Author Archives: BorisDinkevich

Outside the AB testing box

How we got rid of 80% of our support calls The year is 2010 and yours truly is deciding on opening a Groupon like coupon site back in his country. A bit of coding + a bit of selling and we were … Continue reading

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First employee of startup ? You are probably getting screwed !

Same story again A friend of mine just told me about his exciting new opportunity: He met two guys who are opening a new startup. They are known in the community and already had a small exit before. For the … Continue reading

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We are the McDonnalds of Shoe stores

  “I am opening a new shoe store” That is what a good friend of mine, happily announced to me. “Not just a shoe store, we are going to be the McDonnalds of shoe stores !” Shoe store ? Frankly … Continue reading

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True web security from Javascript injections ?

With the coming of FireFox 4, a new (and wildly unnoticed) feature was added to the browser: CSP – Content Security Policy. The idea behind the CSP, was to try to mitigate many of attacks and abuses we have been … Continue reading

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Why is USB so SLOoow..

Have you ever noticed that if, during the copying of a file to a USB disk, you start to copy another. The performance of both drops drastically ? A small test Take the simple test (If you have linux) Create … Continue reading

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Chrome Extension store – is Google brewing another fail ?

Have you read about the upcoming Chrome Extension Store ? Yet another pending failure from Google ? As browser extensions are slowly gaining ground and popularity, I urge you to take a moment to look at the extensions you already … Continue reading

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Deflowering the local Moms

Let me tell you a story: One of my current projects is a website, that sells to young moms directly online. Now (as a test) I put up my private phone on the site, stating that who ever is interested, … Continue reading

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Why we got brilliant engineers for only 2,000$ / year

The What There is a small cute neighborhood in the middle of Tel-Aviv. As I was walking there a few nights back a strange though struck me. I was on a long alley, with every other building having either a small coffee-shop, … Continue reading

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How to remove a Digital Tattoo

First, a story Back when I was 16, it was considered very cool to get a tatoo. Some of my friends actually got the nerve (to disobey their parents) and went to get tiny bits of color embedded (mostly un)skillfully into their skin. … Continue reading

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Whats the best time to post to HackerNews

Yesterday while pondering just that, I spoke with a friend and we decided to pull some data and make some graphs. First order of business was to get a DB of posts, and it seemed like crawling was the only … Continue reading

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