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by billybob 14y ago
Very good point. If they make you enter your previous password as you change it, my criticism is invalid.
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by billybob 14y ago
A sensible password-selection policy really only has two principles: 1. It shouldn't be in a dictionary, so that the only option is brute force 2. It should be very hard to brute force #1 means "don't use anything in this guy's list." For #
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by billybob 14y ago
My favorite bit: "Passwords may contain no more than two identical consecutive characters in any position from the previous password ". How would they know that unless they have your previous password in plaintext? Security Fail
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by billybob 14y ago
That's pretty nice. It would also be nice for ActiveRecord migrations to let me add comments to the database and the schema file.
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by billybob 14y ago
This would be nice if it let me find the spaghetti noodles more quickly in an unfamiliar grocery store. But somehow I doubt the store is going to install a bunch of tech to help me shop more quickly . If they wanted to do that, they could
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by billybob 14y ago
"You know that Herman Cain was widely ridiculed for exactly this line of thought?" What's your point? The current system is widely ridiculed, too. Hey, I'm ridiculing it now. "It should be complicated to reflect the complications and nuance
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by billybob 14y ago
Complication in taxes is a pet peeve of mine. It's incredible how much money it wastes. There is an entire industry dedicated to figuring out what you owe in taxes. Everyone working in that industry is fixing broken windows that get broken
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by billybob 14y ago
What absolutely makes me want to scream is that, if you pay too much and get some money refunded, they consider that refund income and they tax you on it the next year. It's NOT INCOME. It was already my money. If anything, I should get it
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by billybob 14y ago
>>National Security Letters make it clear: the gag orders mean even if Nick Merrill wanted to tell you his company had been compromised, he wouldn't be able to.<< Wouldn't be able to legally . If he feels strongly enough ab
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by billybob 14y ago
You're being too dismissive and you didn't read carefully. Their goal is to be unable to turn over information, and to that end, they say they'll discard the logs you refer to. So in theory, they won't have your cell phone location, what pa
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by billybob 14y ago
English is not a computer language. Expressiveness is valued more than precision. What is the logical difference between "creeping" and "sneaking" and "slinking"? These words differ mainly in "flavor". Ask 10 English speakers to tell the d
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by billybob 15y ago
Two snarky comments are fighting in my head. Comment 1: "Microsoft's buying patents for a long-defunct browser demonstrates once again that these are solely legal weapons, not bits of useful knowledge to help make products." Comment 2: "I d
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by billybob 15y ago
If a company asks for salary history, I tell them its irrelevant because I've learned a lot since my last negotiation (which is always true).
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by billybob 15y ago
Foamicate: foamy fornication. Uh... maybe that wasn't what they wanted to get across?
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by billybob 15y ago
>>A lot of people's first reaction always seems to be "we're so insignificant!"<< I feel the emotion of this reaction, but I think the proper response to this is the one that C.S. Lewis gave: size is just a number; significa
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by billybob 15y ago
This pricing model sounds to me like "the user is always punished." You bought XGB this month. You didn't use it all? Ooops, you overpaid. Punished. You used more? Ooops, you pay a higher rate for the overage. Punished. How about we treat t
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by billybob 15y ago
I guess I don't get it either. "Fixed price" is always a floor, never a ceiling. How is that good for you? My power bill isn't the same every month. My water bill isn't either. I know my patterns and roughly the monthly cost, and I can use
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by billybob 15y ago
I agree there is some language snobbery. However, I moved from PHP to Ruby and love it. My two biggest gripes with PHP: 1) No standard package management system. I worked with some VERY smart developers at a PHP-only company, but nearly eve
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by billybob 15y ago
Baloney. This has nothing to do with security. Even if you're chatting with me and you link to www.pleasegivemeviruses.com, nobody at MS should overrule that piece of conversation. Maybe I wanted the link. Maybe we're both security research
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by billybob 15y ago
I'm not huge on the cynicism, but there are solid points here that I wanted to remember. Here's my less-cynical spin in a motivational-speaker style condensation: Show, Celebrate, Support. Show: make sure the awesome stuff you do is visible
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by billybob 15y ago
Stuff like this just makes me imagine how deadly the Terminators are going to be. Lightning reflexes, flawless aim, senses that include all light and radio spectrums, and now seeing around corners in 3D.
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by billybob 15y ago
Is this just an illustration of the difference between a "startup" and a "new business"? If I started a business, I'd probably use a home office or crappy cheap rented space, pack a sandwich, etc, and wait until I had enough revenue to do n
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by billybob 15y ago
One of the unfortunate aspects of this episode is that, as Daisey says, the problems he discusses are mostly real. He didn't have to lie . For example, he could have talked about the N-Hexane poisoning without lying. He could have cited
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by billybob 15y ago
This is going to sound like I'm trolling, but: why not just use Ruby? Like many Ruby developers, I left PHP because I saw the kind of stagnation the author describes at the beginning of this article. I saw lots of good ideas originating
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by billybob 15y ago
Enthusiastic SO user here. The fact that the data is available puts SO in the same category as open source software for me. I use open source for all my tools of choice. My browser, editor, programming language, libraries, web framework, se
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by billybob 15y ago
Nobody is saying "StackOverflow gives you a one-click tool to create their competitor sites!" They're just saying that 1) SO has made it impossible for themselves to set up a paywall around the content and 2) if they go evil, it's POSSIBLE
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by billybob 15y ago
Let's see, how much damage was done by this? Each blocked site lost: - $X directly in business missed during those hours - The trust of users who believed the warning If they lost these things by arson or slander, the perpetrator might be p
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by billybob 15y ago
TL;DR - police in Denmark made a mistake that resulted in visitors to many sites being told that the site is blocked for possibly having child porn. --- EDIT: Is there a guideline against 'TL;DR' comments? When I've written them in the past
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by billybob 15y ago
Regarding clothing: I've heard the idea that we'll all scan our bodies, upload that data, and an online site will be able to show us what will fit us. People may find that too creepy, but Amazon could do something else: gather lots of feedb
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by billybob 15y ago
Great site! Seems like whatever I tag a bit with isn't being saved, though. I'm using Chrome on OSX.

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