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Re:S Corp – A fake certification platform for startups on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @10:13AM (#43482501)
Built as a parody of pay-to-play sustainability certifications. Generates fake startup certificates with absolutely no value. Made as a tongue-in-cheek parody of B-Corp. AMA.
I wrote that (the article, rather than the software), incidentally.. The most interesting thing that happened was that it prompted a Disqus flame-war where I was inundated with comments on that post, and a whole bunch of others from G-WAN employees (and their friends - I presume) taking pot-shots.

I realise that my writing style can sometimes be seen as abrasive, but I still don't think that I've done a very good job of explaining my surprise that a) GWAN exists at all, or b) people are actually using it..

I spent a whole weekend trying to get my head inside it, and eventually gave up, after wondering what on earth I was doing.

Yeah. In my experience of contracting, I had to use Windows for at least something.
Re:Jurassic Park computer system in the browser on Monday March 03, 2014 @10:07AM (#7334043)
That was IRIX's File System Navigator http://www.javipas.com/wp-content/_FSN.png
Re:Show HN: Crowd-sourced mapping of the UK floods on Thursday February 13, 2014 @06:46AM (#7230801)
It's worth noting, if you're visiting from the USA, you'll see a blank map. Simply click "Show All" and it'll show you a more representative view.
Re:Facebook.com is Down(ish) on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @07:48PM (#7140982)
Works for me.
Re:Android sniffing using tcpdump on Monday January 27, 2014 @08:38AM (#7130204)
It's way more fun if you put a SSL intercept in place too. I found mitmproxy was probably the easiest to configure, for android.

You can turn up some seriously interesting (scary) things.

Re:Google Registry on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @04:18AM (#6879734)
And IME, best avoided.
Re:Choosing Go to implement the new GOV.UK router on Monday December 09, 2013 @07:56AM (#6874050)
And yet it works better than most traditional Government IT projects. Healthcare.gov, I'm looking at you.
Had. Until now.
I think the important question here is "Why on earth did they choose that registrar, for something so crucial?"

I bet they'll put in for a transfer ASAFP now!

Re:We need a Rapid Response Internet Task Force on Monday July 01, 2013 @09:28PM (#5975091)
I proposed something very similar (albeit only at a conference, to a select group of people) after the PDFTribute thing..

It's a great idea, and awesome achievement to go from nothing to working site in under 24 hours.

I think the slowest part of the entire process for us (the pdftribute team) was getting the domain registered, and the DNS propagated. Find some way round that bit, and it'll be awesome.

Re:License agreement for using the term "Hackathon" on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @06:01AM (#5667270)
Just refer them to the reply of the case Arkell v. Pressdram in 1971.

http://www.nasw.org/users/nbauman/arkell.htm

Re:PaintBottle, A Porn Site For The 21st Century on Thursday April 18, 2013 @06:40AM (#5569802)
I found one UX/UI problem so far. There's no button for Guy on Guy. I can't see this appealing to the gay community ;)
Re:Click on a few dots and our program will guess your age on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @04:19PM (#5566899)
It said 31. I'm 27. Who knows.
Re:#FF4A00 on Friday April 12, 2013 @06:55AM (#5537743)
I thought "Huh, that looks like Y Combinator Orange" and then had to use Chrome Inspector to see how close it was. (#ff6600 actually)
Now to sell it to Yahoo for $30 Million!
Instead of asking for 2 years of commercial experience, it'd be better to ask for demonstrable proof of experience with the kinds of situations you'd find after 2 years of working commercially.

Knowing how to rebase in git would spring to mind as a useful skill. Or knowing how to run a code review session.

It's an entirely valid point. I know some devs who are 10 years younger than me, and far better in terms of their rails skills.

Re:Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out on Thursday March 21, 2013 @03:41AM (#5413592)
Finally. I was waiting for that to happen so everyone will go home and move on.
Re:The PyCon Incident on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @07:40PM (#5411507)
Well, now I'm pretty sure who asked this ridiculous question on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Did-Githubs-hardcore-forking-action-mes...
Re:Amazon and CIA ink cloud deal on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @06:10PM (#5403944)
I thought the fox was on the riverbank with the grain.

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