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I'm using those sources, but I'm also monitoring a few dozen parents and educators forums where safety concerns are sometimes raised, even if they don't convert into actual recalls, and treat those reports as minor alerts.

This was recalled last week.

http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Me-Layla-Bassinet-Cradle/dp/B004...

Yeah. I definitely want to do this and have it on my very-near-term todo list; I just wanted to get this version out the door and start getting feedback from a broader audience (up till now I've just handed out invites to my network of parents and friends).

Thanks for the feedback!

He is, it was a minor scare. But a scare nonetheless, and it was on a toy that had been recalled months ago. Its amazing, but there are a lot of toys and kids' furniture that have been recalled and yet are still available for purchase on amazon!

Thanks for the feedback. The 37,000 is the number of toys being monitored by parents (i.e. added to the database by one of our users). The copy "Toys Being Monitored" definitely needs to be adjusted!

Thanks for pointing that out!

Also, regarding pricing: RecallBee is a pay-what-you-want service ;)

Thanks! Yes, I'd like to get there at some point, but right now I'm just using an API to do product search based on name, UPC or others.

I have used Atlassian Confluence for that in the past and it works pretty well for that task. Pretty much any wiki would do, its mostly a matter of how you decide to structure the information.

My advice: start slowly and grow organically; documentation can be prematurely optimized.

Agreed. It does let you reorganize (using shift) but its cumbersome. Not letting you link between existing items would need to be added, I've been using it today and it would be good to have that feature.

Looks like they ask you to put down 5 GBP per year support to gain early access to features.

I agree. The site's not mine though, otherwise I would highlight the appearance more; the mind maps are really beautiful.

That likely wouldn't work though. IMO the reason these people were so successful in deceiving so many "investors" is selection bias, much like Nigerian-scams using Nigeria as the country of origin to only engage very gullible people. If they were to "only" guarantee 80% of the principal most victims would have gone away.

+1. In Spain BBVA, one of the biggest banks in the world [0], offers a principal-guaranteed fund that tracks 3 major stock symbols in different industries.

Of course, ROI is capped at 2% with a minimum 1yr commitment.

[0]: https://www.gfmag.com/awards-rankings/best-banks-and-financi...

You might be interested in Smugmug. They hit all of those and have a simple and affordable pricing model. $40/yr unlimited storage. No gimmicks. Really good privacy controls.

Follow status updates on Facebook's downtime on http://twitter.com/facebook? #fail

That's an interesting pick, as it touches on exactly the issue I ran into in my last startup: getting customers, getting traction but finding myself unmotivated by the problem being solved. Not seeing myself doing that for another year, let alone the rest of my life.

While I was working on my previous startup I actually started asking myself how other founders kept themselves motivated while dealing for really long periods of time with the same industry and similar set of problems (even if they are approached with multiple hats, like engineering, marketing, finance, etc.)

Thanks!

> because it's far less likely you'll fail ten times in a row. So, keep trying

Stated like that, that sounds like an example of a Monte Carlo fallacy. Sometimes "just keep trying" is not sound advice but wishful thinking.

Fortunately its not about who deserves it more than whom, (theoretically) its about who deserves it the most (although, imho, that's hardly ever the case).

And the "trusted brands" links just before the fold looks a lot like the end of a page (probably because of the small font and gray colors).

On the first visit I didn't even realize I could scroll down, until someone mentioned there was more genuine-looking content further down.

You can pay GB taxes in GBP though. Why must you assume taxes = US taxes?

I've heard from the CEO of a large company that partners with Amazon a very similar figure for the revenue of AWS.

From the same source, I've heard that some services Amazon.com relies on runs on competitors' infrastructure, even though AWS offers the same service, and no, not as a backup service but as the primary solution for that particular service.

It is, although Stripe does only use https. When you post that form stripe.js captures the form submission and submits to its server, returning instead some tokens to identify the charge, so what is submitted through http is actually just a mostly worthless token (assuming that the credentials for the app are secure).

I'm not disagreeing with you, but the site running on https only is important in the context of the user not being thrown away by the lack of https, sensitive information is only transmitted through https.

Shouldn't this be called "Gender Machine", they get it right on the project description but not on the project name, weird.

Actually, read the history of how github got started, they started exactly the way you describe: a hack put together by developers that needed that and built it as a side project without thinking about releasing it as a product.

The very fact that git is distributed means that if github was down for a week your development shouldn't suffer, just become more annoying maybe, but you can easily so without GitHub I'd you know the ABC of how git works.

Your theory doesn't hold when comparing github with infrastructure everybody uses but few people know about, just because its used by many people that write programs that are used by many other users doesn't mean it's an infrastructure like an Internet backbone.

I think a better analogy would be "art school", you essentially go there to learn techniques and explore your interests and capabilities, but you should already be a sensible and perceptive person to benefit from it.

Art and what we refer to as "hacking" are analogous in several dimensions in my opinion, and I believe that is because they are expressions of raw passion and resourcefulness.

Closed as worksforme.

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I doubt is a matter of seniority, its a matter of criteria, the way I see it is, FizzBuzz is useful only to weed out perhaps the lower 5% of the developers population and perhaps the lower 20% of the general literate population?

As an anecdote, I asked my wife, who's not a developer, she is an executive at a large beverage company, to solve FizzBuzz and to explain to me how she would do it and she did it successfully. She didn't use the word "for" or "while", but she explained that she figured there must be something that allows you to iterate over the same algorithm several times (paraphrasing).

Personally, I think FizzBuzz are useless unless you use them as part of a submission form before candidates send in their resumes, sort of like a slightly harder captcha. There is no place for a FizzBuzz once the company is already engaging with the company, if they are not able to solve it they will be earlier signs that they lack common sense and criteria.

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I think that's an interesting point, and certainly a problem that will grow as data attributes become even more widely used.

Perhaps there's even use for a little database that keeps track of the different data attributes used by different libraries so that authors could easily find out if their name of choice will collide with someone else's, at least as a forewarning to its user about possible incompatibilities.