evx

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by evx 14y ago
In my experience the banning is too strict. It is triggered very quickly and it seems to last forever (maybe 15min would be better?). I ask pg to kindly consider making it a bit more lenient. I doubt HN goes under deliberate/malicious attac
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by evx 14y ago
I think it has become a part of the hacker culture. In a way the ugly page represents the ugly terminal screens that the hacker was probably staring at for some time.
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by evx 14y ago
If you think there's a difference between hacking website X with ready-made tools and writing the attack yourself etc... you are not thinking like a hacker. A hacker doesn't care what the way is. He thinks about the goal, the end result.
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by evx 14y ago
Yeah I agree and with improvements in the technology it will get even worse. Cameras can already have pretty decent microphones and speech-to-text technology is pretty damn good so I wont be surprised if soon they start recording sound and
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by evx 14y ago
@jackfranklin I know you probably just haven't gotten to it yet but for the sake of completeness, on the readme you can change the 'Validation Methods' section to show the validation object structure rather than method names with brackets.
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by evx 14y ago
Great job! Gotta love the responsiveness. I hope you keep making it better.
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by evx 14y ago
Neat. But I don't understand why you used strings as part of the validation? The "min_length(6)|required" isn't actual javascript code is it? Would passing an object be better? For example, userForm.addValidation("username", "min_length(6)|
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by evx 14y ago
I'm not a fan of surveillance cameras but I think they are different because they are passive . People don't feel threatened by surveillance cameras because they think no one is watching that video 24/7 and it is used if something goes wro
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by evx 14y ago
I had the exact same issue as well. And I'm working on a hacker news Chrome extension as well which caused me to refresh too many times. The blocking doesn't seem to be time limited. I restart my router which assigns me a new IP. For develo