joepie91
joepie91
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Cryptographic hashing algorithms are specifically designed to have (on average) equal distribution of output values, so the hash part should be fine. That would be because 400 and 500 both end in 00, and so the last two digits of the result will always be the same, since nothing gets subtracted from the original value for…
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To be honest, being 'certified' in any way around programming is a negative signal to me, not a positive one :) You're much better off with recommendations from people. The state of software development (and related) courses is awful. People learn exactly all the wrong things, and are made to believe by said courses that…
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This is news to me. Perhaps this has changed over the years. (Edit: To clarify, this was very unambiguously ruled out as a possibility in the terms of service for every big freelancing site back when I was still looking at those.) At that point the question becomes why someone is even offering it as a service, if it's…
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If a potential customer asked me to work through such a site, my answer would be "thanks, but no thanks". The only "benefit" of such a site in terms of not-getting-scammed would be the escrow service, which is useless if you're going to be communicating off-site, since they will only take into consideration whatever has…
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As someone who freelances for a living: I absolutely would not ever use any of these sites again. Their cut is insane, they place severe restrictions on how you can do your work (in terms of communication and such), they're 100% built around the lowest price and quality is pretty much not a factor (which means you're…
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The problem is that while hosting services are essentially a commodity product and so benefit from economies of scale, the same is not true for tailored work. There just isn't a lot of room to cut rates without cutting serious corners on quality, because everybody has a finite number of hours in a day, and certain fixed…
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AFAIK PayPal doesn't allow this under those circumstances either. I looked into this a bit while trying to set up my payment processing (through Mollie, a Dutch payment processor), and even though Mollie takes on the ultimate liability for all other payment methods (including CC processing!), they couldn't tightly…
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This is what I've seen with other payment processors also, and AFAIK it's precisely why PayPal doesn't allow "full integration" from a payment processor and all the payments need to go directly to the recipient's account. Which means that either Fastspring got a deal not available to other payment processors, or they're…
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Sure, except worse. Because at least with normal VMs and OpenVZ, people have the idea that they're renting and managing a server. Whereas a ton of people view Docker as a magical application deployment platform that does everything for them.
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From a provider perspective, it will probably mostly translate to "lots of containers that never get security updates and thus get hacked, because the customer wrongly believes that wrapping it in a container makes system administration unnecessary". I'm not optimistic.
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You're being a little optimistic there, I think. If you only consider the customer-facing side, then maybe, and it'd still be very questionable security-wise and buggy, it'd assume that the provider will be doing all the management tasks outside of the panel, it won't have billing integration, and so on. A provider who…
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Drat! My plan to sneakily join here has been foiled. Ohai :)