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Built as a parody of pay-to-play sustainability certifications. Generates fake startup certificates with absolutely no value. Made as a tongue-in-cheek parody of B-Corp. AMA.

I wrote that (the article, rather than the software), incidentally.. The most interesting thing that happened was that it prompted a Disqus flame-war where I was inundated with comments on that post, and a whole bunch of others from G-WAN employees (and their friends - I presume) taking pot-shots.

I realise that my writing style can sometimes be seen as abrasive, but I still don't think that I've done a very good job of explaining my surprise that a) GWAN exists at all, or b) people are actually using it..

I spent a whole weekend trying to get my head inside it, and eventually gave up, after wondering what on earth I was doing.

Yeah. In my experience of contracting, I had to use Windows for at least something.

That was IRIX's File System Navigator http://www.javipas.com/wp-content/_FSN.png

It's worth noting, if you're visiting from the USA, you'll see a blank map. Simply click "Show All" and it'll show you a more representative view.

Works for me.

It's way more fun if you put a SSL intercept in place too. I found mitmproxy was probably the easiest to configure, for android.

You can turn up some seriously interesting (scary) things.

And IME, best avoided.

And yet it works better than most traditional Government IT projects. Healthcare.gov, I'm looking at you.

Had. Until now.

I think the important question here is "Why on earth did they choose that registrar, for something so crucial?"

I bet they'll put in for a transfer ASAFP now!

I proposed something very similar (albeit only at a conference, to a select group of people) after the PDFTribute thing..

It's a great idea, and awesome achievement to go from nothing to working site in under 24 hours.

I think the slowest part of the entire process for us (the pdftribute team) was getting the domain registered, and the DNS propagated. Find some way round that bit, and it'll be awesome.

Just refer them to the reply of the case Arkell v. Pressdram in 1971.

http://www.nasw.org/users/nbauman/arkell.htm

I found one UX/UI problem so far. There's no button for Guy on Guy. I can't see this appealing to the gay community ;)

It said 31. I'm 27. Who knows.

I thought "Huh, that looks like Y Combinator Orange" and then had to use Chrome Inspector to see how close it was. (#ff6600 actually)

Now to sell it to Yahoo for $30 Million!

Instead of asking for 2 years of commercial experience, it'd be better to ask for demonstrable proof of experience with the kinds of situations you'd find after 2 years of working commercially.

Knowing how to rebase in git would spring to mind as a useful skill. Or knowing how to run a code review session.

It's an entirely valid point. I know some devs who are 10 years younger than me, and far better in terms of their rails skills.

Finally. I was waiting for that to happen so everyone will go home and move on.

Well, now I'm pretty sure who asked this ridiculous question on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Did-Githubs-hardcore-forking-action-mes...

I thought the fox was on the riverbank with the grain.

I was interested until I saw that salary. Try £60,000 - £90,000 and you might find some decent CTOs.

You'd also get Germaine Greer knocking on your door. I've been down this road before.. http://tomoconnor.eu/blogish/hell-hath-no-fury-man-discrimin...

Here's the article I wrote: http://tomoconnor.eu/blogish/how-i-broke-aws-opsworks/

The lack of micro instance is a real shame. I suspect that's because the time taken to do a full chef install run on a micro might be vast.

I'm currently writing a blogpost about how to spawn up a simple Rails stack. I've got a broken instance in a boot-stop-terminate-boot loop. It's very beta.

This is a bit of a grey area that we deliberately avoided with PDFTribute.net; it seems perfectly acceptable to aggregate and index metadata, just as long as you're not actually storing any data.

"The chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one", he said.

It'd be interesting if that page listed jobs at partner organisations.. I'd love to be involved with a project like that, but it's difficult to get involved.

I don't think that's possible. Big|Fast|Cheap, Choose two. (or one, under some circumstances).