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Posted by
devopstom on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @10:13AM
from the s-corp.lol dept.
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.
Posted by
devopstom on Sunday April 05, 2015 @11:49AM
from the domsmith.co.uk dept.
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.
Posted by
devopstom on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @05:07PM
from the media.astound.eu dept.
Posted by
devopstom on Sunday April 27, 2014 @08:43AM
from the show-hn dept.
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.
Posted by
devopstom on Thursday February 13, 2014 @06:39AM
from the show-hn dept.
Posted by
devopstom on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @07:48PM
from the tomoconnor.eu dept.
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.
Posted by
devopstom on Monday January 20, 2014 @06:35PM
from the show-hn dept.
And yet it works better than most traditional Government IT projects. Healthcare.gov, I'm looking at you.
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!
Posted by
devopstom on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @05:33PM
from the serverfault.com dept.
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.
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 ;)
It said 31. I'm 27. Who knows.
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.
Posted by
devopstom on Friday March 22, 2013 @08:40PM
from the tomoconnor.eu dept.
Finally. I was waiting for that to happen so everyone will go home and move on.
I thought the fox was on the riverbank with the grain.