Backend Ruby on Rails developer and "Virtual CTO" of sorts for early-stage startups. I can do it all from backend Ruby on Rails apps/APIs, frontend UI (though limited SPA experience), deployment / devOps, etc. At my last engagement, I was the 5th hire. I played a pivotal role in growing that healthcare startup to a $1.2 billion valuation in ~2 years. Looking for a small team of either just founders or 3-5 employees, where I can have a major impact in the development and growth of the company.
I'll accept that it might be "dumb" to you, but it's definitely not a joke.
More than 1.3 billion people live on less than $1.25 per day. Sure most of them will not have computers/Internet access. But $200 USD could mean a lot to some poor community college kid in India, for example.
Or even a struggling, aspiring (or down on their luck) coder in America who doesn't have a cushy software gig.
I've always been passionate about startups and working with founders. Wanting to get involved but not having "Angel VC" type of money has been my issue lately, so, I decided to start The Shanti Fund.
I know $200 isn't much (to you and I). But it IS to some people. They may be down on their luck, or they may just live in a part of the world where $200 goes a long way.
I know some might criticize my efforts here, so I'm 100% open to feedback. Please tell mw how I can improve The Shanti Fund. Thanks.
Indeed. I once spent several hours debugging a desktop client application that relied on a correct system time.
Finally, we noticed the user's system time was set to several weeks in the future. "Oh yeah, that?" He showed us how he uses the system calendar to check dates in the future. When he was done, he'd click the "Ok" button, thereby setting the current date in Windows to some future day.
I could see something like Pinry being useful for creating communities that respect freedom of speech / information / image posting, so long as the content is not illegal.
First: If you use a Master Lock (heh or an old pen-hackable Kryptonite lock) on your Bank Vault, obviously you are at fault. Doesn't matter what kind of world you want to live in, you need to secure your wares adequately.
Second: It's a dick move of these guys to release all this info. They are hacktivists, or so they claim. (If they wanted to profit off this they'd sell the hacked db to Russians and not release the data) People like MLK and Gandhi also pissed off a lot of people. For example by sitting at white lunch counters, getting spit on, etc. Sorry, that's the idea behind civil disobedience / hacktivism / etc.
Third: this has been stated before, but how do you not know that this database wasn't already cracked 2 years ago by malevolent forces who've been using it for evil, but not telling you about it?
I think it's safe to say Statfor probably wasn't using a Master Lock, but clearly they didn't do enough pen testing or whatever it would've taken for them to more securely lock down their shit.
(Thought experiment: if a YC company got owned, do you think pg would blame the thieves, for their smash & grab kind of job? Or the coders who left a gaping security hole / social engineering attack vector open?)
Want to understand what's going on here psychologically?
To some people, whenever anyone is making a profit, however small ... some people believe that someone, somewhere, has to be getting the raw end of the deal.
Note: I'm not saying putting Amazon links on your blog means you can be still be 100% objective (you can't), but rather pointing out a deep-seated belief that I have noticed among some, especially those who've found a way to make a living on GPL'd code, for example, and think iPads should be free.
So how often does a commit get checked in that causes a test (or tests) to fail?
It just seemed to me like you were bragging that tests get run over and over again. They only need to get run if any new code is committed, of course.
And what kind of commit is being checked in every 9 minutes? How big is the dev team? Seems like an awful lot of commits. Is each one a full-fledged feature / bug fix for the site, or are many 1-line changes to the code?
Just curious - who maintains the Selenium tets, and how big is the development / "QA" team?
I've never worked in a team big enough that it could devote resources to maintaining all of the following kinds of tests:
* unit
* functional
* AND acceptance
* plus writing the actual code
IMHO, a neutral third-party group like QA should be responsible for writing & maintaining acceptance tests.
I was trying to work with a local firm up here in the PNW but they have little experience in this area.
I now have an appointment for a consult with that firm you linked. You rock.