mcherm

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by mcherm 10y ago
First question: I found the credential rotation interesting. The scheme that you describe does seem to provide a highly reliable way to change the login account/password occasionally with nearly zero chance of human error causing the a
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by mcherm 10y ago
You certainly COULD (and if I were designing it I would have either done that or allowed callers to request a transaction in which case a connection is temporarily reserved for that client and a token returned which can be used to continue
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by mcherm 10y ago
> EV certificates do not add additional security as far as I am aware, it's simply a measure of extended validation of the customer, Correct. > ...which in my experience is only fluff. Depends on what you want to accomplish. If y
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by mcherm 10y ago
For what it's worth, what we've been doing is building a separate service for talking to the database, which itself maintains a single common database connection pool. I can't say yet whether that turns out to be a good idea
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by mcherm 10y ago
The W3C standard is not about whether the DRM will exist - to some extent it will exist regardless of what decisions the W3C makes. The W3C standard is not about making DRM supported by all browsers and other tools - even if included in the
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by mcherm 10y ago
> You're making it sound as if lenders don't apply criteria such as race out of high-minded civic duty and a commitment to ethics. I work for such a lender. Yes, that is precisely what I am saying. Although I might call it &quo
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by mcherm 10y ago
> It's important that while we keep in mind the ethical considerations of minorities there is also an ethical consideration of marginalized users of financial capital, who are denied credit because banks are unable to afford them a
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by mcherm 10y ago
> In the business of making credit decisions (specifically, who to extend credit to, and at what rates), preventing banks from using better information only harms people who would have been the subjects of erroneous decisions in their fa
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by mcherm 10y ago
> The point is that there was no private access to the SD card. Sure there was! Simply generate a random key, store it in the (small) private storage area, and use it to encrypt whatever you want to write. Instant private area!
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by mcherm 10y ago
Dominik Raute, I just wanted to say that this may be the best article I have EVER read on how to do database performance tuning. The fact that you showed all the initial steps that DIDN'T reveal any problems was great. The fact that yo
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by mcherm 10y ago
Can anyone explain what this means? All I got when reading it was " marketing blather , more marketing blather ".
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by mcherm 10y ago
I really like your approach: hear a problem, extend sympathy, but also propose a possible solution. Obviously your proposed solution has a lot of possible problems, but that doesn't mean they can't be solved.
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by mcherm 10y ago
Yes. Let me try wording this differently for you. "What if I develop something with only local calls between my front and back ends, and later I decide I want to test/implement a front-end feature on Android/iOS which doesn&#
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by mcherm 10y ago
> Many trial processes don't finish up by then. In this particular case the trial that was being reported on has not yet finished.
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by mcherm 10y ago
It might be in the video (I don't have time to watch it to find out). It isn't in the slides (which I can skim quickly, and therefore I did).
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by mcherm 10y ago
Doesn't work if that business is, for instance, a financial institution required by law to verify your SSN.
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by mcherm 10y ago
Or maybe the teacher is evaluating the quality of his side-project language for teaching and is offering free programming education to students in order to evaluate it. Honestly, I don't think there are many jobs out there hiring for M
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by mcherm 10y ago
Correction: a few controversial pardons happen on the last day of office. The majority of presidential pardons flow through the normal process where a person applies for the pardon, has their case reviewed by a team formed for this purpose.
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by mcherm 10y ago
That's a nice simple view of it, I really like it.
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by mcherm 10y ago
You may be operating under the misapprehension that "POST" means "CREATE". It WOULD make a nice set with CRUD operations: POST - Create GET - Read PUT - Update DELETE - Delete But that's not actually how the HTTP ve
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by mcherm 10y ago
What is that? I can't (easily) tell what it is that you are trying to suggest looking at.
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by mcherm 10y ago
> I was puzzled how they could even use their trademark Important point about trademark law: it is intended to prevent you from fooling customers into thinking they are buying someone else's product, NOT to prevent you from talking
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by mcherm 10y ago
I am now required to use Slack for communication at work. It replaces the previous chat tool I was required to use to communicate at work and is, in fact, the fourth communication tool that I have been required to use for work in the past 1
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by mcherm 10y ago
Publicly shaming them on Hacker News is one thing, but PCI compliance reviewers are certified; the individual can be reported to the governing agency.
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by mcherm 10y ago
Because people of reasonable intelligence also realize that ovulation has occasional hiccups in timing, that on rare occasions sperm can live a surprisingly long time, and that as a result"fertility awareness" (on its own) is a le
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by mcherm 10y ago
It is also security policies put together by overly cautious people. They say "I can't trust our developers to write properly secure code, and it won't hurt anyway so I'll just institute a blanket policy to block everyth
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by mcherm 10y ago
I don't wish to deal with the headaches involved in running a Tor exit node (despite this article's claim that the headaches are less than one might expect). I wonder if there is a way to contribute money to help those who ARE wil
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by mcherm 10y ago
The wording of the problem is "anything sent through the mail will be stolen unless it is enclosed in a padlocked box".
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by mcherm 10y ago
I think an alien looking at life on earth might find it very peculiar that so many of our life forms split into 2 independent parts that are unable to reproduce unless they match up with a partner of the opposite "sex". This is no
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by mcherm 10y ago
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