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IIRC domains names read from the right and the first dot is omitted. It's actually

com. example.com. subdomain.example.com.

I always go through Wikipedia if I want to download software for this exact reason.

No anti virus software is even best-practice for Windows. At least third party anti virus software.

The story keeps getting better.

Playing golf.

This is the exact reason why we recently changed our price structure. Now the price of a resource increases with the size of the plan. Now discounts won't hurt so much.

Thanks for your feedback. Five years ago we switched from a software that you install yourself on your own server to a Saas offering. The reason for this was that customers didn't want to update their software and if they wanted to do it, they didn't want to pay for it.

The trouble is exclusively with old customers that don't use the Saas, don't want to use it, and still run the software on their own server. They believe they bought the software and therefore own it. Paying again for something you own is, understandably, not something people gladly do. But then again, software isn't a thing, it's a work in progress. A concept hard to grasp for some people.

Five years ago I've created an update policy that defines how long after the purchase you receive the latest version for free. That was five years too late for this specific customer, but that customer already paid for updates since then. I wondered why the update fee bothered him now.

Yes, I did that and they accepted without comment. Interestingly enough, the total invoice that included some programming work was four figures. The update fee on the other hand was only $99.

Five years ago I specifically added the clause that updates are free within twelve months after purchase. So the customer is kind of right to be surprised if he bought the software before that time.

On the other and, that exact same customer already ordered and paid for updates. That's one of the reasons I'm annoyed to have had that update discussion.

It's an online appointment scheduling software, btw.

> To me it didn't look like they tried too hard to take the picture from the same angle etc.

And to me it looked pretty spot on. I imagine it's pretty hard to find the exact same position after twenty years.

> I remember a person from the old West Germany saying to me that they'd like that wall back twice as high and the same depth underground because of all reunification cost and the entitled attitude of 'osties'

That sounds like a very selfish person. Freedom for our east german brothers and sisters, unless I have to contribute...

I a saturated market, you'll need marketing. SEO should be part of that.

Disposable mail account that expires after 60 minutes. Costs $60 to host and generates a monthly revenue of $200. It doesn't require any involvement on my part anymore.

Joel Spolsky - I especially like the essays about how to treat programmers right.

The question is why would you want to clutter your brain with all those details. If you need an information that you've read about in the past, you already have a head start and know there was something written about that and where to find it. And if you don't need those information in the future, what does it matter that you've forgotten it.

I wouldn't worry too much about it. In my opinion a bug bounty program is another marketing tool of big companies. They have to portray an image of a company that cares about security.

From my experience if you are a small company and fix a reported bug in a timely manner, nothing bad will happen. As long as your customers see that you're reacting quickly, everything is going to be fine.

I have a domain where the extension is the last two letters of my last name, like mill.er. It also gives me a pretty cool mail address, e.g. nick@mill.er.

I use Keepass and haven't found any fault with it. It came as a recommendation in a blog a couple of years ago.

I think that's a good idea. Thanks.

Well, OP said "or so" and sometimes half a year seems like eternity in the wrong circumstances. ;-)

For me it's not the question of whether they're doing it. Its technically feasible, so it's being done.

What interests me more is whether the broad user base cares enough to change their habits. Does it become freaky enough for them that they'll change the way the use the platform? (Doesn't matter if it's Facebook or any other website.)

I treat personal projects like therapy. Doing something for me, trying something new makes me feel good. Even if I just have a working prototype I have the sense that I've accomplished something. It doesn't matter much if nobody sees it. If that were the case, those personal projects would turn to work and I have enough of that already.

That being said, I do finish side projects from time to time, mostly because I can still see the potential after working on it for a couple of ours.

Any AV software is better than having none but that's not the point of the article. It specifically recommends Microsoft's AV and to stay clear of all the others.

I'm sure it's hard on all the AV vendors out there but with Microsoft Essentials and Windows Defender I don't see the need for a third party AV.

In what way do you think Stripe is overrated?

I go once over the language reference in order to learn what it is capable of but don't bother remembering details. That's what search engines are for.

The question is not which messenger is better but how to get users to move away from What's app.

If you're able and have the time to run your own service, that's great for you. Everybody else will have to rent the service and have to pay recurring bills. That's kind of the point of renting something. I can't quite see how that will get in trouble with any government authority.

I may be completely wrong but to me this has played out and will play out like this:

1. First engineer is motivated an has great qualitative and quantitative output.

2. First engineer's opinion is being ignored when second engineer is being hired. Can't be good for motivation.

3. First engineer has to fix the work of second engineer. Qualitative and quantitative output suffers. Motivation of the first engineer decreases further.

4. Warnings to the management are being ignored. First engineer gets so frustrated that he quits.

5. Second Engineer has now free reign. Even if quantitative output is still the same, the quality totally tanks.

I don't recommend that the first engineer quits because that would be a pretty big decision to make without trying to fix the situation first. But if management makes such a severe error in this early stage of the startup, there may be some more "interesting times" ahead.

> They also marked her down in interviews for not knowing the latest Excel version [...]

I've come to the point where I'm glad that interviewers show their cards this way. If a company does stupid things like this, I really don't want work for them anyway.

I know there are times when you can't be picky and have to be glad to get a job but I don't believe for a moment that the work environment will turn out to be great after they pull stuff like that in the interview.

I can never understand why people don't host important stuff/stuff they care about themselves. Webhosting and domains are cheap and even someone with little technical knowledge can create a website. There are tons of options to do that.