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by Revisor 15y ago
Some interesting notes: - Ipad is less powerful than Iphone (at least from a game developer's POV, regarding the screen is larger) - Usability of the app catalog sucks for browsing But what's the most important (meta) insight for me: Games
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by Revisor 15y ago
I would say it's missing a purpose, rather than a story. Otherwise I agree. I can't speak for other gamers, but my time gets more scarce as I grow older. And games without purpose were the first to go.
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by Revisor 15y ago
I welcome whatever brings more women to programming. I think the field would only flourish with more gender diversity. At the end of the article they suggest there might be a larger trend at play because anecdotally all workshops are very s
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by Revisor 15y ago
What's valuable in this article: The applicants should know you before you even start looking for new interns. Having a long-term presence in their consciousness is invaluable.
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by Revisor 15y ago
I suggest Keepass to generate and store your passwords with the password database shared via Dropbox. It's multiplatform and works pretty much everywhere. After the initial setup even my non-geeky GF can use it.
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by Revisor 15y ago
A better question is> Why WOULDN'T I want a password longer than 16 chars? The longer the password, the more secure I feel, even if it's one day leaked as an unsalted MD5. And I don't care whether I can remember it because my password m
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by Revisor 15y ago
It may be more useful and helpful to either show the password in cleartext, or provide a button that unmasks the password. Double inputs tend to seduce the user to copy&paste.
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by Revisor 15y ago
I have often seen password fields that are only limited by their attribute. Eg <input type="password" maxlength=20> You're right, if they actively limit the character set and the length, it must have been a conscious decision
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by Revisor 15y ago
Unfortunately the silent limits of the password fields are very prevalent. I found out the hard way after I'd started to use Keepass to generate and manage my passwords. There are even sites that have different limits for the "Change passwo
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by Revisor 15y ago
Can someone please help me understand the implications? Crypt_blowfish handles 8(and higher?)-bit characters wrong on OpenBSD? Are other *nix systems also affected? Is the wrong character handling consistent?
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by Revisor 15y ago
We use Assembla - between tickets, wikis, forum, chat, and unlimited repos we have all our project-management bases covered.
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by Revisor 15y ago
This is also interesting: The decision about how and when to respond can depend on business or policy considerations. For example, an action in one re- gion might be more creepy or undesirable than in another region. Another example would
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by Revisor 15y ago
As I run a forum and we assess all threats manually (a bunch of moderators watching over the forum and reacting to flagged posts), this is an interesting view of what the moderation looks like when it's automated. What caught my eye: Threa
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Facebook's learning defense system against attacks [pdf](research.microsoft.com)
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by Revisor 15y ago
This comes at a great moment for me. I have just gotten into the second, not fun 90% part of the project and it's really frustrating. Mr. Abrash has articulated why. I'm going to put my head down and work. And ship it.
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by Revisor 15y ago
Imma let you finish, but the Most Aggressive Upsell Prize still goes to GoDaddy. :) Anyway it's really interesting FB uses the number of likes as a score in a game. From this point of view the whole Facebook is a game about likes and you ca
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by Revisor 15y ago
You can change the email notifications, BUT: I couldn't find it for 5 minutes! A similar thing happened to me a few weeks ago when I was looking for a way to add more repositories to a project. Luckily I got an answer quickly on their suppo
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by Revisor 15y ago
Assembla is not really a GIT hosting, it's project management with repos. You can use tickets, wiki, internal forum, GIT/Mercurial/SVN repos and some build/deploy tools. Admittedly some of their tools have small problems, but the team is re
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by Revisor 15y ago
I agree, it can be remedied by better algorithms - such that can recognize when I'm doing a search for a known item and when I'm performing exploratory search. In the first case, personalize away, in the second case, please show me everythi
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by Revisor 15y ago
Search queries have different purposes. Personalization based on my preferences and past search works wonders for known-item seeking and for re-finding. But for exploratory search and exhaustive search personalization works as an echo chamb
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by Revisor 15y ago
EVE Online, Minecraft, Escapist magazine ... what was the point again? I thought at first they had a moral motive. Anyway, DDOSing is not hacking and at least with these harmless kiddie attacks the defense mechanisms will be more readily av
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by Revisor 15y ago
That's a very fair point. Overall the deeper answers are probably more in the books or at conferences, not in blogs and online forums.
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by Revisor 15y ago
Yes, more details would be great. You could write it as a blog post and submit it to HN again.
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by Revisor 15y ago
Oh, you did it? Very nice work! Care to share something about it? What did you use to create it? What was the process like?
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by Revisor 15y ago
One could also find another, not so positive trend in the article: The older the developer, the less curious they are <= the less questions they have. Of course you could say it's because the older developers are more experienced. But w
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by Revisor 15y ago
Even though it's a promotional infographics, it higlights some interesting connections and is pretty well made with regards to condensing and presenting the information. The parts on the % of population drinking tea and the difference betwe
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by Revisor 15y ago
And in a true PHP fashion, the new functions follow at least two naming conventions. Cf. str_random() vs strcut() PHP has no vision, it draws no people with vision and suffers for it very much. I say it as someone working with it for hi
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by Revisor 15y ago
If the Khan Academy were the final station in someone's education, as the author silently presumes, that would be bad. It's simplified and sometimes wrong as the article points out (though no educating institution gets everything right) . I
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by Revisor 15y ago
Thank you for your answers. To add something myself, the book Programming Pearls contains exactly this - short, elegant solutions, plus some extra food for thought and exercises. http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pearls-2nd-Jon-Bentley/dp/
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by Revisor 15y ago
Is there an opposite website to The Daily WTF - a collection of short, elegant and clever code?

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