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11y ago
I have experiences and opinions on this but to keep it short: It should really be split into several phases: 1) Take away profiles, pictures, zodiac signs, advanced algorithms and just put some basic constraints and have a blind chatroulett
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11y ago
Doh! I only read the license.
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11y ago
> And some young people parroting how wonderful Microsoft and Bill Gates are today. Compared to what Microsoft used to be like - recently Microsoft has made some pretty, surprising, awesome moves. Specifically their open source movement
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11y ago
Two questions: 1) Why would offer a license if it's public domain? Unless the license was to offer support which I don't see it on that page. 2) Where did you get the $1000 from - it's also not on that page?
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Compare that to github who has a whole subdomain dedicated to their academic offers: https://education.github.com/
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11y ago
I don't think scams as so much as inexperienced people who say "I've been doing this for X years and I can totally do it" then after spending 90% of the money and 6-12 months late - they go "actually....I don't
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I didn't know about that - they seem to keep that pretty hidden. In contrast github makes it very visible that they support academics. In any case - the one benefit of running my own is that not only can I pre-provision the repos but t
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11y ago
> Who else thinks bitbucket is better than github? Each service has it's pros/cons. Github charges you for private repositories while bitbucket offers them for free. But with bitbucket you are limited to only 5 collaborators -
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11y ago
> You read the glassdoor reviews of Zenefits Am I the only one that finds it strange their reviews seem to alternate between "worst company ever" and "greatest job ever"? One of the reviewers wrote: > Don't &q
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11y ago
> So, now you need your artists to be programmers. There is some arguments if you should allow artists to program (Blender does have a built in scripting language). However, the same group that created the FPS demo also created a tool to
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11y ago
> Second, 30MB hasn't been an issue since 2002 Back in 2004 a demoscene group created a FPS in 96kb - http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12036 That 96kb includes textures, engine and music. No they aren't down
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11y ago
> The UI layer is absolutely not portable - GTK+ - Qt - wxWidgets I'm not saying I have used them or they are easy to use - but crossplatform UI toolkits do exist.
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11y ago
I think this is the time to remind people some projects (ie filezilla) are willingly distributing the malware with their projects. The developers reaction is basically "there is nothing wrong with it"[1]. I feel like there is a ni
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11y ago
I wouldn't say all - but many. However, there is always more than one way to skin a cat. Gandi states that they won't reset it - but offers instructions on how to do it [1]. Which, presumably if you are spinning up VMs the owner o
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When he submitted the ticket or whatever he was probably logged into his account and to DO that is probably a "the user is logged in so we don't have to verify his identity".
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> convinced NFOrce that he was me > So NFOrce reset the server's root password for him So a couple of things: I do my hosting with gandi (moving away from self hosting as Comcast business is...well anyways...). I had setup TOTP w
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11y ago
If you are using Debian 7 or similar distro with an older version of Apache you can avoid it by using the following ciphers[1]: SSLCipherSuite ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA
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11y ago
> in what situation would you need to extract the key while you still have access to it in one of your apps? I use FreeOTP on Android to store and generated OTPs. Many years ago I had an HTC One (old version). I was listening to music on
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> Instead of extracting keys don't you want to use backup codes (that we provide)? Perhaps my opinion is wrong - but if I replace my OTP generating device (such as my phone) I don't want to use recovery codes I just want to res
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I've implemented 2FA for SVN and Mercurial (not yet for git) for Indefero. I highly recommend showing users the key for their storage - I've had to extract the keys from FreeOTP and Google Authenticator a number of times. How do y
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Nothing stopping you (or them) from from reselling domain registration from another registrar - but being accredited gets you more features and very cheap registrations.
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> The C++/CX compiler....use a weird little hat > What does the hat do? Well nothing. Actually the hat is drastically different than a normal pointer. It's managed/garbage collected pointer[1]. Which is actually pretty
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If you haven't seen this before - some companies like USAA and Paypal use Symantec's OTP product[1]. Turns out they are just re-selling the TOTP algorithm. Honestly, their solution wouldn't be bad if only there was a way to t
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Open Source Version of Symantec's VIP Access
(github.com)
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Which I think does add to my point - especially if you are a remote worker. The cost of living in a small suburbia town will be different than living in Silicon Valley. I don't think he has to deal with remote workers - but automatical
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I have so many comments on this article but this stood out: > I do not negotiate salaries. > I ask the person what do you need. That is the most absurd thing I have ever heard. Did you honestly tell your employer "oh I only neede
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12y ago
I know Google wants to do something similar with Chrome. I have so many comments - but the first being don't they realize that they will have to make this option which will be disabled by most enterprises?
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12y ago
> they could purposefully or accidentally make the vehicle non-compliant with safety/emission standards, As much as I wanted to know about the mysterious "software upgrade" that the dealer claimed was available for my car
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12y ago
> DO NOT USE PHP FOR ANYTHING THAT REQUIRES SECURITY! Using [your favorite scripting language] doesn't magically make things like SQL injection and other bad practices go away. There are ways to mitigate those issues by using framew
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12y ago
Perhaps someone should call a plumber? It is after all - only a series of tubes![1] (or so I hear...) [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
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