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by elchief 11y ago
From the "Not from The Onion" files
782.
by elchief 11y ago
25% of Americans were farmers 80 years ago. Now it's 1%.
783.
by elchief 11y ago
PG text search is entirely accurate. The author just screwed something up. Probably forgot to include the regconfig (english vs simple for example)
784.
by elchief 11y ago
New versions of Postgres usually ship in September. Except 9.4, which slipped to December.
785.
by elchief 11y ago
Which will hopefully drop in September.
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by elchief 11y ago
If you're big enough to require something like Aerospike, you're rich enough to build something like F1.
787.
by elchief 11y ago
Is there a chemical reason for that, or is it more from physical stress like dropping?
788.
by elchief 12y ago
Who cares? As long as we can cash in our options before the lawsuits come in, we win! Just like my last job in finance, actually. Plus SQL's gross. You can't even webscale with it, and old people like it, so it must suck.
789.
by elchief 12y ago
This is also Amazon's strategy with AWS (in terms of servers, not batteries)
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by elchief 12y ago
Excellent! Congrats to the team. Glad to see postgres 9.4 in packages, and more improvements to libressl. Anybody got an opinion on a decent openbsd vps?
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by elchief 12y ago
Looks like BoE Governor Carney is anti-austerity. I wonder how his meetings with Mr. Cameron go. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/28/bank-england...
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by elchief 12y ago
I managed to graduate high school near the end of the early 90s recession, university at the beginning of the dot com bust, and B-School in the beginning of the 2008 meltdown. I promise to never to go back to school again.
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by elchief 12y ago
Seeing as it's OpenBSD it's probably much safer than existing versions
794.
by elchief 12y ago
That's a pretty good estimate!
795.
by elchief 12y ago
I agree with OP that the user authentication data should be segregated, simple, and very well protected. It should act like a hardware security module: it will authenticate users, but never give up their keys. I tried to find decent hashing
796.
by elchief 12y ago
Sweet, thx. That's a pretty big game-changer.
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by elchief 12y ago
It's not offline. There's just a long latency...
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by elchief 12y ago
What was the % cost reduction in being able to land the boosters again? I read it somewhere a while back but can't find it. It was pretty significant if I recall. TIA.
799.
by elchief 12y ago
Mr. Marsten is the type of writer / programmer I dislike. Brevity is the soul of wit. Here's a summary: Dependency injection's primary benefit is to aid unit testing.
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by elchief 12y ago
Best title change ever. Can't we all just agree that "big data" requires at least 2 computers?
801.
by elchief 12y ago
Well you asked about arbitrary restrictions... :)
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by elchief 12y ago
There are some sensible restrictions: You can't enter certain characters in input type=password fields on web sites, such as null or CRLF Max length for bcrypt is 50-72 Incredibly long passwords could DOS your site
803.
by elchief 12y ago
Write your passwords down on a piece of paper and put that piece of paper in your wallet. If you lose your wallet, well you just lost your credit card and maybe social security card too, so changing passwords ain't so bad. Use incorrec
804.
by elchief 12y ago
Can we get a nice "HN Classic" tag to put beside annual stories like this? I'm fine if stories like this pop up every year, actually.
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by elchief 12y ago
Since the author didn't bother to mention any threat models, we can assume that the threat is the most common one, SQL Injection. You don't need SQL Injection if you can directly read the database file, or can operate as the web s
806.
by elchief 12y ago
Microsoft isn't as good at collecting and reselling all of your personal information, so have to charge the actual cost of the hardware.
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by elchief 12y ago
Ya, like an elastic cloud to host your blog
808.
by elchief 12y ago
It's interesting that "attention [span|problem]" shows up 3 times and "adhd" shows up 5 times in this article. People seem to blame doctors for "over" prescribing ADHD medication, but perhaps its recent t
809.
by elchief 12y ago
How is HMAC more complicated than encryption?
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by elchief 12y ago
Yes, but: 1. Not all SQL statements are parameterizable (dynamic identifiers vs literals) 2. Stopping SQL injection doesn't stop Insecure Direct Object References 3. Developers make mistakes 4. Plugins are a risk (example: http:/

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