Deestan

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by Deestan 10y ago
> What were they expecting that to achieve? we added a crypto for security measures. this seemed like a good place to add a crypto. it is now more secure. In my basement I have a fingerprint+PIN protected blastproof safe bolted to the fo
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by Deestan 10y ago
Just a reply of "Hi, our IT staff confirms this is a security issue. We intend to fix it as soon as possible. Thank you for your help." doesn't need to wait for the 3rd party agency to come back from holiday.
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by Deestan 10y ago
> So you get asked to throw something together to see if people like it. So you do. And you don't in your wildest dreams think that this piece of shit is going to see the light of day. It's just concept. One of my previous prod
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by Deestan 10y ago
https://xkcd.com/1494/
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by Deestan 10y ago
It would fall under the ever implicit "this is not the intended use case and you know it" clause. It would succeed no better than showing up with a barrel at a burger shop and start filling it from the free ketchup dispenser.
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by Deestan 10y ago
I would add a "I don't know" option. Family members who need tech support from me are generally unable to answer things like: > Is your device up to date? First, they aren't familiar with what is considered a "d
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by Deestan 10y ago
> the transcendent move is to co-opt it! …which is a large logistical challenge that most game devs can't fit into their game or don't want to spend resources dealing with. Specifically "if it's a legit flag" is
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by Deestan 10y ago
"Branches aren't merged without peer approval" has sufficed plenty in my experience. Whether people code tests before thinking interfaces, before writing a prototype, before implementing, during the inevitable interface rewri
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by Deestan 10y ago
Because of the huge logistical challenge of filtering out all the swastika penises spelling out "kill urself" Minecraft has a very young demographic, and griefing is a common pastime among bored kids hungry for attention and relev
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by Deestan 12y ago
This looks like a rehost page that missed half the content when they copy-pasted the original. Parts of the content is missing, and plain text saying "click here" without being a link.
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by Deestan 12y ago
Be aware that Hipchat are now rolling out a new "feature" in which the account admin can read all private 1-to-1 chat: http://help.hipchat.com/forums/138883-suggestions-ideas/sugg... This could be a sign
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by Deestan 13y ago
"Promotes", not "guarantees" or "forces".
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by Deestan 13y ago
If you want to create a maze on paper as a rainy day kind of activity, the process is basically the same but manual: 1. Mark a start point and an end point, and draw the solution using yellow marker. A moderately windy path will do fine.
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by Deestan 13y ago
That doesn't really matter, because they don't need to. All it takes is one crypto-savvy person taking an interest and finding a fault, then posting about it. Even if they do actively cheat and provide some obscure not-really c
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by Deestan 13y ago
It makes sense to question the company's structure/policy/organization if it allows destructive behavior to run wild.
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by Deestan 13y ago
> or you trust them to send you JavaScript that does the encryption in the browser I don't need to give trust in that case, as I could verify the encryption myself.
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by Deestan 13y ago
It would be able to tell if the move was a mistake if playing against a computer . A move that would be bad against a computer opponent might throw a human opponent off balance through surprise, or take the game into a type of board state
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by Deestan 13y ago
Interesting how it handles cyclic references only if the chrome dev console is not opened.
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by Deestan 13y ago
> MS had a terrible rep for being aggressive and with bad ethics in the 80s and 90s That's a really important consideration. Hackers have long memories, and a lot of us don't consider "it's just business" to be
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by Deestan 13y ago
Also, cookies are perfectly fine for saving progress.
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by Deestan 13y ago
> It's long been known that America's school kids haven't measured well compared with international peers. Now, there's a new twist: Adults don't either. That's not a twist. It's the exact same statem
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by Deestan 13y ago
So you helped them, and showed them a tool they could use to help themself in the future. That's good! This tool on the other hand, would help you belittle and alienate them so that they are afraid of asking for help in the future.
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by Deestan 13y ago
So basically, this is how DRM is useful in partially alleviating the problems introduced by DRM.
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by Deestan 13y ago
By "we", you mean technically savvy people. The number of us who need this software but don't make enough money to pay for it, or for some reason don't want to pay for it, is likely small enough to be ignored completely
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by Deestan 13y ago
Technically impressive, but the shoddy F2P kills the game. If the game is tedious and boring without burning premium currency, you've failed at F2P.
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by Deestan 13y ago
> Some people simply love to nest callbacks... Anytime I see that it drives me crazy.... This is the correct reaction to heavily nested callbacks. https://github.com/caolan/async provides several excellent functions
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by Deestan 13y ago
That sounds like a sane test. If someone does blatantly cheat, it will be immediately obvious during the interview afterwards. At my company, we ask people to submit some choice prior work if possible. Then we look at that, and try to h
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by Deestan 13y ago
There's not floating point stuff going on, that's why it works. :) a and b are ints, so a/b is truncated (rounded down) before applying *b.
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by Deestan 13y ago
Having watched the discussion around 0x10^c for the past year, it's hilarious to see all the comments (reddit, twitter, etc) where people seem to think it would help if Mojang just hired a large team to "pick up the pace". N
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by Deestan 13y ago
A spokesman for the Norwegian national lottery once said that "If the winning numbers should be 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 one week, several thousand people would have to share the prize." Your prize then would be just enough to take a date t

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