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by mquander 7y ago
He turned to me and said, "Do you really think the only thing the bank does to log people on is to check the username and password?" Banks are way more sophisticated than this and it goes well beyond merely string-matching creden
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by mquander 7y ago
Have you ever done anything you enjoyed, even though it entailed greater than literally zero chance of your death? Like showering? Or walking down the street? You see, for people who enjoy vaping, it's sort of like that.
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by mquander 7y ago
I was blown away when I discovered that there was no way for me to export my Google Authenticator TOTP secrets from my locked Android phone, since unlocking it wipes the disk. I guess I will not make the mistake of not immediately unlocking
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by mquander 7y ago
I think the thesis of this article is rather forced. The actual claim is something like: "Passwords don't matter, as long as your password isn't in the top few dozen common ones, it's not in any credentials breach access
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by mquander 7y ago
This advice and the other commentary agreeing with it is surprising to me. Showing how you would have written it seems like an extremely useful part of concretely explaining why you don't like it. I agree that you also need to do the p
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by mquander 7y ago
Don't fall for it: > This follows from 30 years in which the top 1 percent massively grew their net worth while the bottom half saw a slight decline in its net worth. The "top 1%" and "bottom half" are categories
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by mquander 7y ago
I have some personal experience that gives me a different perspective. I learned chess when very young (~5) but I failed to be a successful prodigy -- my rating capped out around 1100 USCF. Every few years I would pick the game back up and
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by mquander 8y ago
I have no degree, I've done probably 25 tech interviews so far in my career, and I don't recall it having ever come up. I write "No formal post-secondary education" under the "education" section on my resume.
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by mquander 8y ago
I have a strong resume by most metrics, and I used Triplebyte because it seemed like a good method to learn about a ton of small companies I otherwise would never be able to find. (I didn't end up joining any of them, but they were sol
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by mquander 8y ago
Thanks for working on Matrix!
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by mquander 8y ago
I guess I'm glad that someone sits around looking through comment histories skeptically, but I don't see what about these comments seem suspicious to you.
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by mquander 8y ago
Oh, OK, I misunderstood.
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by mquander 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#Co... In 2016 the total US consumption of electricity was 4,137.1 terawatt-hours (TWh).
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by mquander 8y ago
None of this is the computing world regressing; it's just businesses regressing, or the law regressing, or convention in your social bubble regressing (regressing from what you like, mind, not what other people want.) The time with max
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by mquander 8y ago
If the reason you guys want a WebRTC implementation in Rust is to be able to write WebRTC server software in Rust, you might be interested in Janus -- it's a plugin-based C WebRTC server with a C ABI for plugins that you can easily wri
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by mquander 8y ago
The same place, but as a renter? That's what I'd do if I were up ~1M on a house.
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by mquander 8y ago
I feel the same, but I'm hoping that my heavy laptop use plus a lifetime-so-far of training will allow me to maintain my typing skills on a standard form factor even if I learn something slightly esoteric for my desk.
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by mquander 8y ago
I got an interesting perspective on this in the past week. I type at 110 WPM on a normal QWERTY keyboard, and I use keystrokes to drive my editor and window manager (but not my browser.) I just switched to an ErgoDox configured as mostly QW
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by mquander 9y ago
I'm more familiar with Python than Rust right now, but I feel like after adjusting for amount-I-have-to-look-up-standard-library-things my development speed is similar. The biggest advantage Python gets is IPython.
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by mquander 9y ago
How can this be? GPU manufacturers are unhappy that demand for their GPUs is skyrocketing, so they are trying to make GPUs that are less in demand? That makes zero sense to me. Why would a GPU manufacturer prefer that an end user use their
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by mquander 9y ago
Assuming the premises of your scenario (that the ad didn't change anything about you to make you more likely to buy the keyboard, or adversely influence you in any other way), the display of this ad is a disaster for the advertiser. Ad
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by mquander 9y ago
Wait, it is? HN seems incredibly Silicon-Valley-culture-centric to me. Compared to the general population: * Extremely interested in technical topics. * Extremely interested in startups. * Extremely interested in big tech company news and b
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by mquander 9y ago
There's a bit about flagging in the guidelines -- use your own judgment: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I'm not sure how flags are processed by moderators, but for automated ranking they are like
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by mquander 9y ago
Flagged as clickbait. The American Hospital Association expressed no anxiety nor took any antagonistic action; rather the opposite. See the memo here: https://contentsharing.net/actions/email_web_version.cfm?rec... Thi
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by mquander 9y ago
I have no idea what you're talking about. People from big tech companies say their opinion about what their company does all the time. Your comment was super rude.
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by mquander 9y ago
The printed code is sort of just a documentation -- the system isn't, for example, scanning it visually to decide what to execute. Rather, each card encodes a unique ID, and the running code lives on the network at that ID, so you can
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by mquander 9y ago
If you aren't complaining because it violates the spec, what are you complaining about? Is any change to any detail about how a browser works necessarily bad?
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by mquander 9y ago
There's an opt-in "tracking protection" checkbox in Firefox you can click that doesn't load them at all.
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by mquander 9y ago
Sorry, which of those things do you think is not worth learning?
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by mquander 9y ago
One might think that how satisfactory it is depends on how well it works. The parent is asserting it works pretty well.

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