justinlardinois

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by justinlardinois 10y ago
> When several Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones spontaneously exploded in August, the South Korean company went into overdrive. It urged hundreds of employees to quickly diagnose the problem. > None were able to get a phone to explod
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
I'm not sure how that would help the problem. When you're talking about thousands or more devices, counterattacking them individually wouldn't be feasible. Also I imagine many botnet owners secure the devices they take over s
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Don't remind me; yesterday's discussion[0] about dooring was among the biggest shitshows I've seen on Hacker News. There's something Godwin-esque about online discussions concerning the relationship between cars and bicy
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Laws and courts will of course vary throughout the world, but my understanding is that you're generally not responsible for getting hit from behind, unless you're reversing or something, so I'm not sure why this is any more
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
This. The reality is that no one will buy a self driving car that leans towards killing them over pedestrians.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
> Is "productivity" really the only measure of job satisfaction? Productivity is a side effect of good employees working in a good environment. Programmers aren't satisfied because they're productive; they're pro
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Not an unreasonable question. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-02-28/silicon-va...
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
My first exposure to anything programming related was some web publishing courses I took at a community college when I was a teenager. The classes were intended for people with a graphic design, rather than developer bent, so the classes we
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Being asked to demonstrate knowledge of common algorithms is "hazing"?
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
This is in part because much of the US is almost impossible to get around without a car.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
In my line of work I often end up working with queries where you'll have a handful of JOINs and need to SELECT a dozen or more columns. In those cases writing out staff.foo or students.bar gets old really fast. I agree that s1 and s2 a
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
> If there is already a correlation with the same name then append a number. And then applies it for this query: SELECT first_name AS fn FROM staff AS s1 JOIN students AS s2 ON s2.mentor_id = s1.staff_num; I think th
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
While silent truncation is of course bad because it limits the potential entropy of a password, if implemented consistently it's technically not any worse than a limit that's presented to the user. But just wait until the new hi
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Do you have a link to any reading about this? I'm curious.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Can't tell if this is snark or just really bad advice.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
I was talking about maximum password lengths, not minimums.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
33 characters (and I often see less) is a far cry from a gigabyte. I think it's clear I was talking about unreasonably low limits.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
To be honest vi and vim are different enough that as someone who was taught on vim, I get lost when I have to do anything beyond opening a file in vi.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Yes.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Am I missing something here? That's like an asthma drug whose side effect is shortness of breath.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
I think his point was that if your password is stored on your phone, two factor authentication doesn't actually add any security because it's no longer two factor.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
As in using PGP or something?
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Why would you assume that? A site's password requirements are public information, so you should expect an attacker to read them.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
If I recall correctly, Medium uses this login method. There are a lot of smartphone apps that almost never log you out and would benefit from this. I recently had some trouble trying to remember how to log into the Taco Bell app after a ses
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
> Length between 7 and 33 characters I've never understood why sites limit password length. You're (hopefully) hashing it anyways; the length of what the user enters has no bearing on what you're storing in your database.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Isn't that on Spotify and Google to implement?
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
That's not the point. Default is king.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Might be worth reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12626314
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
The word "most" gets thrown around a lot in political arguments. Do you have some insight into what the majority of people believe that we don't?
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
After reading up on C99 I take back what I said. I definitely thought some of those features were older than they are.

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