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541.
by lamby 15y ago
http://code.playfire.com/django-bcrypt/ Backwords-compatible bcrypt support.
542.
by lamby 15y ago
Why not "sudo apt-get install python-lxml python-beautifulsoup"? Difficult to make the "olde" argument when you're installing dependencies from apt.
543.
by lamby 15y ago
> But what about the performance improvements available by using shared, cached CDN resources? That doesn't really work over HTTPS, and the performance impact of missing out on that is substantial. SSL resources are still cached, not su
544.
by lamby 15y ago
Another trick is to mix in the user's hashed password when you generate and check the HMAC - that way if the user ever changes their password all the previous links fail to work.
545.
by lamby 15y ago
> We had one, highly specialized piece of software code which could only be checked out, worked on, and checked in by a single engineer at a time. Why? Also, is this common these days?
546.
by lamby 15y ago
London, UK: Software engineer. http://www.playfire.com/jobs
547.
by lamby 15y ago
> I so hate country selection popups that have 200 countries in them, and United States is near the bottom Another related problem for us Brits is that you sometimes end up doing a hunt up and down the list for one of "United Kingdom" -
548.
A discourse on the image of Japan in Germany(ichwerdeeinberliner.com)
2 points by lamby 16y ago|0 comments
549.
by lamby 16y ago
> All of them act as a server Django is not a server. How did you even make it serve HTTP requests for your benchmark? (Please don't say "runserver")
550.
by lamby 16y ago
> You should be doing 4x what you currently have. Just to be clear, do you mean it's overpriced or underpriced?
551.
by lamby 16y ago
You mean zero :)
552.
by lamby 16y ago
More like POSIX shell fu - the example doesn't actually use any Bash-specific features.
553.
Ask HN: Rate my startup: KeyError - hosted Python error tracking
8 points by lamby 16y ago|3 comments
554.
by lamby 16y ago
It's difficult to talk about this subject without mentioning the Faurisson affair: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faurisson_affair
555.
by lamby 16y ago
Which is really and genuinely great, except the author is still releasing the code in essentially impossible-to-review code drops: https://github.com/DmitryBaranovskiy/raphael/commit/164c349e...
556.
by lamby 16y ago
Congratulations! Link? :)
557.
by lamby 16y ago
Also http://git-annex.branchable.com/
558.
by lamby 16y ago
Thanks. Although without HTTP STS or similar I could still MITM the landing page.. :)
559.
by lamby 16y ago
Wait, the check for whether a user always wants to use HTTPS is done after they login over HTTP?
560.
by lamby 16y ago
The lwn article has a number of insightful comments http://lwn.net/Articles/430098/
561.
by lamby 16y ago
> Another favourite is typing "shutdown -h now" into the wrong terminal: I know a few people who have admitted to doing that. http://packages.debian.org/sid/molly-guard is a good remedy for this :)
562.
by lamby 16y ago
It's difficult for this to not sound snarky, but my definition of bulletproof doesn't involve parsing CSS with bash and awk.
563.
by lamby 16y ago
> its a 105 year old historic landmark As a Brit, this made me laugh.
564.
by lamby 16y ago
That #! urls are ugly. I can understand the technical necessity for them but I have no idea why you would want to redirect from example.com/foo => example.com/#!/foo -- do it the other way around instead and then the #! becomes a implem
565.
by lamby 16y ago
Your comment and Engadget's article seem to imply that Nokia failing in the smartphone market means that Nokia is failing generally. But wouldn't Nokia still be making a lovely profit even if they stuck to the more vanilla phones? Don't for
566.
by lamby 16y ago
Is it just coincidence that I wrote almost-identical code about 7 hours before this? ( https://github.com/playfire/django-bcrypt/ )
567.
by lamby 16y ago
It's neat using jQuery for this but I've found the arduous part of scraping isn't in the actual parsing and extraction of data your target page, but rather in the post-processing, working around incomplete data on the page, handling errors
568.
by lamby 16y ago
You were lucky. When I was a lad there were only 3 Yorkshiremen in that sketch.
569.
by lamby 16y ago
> "During the ad, and its usual guff about living your dreams by wasting fossil fuels, [..]" What a bunch of hypocrites.
570.
by lamby 16y ago
Never used in production, just cannot see how it would work. Use it for random puzzles like http://chris-lamb.co.uk/2010/07/24/four-men-mine/ though

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