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I'm a senior consultant (mostly rails) and I find much easier to find clients in the US (CA, NY) and Europe than locally. Local rails boutiques are charging $60/h and senior/experienced developers/architects have a hard time finding startups that could afford hiring "competitive" people.

p.s. by "competitive" I mean experienced people that could be hired remotely at SF rates.

I tried to create a simple chart: * clicked "add column chart" * dragged "sector" column to x-axis * dragged "price" column to y-axis

Values in the chart don't seem right, see "Health Care" for example. If i click "disable paging" all other sections show with empty y-values.

Is it possible to include charts in exported xls?

when I tried to view using firefox, the cpu bar kept high eating all the memory and unresponsive. I saw in firebug net tab that every slide was being fetch from slideshare in a loop. Does not happen in chrome.

Too hard? 14 years ago

Ah, you need a 300-column terminal to avoid line breaks :-)

Too hard? 14 years ago

No, I think it's solvable and even easy (depending on definition). Beforing you gave the tips I saw that "scrambled" trimmed the response always at the same byte length. Then I saw everytime it returned something different. Then, doing a "for i in $(seq 0 50); do curl izhack.com:12345 | head -7 | tail -1 | cut -c 1-250; done; I could see the pattern.

Doing the same for the other lines, replacing head -7 with head -8, head -9, etc I grabbed the repetition columns for all 5 lines. Each line had different columns repeated.

Creating a 5x300 grid and marking the cells where repetition occurs you see there's a symmetry. The repeats 5 times, where at column 58 every line repeats and it marks the repetition.

This is where I left, I still don't know the meaning of the last line. When I first run, coincidentally the server returned "sAlt" :-)

I was only asking if you knew the book because you seem to like puzzles and me too. As I liked the book I thought you might like and was trying to start a conversation.

Sorry!

Too hard? 14 years ago

Yes, I liked the challenge I'll take another shot tonight.

Too hard? 14 years ago

Kator, have you read Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid?

Too hard? 14 years ago

The pattern has a width of 57 columns. The decoded text looks like the beginning of a private key to me.