ScottWhigham

Today was the first day in a long time that I went to (what I would consider) a large news/blog site and they offered no RSS feed (a soccer site). I use FeedDemon for Windows but am lost on my Mac (not a Mac native)…

My understanding of heartbleed is slight, yes, so I could have this wrong: "Heartbleed allows the attacker to view other sessions' information stored in memory." Is that correct? Assuming that is correct (of which I'm…

We're in the middle of hour #11 right now and they are submitting > 1,500 page requests per minute steady throughout that entire time. I had originally scheduled it for 11PM to run using the "Slow" setting for their…

I'm working as a solo developer on a website. I need a place to store my steps to repeat my unit tests that involve manual interaction w/ the browser + tools. Right now I'm using Evernote to store/track these. I'm just…

I run a local community VBulletin forum and I use IPDeny to moderate users who register from outside of the US. For years I've used http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/ with the corresponding vb hack. For a while now, the IP…

We received an email this morning - anyone else? Just enough information to scare the snot out of you but not enough for you to make intelligent decisions. ==================== Urgent Information Regarding Passwords for…

I used HNSearch just now to find a recent link about African charity "success" [0] and I was surprised that, by the second page of results, there were stories from 2+ years ago that have no votes or comments. I would've…

Someone asked today about what the point of blogging was for developers [0]. As I was thinking about it, I wondered whether or not new developers are choosing not to write blogs anymore in favor of a public Github…

Amazon A9 is now a decade old. Amazon has really been doing a good job at ads lately too - contextual ads that are very good and rival Google AdWords in terms of connecting with users' wants and needs IMO. So the…

I've been playing with it lately - I dig it. I was just looking up some World Cup results with it - it's great for filtering and finding "quick and dirty facts" from HTML pages. There's tons of uses (can query Hadoop,…

Over the past 2-3 weeks, I'm seeing so many "marked as spam but isn't really spam" emails that I'm suspecting something has changed with their algo. These are not just random, mom-and-pop emails that I'm talking about -…

I need to amend a tax return and, today while searching in Google for something [0], I clicked the first result which was a Forbes.com link. I was immediately taken to an ad with a "Continue to this site" link. How do…

We're in the US and, for the past 9 years, we've had a US-based 1-800 number. We now want to add in a Great Britain/UK number and an Australian support number. These would be numbers that are local/toll-free to the…

We have http://news.ycombinator.com/classic which, if I understand it, is for anything voted up or submitted by an account that is one year old or older. That was put in place, I think, to make a better home page due to…

Looking to get a smallish technical site translated to Hindi - any suggestions?

Decent size ecommerce site that sells large file downloads (>500MB). We've been using a .com hosted in the US for almost a decade. We have lots of Euro, Aussie, and Indian users that complain of speed. Our idea: Server…

Let's say that you can't use AWS or other cloud-based systems out there and that you need to roll your own CDN. You need to: 1) Have multiple cloned servers in 3-5 locations 2) Have a way to route a specific customer's…

I need someone to handle customer service - an in-office person, to be specific. I'm in Texas also - any suggestions for which job boards to target? I used Monster last year and had only 2-3 viable candidates out of 10+…