B-Con

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by B-Con 13y ago
> I'm also a person. Programming is just one thing I do. This is not universally true. Yes, we're all people, but some people don't want to serve as tech support, marketing, etc, themselves. Some people just want to show up and work in
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by B-Con 13y ago
In all seriousness: Why? What do we gain from doing the decoding in JavaScript, besides the "cool" factor? I can see how this would allow more flexibility, since a codec could be downloaded at run-rime, which would remove the need for media
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by B-Con 13y ago
What to customers think these seals mean? I think they're just being used to give the site a feeling of credibility. > 2) 65% of consumers agree that a website displaying the Norton Secured Seal is safe to browse and won’t give them a v
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by B-Con 13y ago
Since you paid nothing, I'm not sure how strong of a praise that is. ;-) Personally, I'd say I got my time's worth. Time is worth a lot, and I've put a lot into the classes, and I feel it has all been more than worthwhile.
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The controller pattern is awful (and other OO heresy)(me.veekun.com)
1 points by B-Con 13y ago|0 comments
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by B-Con 13y ago
I think that's usually the result of the previous page being a redirect, and the browser taking you back to the redirect page which then instantly, well, redirects you. I know this is a huge problem on mobile devices, often requiring you hi
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by B-Con 13y ago
Welcome to Hacker News. :-) > understand my intention We don't do that here. However, we do have an unparalleled menu of pedantic critique, edge case obsession, and a wonderful sauce made from insanely perfect standards.
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by B-Con 14y ago
Yes! I actually think this way (not verbally, my thoughts have only a loose verbal connection). NAA makes so much more sense because you can continuously update your mental picture, rather than waiting for the end and then backing up to i
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by B-Con 14y ago
Personally, I've always mentally preferred an ordering with the noun first followed by increasing levels of restrictiveness. In my head , that's how I think. I then have to translate that into proper English grammar. It makes sense to me b
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by B-Con 14y ago
Probably just because that's how you've heard it done. The rules are likely made-up, they just sound funny to break. Note that other languages have completely different grammars, and they make sense to them.
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by B-Con 14y ago
Kind of. The reason college is usually touted as irrelevant is because while a lot of this type of thing is interesting and to some it is necessary knowledge, most people don't need to know most of the material. (Some of HN may find zero-kn
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by B-Con 14y ago
But not GitHUB. The site itself is not on par with Google in terms of influence, and neither does it's services influence nearly all Internet users.
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by B-Con 14y ago
They very likely come into play whenever a password hash database is leaked and the hashes were not salted/iterated properly.
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by B-Con 14y ago
More likely they'll have you wrap it in aluminum foil.
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by B-Con 14y ago
The slides from the talk: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qbqqcfjz3YwocRZu2led... Slide 31 should be extracted and made into a cheat-sheet.
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Breaking the 1000ms Time to Glass Mobile Barrier(youtube.com)
3 points by B-Con 14y ago|1 comments
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by B-Con 14y ago
Nothing to say about the article, but I loved the format of this: > However, quite simply, porn is not inherently evil. (If you refute that, you’re engulfed by the Victorian-era hyperbole of the sinful and tasteless expressions of sexua
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by B-Con 14y ago
In short: It's not an inherent or technical difference so much as an ecosystem difference. Win8 developers think about Live Tiles differently than Android developers do about widgets. (Right?)
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by B-Con 14y ago
Am I the only one who doesn't mind going to get the content I want? I enjoy having it easily available, but I don't get the obsession with making it effortlessly consumable. Not only is my friend's social network activity low on my list of
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by B-Con 14y ago
> _Applied_ is a broad survey of cryptographic techniques that was good for its time > _Practical_ is a book about actually building system with cryptography. Yep. That's pretty much what I said. Applied is about the tools, Practica
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by B-Con 14y ago
As most of you know, this guy's career is very interesting. Every few years he's stepped up to another level of thinking, a higher, more abstract viewpoint of the world. It's natural for people to learn and abstract, but he does so much of
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by B-Con 14y ago
Absolutely not. It'll still be there next year.
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by B-Con 14y ago
To be fair, in the introduction they do clearly point out that these are not technically "controversial" and just have a tendency to evoke controversial/confused reactions from laymen.
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by B-Con 14y ago
I wonder about why this is the case. * Is it because we as users have been conditioned, through years of faulty software, to assume crap crashes/hangs when there are unexpected delays? * Or is the majority of computing so fast and instantan
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RC4 is kind of broken in TLS(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
92 points by B-Con 14y ago|60 comments
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by B-Con 14y ago
> This is condescending, and relies on the assumption that I don't know anything about anything and just fell off the turnip truck last week. I would not overlook the possibility that they were just excited to formally reference somethi
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by B-Con 14y ago
As Mr. Green points out, the key issue today is more about key disruption. And, in my opinion, that's an area closed source solutions are even more scary. (Without any form of transparency, why would we believe our keys aren't being archive
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by B-Con 14y ago
It got mine relatively recently. I remember it took about 15 minutes after I reached 500. Either the system takes a little while to recognize the change, or I reached 501 in that time. Note that you can't vote on comments over 24 hours old
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by B-Con 14y ago
Couldn't resist. Happy 500. :-)
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by B-Con 14y ago
What if it's malicious? Eg, "I hate your political ideology. I'll unsubscribe you from the site you forwarded me an article from." I'm sure that kind of threat is minimal and easily corrected, but the OP's suggestion of hiding it somewhat a

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