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by chrismarlow9 13y ago
Pretty much, it's expected when you're small for security to take a backseat to convenience. However, when you reach the point of billions of users, every line of code should be reviewed and there's no excuse for something th
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http://ask.metafilter.com/55124/What-laws-do-noncriminals-co... http://www.dumblaws.com/random-laws They've basically "al caponed" the entire US. If they can't get you on one thing,
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by chrismarlow9 13y ago
Wolframalpha reports hong kong as 4th most dense country (for anyone wondering): http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+density+by+c...
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by chrismarlow9 13y ago
Next obvious step here is precrime or a massive attack on the US (civilians or troops) due to a leak of the data.
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by chrismarlow9 13y ago
Until you find a new gig, go to work, do what you're told, and collect your paycheck. Don't invest any emotion in it or try to go above and beyond to help, it will just leave you bitter when it goes nowhere. Get out quickly though, because
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by chrismarlow9 13y ago
Worked on custom mailing scripts for a few larger newsletters which had no regex based validation. It was "add and forget" on every form submission. Of the failed emails, forgetting the ".com/.net/.org" on the email was the most common mist
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by chrismarlow9 14y ago
As someone who works on an RSS crawler day to day, this is much more difficult than you think because of how poorly most people implement RSS. If everyone stuck to the standards and did things the same way, it would be easy. If you can't ac
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by chrismarlow9 14y ago
There is a website for this. It is Quora. The people who are famous and great tech people pick the questions they want to answer. A specific thread dedicated to the person is a bad idea and draws unwanted users. Letting these people pick wh
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by chrismarlow9 14y ago
I'm afraid if it happens, HN will be crowded with people that just got their first job and want to know how to build a website on godaddy and sell it to google.
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by chrismarlow9 14y ago
From the creator: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/asciimation/ascii_faq.html From his page he says he just ported what this guy did to telnet.
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by chrismarlow9 14y ago
Not too sure about this. With the explosion of ajax websites and mobile apps the burden has been put on the client. This means less memory. It's very odd because as far as mobile is concerned, history is repeating itself. You have local app
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by chrismarlow9 14y ago
Writing C code on an older machine kind of taught me that programming is mostly about just one thing: Managing memory in the most efficient way. Writing PHP or Ruby code spoils you. You completely forget that memory even exists, until you n
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by chrismarlow9 14y ago
Agreed. It gives them a new boogyman. A terrorist that cannot be named or specified by race, ethnicity, or any other factor. It opens the door to anyone they deem a threat being detained in relation with "anonymous". The very thing that mad
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by chrismarlow9 14y ago
It only saves trees, time, data loss, and death by decimal. But hey, we haven't found a solution to the problem in 10 years, so we should probably just quit trying. I think fear of change in dinosaurs is stopping this. Respected doctor = lo
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by chrismarlow9 14y ago
It makes more sense to search out the company that fits you as opposed to bending and molding yourself to fit in company X. Not everyone can afford this luxury to just hop from job to job, but if you're top 5 at anything, and I mean ANYTHIN
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by chrismarlow9 14y ago
There's a few ways someone could do this that wouldn't use "store password in plain text". A MITM attack using remote access to a router/server would work if a webmail login didn't require SSL (or if the attacker is sophisticated enough, it
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by chrismarlow9 14y ago
I hope the creator of the icons is not upset by my forwardness, but I've converted these icons to bootstrap style icons for easy use. Visit https://github.com/chrismarlow9/Batch-Bootstrap-Plugin for the project. It allows you to add the i