bpatrianakos

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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
There's outrage everywhere but I hear what you're saying and I kind of agree. This kind of opinion will get you ignored or looked down upon on Reddit and HN but I kind of dont care. What I see in those places is a lot of impotent
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
I'm here because it's like an abusive relationship. You think that this time will be different and sometimes you get a sense that you might be right but then you get disappointed every time and realize that things will never be as
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
I could totally use this! The only question I have is can you exclude certain things. I'd want to clone 95% of a production server but then would need to exclude SSL settings and such.
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
I want to know why he spent no time listening to Kanye's new album? It's amazing!! Oh, and seven days? Really? Even with such a thorough explanation I have to wonder how much time people have on their hands to buckle down and do t
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
Nah, you're not seeing it like a normal user. I work in an office with non technical people and they NEVER know where they saved something. They just always use the program's default. My whole family except me does this as well. F
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
How many more replies before everyone figures out they're being trolled. By a throwaway account that's not even hiding it no less.
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
Because you can't conspiracy-theorize it. I'm only half kidding.
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
It doesn't take a genius to figure out things like cell phones being tracking devices and the cloud facilitating surveillance. First we all knew it would happen, then we found out it was happening, and now we're saying thank god f
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
Dude's gotta fall in line with Obama as ambassador. This is a bad example.
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
No, the question is "Is Snowden not being allowed to trend on Twitter"? Leading question. Also, within the post itself "Why is Snowden not trending" (grammar corrected by me) and the title "Proof Snowden should be t
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
Oh no, not the NSA site! I rely it so much! See, this is why I run my own surveillance. Really, I'd ask so what? How probable is it that they're just doing regular maintenance at 1am (EDT)? I think likely. But lets pollute what us
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
I really appreciate your edits here and digging enough to put this story into proper context. It seemed like one of those stories meant to gin up outrage and get the conspiracy theories going and it pretty much ended up just like that. Ther
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
I think what everyone is getting at here is to be smart about when to use git for deployment. Rsync is great for small static sites the same way git is. Now, I'm not going to use it on my medium to large size web app (actually I do for
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
I think you're looking at this all wrong. Front end development is not a problem that needs solving. It's already been solved. We have html markup for content, CSS for design, and JavaScript for interactivity. Problem solved. Now
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
phpass is actually one of the libraries I was talking about. When I first encountered it I was really intimidated. The usage didn't seem that bad to figure out but trying to comb through it's page to find installation instructio
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
Adding that salt is optional. I'm pretty sure the author just added it to the post so people know it exists. I don't think it's dumb and pointless at all, really. Generally you wouldn't generate a salt yourself if you&#x
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
This is a great addition to PHP. Before, most new devs would either skip hashing passwords altogether or use `md5()` or `sha1()`. So you'd end up with databases with passwords in plaintext or easily cracked. Bcrypt frameworks for PHP w
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
Seriously? Facebook has to allow you to connect with Tor even if they're constantly having to mitigate attackers using it? Are you entitled to demand that free websites cater to you because you have some sort of moral authority? You
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
My ethical standards for companies vary from company to company. I mentioned Mozilla in my other comment. If they had done this I would hold them to a higher standard because of what they stand for. Facebook has a totally different mindset
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
I don't think it would be out of line at all. I got downvoted to hell for expressing similar opinions before but I think this is a perfectly reasonable opinion. Facebook is in the business of social networking, not activism. The number
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
I really doubt they care about tracking you that much. Tor is so infrequently used that it's not worth the trouble to force you to log in without it just to track you. Maybe if teenage girls were using Tor I might be inclined to agre
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
I don't think Facebook is really obligated to explain especially if its for some security reason or automatic. What's bad about the article is that it leads you down a certain way of thinking without really saying so.
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
You're right but I don't think this very likely. I think changing your online behavior is the only real way to escape surveillance. That basically means either not using the web or only using it when you don't care about who&
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
HN is over. I'm sorry to see your reasonable response treated that way but if you've been following the past few months you'd know this is now more of an echo chamber than ever. Groupthink rules the day. But anyone who would
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
But there's more to it than that and I for one am glad someone expressed their doubts while everyone else seems to be taking the facts we have and either believing them totally or speculating to the point where its an exercise in sprea
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The HTTP verb PUT under Apache: Safe or Dangerous?(bitworking.org)
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
I have a private writing app and I can confirm that this NSA thing has been good for me too and I'm betting lots of services concerned with privacy. I saw a 5X increase in users in the past week and reviews in blogs are getting more nu
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
The author has a history of being very hyperbolic. I was hoping at least one other person would catch this and not take the article at face value. Spam is a problem, not the destruction of the web.
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
What amazes me is the hypocrisy in all this. The American people have basically known about this since about 2006. It's just that there wasn't as much proof or specifics but the media covered this and it was pretty much common kno
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by bpatrianakos 13y ago
You don't start at the top. Barriers really are incredibly low but that's not to say its realistic to expect to land enterprise clients on day 1. The key is o build a sustainable business and work your way up while creating that t

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