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Résumé Review Is Awful, but We'd Better Get Good at It(medium.com)
2 points by umbrae 9y ago|0 comments
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by umbrae 9y ago
Good questions. - In the past month and a half or so since we’ve launched, about 20% of published profiles have had a reveal request. That varies heavily based on profile quality, some have gotten 4 in a row. That said, even though it’ll be
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by umbrae 9y ago
I am certainly biased, but I built a job platform because I felt all the existing job boards were lacking, called Limbo. https://www.limbo.io The long and short of the problem is that great folks are often employed and finding y
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by umbrae 9y ago
FYI, your parent website refer room has an expired SSL cert which causes it to be unavailable in chrome. Looks like it expired 2 days ago.
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by umbrae 9y ago
Hey folks - I'm one of the cofounders of Limbo. Thanks for linking. Let me know if you have any questions, I'd love to hear them.
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by umbrae 9y ago
Hey! We have a field that allows you to specify whether you're primarily interested in contract, freelance, or full-time roles. Example: https://i.imgur.com/IHKy3I5.png RE: Questions to candidates: We've consider
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by umbrae 12y ago
Was that mentioned anywhere in the AMA? I can't seem to find a thing on that.
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by umbrae 14y ago
Just a heads up: There's now a link in the post to go register.
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by umbrae 15y ago
This is correct, I'm the creator of jsonlint. It actually uses zaach's implementation of jsonlint in JS, now. Fun fact: jsonlint uses an html5 cache manifest, and can be used even while offline.
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by umbrae 15y ago
Associated blog post with a bit more detail is here: http://blog.readability.com/2011/04/the-readability-api-cont...
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by umbrae 16y ago
Aside: A long while back I wrote a tiny greasemonkey script to remove those annoying feedback tabs. (Here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/76116 ) I forgot that they even existed until you just mentioned it. Maybe other people would w
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by umbrae 16y ago
It's under the Apache 2 license: http://code.google.com/p/arc90labs-readability/
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by umbrae 16y ago
They aren't calling our servers. And that was a European backbone (Tiscali) having trouble - if you're in the EU or small fractions of the east coast you may have seen that hiccup. Unrelated to our servers.
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by umbrae 16y ago
I'd be interested in alternative methods as well. I wrote the algorithms within readability, which are far from perfect.
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by umbrae 16y ago
I've fixed the error. (You were right in either case, apparently.)
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by umbrae 17y ago
Yeah, sorry about that guys. We've had about 2 hours of downtime in the past three months, both network related issues at Slicehost - pretty aggravating, but otherwise they've been great.
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by umbrae 17y ago
jcnnghm, you should check out Kindling. (Disclaimer, I'm the founder - but I still find this problem very interesting.) What we've done is provided each user with a set number of votes - by default 10 per room - and each user can put as man
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by umbrae 17y ago
Hey Ideahacker, I work at Kindling ( http://www.kindlingapp.com ) - if you want a free 30 day trial I can set you up with one. Let me know.
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by umbrae 17y ago
Yep, creator of Kindling - http://www.kindlingapp.com - Incubated inside my company, Arc90. Kindling is an idea collaboration engine. Meant to find brilliance within an organization.
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by umbrae 17y ago
Even more important in 3.5.1, that JIT vulnerability is fixed: MFSA 2009-41 Corrupt JIT state after deep return from native function http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-41.ht...
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by umbrae 17y ago
Couple this with the fact that many professionals don't even have speakers on their machines and can't use headphones at work and you've got a real problem.
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by umbrae 17y ago
(a) I wrote in haste. Obviously it's a one way hash and unreversible. Additionally, I meant the first 20 characters, which is half of the full hash. (b) Obviously. Still extraordinarily difficult given this implementation IMO. But I take yo
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by umbrae 17y ago
Well, as the author, I feel I better defend myself here. A: It only uses the first 20 bytes of the hash. You could narrow it down from this if you were really determined, but you'd not be able to reverse it. B: The visualization of the spar
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HashMask - Another (More Secure) Experiment in Password Masking(lab.arc90.com)
15 points by umbrae 17y ago|31 comments
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by umbrae 17y ago
This is a good thought - I had implemented character set matching (uppers to uppers, numbers, etc) before, but I worried that it made it almost too hard to read for the user. You'll notice that I'm only using lowercase letters currently - t
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by umbrae 17y ago
Hey guys, I'm the author of HalfMask - please let me know if you have any feedback, or you can check out the source on google code: http://code.google.com/p/halfmask/ Forking to try new things is heartily encouraged - I'd like to see new
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by umbrae 17y ago
I don't agree, from the blog it makes it sound like it really became an arms race - he was more interested in 'winning' than in serving his users. Once he was outed, he realized what he'd done and came to his senses.
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by umbrae 17y ago
So what's the best way to migrate a site that's using sha1 without salts to one that does use salts? I expect it involves checking users' passwords two different ways (with salt, without) for the foreseeable future.
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by umbrae 17y ago
Isn't there some evidence that hashing a hash is cryptographically weaker?
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by umbrae 17y ago
For a less TOS breaking solution, you could set up a dropbox client on your server and let it refresh your web content automatically. You're hosting it yourself, but you still get the benefit of no file transferring necessary.

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