alexjeffrey

Why has this been downvoted? greendestiny raises some valid points.

Not to mention 9. using their game as a platform for urban planning and development in poorer countries: http://www.mojang.com/2012/09/mojang-and-un-presents-block-b...

It doesn't get a lot of mention which only really adds to the idea that they're doing this out of honest kindness rather than marketing.

was the British way

this seems like a good service, but they seem to mainly provide cutesy and modern names whereas I'm looking for something more traditional, similar to what I put in my origin al post.

it's far from an excuse, I've been very active in other areas related to the launch of the business - I just want to turn as many odds in my favour as possible pre-launch.

I suppose the concern I have is that I'm starting a B2C security company. This means I have to (or at least feel like I have to) balance the requirements of having a short, trustworthy domain and making it accessible to less-technical users by making it a .com. I may well be overthinking this particular problem though.

One thing that made me blink here is that there's no economies of scale in the pricing - there's no benefit for me to sign up for more tests at once. It's likely there's a good reason for this but I thought I'd bring it up as users can always just keep buying Starter packs.

[edit] Also, does having experienced web users as your usability testers not defeat the object? I always thought that the idea of usability testing was to see how well non-technical users could navigate and use your site or app?

It sounds like I'm not the only one here who wants to use this for marketing a web app - do you have some sort of a mailing list I can subscribe to for updates? I'm sending you an email directly but if you do I'd like to subscribe. If not you may be missing a charm!

sounds pretty good to me - a decent house in England anywhere except London will cost you at least £120,000, and developer salaries average out at £30,000.

[edit] oh, and my impression is that a decent sized house here is quite a bit smaller than in the States.

I don't see why not, I misread your original post but I'd still be happy to help.

I do PHP development and would be happy to lend a hand - I have a lot of respect for people like your friend who build things purely to help people so if there's anything PHP development wise he might want help with, send him my way. My email's alex@alexjeffrey.me.

now I know where tumblr and flickr got their names.

being from Swindon, I'm very proud to see this on the frontpage of hacker news! I took my driving test on it...

It's actually a lot easier to navigate than it looks, you can essentially treat the whole thing as one giant roundabout by taking the second exit on each mini-roundabout.

agreed, which is why Microsoft should be held to account for not prioritising fixing this problem. However, I felt that the portrayal of this particular hole in the linked article made it out to be more than it is.

While this seems like something that Microsoft should fix as a matter of urgency, I don't believe the problem is as severe as is being portrayed.

In order to get any meaningful information from this attack, you would need to know what application/website the user is currently using (or send them to it), where it's positioned on the screen and the exact layout of the subject. The interface would also have to be either mouse- or meta-key driven, which isn't a common facet for sensitive inputs (passwords, bank transfers, and private messages off the top of my head).