nikcub

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by nikcub 16y ago
The chrome extension I wrote today both redirects to HTTPS for the sites you specify in options, but also re-writes all the cookies to set the secure flag. Works perfectly on Facebook and Twitter without your session cookies every leaking (
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by nikcub 17y ago
We have a backup. Guess where it was. Now guess where it will be tonight.
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by nikcub 17y ago
(cont) Would still be nice though to have the support, since not all sites would take advantage of it and it could be made easier by allowing IP addresses within SRV records Amusing moment - I recall a proposal to allow browser to report ba
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by nikcub 17y ago
This already exists - it's called a SRV record. SRV records allow you to assign a priority and a weight for a lookup query, the same way you can with MX records (in SRV you can give different ports as well, very cool). It was proposed by Mi
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by nikcub 17y ago
and all of that is even more useless if your session token is short/weak/easy to guess
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by nikcub 17y ago
$65B to go.. good luck with that.
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by nikcub 17y ago
your analogy would be really cool and interesting if it applied in this case, but it doesn't. I was involved in the Crunchpad from day 1 and we actually built a lot of things - long before anybody else came along. You might have a different
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by nikcub 17y ago
you're right, you are not a lawyer
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by nikcub 17y ago
bad title, I know - and you mangled it further, but still, +1 from me.
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by nikcub 17y ago
I try hard not to say that somebody is 'wrong', believing that different opinions are important - but your ranting about PHP is ill-informed at best, and outright wrong at worst. What Lerdorf developed was initially a collection of C macro'
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by nikcub 17y ago
I don't think you grok sarcasm (ok so let me explain. we are running with the joke that it was scoble himself that took the servers down.)
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by nikcub 17y ago
TC was down - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/02/large-scale-downtime-at... although I was a little more gentle with them on the phone than @arrington (check his stream)
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by nikcub 17y ago
I would love to drill into this topic because it is related to the main thread. There are some networks and providers who care about the issue of pushing bad ads, while others turn a blind eye since they have no incentive to keep these ads
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by nikcub 17y ago
we do what we can to filter those ads out on the page by maintaining a blacklist in adsense. it isn't easy to manage, which is a whole other story
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Neo Technology Raise $2.4M To Commercialize neo4j Graph Database(techcrunchit.com)
33 points by nikcub 17y ago|11 comments
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by nikcub 17y ago
boring. i have been able to do this in emacs for over 10 years now