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Couldn't one send this kind of stuff to a third-world country as a donation? It could help feed a starving family for 3-4 months, no?
Why they have only two database servers running (with their database in memory, no less) with 200 million check-ins, is completely beyond me.
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It is probably just a concatenated string of his credit card number or social security number and random words. I wonder if they are currently trying to crack it using some kind of dictionary brute force mechanism, or if there is some kind of lock out enabled after five tries.
Posted by
voxxit on Sunday October 03, 2010 @11:34PM
from the ask-hn dept.
A little background: a company I work for has been up and running (profitably) for about ten years now. However, they have reached a plateau, and we're brainstorming on ideas which could get more money in the door.One idea which I brought to the table: simply putting our freaking phone number on our website and asking people to call. We've have a number of customers saying how great it is when...
I just recently implemented this. The thing I'm having trouble with is the fact that they don't limit the amount of time (or specify a limit, rather) which is acceptable to make the crawler wait. For instance, what if it take 20 seconds to load an acceptable amount of JavaScript-created HTML?
I've got it down as a feature request. I'll keep it in mind. Thanks!
Fixed the scrollwheel issue, and allowed you to zoom in further.
The reason the zooming out is limited is because of the area which is required to legibly see the markers, labels, etc.
Thanks for the link! I'm very open for any technology questions, concerns, feature/other suggestions you all may have.
Technically, you could check your gems, see which ones are not 1.9 compatible, fix the gems, and then release. :)