jasonj79

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by jasonj79 10y ago
Neat idea, but defaulting to recursive force mode (-rf) is frankly a bit scary (and irresponsible). A great way to accidentally shoot your own foot off after you've put it through a meat grinder. I pity the fool that tries to use this
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by jasonj79 11y ago
Sounds like sour grapes, not discrimination... I moved coast to coast to work for a SV technology company (fully paid), did NOT graduate from a fancy college (or any for that matter), have my nights and weekends free, and see the struggle d
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by jasonj79 12y ago
Having been a hiring manager for a few years... I can say that degrees have only really mattered to me when the applicant hasn't any real experience to speak of in the industry. Experience is king, plain and simple. That said, the best
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by jasonj79 12y ago
I wondered the same, but I'm not sure that doubling my password would annoy me into changing it, especially when the password was previously capped at 8 characters.
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by jasonj79 12y ago
makes sense... hopefully this is their reason instead of the former.
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by jasonj79 12y ago
A better way to do this would have been: * hash current passwords with a salt, unique to each password entry, and throw away the plaintext entries. * keep a history of hashes per user, to prevent changing to a past password * ensure fair co
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by jasonj79 12y ago
I't because they are still storing passwords in cleartext... If they were hashing passwords (which is the correct way to do it) there would be no limit.
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by jasonj79 13y ago
https://crocodoc.com/customers/ Crocodoc is likely generating web previews of your documents.