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by bbastian 15y ago
This makes me wonder; how is it appropriate to handle vulnerabilities such as these? A few months ago, I decided (as an experiment to see how common XSS actually is) to click on random HN links and type "<asdf '\"" into any search bars
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My weekend project: whichpicis.me
3 points by bbastian 16y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: When should you start a start-up?
5 points by bbastian 16y ago|9 comments
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by bbastian 16y ago
Check out Selenium ( http://seleniumhq.org/ ). It's pretty decent.
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by bbastian 16y ago
I'd recommend avoiding PHP. For quick prototyping, I'd recommend Rails, though (in my opinion) Ruby/Sinatra or Python/Tornado would be better overall.
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by bbastian 16y ago
Well, with CouchDB, you have to pre-define all of your queries with "views". And the first time you call a view, it has to run your mapping function against -every- document in the database, which takes a ton of time.
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Ask HN: How can I make something which people appreciate?
4 points by bbastian 16y ago|4 comments
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by bbastian 16y ago
Q: Why do mathematicians confuse Halloween with Christmas? A: Because OCT 31 == DEC 25.
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by bbastian 16y ago
Hmm. This is rather difficult. I'm under a lot of pressure from my parents to move out of the house and support myself. However, I have no experience doing anything else. I've applied to many jobs which require no skill, but have had no luc
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by bbastian 16y ago
I live near Seattle.
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Ask HN: How can a 19-year-old find web programming work?
11 points by bbastian 16y ago|12 comments