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Having a name like that is very bad, because a) you will be forever trailing on the 6473th page of Google Search results and b) it will be difficult to grow a meaningful brand arou…

One simple way to find new problems is to follow the advice once given by Deep Throat: "Follow the money!" What I mean is look into your own spending patterns (or those of your fri…

hardware security aside, if credit card readers employ proper encryption, that in itself would probably be an effective deterrent against such leaks, but only IF such encryption is…

Isn't such idea counter-intuitive? The most successful websites, the ones who rake millions from targeted ads & deals with third parties, will have least reasons to open their syst…

http://swisssign.com/en might not be the cheapest option, but definitely has some extra cachet. They are really conservative and most of the approval process is manual, but support…

I have been using AirBnB very actively during the last couple of years, mostly in the Northern Europe and South East Asia, and my experience was nothing but wonderful. However, as …

Eric, I deal with my programming handicap in several ways. The easiest thing to do is to ask new candidates to walk me through how they would model a specific business problem we'v…

What I am missing on your website, is a clear vision of use case for this app. You know, stuff like - "hey you, overworked real estate agent, I have something to make your life so …

OK, I am a business type guy and I have to say... I completely agree with this article. In my experience, developers become good at what they do not through learning languages, but…

Having spent some time interviewing typical users I can say that this would work only if we put the distributed service bits under the hood, while leaving service with all the trap…

thanks for a tip. we'll do that.

Regarding the IP addresses, we use bcrypt algorithm, obviously with salt, to obfuscate IPs and since we're hosted in Germany, gettings hands on these entries the legal way is a lon…

In the past, I used several different strategies - it all depends on what type of client you have. For greedy clients - give them a discount that is only valid if they pay up to a …

Recently we've built anonymous service for tracking and reporting petty bribery around the world [Web http://bribespot.com , Android http://bit.ly/11dCsIh ]. Our contributors mostl…

I was so excited to discover that something like this exist - a community that gets on with its business without any stupid organization or agency putting sticks in its wheels. I j…