samuellevy

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by samuellevy 13y ago
In the current incarnation, no they're not, but built into the browser? The user wouldn't need to see anything more than a "sign in with you private key" button, next to the "sign in with google" button.
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Ask HN: Why aren't we using paired keys instead of passwords for authentication?
5 points by samuellevy 13y ago|6 comments
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by samuellevy 13y ago
And here is my post which explains why PHP is still the best language for the job. http://blog.samuellevy.com/post/41-php-is-the-right-tool-for...
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by samuellevy 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - remote / Brisbane, Australia PHP, python, MYSQL and JavaScript (jquery, extjs/sencha, raw JS). I'm a freelancer who specializes in web development/dev ops. I don't just write code, I can design, deliver and maintain the full
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by samuellevy 13y ago
My brother and I are building an X/Y plotter with one, which is either going to turn into an etch-a-sketch printer, or a CNC/3D printer hybrid. The other one is either going to become a quadrocopter, or an arcade table (cheap coffee table,
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Australian police issue warning on 3D printed guns(techworld.com.au)
26 points by samuellevy 13y ago|53 comments
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by samuellevy 13y ago
OP here. I went to the interview to see if I could salvage some work out of it (I'm a contractor, and quite often a skilled contractor would suit better than another full-time employee). The person I interviewed with (he was tech lead in th
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by samuellevy 13y ago
And here I was expecting a serious pitch... but then I should have realised that "a serious pitch" and "I want to contact Yahoo" may not be compatible.
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Recruit this(blog.samuellevy.com)
38 points by samuellevy 13y ago|29 comments
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by samuellevy 13y ago
I can still check-out with paypal without an account. It just deals directly with my credit-card details, and leaves it at that.
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You don't need to know me(blog.samuellevy.com)
4 points by samuellevy 13y ago|2 comments
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by samuellevy 13y ago
I have been (slowly) migrating to using my real identity in all places, which has left a strange mashup of identities in some areas. Really, I should get rid of the old identities (which will be difficult, no longer having access to all the
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Can Python replace PHP as a server side language?(plus.google.com)
8 points by samuellevy 13y ago|2 comments
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by samuellevy 13y ago
At a certain level, naïveté is negligence. I work with systems that have to comply with HIPPA regulations. If we didn't comply, we couldn't say "Oh, we didn't know, we'll do better next time". It is our job to know, and to comply with r
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by samuellevy 13y ago
I don't know why people keep insisting that G+ is a waste land. If you personally don't use it, or see a use for it, that's fine, but there are many people in the world who are not you. Personally, I get far more value from G+ than I do/eve
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by samuellevy 13y ago
Define "using" a domain name. I have a couple of domain names where my primary reason for holding them is for email addresses, or an inside joke with friends. Admittedly, no-one is clamoring for these domain names, let alone offering me $75
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by samuellevy 14y ago
I tend to go Foo, Bar, Baz, Fizz, Buzz, Bing. If I need more than that, then I should probably simplify what I'm writing, or use more descriptive names.
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by samuellevy 14y ago
Dreamhost, as a shared hosting provider, has within the last month rolled out the option of PHP 5.4 on all their servers. I wish all hosting providers would make newer versions available, then maybe open source projects would move with the
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by samuellevy 14y ago
No responsible webhost would just roll out a new major version of PHP without warning. Dreamhost have made their servers support it, which means that it is now an option that you can pick, along with PHP 5.2, and 5.3, in multiple modes (c
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by samuellevy 14y ago
The way to "do drupal properly", which makes it so popular, is to use it almost as a "lego" platform, which is also much the same as how you would use wordpress. Both of them have such powerful plugin/extension frameworks, that most of the
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by samuellevy 14y ago
That's pretty much how it is, but I believe the why is largely to do with the large amount of bad PHP learning aides available for free on the internet (I'm looking at you, w3schools). That being said, I have met (and work with) some "PHP
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by samuellevy 14y ago
I've worked for a reasonably sized (business) host myself, and yes - anything that's idiot proof is just waiting for a bigger idiot, but PHP is far easier to deploy for a non-programmer than anything else.
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by samuellevy 14y ago
there's mod_python, which has never worked in living memory, and there's PyHP which... went into beta in 2008, and hasn't noticeably changed since.
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by samuellevy 14y ago
They won't support the code; that's not their job. They will restart the server when it goes down, and handle firewalls/security/keep their servers clean of root kits, etc. Dreamhost, as an example (seeing as I use them), just upgraded all
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by samuellevy 14y ago
Not quite; I'm also factoring in support costs (both to me, and the client), as well as the ability to sell a higher-costing hosting solution to the client. I'm quite comfortable deploying python projects, and I've done it for a number of c
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by samuellevy 14y ago
I think that's a chicken/egg situation there.
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PHP is the right tool for the job (for all the wrong reasons)(blog.samuellevy.com)
87 points by samuellevy 14y ago|143 comments
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by samuellevy 14y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Brisbane, Australia / Remote Things I do really well: PHP; Javascript; MySQL Things I do pretty well: Python; Server admin Things I can do if I need to: Java, C#, perl Some open source things that I built: http://www
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by samuellevy 14y ago
Except for when it's a plant (canola, a.k.a. Rape/Rape-seed). I get your point, though, but it was clearly generated by a computer, as are all the other shirts in that companies "KEEP CALM AND ______ ON" line. Most of them don't make any se
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SHITLang - a tiny PHP template engine(github.com)
1 points by samuellevy 14y ago|0 comments

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