nknight

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by nknight 15y ago
No, it's considered a bad thing that Rails had insecure defaults in a recommended code path used by legions of inexperienced developers. You can still change the setting to the old value if you want to, just like you can explicitly ask for
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by nknight 15y ago
Yes. Contrast. Massive contrast. The Rails "kerfuffle" was about unnecessarily dangerous default settings affecting a widely-used (including in official tutorials) mechanism. To even get a recursive mutex in POSIX, you have to explicitl
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by nknight 15y ago
Sounds like Martijn doesn't actually know much about Linux kernel development. Patches get rejected from the kernel all the time for many of the same reasons listed in the linked post. It takes a long time for most new kernel contributors t
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by nknight 15y ago
> For gaming laptops are a joke. I guess I've just imagined years of gaming on a laptop, then. > And who doesnt prefer a huge screen to work with? Got one. Along with an external keyboard and mouse. What's your point? > Lap
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by nknight 15y ago
It's interesting to compare it to the modern version [1]. In a way, it really isn't much more complicated now. It's changed to take a format string, but beyond that, once you rip out the platform-specific ifdefs, the SMP/lock code, and the
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by nknight 15y ago
I don't know exactly what MM does behind the scenes with regard to domains, but I expect having all aspects of overall trademark/brand management/protection under one roof helps. They're not just a domain registrar.
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by nknight 15y ago
I'm guessing this guy isn't an accountant anymore because he was really bad at it. What he refers to as "keeping accountants happy" is actually keeping the government, investors, and partners happy. It's also answering questions like "Where
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by nknight 15y ago
A random 4-word passphrase is more than enough to stop online attacks against high-value targets (e.g. bank accounts) that have any throttling at all. A random 5-word passphrase with three random characters tossed at the end has better than
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by nknight 15y ago
Your startup is not a special snowflake. Your buttons and menus and checkboxes work just like everybody else's. Your buttons can look just like everyone else's buttons. You know what your users will say? "Oh! It works just like X, I know X,
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by nknight 15y ago
The "average" person is confused by things that are new and different. Making them learn a thousand different UIs just so "designers" can show off their artistic inabilities is one of the worst crimes perpetrated by the web.
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by nknight 15y ago
I've been running flashblock and variants for so many years, I'd almost forgotten YouTube even did that. Certainly most sites I visit with HTML5 video don't, even the ones with Flash I often have to click some sort of play button even after
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by nknight 15y ago
> Your screenshot has the blocked cookies icon at the end of the address bar. As well it should, there are third-party cookies from ten different domains that try to get set on that page. > Chrome is probably also blocking local
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by nknight 15y ago
Er... http://support.apple.com/manuals/#macbook
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by nknight 15y ago
I'm not clear why you're worried about that. Is it the pulling, or the processing? The pulling shouldn't be an issue -- I don't know about PHP, but in pure Python, I can pull an arbitrary 10MB string from Redis in ~85-90ms. With hiredis (C
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by nknight 15y ago
Seems to me they skipped right over the most obvious option: Redis. It's quite fast, you can use a Redis string as a random-access array up to 512MB/each, and there are several good ways to handle persistence/backup. I don't think there was
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> There's also the ones that actually have morality and integrity ... > and thus find honor in serving one's country. Error! You may like "serving one's country", but you have no business claiming it is inherent in honor, morali
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by nknight 15y ago
Allow me to contribute exactly as much to the conversation as you have: The iPad 2 is my aunt's first and only computing device. When you don't say anything, chastising others for not saying anything is pretty hypocritical, don't you think?
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by nknight 15y ago
Irrelevant. Violation of a legal obligation is not the same thing as commission of a crime. An act may simultaneously be a violation of legal ethics and a crime, but usually not. Ethics violations are punishable by, amongst other things, ci
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by nknight 15y ago
The details of small claims courts vary wildly from state to state, but more importantly, they're not courts of general jurisdiction. They have severe restrictions on what they can and can't do, and the losing party is often entitled to a d
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by nknight 15y ago
You have the right to represent yourself, but not another person or entity, which is what you would be doing if you attempted to represent your limited liability entity in court. It doesn't matter if you're the sole shareholder or not, you
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by nknight 15y ago
That must be why these functions don't exist: http://openssl.org/docs/crypto/BIO_s_connect.html While the library isn't what's at issue here, your assumptions are way off. IPv4-capable code doesn't magically become IPv6-capable code by vi
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by nknight 15y ago
I've never heard of a physical presence check being required, and I've opened a couple accounts "remotely" in the last five years with institutions I'd never done business with before. They practically demand your life history, but not that
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by nknight 15y ago
$170? That's a damned expensive 1TB HDD. Most are under $130, and that's still inflated due to Thailand. Also, 1TB hasn't been the sweet spot for a while. 2TB drives are coming in under $140 now, $0.07/GB.
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by nknight 15y ago
Qt works just fine on *nix, Mac, and Windows. GTK+ isn't quite so nicely polished, but is still viable on all three. Installed base is irrelevant if you include the libraries or statically link. You'll bloat your download a few MB, but it's
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> It's now rare for most people to interact with bank staff beyond opening an account or taking out a loan. Loans I wouldn't know about, but opening accounts at major banks without entering a bank branch is generally quite easy, parti
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by nknight 15y ago
The premise isn't exactly bulletproof. My modern internet-connected phone exists mostly for web, email, SMS/iMessage, books, music, and tethering to my laptop. I don't use many other apps much, the ones I do use are mostly just optimized su
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by nknight 15y ago
You really have no idea what my standards are. All I did was say they didn't have to support VLAs to support other parts of C99. That tells you absolutely nothing, stop assuming so much.
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by nknight 15y ago
I'm frankly amazed at how optimistic HN seems to be about "professional" coding practices. To this day I find "professional" developers writing fresh SQL injection vulnerabilities with some frequency.
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This isn't about websites, it's about email. Ethical operators do not insert tracking bugs into email, and they definitely don't do it in a way that tries to deliberately get around long-standing restrictions in virtually all email clients
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The usual phrase would be along the lines of "pending a full investigation", which is what they should have said, but people often fail to. PR is hard enough when you're calm and collected, in the middle of a shitstorm it's a miracle if you

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