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Comment · 9 years ago
Why does DDG only seem to search videos via Youtube, even with Safe Search set to off?

I live in the UK and with our internet laws here becoming more and more strict over the last few (and coming) years, I wanted an alternative to Google or Bing who both actively cooperate with the governments existing proclivity to censor things like Porn.

Bing's video search for pornography is absolutely fantastic, it's legitimately the one thing I use Bing for.

Comment · 9 years ago
Anecdotally, I'm in the process of being sexually harassed by a director at the company I work for and choosing not reporting it. I plan to leave in a couple of months, my startup is in the final stages of closing a seed round - getting in to a sexual harassment lawsuit right now is the last thing I need in terms of stress and career.

The power dynamics are significantly different though, I don't feel at all in danger, I'm a 6'2 man who lifts weights in his spare time, so it's more of an annoyance than anything truly worrying. I understand that this person may go on to harass the next person who fills my role, but I simply have too much personally riding on the outcome of the present to leverage it in that way.

Comment · 9 years ago
Adding to the UK perspective, the following companies all do it as well and are representative of both older and younger shoppers:

* Boohoo

* Pretty Little Thing

* Missguided

* Marks & Spencers (non-food)

* House of Fraser (under 20Kg)

* Debenhams

Outside of these, with "Collect Plus" now being next-to ubiquitous in the UK (over 6,000 participating stores) any store using Collect Plus (or DPDs Ship-to-shop) can offer free returns via the stores. As an example of how useful this is in general, the tiny corner shop on my street is a Collect Plus collection point.

Comment · 9 years ago
This article is so unusually biased that it's twisting the truth to the point of presenting a false story.

The persisting idea that this was to protect children is such a lie, this was absolutely to protect Youtube from the backlash they've been receiving from advertisers who don't want their advert for toothpaste showing up next to a video discussing the best uses for anal beads or any US political opinion which doesn't firmly conform to being hard left (before I'm down-voted for saying that, as a British leftist, my personal brand of over-the-top semi-communism would make even the left-est of Americans feel a bit sick).

"It’s tried to enlist users to flag problem videos, and that backfired when trolls heard about the plan." - This is discussing how Youtube wanted to give users the ability to mass-flag groups of videos, as in flag multiple videos at once instead of individually. Trolls? This only effects content creators.

"But despite YouTube’s efforts, it didn’t notice YouTube megastar PewDiePie going rogue." - Almost straight away after the story broke, they canceled Felix's "Scare Pewdiepie" Youtube series contract before he had even had a chance to publicly respond to the (frankly ridiculous) claims that he was a Nazi sympathiser.

Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
Your pricing is very reasonable and I've just placed your website at the top of my to-do list tomorrow morning, thanks for posting.
Comment · 9 years ago
Absolutely, I totally get that, it's worth mentioning that we take our TLS implementation seriously (HSTS, no TLS1.0, etc) and score an A+ on SSLLabs test: http://i.imgur.com/QbH4YZS.png

The green bar with our company name in it translated in to a measurable conversion increase week for week from guest checkouts, so saying it's a waste of money isn't strictly true in our case.

Comment · 9 years ago
We renewed recently, through our hosting provider who have Symantec in their certificate chain.
Comment · 9 years ago
Perhaps it's neat for you, I just found out that our newly issued EV certificate status is being revoked in the next build of Chrome, so our expensive EV certificates may as well be $5 StartSSL certificates.

I imagine that there will be a lot of angry customers asking for refunds from Symantec/Verisign for certificates already issued which no longer conform to the offered product.

Comment · 9 years ago
I copied the content here for anyone in a similar situation to the parent commenter: https://justpaste.it/14pz7

The HTML hidden in that mountain of div tags is remarkably well formed for the standard I see around on the "modern web".

Comment · 9 years ago
This is great, really simple and easy to follow examples.

Would you be able to add some other examples such as interfacing with a database or making remote network requests over http?

Comment · 9 years ago
As a European, I think of Europe as being similar to the United States: Each country is it's own state and part of a whole.

In my opinion, saying that if Germany were standalone they would have a stronger currency is the same as saying "If California were standalone they would have a stronger currency".

The US has its Mississippi, Europe has its Greece.

Comment · 9 years ago
I've found that there are very few "remote-working" companies in the United States who consider applicants from outside of the US - most of them have an "must be eligible to work in the US" disclaimer.
Comment · 9 years ago
Some of the highest salaries in London for software engineers are for senior developers at Ecommerce companies built on Magento or building Wordpress websites for agencies.

The idea that PHP developers don't get paid much is erroneous, on average they probably do, but the peaks are just the same. I currently earn £70k "hacking" php in Magento and I'm based in Manchester where the cost of living is far lower.

Comment · 9 years ago
There are only 70 start-up incubator visas available, so I assume competition is exceptionally fierce.

This aside, for the engineer visas, it requires getting a job offer from one of the "100+ leading French Start-Ups", which means you presumably have to pass whatever requirements those hiring managers impose on you as well.

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