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Using freelance web developers could be opening your business up to cyber-attack, survey warns. Never trust them (except me)
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Marc Clifton wrote: I wonder how in-house developers sitting in cubicles with no windows, noisy neighbors, an hour long (if you're lucky) commute, and no training since they graduated college (and we know how useless that is for relevant technologies and practices) fair.
When you pay someone external to do something you expect it to be done in a professional way and to a reasonable standard, and that is not what has happened. If you take your car to a garage to get the brakes changed and they forget to refill the brake fluid and you crash the car, it's not acceptable for them to shrug their shoulders and say "Well if you'd done it yourself you probably would have made the same mistake".
What this article is highlighting is that there is a very high rate of "cowboys" in the freelance game. Other industries have tried long and hard to clean up their industry to get rid of cowboys but you only have to glance at the Q&A forum for questions obviously posted by people (let's be honest here, people in India) who work in codehouse sweatshops without the ability to do the job who are giving clients a very poor end product. It's one of the reasons out-sourcing has lost its appeal.
However when it comes to internal staff it's the employer's job to monitor competency, have processes to ensure quality etc so that "lesser skilled" employees don't cause too many issues.
Marc Clifton wrote: Oh please, do tell me more about the criteria. Not the criteria for the website, but the criteria for selecting 10 contractors.
Probably the ones with the worst English 
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Other industries have tried long and hard to clean up their industry to get rid of cowboys but you only have to glance at the Q&A forum for questions obviously posted by people (let's be honest here, people in India) who work in codehouse sweatshops without the ability to do the job who are giving clients a very poor end product.
I don't want to sound "racist" but mostly of the worst questions I see come from asian lands. The other day one QA about a web that had to do DB login and some queries posted a link to a screenshot. The web was for one important bank there (which I am not going to use anymore when I am there)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Someone in the Javascript discussion board was wanting help with client-side One-Time-Password code for an Indian bank  
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: is that there is a very high rate of "cowboys" in the freelance game.
To be honest, I resemble that remark. Then again, I've dealt with a lot of "cowboys" in-house as well, from young (20's) programmers to managers.
F-ES Sitecore wrote: Other industries have tried long and hard to clean up their industry to get rid of cowboys
I think something about the nature of the software development lends itself to cowboy mentality as opposed to more staid practices of teamwork, etc. It's difficult to find a team that doesn't go to one extreme or the other (getting rid of cowboys usually means turning people into cows) and finding a balance between discipline and creativity/innovation. The best clients and employers I've worked for have found that balance across the entire culture.
F-ES Sitecore wrote: However when it comes to internal staff it's the employer's job to monitor competency, have processes to ensure quality etc so that "lesser skilled" employees don't cause too many issues.
Agreed, though that's hard to find.
Marc
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There is actually a new wave of remote freelance web developers that call themselves Digital nomad - Wikipedia[^] that are 20 or 30 somethings that live like vagabond types that travel the world. One can find a lot of them in Thailand and other neighboring South East Asian countries living the life.
I would expect that many of them with their decent PhotoShop skills and copy and paste coding style of PHP, JavaScript, and Bootstrap would be creating junk with little support.
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U.S. mobile speeds lag behind those found in other developed countries, according to a new report from internet network Akamai. Scream if you want to go faster
Don't feel too bad, I don't even see Canada on the list
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Don't care. I'm getting 170 Mbps... 
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PS are you actually able to get 170? The part of me that assumes that all ISPs are dishonest scum until proven otherwise notes that the pre-overhead theoretical max[^] for a 4 channel setup is 172 MB down, but that includes 20MBps of protocol overhead.
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(According to Speedtest dot net.)
I'm paying for "up to" 150 Mbps.
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The article is a poor summation of the main article. Canada are a lot of other countries are not on the list because they only included the countries they wanted to. Many other country had better results but were not included in the summated results.
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One problem is using averages. I wouldn't expect the average internet speed in Montana to match that of Los Angeles.
(And if someone moves to an isolated place, is internet really a high priority?)
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As global internet usage rises, .com naming is going to get more and more complicated. Type in the IPv6 address directly, of course
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And probably 95% of them are owned by Internet trolls who just bought them to squat on them.
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Bull. I bet I can easily generate millions of .com domain names that have never been used:
var url = (new Guid()).ToString() + ".com"
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An API defines how other programmers interact with your software. As you write code, ask yourself about the user of that code. Oh good. "Functional" didn't make the list
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An API defines how other programmers interact with your software.
Wrong out of the gate.
An API defines how I interact with my software. Even if it's a one-time deal, I am always looking at two questions:
- Is this method a candidate for an API?
- If so, how do I extract it to minimize dependencies and side-effects so that it is actually re-usable, and validate inputs so that it's used in the correct manner?
Funny how re-use, contracts, and all that wasn't even mentioned. 
Marc
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For each certified genius, there are at least a hundred great people who helped achieve such outstanding results. Just in case you were wondering
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Cue Tom Lehrer...
(Lobachevski)
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Specially-designed malware installed on a router or a switch can take control over the device’s LEDs and use them to transmit data in a binary format to a nearby attacker, who can capture it using simple video recording equipment. I'm blinking to express just how impressed I am with their l33t skillz
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'Malware uses router LEDs to steal data from not so secure networks' might be more accurate.
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