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by sapphirecat 16y ago
EV only really got in the news after Comodo resellers were caught issuing 'validated' certificates with no actual validation whatsoever. (Conveniently, there was a fresh release of IE that displayed EV certs in green.) Any validation proc
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by sapphirecat 16y ago
The display always paints from its own top to bottom. Since it has been turned upside down, when you watch really quickly, you can see it painting bottom-to-top from your point of view. This would be true whether the display has Windows rot
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by sapphirecat 16y ago
> many people, myself included, have been waiting for someone to develop a device like the iPad for years. Of all these people, every one of them decided to passively wait, instead of taking on the task themselves? As far as Apple innov
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by sapphirecat 17y ago
For Ubuntu, quite a bit of software can be found in a PPA on Launchpad; for Firefox it seems to be https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable/ I haven't used that one myself, but the Chromium and Mercurial PPAs have worked
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by sapphirecat 17y ago
> the buttons are on the left I am saddened by this. Ubuntu announces Maverick, and the highest-rated comment about Maverick on HN by a wide margin is a rehash of arguments about Lucid.
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by sapphirecat 17y ago
The behavior seems to be part of vim's netrw plugin. Aside from the obvious `:help netrw` you may find `:help standard-plugin-list` interesting. (netrw has always been enabled-by-default for me, but I've spent most of my time on desktop-ori
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by sapphirecat 17y ago
3.X can be pretty awesome, but as long as projects want to maintain compatibility with 2.5 or earlier, it's going to be difficult to get some serious porting momentum going. Once 2.6+ becomes a practical development target, 3.x will be a mu
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by sapphirecat 17y ago
It seems like a rather superficial change to me. If you were to sit down and use it, you would probably get used to it quickly. It didn't take me long to get used to Windows 95 putting the menu bar inside the window, or its menu-title-min-m
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by sapphirecat 17y ago
I'm sorry, I don't get it. For session cookies, the client cannot do any validation of the cookie, so it's a completely different domain. Also, unlike session cookies, SSLv2 never had a hard expiration date after which it could be unconditi
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by sapphirecat 17y ago
1: Encryption isn't magic pixie dust: people can tamper with the ciphertext and fool you. Sometimes they can even mess with the padding and decrypt the entire message. 2: A rule of thumb that falls out of this: never try to decrypt cipherte
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by sapphirecat 17y ago
What you really want is a scheduler that can handle all this for you, so you don't have to write the same management gunk into every script you run with cron. It would also be nice to be able to express "the first Saturday of each month" fo
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by sapphirecat 18y ago
> (short of doing stuff like RSA & PKI in Javascript) The only thing that I can see which would actually help, without breaking the "install nothing" goal of OpenID or making the existing usage path any more difficult, is to build s
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by sapphirecat 18y ago
Interesting. I see it's finally out of beta. I would even try it if I were still stuck in win32.
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by sapphirecat 18y ago
> that's really ancient news that has already changed. Yet you still don't find it in e.g. ubuntu-desktop, unlike Perl (dependency: libgnome2-perl) or Python (recommended: gimp-python). Gentoo Portage was written in Python when I ran th
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by sapphirecat 18y ago
> Besides Sun really has a cross platform ecosystem with 1st party support of Linux You may think so now, but for a long time, Sun didn't allow distributors to include Java in their repositories. If you wanted Java, you had to go downlo
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by sapphirecat 18y ago
When everyone's votes are weighted equally, it becomes inevitable that the core users can't keep out the "barbarians at the gate", so to speak. Reddit became so weighed down in politics that a subreddit was created for it, back then. (I thi
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by sapphirecat 18y ago
> [-\.\\w] means match a dash, a dot, a backslash and the w character. That one could very well depend on language: <?php var_dump(preg_match('/[\\w]/', 'Lies.')); ?> int(1) Note that PHP still interprets \' and \\
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by sapphirecat 18y ago
> why would it be better to POST to /addcomment than to POST to /comments ? Er, paul actually said PUT to the document (with no particular URI given). POSTing to /comments vs. /addcomment is pretty much a moot point, but I think I a
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by sapphirecat 18y ago
There's a yawning chasm between "works" and "doesn't suck".
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by sapphirecat 18y ago
> But the right way to do it is to have smart actual users talking directly to smart actual devs. I find in my own software that the best thing to do, if you're improving an existing process, is to watch (or participate in) the current
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by sapphirecat 18y ago
I used PDO a lot at my last job; it's one of the decisions I regret. Whenever I tried to do anything somewhat advanced, it had a tendency to segfault. Especially bothersome to track were segfaults due to leaving a statement open: at least t
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by sapphirecat 18y ago
Python's closures are basically read-only in the 2.x series. 3.0 will offer read-write access via the nonlocal keyword: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3104/ It still won't be exactly the same, because Perl uses `my $foo` once to decla
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by sapphirecat 18y ago
Is the author of that "criticism" trying to parody what they see in PG's writing? It could just as easily be self-referential.
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by sapphirecat 18y ago
It totally depends on the culture of the company. At my last job, my boss valued 'professionalism' to the point where even sarcasm wasn't tolerated (even though I was right). My current employer doesn't seem to care, but most of the swearin
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by sapphirecat 18y ago
"I have always thought that real responsibility is learned "on the job". Delay work, delay responsibility." Amen to that one. My grandfather invested some money on my behalf when I was born, so when I graduated from college, I burned throug
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by sapphirecat 18y ago
Now if the title was "CSRF against PhpMyAdmin" then it would make more sense. Given that PMA has a form dedicated to letting you run arbitrary SQL statements, the fact that it allows arbitrary statements to be run is not news.
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by sapphirecat 19y ago
I don't get what you're saying. aston did say pretend . Once you have the function name (or an object method array) it can be stored in a variable with any name you want, passed around, etc. You can pretend it's a function all you want;