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I used to work at Flatbook. It was a chaotic time, but never ever a scam.
Re:TLDR Stock Options on Thursday June 01, 2017 @04:44PM (#14464486)
Quite possible that the really good companies don't need to raise after Series A
Re:How Twitter deploys its widgets JavaScript on Saturday October 01, 2016 @09:39PM (#12620705)
I was wondering if the experimental group gets a cache time of 0 so they can immediately be rolled back.
Re:Sales and A Strong Stomach on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @11:42PM (#7708503)
From my experience, even the developers need thick skin.
Came here to find that out as well!
Re:Pixel-perfect timing attacks with HTML5 on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @12:37PM (#6173889)
That was the most interesting thing I've read in a while.
Very cool idea. Right now I'm using autossh to keep a reverse ssh tunnel open. It works reliably, but the performance is awful.

Great work!

Re:Bitbucket passes one million users on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @07:52PM (#5822843)
Wish the contest was open to Canadians! I use Bitbucket, and its been great to me.
Re:Visualizing memory leaks in Ruby on Monday March 04, 2013 @06:00PM (#5321608)
Interesting project. Ruby memory leaks really are brutal!
Sounds like he was using an automated scanner as well. That's a stupid thing to do and he should be in trouble.

I'm not sure he should be expelled, but definitely reprimanded.

Re:Book Translates American Minutiae for Russians on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @10:57PM (#4908538)
I'd like to know more about Americans not drinking hard alcohol. Doesn't seem to be the case here in Canada.
Yeah! I've unchecked "Save my card number"
Really eh?

Whats the point in the password strength meter!

BMO only uses the first six characters of your password for online banking.

I was just using the BMO iPhone app to check my balance, when I mistyped my password. I had hit the final key too many times, but had already clicked sign in. To my surprise, I was logged in anyway. After testing in a browser I realized BMO only cares about the first six characters of your password.Astounding.

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Re:Solving FizzBuzz with C++ compiler error messages on Saturday April 21, 2012 @10:41AM (#3871868)
Just had a case of Baader-Meinhof. I did an interview last week and I was asked to do the FizzBuzz test in PHP. I'd never heard of it, thought it was a cool question though. Glad to see I produced the text book answer though!