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Advice to future software engineers
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indec
14y ago
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Happy Notices
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indec
15y ago
My opinion is that "female-friendly fields" is (or should be) "software engineering". Thus "lets see them set up a special fund or something for female-friendly fields" reduces to the current state of the program.
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indec
15y ago
Well, generally following the redirects is actually somewhat redundant. The idea of GSB is that URLs that lead to bad things would all be identified and added to the database. Customising attacks for a given site specifically adds complexit
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indec
15y ago
We follow them on the server side and check the final URL we get to against the GSB database. We don't modify the user-generated content.
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indec
15y ago
We "unroll" redirects as much as possible so that we can check the URL at the end.
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indec
15y ago
The privacy risk for GSB in general is that you are sharing URLs with a (trusted) third party. That's most acute with the REST API, but most implementations (including gsb4ugc) cache a local copy of the lookup tables and so don't actually s
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indec
15y ago
Is there a good way to deal with the case of sigma = 0 (i.e. all posts have the same number of votes)?
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indec
15y ago
Was there particular value in the YC Y U NO coverage? Seems like coverage for coverage's sake. Networking value, perhaps?