
"Things that go boom" must be official TSA terminology. I've heard it used by screeners on multiple occasions at different airports. They're probably not permitted to use the "b-word" out of concern for spooking passengers, much as passeng
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15y ago
... except your login cookie. :)
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15y ago
I don't have any hard stats, but here's some anecdata. One of my consumer-facing websites gets lots and lots of typoed email addresses. Based on the kind of support emails I get, my impression is that the general audience of this site is b
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15y ago
Apples and oranges. You can take Virgin (shared transportation) to Seattle for $59, but try booking a private plane for SFO->SEA at that rate! Your public transportation cost to SFO is about $10.
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15y ago
http://consumerist.com/2011/09/amazon-testing-locker-system-...
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Our Unpaid, Extra Shadow Work
(nytimes.com)
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15y ago
Most of the time, Amazon considers you to have a "soft" login. Want to view your order history? Password please. Change an order? Password. View/update addresses/credit cards? Password. This is sometimes irritating to the user, espec
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15y ago
Thankfully, someone else did too: http://macnix.blogspot.com/2011/07/change-mac-os-x-107-lion-...
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15y ago
Your bank can probably set you up for doing international wire transfers using online banking. The fees are usually substantial on both sides of the transaction, however. For smaller jobs, I usually pay foreign freelancers using PayPal.
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15y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER (REMOTE or Portland, OR, USA) BDD / Ruby on Rails / HTML / CSS / jQuery / SQL / Linux I build web apps and other business systems for my clients; looking for someone to help out or potentially take the lead on some of th
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15y ago
Good advice; unfortunately, I'm not actually based in the Netherlands.
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15y ago
I'm not looking for coaching for myself ; I'm trying to help this company out by finding a local professional who can give their team some guidance.
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15y ago
Your email doesn't actually appear in your public profile on HN. Email me: bwb at holo dt org.
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Ask HN: How do I find a software best practices mentor / coach?
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