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How could a bank transfer be less safe? I don't know the US system but if I give out my bank account number the only thing someone can use it for is to send money to me.

On the other hand if someone malicious gets my credit card number they can use it to buy stuff and I have to go through a lot of trouble to get a new card.

Except when not. When I was interviewing they didn't make me sign one. They rejected me for the original position, but later occasionally called me with some alternate options. These calls usually went like:

- We would be interested in having you at/as ... but before the specifics, you signed an NDA, right?

- No, I have not.

- Oh, then good luck, bye.

Seems strangely similar to the allegedly planned bitcoin attack from 2 days ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1cu4ck/ridiculous_d...

It also started with a first step to "Spread bogus AP press releases".

London

another datapoint:

Linode 512: 3.96647 s, 50.8 MB/s

DigitalOcean 512: 5.87315 s, 34.3 MB/s

(though the digitalocean one feels much snappier)

> (though that website is still being set up)

Even if it's just a quick-and-dirty list, or an appstore link, it would make a huge difference if the applicants had at least some idea about you.

Btw, for what timeframe are you looking for people? I don't think many people would want to live there for years. It would be fun for a few months, but I assume you wouldn't want to hire anyone not willing to commit for more.

To different fake testimonials... splendid :)

When google rolled out their images search, I thought similar simplistic sites would stop using pictures obviously stolen from the internet to use them as fake customers, but apparently not.

I don't think it makes any sense to follow any community-agreed guidelines until Notch finalizes his design.

Do you plan to make a short description of what exactly it took to create the backend?

I thought this would be an excellent excuse to learn about llvm, so been reading about its internals the past few days, and even though I realized that starting with MSP430 this would be relatively simple for someone who knows llvm, I am apparently too late to the party :) Nonetheless I would be interested in some overview.

In this case it does, but very often doesn't. It seems to me that this happens mostly with rapidly changing websites, as if the cache showed a somewhat later state than when it was indexed.

And this has been an annoyance since years.

The plot thickens: http://itunes.apple.com/app/lockitize-your-lock-screen/id445...

This is the exact same app from a different developer, who claims that the other one is a copy-cat and a scam. (leaving out the small detail that his own app is a scam as well)

If you are looking for algorithmic puzzles you can browse the archives of topcoder.com : http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=MatchList

These usually require less time and less math skill than the already mentioned projecteuler.net problems.

The email also says "take user feedback [...] into account". So perhaps the automated system isn't that automated after all.

And frankly, I am not surprised if Facebook isn't comfortable having this app around. If someone finds an exploit, and a "who has a secret crush on who" database gets out, that's a pretty major PR-disaster for Facebook. Non tech-savy Average Joe won't care that it wasn't Facebook's fault.

"search was totally and completely useless"

Often I feel that in recent years the quality of the results are declining again. Now if you search for X, you get a lot of webshops, which tell you the price, but not any other useful information. Or if X is not a product, more and more of the results are pointing to all kind of aggregator sites which are again linking to each other instead of useful content or links. Or the similar case is when all the results on the first page are the same content on different pages.

So perhaps there is a market opportunity again. Anyone? :)

Isn't this whole timestamping thing overcomplicated? Just set up a twitter account and post the hash codes. The code in itself is useless, so it does not have to be kept secret, and you will have a way to proof that you had the document generating it at that time.