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by Spoom 14y ago
If I saw that banner, given everything that OkCupid has done for me (I am married now, after all), I would donate the $5 instantly. This is a smart response to a user that some companies would see as the enemy.
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by Spoom 14y ago
Google derives their primary revenue from advertising. APIs allow developers to sidestep advertising in displaying Google's content. Ergo, it is not in Google's best interest to allow easy free access to their content, via an API or other
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by Spoom 14y ago
Importantly, for long-time contributing members of the site, Slashdot gives you a checkbox to turn off ads entirely. (You have to re-check it every so often.)
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by Spoom 14y ago
I've been posting on Slashdot since the early 2000s and have stayed on the site primarily for its community; the higher-modded comments tend to come from some pretty intelligent people. Unfortunately it seems like the current staff don't r
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by Spoom 14y ago
Encrypting a password on the client-side means that all a cracker needs to login is the hashed password, which is exactly what they would get from a database dump, thereby bypassing the entire point of hashing the password in the first plac
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by Spoom 14y ago
I don't think quantifying contributor value can be automated. You'd do better with some sort survey among the contributors where they are asked what percentage of the revenue they would give to each other contributor.
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by Spoom 14y ago
A backdoor would very likely get the coder sued, and legitimately so.
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by Spoom 14y ago
Health insurance coverage, primarily for my wife, is one of the biggest reasons I have a full time job right now instead of expanding the contracting I was doing previously or trying to start a business. For various reasons, she is nigh-un
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by Spoom 14y ago
Could you give us a little more context? It's hard to make recommendations when we don't know what kind of product you're building, the potential size of your audience, the industry involved, the importance of it, etc. etc.
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by Spoom 14y ago
If you're just starting out with cooking as I was a few years ago, http://startcooking.com/ is a great site. Very basic information but explained concisely.
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by Spoom 14y ago
Is this legally enough for Craigslist? Wouldn't they need a full copyright assignment in order to pursue copyright infringement claims?
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by Spoom 14y ago
"Most people today who want to run Linux on a Mac use the Compatibility Support Module (CSM), which provides BIOS emulation on the Mac. This method is messy, doesn't work that well, and I'm quite certain will fail miserably on Secure Boot W
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by Spoom 14y ago
This means the second someone loses access to their email account, they lose access to every account on every system attached to it via this method. I'm not sure introducing a single point of failure is a good idea.
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by Spoom 14y ago
To be fair, most people going to php.net aren't looking to hack the PHP core.
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by Spoom 14y ago
Your CEO is asking for more than half the total amount of your seed funding in the first year. Now, I haven't been a CEO, but just from common sense that seems like way too much, way too soon. Does he really add that much value to the com
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by Spoom 14y ago
If the App Store requires a valid credit card, I'm surprised they don't try to do a preauth for $1.00 or something similar to validate your information. (I'm unfamiliar if this is actually the case as I don't generally use OS X / iOS.)
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by Spoom 14y ago
Firefox and Chrome both allow this as I've been using them for years.
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by Spoom 14y ago
Good points. I feel I should point out that you can use PHP independent of any web server by using the command line interpreter (CLI) version. This is, for example, how we run PHP cron jobs where I work.
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by Spoom 14y ago
Your descriptions are in a very light grey against a white background; nearly invisible, consider increasing the contrast. Other than that, looks useful.
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by Spoom 14y ago
I'm curious: Why do you think empty() should be deprecated? Do you think the same of isset?
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by Spoom 14y ago
Yep, same here; been doing PHP development for around ten years and the few times I've touched WordPress I've regretted it. Plus, it seems like WordPress development is a rather crowded space... how are you going to differentiate yourself?
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by Spoom 14y ago
You know, emailing you your password (while still a fairly questionable security practice) after registration doesn't necessarily mean that they're storing it in plaintext. They could still have the plaintext password in memory during th
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by Spoom 14y ago
Are you sure? I still don't have it (thankfully). I'm probably on the tail end of their rollout though. Might help that I hardly ever use Facebook anymore.
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by Spoom 14y ago
I'm curious; why didn't they use an AJAX request?
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by Spoom 14y ago
Ah, I didn't know this. Thanks. This is a much less dangerous situation for them, but I would still rather keep real money and in-game money completely separate since if they're not, it creates powerful incentives to cheat the system.
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by Spoom 14y ago
I think it checks if you get far enough on one side or the other of the preprinted numbers on the tape that the numbers can no longer be seen, at which point it declares an infinite loop and restarts. Sure, technically it should keep going
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by Spoom 14y ago
IMHO CCP should never have allowed users to buy game time with in-game credits. That's effectively tying the security of their in-game economy with the security of their real world revenue. With the ability to do something like this, it's
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by Spoom 14y ago
If startups want to be acquired, they'd never make such a policy anyway, because that makes them less attractive to the acquirer (who, after all, may only acquire them to prevent competition).
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by Spoom 14y ago
While not a physical switch, I believe for x86 / AMD64 computers, Microsoft is mandating that the user must have the option to disable secure boot via firmware switch (see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/22/protecting-the... ).
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by Spoom 14y ago
Everything The Oatmeal wrote is still available[1][2][3], and I didn't see any suggestions that users attack or otherwise harass Carreon or FunnyJunk. In fact, the owner of Funny Junk sent a direct message to all users of the site asking t

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