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by ecaron 14y ago
I think the best hope of getting OAuth back on course is getting the current spec-writers to separately right a mechanism that interfaces with Google, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. After they've each done that, they can get together and t
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6 Surprising Facts About Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by ecaron 14y ago|0 comments
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by ecaron 14y ago
I don't see any confirmation in the forum that the "e-mail addresses of users" was leaked by Dropbox. It also appears to be mainly Euro-centric accounts. So while there is certainly a problem and it is very likely originating with Dropbox,
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PHP: The Good Parts(hermanradtke.com)
1 points by ecaron 14y ago|0 comments
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by ecaron 14y ago
Except that there's a significant difference between "trust" of input from the user vs. "trust" of the software stack you use as a foundation. Unless you've read every line of the Linux kernel, we all succumb to the later point sooner or la
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by ecaron 14y ago
This is rather interesting, given that Mozilla had recently adopted the lead developer from the Mozilla-based IM client Instantbird to incorporate chat into TB15. Knowing the software is deadpooled, I wonder in hindsight if that was a last-
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by ecaron 14y ago
tl;dr - 128kbps CBR audio has such bad quality nobody should use it, but all options of higher quality are indistinguishably different to the masses.
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by ecaron 14y ago
Now if only Patrick L. Jones (Senior Manager of Continuity & Risk Management) would step aside. His involvement in the gTLD continually sides with "what's best for corporations and $$" rather than "what's best for the future of the inte
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by ecaron 14y ago
ICANN's appointment of Kurt Pritz actually bodes well for the future of the [seems to be a doomed endeavor] gTLD process, given his no-nonsense approach in the previous train wreck that was the .jobs TLD ( http://news.dot-nxt.com/2012/01/11
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by ecaron 14y ago
> Want to report it to the vendor? Great. Fine. Making a website dedicated to the crash? Waaaay too much time on your hands. Time to report bug to Microsoft: 30 minutes. Time to create website for bug: 4 minutes. #justsayin
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by ecaron 14y ago
I updated the page (which I hadn't touched since mid-2011) to say it doesn't crash the current RC of IE10. Hopefully people will stop flaming me on Twitter now...
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by ecaron 14y ago
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/554467/loa...
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by ecaron 14y ago
I'm the author that discovered this bug - and went way out of my way to tell the Internet Explorer team about it. I uncovered the error while working on a client's SharePoint site and figuring out why a certain page always caused their comp
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by ecaron 14y ago
> God what flamebait, how is this near the top of the front page? Because the source is widely respected and has an amazing demonstrated grasp of what good programming involves.
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by ecaron 14y ago
It is hard to read this story without thinking about the massive scale of "we just built this building, but we're going to tear it down because it is a deathtrap" demolitions that are happening in Beijing and the other populous cities in Ch
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by ecaron 14y ago
I think none of that really matters until we see the price. There's a trial version and a free version of Microsoft SQL, but their full version can quickly top $20k without much effort - knowing how bad your "ouch" will be is key before I'd
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Building the next internet: "It will make developers drool" says Mozilla(fastcompany.com)
2 points by ecaron 14y ago|0 comments
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Server room photos(thedailywtf.com)
44 points by ecaron 14y ago|8 comments
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Developer Selling Ownership of Firefox Add-Ons - Frightening or Vital?(chrisfinke.com)
1 points by ecaron 14y ago|0 comments
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by ecaron 14y ago
I read this on a day when I'm about to head home and install Windows 7 on my new machine, because Ubuntu12/Mint13/Fedora17 all crash on the hardware because of known bugs with the modern hardware that haven't been fixed yet and I don't have
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by ecaron 14y ago
I have to imagine that this will open the potential for a viral website of the "is your spouse still playing the field" variety.
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10 years ago: Mozilla 1.0(mozillalinks.org)
1 points by ecaron 14y ago|0 comments
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by ecaron 14y ago
In fairness to Twitter, it was never actually known if the accounts/passwords came from Twitter.com (proper) or (more likely) leaked from some 3rd-party Twitter-integrating app that had pre-OAuth integration.
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by ecaron 14y ago
I thought Google's CityHash - http://code.google.com/p/cityhash/source/browse/trunk/README - was their successor to the MurmurHash variants.
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by ecaron 14y ago
It doesn't matter if the solution is publicly available - if their interview process is based on the assumption that the candidate is completely unaware of the problem, this method neglects the (more common) case of a candidate asking other
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Airbnb invokes DMCA to take down coding challenge source code(github.com)
9 points by ecaron 14y ago|6 comments
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OpenX security vulnerability: Delete affected files, we don't have a fix yet(blog.openx.org)
1 points by ecaron 14y ago|0 comments
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by ecaron 14y ago
You're right, my title was a bit sensational. I softened it a bit by appended mod_cgi. I think it is very telling that the PHP core recognizes that the people using mod_cgi probably can't upgrade so they're offering a .htaccess adjustment -
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New PHP Vulnerability:?-s may expose source code for mod_cgi(php.net)
123 points by ecaron 14y ago|59 comments
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by ecaron 14y ago
There have been Windows installers for quite a while: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html You'll see the 2.6 stable is available at the top and 2.8 RC1 is at the bottom (I'm guessing 2.8.0 will be up by week's end.)

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