dustywusty
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2 months ago
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on: VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
ASNs can obviously span multiple countries, and aren't a great way to gate this at all. While we block ASNs we KNOW are owned/operated by companies in limited countries, but I couldn't imagine a worse way to approach it at scale. Hate doing it, it's heavy-handed and wrong.
dustywusty
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2 months ago
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on: VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
Can really spot someone who has never had to deal with OFAC with a comment like this. Even if I don't necessarily agree with the concept, or who is actually being blocked, my business is dead in the water if I'm a) sent to prison or b) fined out of existence.
Geographic IP information is one of our best tools to defend against those outcomes, and if anything it should be better.
dustywusty
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5 months ago
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on: Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining
Exactly what I came in to say, CCR2216 can do this for < $2k, and does it well.
dustywusty
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5 months ago
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on: Product Hunt is dead
The backlinks derived from PH are generally considered harmful, and rightfully so. It's gamed beyond belief. There is not much to gain from being at the top of PH other than talking about it to legacy VCs.
dustywusty
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5 months ago
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on: Product Hunt is dead
I couldn't imagine a better way to describe the current concept of grassroots marketing. Spam, and frankly heavy-handed and bad ways to resolve it (no links get traction, etc) have effectively closed the door here.
Anti-spam teams for a lot of social companies are under the umbrella of customer experience, and considered a cost center. The goal quickly becomes: be a hammer.
The impact to user experience, specifically around casual discovery has been profound.
dustywusty
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10 months ago
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on: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
We're working on the successor to Weebly, with
https://www.articulationsites.com. My partner and I were founding engineers at Weebly. It's clear that the brand is in decline at the hands of Square, and it drives us every day to make a great alternative that Weebly users can rely on.
dustywusty
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1 year ago
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on: FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security
The sad truth is that for the most part, the web hosting industry has normalized a fairly lax approach to security, and sees settlements like this, and even breaches, as a cost of doing business. Look at Wordpress maintenance, for example.
It's a tough business hosting arbitrary UGC, and doing it well costs a lot of time effort and money (ask me how I know). But I fully agree: treating this as just another line-item cost is absurd.
dustywusty
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1 year ago
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on: So long WordPress
Yeah, this is what it comes down to. WordPress has an incredible following for a great reason: it works well for the people that know how to use it.
Designers and agencies are more than happy to continue to use it, and frankly they should -- it is their bread and butter. The WP drama is news for us web-devs but will affect their market in no way whatsoever.
dustywusty
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1 year ago
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on: So long WordPress
The language is intentionally vague, and leaves the determination on the person who has to check the box.
I have a competing product and shouldn't get too far in the weeds on what I truly think here, but the predominant feeling across people that have to interact with this is that it's done on purpose.
It's not so much that people don't understand what the word "affiliation" means, it's that you'd have to be completely certain that a lawyer, hired from what is clearly a litigious org, would have the same understanding.
dustywusty
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1 year ago
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on: We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi
Couldn't agree more with this. In general, if you're writing eval you've already committed to doing something the wrong way.
dustywusty
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10 years ago
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on: Destroy all hiring processes
As a pretty happily employed Weebly for a few years now, I'm frustrated that you think that, but I'm glad that you went out of your way to register an account to reveal your thoughts. In this case, I guess we'll just agree to disagree.
dustywusty
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10 years ago
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on: Destroy all hiring processes
I was employed when I did my trial week at Weebly, and I had to use a week's vacation to do it. Weebly paid for my time, not to mention the trip to SF. Obviously it was worth it to me, but I can see where you're coming from.
dustywusty
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10 years ago
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on: Destroy all hiring processes
I took a week off at my previous job to trial at Weebly. My previous job had a very strict vacation policy, but I knew the importance of what I was doing.
Weebly has an unlimited vacation policy, so, it worked out pretty well.
dustywusty
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10 years ago
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on: Destroy all hiring processes
As both an interviewer and interviewee at Weebly, I'm pretty confident in saying I prefer our approach of the trial week. It really gives a great opportunity for the candidate to show off their skills without the on-the-spot pressure of a coding interview. A great side-effect is the candidate gets to determine if they like the team, and vice versa. I honestly wouldn't work somewhere else where I couldn't come in for at least a few days to meet and work with the team.
dustywusty
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11 years ago
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on: Facebook blocked our url and there's nothing we can do?
Hi,
I help run the anti-spam team here at Weebly, and I can report that we're not observing any notifications from Facebook indicating that sites on the Weebly network are blocked. I've run a few tests using some popular sites on the network, and wasn't blocked from posting any of them.
More importantly, the site that the OP posted is not hosted on Weebly.
I recommend reaching out to Facebook for more information.
dustywusty
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12 years ago
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on: Snapchat - GibSec Full Disclosure
It's in their best interest to get rid of all photos posted to the service.
dustywusty
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12 years ago
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on: RapGenius Growth Hack Exposed
Not exactly genius.
dustywusty
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12 years ago
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on: Google to reject Chrome extensions outside of Chrome Web Store
Finding it very strange that this change is presented under the guise of safety, as there are absolutely very malicious extensions currently circulating on the Chrome Web Store.
dustywusty
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12 years ago
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on: Facebook vulnerability 2013
This isn't true.
dustywusty
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12 years ago
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on: Cisco to cut 4,000 jobs
This isn't very good, because you don't describe the reason that one would lose the three stands.
