Hmm -- never heard of them -- neither has Quantcast or Compete. Alexa knows who they are -- says their users spend a whopping 86 seconds on the site.
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hipster apple developers @paydirtapp block IE. Every sentence in this article I reply with "You're Doing It Wrong." paydirtapp.com/blog/we-dont-s…
I'm surprised this hasn't gained more HN traction love -- check this shit out -- avseminal, timely example of crowdsourcing on a large scale (hello, 120 writers) executed in short order.
Unfortunately, the only recourse is to have an attorney send a letter declaring a plan to file a lawsuit if payment is not made by a given date, which will cost around $300/hr for a few hours. The follow-on lawsuit will cost at least $3K to get started, and more likely $7-10K to close. It's important to note that choosing the lawyer option can cause the client to dig their heels in (they know how much it will cost you to run a lawsuit and might just let you burn the cash in an attempt to call your bluff). Freelance workers often require a retainer or upfront payment to reduce their risk of payment defaults.
Thanks. This is why I have remained very civil so far. Another option is to directly call up the company I was doing the project for which had hired my client. They always liked me on a professional level though I never tried to cut out the party that hired me for obvious ethical reasons.
Someone told me he may be indulging in fire fraud of some kind so I am exploring that angle.
"their security model has been working well so far" -- that is to say, the Mac security model, which has hardly been tested at all (relative to say, Windows), has been working well -- which isn't saying much.
That may be, but it's been a blissful 10+ years. :)
Ribbing aside, the OS X security model is, generally speaking, the Unix security model, which has been around a lot longer than Windows. Henry Spencer is attributed with saying "Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly." Perhaps OS X has done it badly, but perhaps not as badly as others.
I agree that lack of security problems is not indicative of good security, but Apple does seem to be making good decisions. As I said earlier, they've got some super smart security people working for them and letting them drive the security model.
thank god -- I wish it worked on my end, but I'm endlessly forced to empty cache in Chrome to avoid broken images, stalled scripts, etc. -- which makes it altogether unusable.
