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Meteor.js "is secure enough to be used by banks"(britto.co)
5 points by dcosson 14y ago|0 comments
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by dcosson 14y ago
Ok so you're a realist, fine. But I'm curious, do you not think lucid dreaming is real? Or do you just not think it can be triggered with flashing lights?
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by dcosson 15y ago
Is there any kind of side-lighting or other way to see the display in the dark?
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by dcosson 15y ago
The idea that anyone at NBC would just do a google image search and throw up the result on a high-profile page as if they're updating their myspace profile is pretty mind-boggling to me. I've never worked anywhere like NBC, but I would hav
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by dcosson 15y ago
Totally agree, I'd love to read a reciprocal piece. I think programmers (myself included) often feel that a non-technical person can't write a single line of code* whereas a technical person can figure out enough of the business and produc
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by dcosson 15y ago
pysftp [1] is a great wrapper around paramiko and pycrpyto. Simple to use whether you're using a password, ssh key, or passphrase-protected ssh key. I've never worked with a server that required both a password and a key, but it looks lik
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After 2 Years of Testing, Venmo Opens Payment Service to Public(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
17 points by dcosson 15y ago|4 comments
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by dcosson 15y ago
True, pseudonymous is the right word. You can start mining bitcoins without disclosing any personally identifiable information (if you obscure your IP address or connect from a public wifi network or something), you could buy bitcoins from
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by dcosson 15y ago
That's kind of the whole point of Bitcoin. Free to use, not tied to any government or organization, and it can be completely anonymous. With that comes the downsides that you have to be technical and know what you're doing to use it, as do
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by dcosson 15y ago
Idk, I imagine someone in YC without an idea would work just as hard if not harder than, say, someone who already has a product with some traction. I imagine John Doe would wake up every morning thinking "crap, I'm already behind everyone
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by dcosson 15y ago
That's a reasonable analogy, but I still think the anger should be directed at apple. The way I see it, it's like I told my friend to watch my sandwich for a minute and I come back and someone else is eating it because my friend had handed
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by dcosson 15y ago
But all we care about is making it look secure for the hobbyist packet sniffers, right? (kidding) Although what about hardcoding a salt into the app to hash with?
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by dcosson 15y ago
Honestly, I don't understand the fuss. I thought everyone had figured out and come to terms with the fact years ago that social media is all about gathering as much data as possible. The degree of precision with which Facebook, Twitter, L
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by dcosson 15y ago
Agreed that they can be tricky initially and hard to debug, but I think they're totally worth it for eliminating repetitive code. And IMO as long as there isn't a bug in the decorator itself, code with decorators can be just as readable (i
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by dcosson 15y ago
What would be the RESTful way to specify jsonp? (i.e. wrapping the json response with a jsonp callback function). A semi-related question - this is something I've wondered for a while - does the XMLHttpRequest single origin policy actually
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by dcosson 15y ago
maybe he updated it? now it shows is an additional line: def get_first_problem(problems): for problem in problems: problam = problem + 1 return problam but there's nothing wrong with this, I as
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by dcosson 15y ago
I can see where you're coming from, but I have to disagree. For one thing, I think you're reading too much into the word kill. In the the startup vernacular you always hear things like "company X promises to be the Y killer", and I reall
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by dcosson 15y ago
This is more of a praise of Apple's naming conventions with the ios and Cocoa sdk's (which I agree are very good, as is auto-completion in XCode) than of Objective-C itself. Of course the quality of the framework is hugely important in how
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by dcosson 15y ago
Weird, the windows git client defaults to "checkout windows line endings, commit unix line endings" or something to that effect. I do a lot of data analysis and end up transferring text files manually and having to worry about carriage ret
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by dcosson 15y ago
But I doubt someone new to regexps would understand what "looks like" means in that context. For instance they might think "ok, so something like 'abc@efg.xyz' matches, even though it's not a real email address." They might not think to c
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by dcosson 15y ago
So essentially we're relying on a one-way hash function, which is what I am thinking too. (In Quantum Information Theory, the question whether or not there exists true one-way hash functions is still unanswered, but for the time being, curr
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by dcosson 15y ago
Using POST would probably make non-geeks even more uneasy about this - i.e. if you try to reload an article you're reading and chrome gives you the ('are you sure you want to resend this content?') pop-up that you're used to seeing when you
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Do people build companies here, or is it just a big party?(bostinnovation.com)
10 points by dcosson 15y ago|5 comments
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by dcosson 15y ago
Great post - I can get pretty OCD about the way code is written, but I have a hard time complaining about things like this without feeling like a dick since as you pointed out it's not particularly inefficient (even if there was an O(1) Cle
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by dcosson 15y ago
I don't know if I'd go that far, I still manage to find interesting things to watch on a regular basis. That said, I would happily pay 2 or 3x more if all of their dvd selection was available on instant (of course, I have no idea if that's
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by dcosson 15y ago
should of gone for the R Kelly joke instead
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by dcosson 15y ago
Looked at facebook just now, and sure enough there in the footer (if you're fast enough to click on it before the infinite scroll kicks in) they have this http://www.facebook.com/full_data_use_policy , which reaffirms my suspicion that usi
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by dcosson 15y ago
Interesting - haven't ever used Mercurial but as far as Windows ports of Unix-based tools go I love the git interface. I always run it in standalone shell mode, and its shell has enough Unix commands built in that I haven't even had the ne
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by dcosson 15y ago
Does anyone know why the decision was made to make hjkl the vi navigation buttons? I've always felt like jkl; would be faster since your fingers are already there
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by dcosson 15y ago
I was just thinking this - it's saying that how good the candidate is in a particular category counts for more (by a factor of r^2) than how important you have judged that category to be. To me this is the most interesting claim in the art

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