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by mguillemot 14y ago
In Japan, when it happens, the new clerk usually goes in person fetch a few first-in-line people from other lines to make the new one. That goes along the parent's point of "you don't have to think about it, someone will do the fair thing f
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by mguillemot 14y ago
The security flaw highlighted in Stripe CTF2 was that you could check the validity of each independant chunk independantly of the others, which meant reducing the search space for bruteforce attacks. From what I understand, the technique pr
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by mguillemot 14y ago
Depends on your industry. It's usually quite relevant in the video game industry, for example (and usually for the wrong reasons, but it always makes for some interesting interview discussions...).
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by mguillemot 14y ago
To be fair with Blizzard, they DO allow you to create characters in any of the 3 zones (Europe/America/Asia) with any valid account, which is an improvement over their previous games. But true, you'd better give some thoughts about which on
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by mguillemot 15y ago
If non-technical founders are advised to try to code, technical founders should be advised to try to do sales/marketing/ops too. Just do not put too much expectations in either way: it will probably always be better to find a co-founder,
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by mguillemot 15y ago
I think the parent meant that if you are a non-famous person and this kind of stuff happens to you, then you're screwed.
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by mguillemot 15y ago
>> It's the psychological risk of knowing you really, really tried -- and still failed. As a successful developer who spent years thinking "with enough time, I can solve any problem" and was just caught back by reality (efforts do
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by mguillemot 15y ago
If some backup tapes might go out of the building, they'd better be encrypted...
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by mguillemot 15y ago
Because it adds a few attributes (like 'password') and methods (like 'authenticate') to your model, and you might not really want such things on every one of your models. Clarification: has_secure_password does NOT mean you choose between s