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Re:Ask HN: Adaptive Spider Technologies? on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @07:06PM (#2843611)
Thanks! Good to know it's common

Ask HN: Adaptive Spider Technologies?

Today a bot from 174.127.132.210 tried to copy information from my stealth-mode site (not linked to any domain name). This site was not supposed to be searchable and is known to a very limited number of people.Any experience with such bots?

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Re:Ask HN: understanding software contractors on Monday July 25, 2011 @09:59PM (#2805642)
Great advice regarding "something isolated and well-defined". I'll contact you off-site

Ask HN: understanding software contractors

I've been burned a couple of times when hiring software consultants, still trying to understand them.1. What does it mean if somebody has Ok references, years of experience in programming, charges me for learning the code but can't produce anything that works (I always had to correct his seemingly well written code as it was hanging my software - he could see it with a bit of testing). Could it...

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