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Re: on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @01:13AM (#254083)
The only legit reason is to protect from spamming, and considering your profile has all kinds of privacy protection, it seems like that would be the way to deal with it. Do you work for facebook? ;)
Re: on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @01:10AM (#254081)
How can spammers see your profile when it's protected and only viewable by the people you've personally approved to view it? To be honest, though, I didn't even consider your point of view. That COULD be a legit reason, but I'm skeptical...

Ask YC: What do you use for functional testing?

Posted by bigv586 on Thursday July 10, 2008 @11:21PM
from the self-post dept.

I've tried Selenium (core, rc and ide), but there were issues with the HTTP referrer not being set properly.Watir looks nice, but Firefox 3 on linux does not seem to be supported, and I don't want to use Windows/IE just to test.Anybody have any other suggestions?

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Re:Y Combinator - Advice for applicants. (from Mixwit, Winter 08) on Friday April 04, 2008 @10:13PM (#155434)
I love how he basically repeats his YC advice for his non-YC advice. He makes the point very well.