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by jtheory 13y ago
I think you're arguing with the tone, but not the advice -- reading gwern's post, by the end of it I had a pretty strong feeling that he was being unwise (and somewhat cruel) in the way he carried his side of the exchange. Taunti
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by jtheory 13y ago
Holding onto it, probably for long enough that he's noticed even his other, more obviously valuable domains aren't drawing huge offers either.
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by jtheory 13y ago
For the "Siamese HTML Document" -- that one rings a bell... I swear there was a bug in one of the ancient horrible versions of IE that required you to include your "no cache" tags AGAIN in a second head tag, if you wante
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by jtheory 13y ago
There are easier ways to "JSONize" data, maybe? They aren't escaping the keys/values going in, which could be bad, but if it's a known set of strings that may not actually be a problem. I notice that the two pieces
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by jtheory 13y ago
Eh. When they fetch GUID_2.jpg to check its content, it's already too late at that point; the marketer has been notified that this particular user has opened the email. Google might save themselves some storage space, but not anyone
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by jtheory 13y ago
They don't normally get bounce requests, though -- a tracking image is easier. You've probably noticed that most spam comes from "borrowed" email addresses, not ones the spammer actually controls. If anyone ever sends a
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by jtheory 13y ago
Apparently Google does not always fetch the images. But even if they did, this is still more information leakage than the old default (don't load images). Spammers who email via botnets and the like, with false return addresses, does
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by jtheory 13y ago
If you go to the trouble to figure out how to disable the "auto-load images" setting, then they're just as blocked as before. If you accept the new default, it's far easier for them to track you, because Google will ki
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by jtheory 13y ago
I'm pretty sure this already exists -- I've gotten spam with obviously random noise, lines, etc. added to the background. My assumption is that it's making the images unique.
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by jtheory 13y ago
9am PST is possibly a poor choice, given that PST is so late in the world's timezones. 9am San Francisco time on December 1st is already 4am the next day in Sydney. I suppose it's a juggling act based on how long it will stay o
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by jtheory 13y ago
What makes a project/webapp idea well-suited to PHP? It might be better to ask about your interests, your experience, etc.. Presumably you've branched off from coding basic CRUD apps into something more specialized; do you have
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by jtheory 13y ago
This crossed my mind as well -- you start with a specific problem to solve, you dig into building a solution... and realize that whoa, with only a few tweaks this could be useful for this whole range of related problems... But the comprom
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by jtheory 13y ago
I'm afraid so. While I still lived in the US (I'm American), my Malaysian wife lost her green card. As a result, she just had a stamp in her passport (this was the temporary green card) for ages, and each time we flew into NYC w
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by jtheory 13y ago
homepage error: link for "Not a member of a current Prime provider?" is http://stayinyourprime.com/%10#providers Also, higher-level: how should potential customers check if their provider is already on Prime? Fina
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by jtheory 13y ago
This may be fairly reasonable to explain to someone with technical experience, but I imagine even among technical people you'll find serious resistance in slightly older generations. I'm pushing 40, and my life is focused around
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by jtheory 13y ago
I have been working remotely (as a senior dev, software architect, now a CTO) for more than a decade now. I worked for a racing-to-IPO software dev company in upstate NY that collapsed in 2002, and the connections from that spun out into su
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by jtheory 13y ago
Yes, with probably no exceptions, all of the sites you currently sign into will at some point have your username and cleartext password in memory on the server. The server "averts its eyes", hashes the password and compares it to
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by jtheory 13y ago
I do understand your viewpoint, and agree with it at a high-level, but I'm working from a practical viewpoint. > a strong security guarantee: "As long as you don't let your private key get stolen or get MITM'd, it&#x
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by jtheory 13y ago
Right; I was talking about the private version of Lavabit, where you aren't obliged to trust a service provider.
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by jtheory 13y ago
"Unnecessarily risky" depends on what options you have available to you. The problem here (as I mentioned) is that a more solid solution is probably still years away -- and even then, email is a very difficult thing to secure end
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by jtheory 13y ago
Isn't he glossing over some actual value in a private Lavabit-like setup? He's quite right that there are several steps where the server must "avert its eyes" (this is a good way to explain it) to keep the plaintext pass
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by jtheory 13y ago
"Could not find the requested document in the cache." This worked for me: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by jtheory 13y ago
Poorly-written code (especially if the reader doesn't have a good grasp of the coding language) can be very confusing, but it will still almost never be ambiguous. If you try taking some well-written code and converting it to natural
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by jtheory 13y ago
I feel like I've been reading this article every year, with some variation but the same yet-unrealized potential every time. I'm not an expert in "human" coding or AI, but I get the same vibe from both of them -- until y
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by jtheory 13y ago
Curiosity -- what are your costs? $200 seems quite high to be solely your hosting.
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by jtheory 13y ago
From what I understand rainbow tables are not really used anymore -- they were useful when it took longer to calculate hashes, but nowadays you just need a decent graphics card to calculate a few billion hashes (MD5 or SHA1) PER SECOND . P
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by jtheory 13y ago
Tangent: there are lots of points to debate about how code should be commented, but this is the kind of code that must always, always be commented explicitly . The OP is a great story where the coder had the time (well, was forced to have
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by jtheory 13y ago
You were arguing that the humanities were a tool for cultural domination, though, that cultural domination was somehow among (or even the main ) role of humanities studies. My examples don't show that the humanities have any role in e
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by jtheory 13y ago
Can you offer any more concrete specifics? I studied humanities in college (primarily music, some English lit and creative writing, some French lit, ancient Eastern philosophy, etc. -- also compsci, but mostly humanities), and it was somet
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by jtheory 13y ago
It's not that these things don't help creatives, but that they are not reliably sufficient to produce something of value. If I'm coding on an uninspired day, I can easily just shift to tasks that I know are simpler, and cre

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