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by red_admiral 11y ago
The text ends "Launching a web app? Get a high-assurance SSL certificate and still launch on time." The moment you're deploying an _app_, you've already solved the hard problem that certificates are meant to help with. J
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by red_admiral 11y ago
What's wrong with condoms?
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by red_admiral 11y ago
Apart from putting your wp-config on github, it's also a terrible idea to use short passwords like 'p@ss12' for a database password that will be sent from one machine/program to another most of the time - such passwords
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by red_admiral 11y ago
When a site asks nicely, I always disable my adblocker and reload. I did that today on a page and was met with a full-page video overlay ad, with a tiny X in the corner that opened a new tab to the target site anyway when I clicked it. Afte
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by red_admiral 11y ago
I think it's more the inevitable outcome when students and teachers are forced through endless cycles of tests, evaluations and metrics - from primary school onwards. A well-written paper on this, which I think has been discussed on HN
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by red_admiral 11y ago
Espeically if, like in minecraft, you can set your own seed - perhaps there's an interesting social graph problem in automatically assigning the same seed to clusters of friends but keeping them somewhat random globally.
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by red_admiral 11y ago
I wonder if the time is ripe for a procedurally generated Zelda game? Several minecraft-inspired projects on Kickstarter mention LoZ as inspiration. When I played notch's minicraft, it had a distinctly Zelda-ish feel to it, including b
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by red_admiral 11y ago
Back in the original, not only was there no way to tell at glance which walls were bombable but if you ran out of bombs in one of the later dungeons where you simply had to bomb a wall to get any further, TOUGH LUCK. Up against dodongo and
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by red_admiral 11y ago
Back in the days of MS-DOS, I used to wonder why MSDOS.SYS had both the H (hidden) and S (system) attributes set, whereas COMMAND.COM, without which a disk wouldn't boot, had none of these. Only much later did I realise that the S attr
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by red_admiral 12y ago
You certainly can have authenticity without encryption - just think of how Debian package downloads are authenticated with gpg. In fact this option is built into TLS - RSA/SHA with the null cipher suite. It doesn't solve the CA pr