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umbrae
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Comment #15647340
Good questions. - In the past month and a half or so since we’ve launched, about 20% of published profiles have had a reveal request. That varies heavily based on profile quality, …
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Comment #15646892
I am certainly biased, but I built a job platform because I felt all the existing job boards were lacking, called Limbo. https://www.limbo.io The long and short of the problem is t…
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Comment #15419401
FYI, your parent website refer room has an expired SSL cert which causes it to be unavailable in chrome. Looks like it expired 2 days ago.
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Comment #15250243
Hey folks - I'm one of the cofounders of Limbo. Thanks for linking. Let me know if you have any questions, I'd love to hear them.
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Comment #15250229
Hey! We have a field that allows you to specify whether you're primarily interested in contract, freelance, or full-time roles. Example: https://i.imgur.com/IHKy3I5.png RE: Questio…
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Comment #8845657
Was that mentioned anywhere in the AMA? I can't seem to find a thing on that.
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Comment #4106624
Just a heads up: There's now a link in the post to go register.
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Comment #3637115
This is correct, I'm the creator of jsonlint. It actually uses zaach's implementation of jsonlint in JS, now. Fun fact: jsonlint uses an html5 cache manifest, and can be used even …
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Comment #2481385
Associated blog post with a bit more detail is here: http://blog.readability.com/2011/04/the-readability-api-cont...
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Comment #1962124
Aside: A long while back I wrote a tiny greasemonkey script to remove those annoying feedback tabs. (Here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/76116 ) I forgot that they even exist…
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Comment #1497425
It's under the Apache 2 license: http://code.google.com/p/arc90labs-readability/
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Comment #1422571
They aren't calling our servers. And that was a European backbone (Tiscali) having trouble - if you're in the EU or small fractions of the east coast you may have seen that hiccup.…
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Comment #1410611
I'd be interested in alternative methods as well. I wrote the algorithms within readability, which are far from perfect.
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Comment #1406250
I've fixed the error. (You were right in either case, apparently.)
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Comment #1111275
Yeah, sorry about that guys. We've had about 2 hours of downtime in the past three months, both network related issues at Slicehost - pretty aggravating, but otherwise they've been…
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Comment #1067238
jcnnghm, you should check out Kindling. (Disclaimer, I'm the founder - but I still find this problem very interesting.) What we've done is provided each user with a set number of v…
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Comment #1067231
Hey Ideahacker, I work at Kindling ( http://www.kindlingapp.com ) - if you want a free 30 day trial I can set you up with one. Let me know.
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Comment #756082
Yep, creator of Kindling - http://www.kindlingapp.com - Incubated inside my company, Arc90. Kindling is an idea collaboration engine. Meant to find brilliance within an organizatio…
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Comment #711138
Even more important in 3.5.1, that JIT vulnerability is fixed: MFSA 2009-41 Corrupt JIT state after deep return from native function http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/m…
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Comment #706055
Couple this with the fact that many professionals don't even have speakers on their machines and can't use headphones at work and you've got a real problem.
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Comment #696760
(a) I wrote in haste. Obviously it's a one way hash and unreversible. Additionally, I meant the first 20 characters, which is half of the full hash. (b) Obviously. Still extraordin…
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Comment #696719
Well, as the author, I feel I better defend myself here. A: It only uses the first 20 bytes of the hash. You could narrow it down from this if you were really determined, but you'd…
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Comment #694833
This is a good thought - I had implemented character set matching (uppers to uppers, numbers, etc) before, but I worried that it made it almost too hard to read for the user. You'l…