Are You a Human http://areyouahuman.com Thu, 23 May 2013 18:10:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Signups http://areyouahuman.com/a-picture-is-worth-1000-signups/ http://areyouahuman.com/a-picture-is-worth-1000-signups/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 18:03:29 +0000 Max http://www-dev.areyouahuman.com/?p=4499 If you’ve been compulsively refreshing our website lately (and let’s be honest: who doesn’t spend all day compulsively refreshing our website?), you may have noticed that we’ve been experimenting a bit with our home page design. We A/B tested a number of different designs before settling on the one we have now, and we wanted to Read More →

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]]> http://areyouahuman.com/on-developing-internal-tools/feed/ 0 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tech Support http://areyouahuman.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-tech-support/ http://areyouahuman.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-tech-support/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 20:02:59 +0000 Max http://www-dev.areyouahuman.com/?p=4431 “Tech support.” Are there any two more dreaded words in the English language? Since the dawn of the computer age, support has been a hated job and the butt of lame jokes. When I was first told that part of my job would involve doing support, I almost vomited. Here are just a few of Read More →

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]]> http://areyouahuman.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-tech-support/feed/ 0 Why I Joined Are You a Human http://areyouahuman.com/why-i-joined-are-you-a-human/ http://areyouahuman.com/why-i-joined-are-you-a-human/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 16:34:47 +0000 Benjamin Blackmer http://www-dev.areyouahuman.com/?p=4417 Starting a company is very risky. It is cliché at this point to say, but the basic truth remains. What does very risky mean? Rarely having a burnrate of more than 6 months. Deferring your loan payments for multiple years. Not being able to tell your significant other if the company is going to succeed Read More →

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]]> http://areyouahuman.com/why-i-joined-are-you-a-human/feed/ 0 CAPTCHA-Solving Tools Are Facilitating Russian Cybercrime http://areyouahuman.com/captcha-solving-tools-are-facilitating-russian-cybercrime/ http://areyouahuman.com/captcha-solving-tools-are-facilitating-russian-cybercrime/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:59:10 +0000 Max http://www-dev.areyouahuman.com/?p=4387 We like to joke that CAPTCHA provides a criminally bad user experience, but here’s a report about insecure CAPTCHAs enabling actual crime. From security researcher Dancho Danchev at the Webroot Threat Blog: Just how challenged are cybercriminals when they’re being exposed to CAPTCHAs in 2013? Not even bothering to “solve the problem” by themselves anymore, thanks to…an automatic Read More →

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