mixedbit

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   by mixedbit 13y ago

   If I enter Starbucks I indeed expect that everyone around knows about it. I don't expect that some system will store this information and will be able to associate it with my other activities.
2. 422.▲
   by mixedbit 13y ago

   The web changes, but the truly ground breaking technology doesn't age (by this I mean animated gifs).
3. 423.▲
   by mixedbit 13y ago

   Does Mozilla explore similar architecture with their experimental Servo project?
4. 424.▲
   by mixedbit 13y ago

   You may try https://github.com/wrr/wwwhisper , although unlike the apache module, wwwhisper runs as a separate service (Django) that nginx communicates with using auth_request module.
5. 425.▲
   by mixedbit 13y ago

   "login with your email" is IMO the most adequate wording
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   by mixedbit 13y ago

   Dawkins in "the Extended Phenotype" argues that manipulation such as 'Sexual Mind Control' is very common in nature. One of examples that he gives is a female cricket that is 'programmed' to react to a male son
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   by mixedbit 13y ago

   I think token based authentication for API calls is great, but for browser based usage cookies are extensively studied and well understood mechanism that is IMO a much safer option. You wrote that XSS is much less risky that CSRF, but &#x27
8. 428.▲
   by mixedbit 13y ago

   But with tokens in URLs you can do CSRF.
9. 429.▲
   by mixedbit 13y ago

   Am I right that for browser use case this mechanism can be used only to authorize access to resources that are requested with JavaScript? For example, I can't use an 'img' HTML tag to include images that require authorization
10. 430.▲
    by mixedbit 13y ago

    Right, Google was also recently granted a patent for something like this: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
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    by mixedbit 13y ago

    When Google started to require users to use G+ and real names to post a review on the Play store, a number of reviews dropped significantly. The poor design decision described in the article may be a result of an effort to fix this dropped
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    by mixedbit 13y ago

    Exactly, drug research is science and should be treated as such. Other scientific discoveries are not patentable and we don't have problems with lack of scientists willing to do their jobs for university salaries. For me the notion tha
13. 433.▲
    by mixedbit 13y ago

    The thing is, are there really economical incentives for companies to find cheap and efficient cancer drug?
14. 434.▲
    by mixedbit 13y ago

    Are there usability reasons for a dark text on a light background being default in almost all editors?
15. 435.▲
    by mixedbit 13y ago

    With revenue that is below your spending needs, how do you decide if you should invest more work into the product or move to something else?
16. 436.▲
    by mixedbit 13y ago

    The attack was also discussed in details here: http://mixedbit.org/blog/2013/04/11/dos_attack_on_cdn_users....
17. 437.▲
    by mixedbit 13y ago

    I love project Euler. A nice way to improve programming skills in a new language is to go through others solutions in the same language after you solved a problem. This allows to break bad habits. Say you are a C programmer learning Ruby or
18. 438.▲
    by mixedbit 13y ago

    Predicting when the next crash will be is also easy. Once you have hundreds of "experts" doing it, someone will certainly guess correctly.
19. 439.▲
    by mixedbit 13y ago

    Have you read "Development: Infancy Through Adolescence"?
20. 440.▲
    by mixedbit 13y ago

    Here are few examples of great 1000+ pages books with lots of code. Though reading them is much more effort than reading a self-help book: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Environment-Addison-Wesley... http://ww
21. 441.▲
    by mixedbit 13y ago

    I propose a vacuum chamber as a better candidate for the title of the quietest place on earth.
22. 442.▲
    by mixedbit 13y ago

    I think we've already seen something like this in practice. One missing piece: let's make money by betting that these drivers won't be able to pay the loans.
23. 443.▲
    by mixedbit 13y ago

    A physics puzzle: underwater turbines can generate energy from tides that are mostly the effect of the Moon movement. Energy can not be created (energy generated by the turbines needed to be lost somewhere). How the energy lost manifests it
24. 444.▲
    by mixedbit 13y ago

    Congratulations to the team!
25. 445.▲
    by mixedbit 13y ago

    chess
26. 446.▲
    by mixedbit 13y ago

    thanks, fixed
27. 447.▲
    by mixedbit 13y ago

    Similarly Clojure is JVM based and it draws interest of many Java gurus, because they do not need to learn the platform from scratch (the Java library is available).
28. 448.▲
    by mixedbit 13y ago

    He could use recaptcha and then diff against an electronic version.
29. 449.▲
    by mixedbit 13y ago

    If you don't want to trust encryption you are screwed. Unencrypted TCP doesn't give any snooping protection, it also doesn't give any way to enforce and validate that a route that packets traverse is trusted.
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    by mixedbit 13y ago

    As the author notes, for such hack to have any chances of working reliably a third party is needed to synchronize connection setup. But a third party with a public IP could also forward an encrypted TCP connection between two machines that