MatthewWilkes

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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
I had a fun run-in with this q couple of years ago. We had a field in company profile fkr the year of founding whose validator was '4 digits'.
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
A friend of mine got a provisional offer from a highly funded UK startup which was then rescinded explicitly on grounds of age. Before I could convince him that this wasn't acceptable they folded. I think we'd all be surprised at
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
One cold email campaign, 500 cold emails.
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
Why? You're not an employee, you're a concerned citizen. You havr no obligations to vendors whatsoever. Now, I think it's nice to do responsible disclosure, and I certainly don't envy the people whose week has been ruine
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
In the UK that only applies to unsolicited goods, not to genuine errors. So, if Nintendo were to send you a switch and then ask you to pay for it, sure, you can ignore the demand. If you buy a switch from Nintendo and they send you two you
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
Very sad to see that printing isn't on the roadmap for next year. If others want this feature, it's tracked in https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/5953
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
Yes, not allowing the referendum. It was ruled illegal because the Spanish constitution does not allow secession, effectively preventing self-determination for Catalonia. Denying people a right that's commonly understood to be fundamen
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
That's interesting, I was also in Barcelona last week and I saw slightly more Spanish flags than Catalan. I think the real problem is that Spain have consistently blocked a peaceful referendum. I don't believe Catalonia would vote
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
It does, but that's because the companies who benefit from it being seen as your fault for being careless or unlucky rather than theirs for being lackadaisical in their verification process are the ones with the marketing departments.
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
Both DFS and ADFS used .
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
BoingBoing seems to be nothing but advertising these days, I sometimes still go to it out of habit but I feel so marketed to every time it loads.
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
And yet WhatsApp refuse to allow my work phone access to their network as they don't recognise the phone number as that of a mobile phone. After they asked to see documentation from my phone provider to show that it was indeed a mobile
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
That would only help if it were possible for a user to visually identify if a stream is not malicious.
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
I think it depends on perspective. I don't think there's a 10x programmer, but I've worked with plenty of 0.1x programmers. If your organisation is not doing a good job of managing your developer team you may have a very skew
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
Why check for a special status code, rather than a specific response body, such as a JSON document confirming no use?
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
40% of employees or 40% of memegen?
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
The unique prime factorisation of 12. 12 factors into 2, 2 and 3. If a column is index 2n or 3n it will never contain a prime after the first row. The columns that match that here are: 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12. The columns that don't are
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
This article says they are in the process of returning the funds to the original owners.
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
Of course there are grey areas, and it's appropriate that they're decided by the courts. I'm sure nobody would argue that a lossy copy of a work protected by copyright can still infringe, even if the lossiness was deliberate
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
Copyright covers implementations, not ideas. I have no moral objection to truly novel inventions in computer science being protected by patents. An innovative search algorithm, a compression scheme, etc. Its shit when MP3s and GIFs were enc
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
The contract almost certainly specifies that the choice of law will be German law. Either way, it seems the author is based in Prague currently, so I'm not sure how US law would figure into it.
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
Honestly, this is the most surprising thing for me. Allowing page views to make HTTP calls to external hosts that aren't controlled by Amazon would let them track user behaviour across their listings. Facebook stopped that with profile
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
There's a subtle flaw in your design here. You're selectively discarding data with meaning and those decisions can be seen and you are not being strict enough with your rules about reuse of data. Although the user doesn't h
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
It's not just the US, this one last year was big news: https://medium.com/@rachelnabors/wtfuk-73009d5623b4 I suspect there are a few confounding factors. Firstly, lots of non-residents travel to tech conferences i
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
That's only true for very specific threat models. For most people, the limit in entropy for your passwords implied by keeping them all in your head makes them more vulnerable than writing them down in a place with imperfect security.
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
You still use it in debuggers and in the REPL. Using it seldom makes it harder to relearn the muscle memory, and only hitting it when you're debugging makes it more likely that you're already frustrated when it happens.
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
I watched the PyCon keynote on this topic, and while it's nice to hear they've moved to Python3 their approach probably shouldn't be copied. For example, in their codebase they had ambiguity between bytestrings and unicode st
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
I'm a little surprised at the abuse contact step, is that really more effective that emailing security@ and webmaster@ for the domains affected?
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
There are two issues, for me. Firstly, a monthly price in dollars can be annoying for very small projects, as it's quite possible there will be a relatively large flat currency conversion fee from a bank. Paying that once hurts less th
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by MatthewWilkes 9y ago
I once had the idea of generating them on the fly using mechanical them. Unfortunately, the quality of results was so bad I had to abandon it.

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