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Slickdeals thinks 20 employees is enough

7,353 2,746 July 24, 2012 at 10:39 AM in Chat (2)
Guess so with all the free mods!

http://www.openforum.com/articles...ust-enough




Even though deal-sharing site Slickdeals has been around for more than a decade, CEO Bryant Quan says it's still pretty much in startup mode.

With more than a 100 million page views every month and only 20 full-time employees, there's a ratio of 5 million customers to one employee, which means Slickdeals had to build a team flexible enough to wear many hats and make decisions independently.

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07-27-2012 at 07:46 PM.
07-27-2012 at 07:46 PM.
Quote from veritableqndry :
Relevant XKCD [xkcd.com]
Is that really true? Is it harder to crack a random 4 word password than one actual word coded with numbers/symbols/etc.?
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07-27-2012 at 08:01 PM.
07-27-2012 at 08:01 PM.
Quote from Majide :
NO!!! Ranting No way! Nono2 We have to use 15 character passwords, with a capital letter and a number (luckily no symbols needed yet) for work, and I hate it!!! Plus, we have to change it every 60 or 75 days, so you can never really remember what the long sentence is that you use.
Annoyed Ours needs to be changed every 30. Ranting Mad
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07-27-2012 at 08:14 PM.
07-27-2012 at 08:14 PM.
Quote from Pig :
Is that really true? Is it harder to crack a random 4 word password than one actual word coded with numbers/symbols/etc.?
You doubt VQ?

You do know he is Anonymous?


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07-27-2012 at 08:29 PM.
07-27-2012 at 08:29 PM.
Quote from TigerStar :
You doubt VQ?

You do know he is Anonymous?


Sadbye
But but but but but I believe VQ....but but but but not xkcd!!!

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07-27-2012 at 08:41 PM.
07-27-2012 at 08:41 PM.
Quote from Pig :
Is that really true? Is it harder to crack a random 4 word password than one actual word coded with numbers/symbols/etc.?
Technically the comic is correct.... SIMPLY BECAUSE OF MORE CHARACTERS

Length is more important than randomness against a pure brute force attack. However someone could write a program to go through normal words seperated by spaces pretty easily and crack such a password since they are dictionary words but since there are four it would take a long while.... I would still recommend randomness in addition to length to twart ever increasing computing power.

A good easy to remember hard to crack password would be

N0n...........

Its 15 characters

As long as no one watches you type it in.

Tomato/Greek/1972/Wallet is a very very good password and easy to remember

Key is not to use something like...

Little boy blue blew his horn.

Seriously all important passwords should be at least 15 characters.... and changed regularly.
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ColoBB
07-27-2012 at 09:03 PM.
07-27-2012 at 09:03 PM.
i agree that 20 employee are enough...in fact..if it's enough it is easier to hire than to fire
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SnakePlisken
07-30-2012 at 06:57 AM.
07-30-2012 at 06:57 AM.
Facebook has 910 million users & just 1 employee (not ghey that is)
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