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Enough with the Salts: Updates on Secure Password Schemes(chargen.matasano.com)
339 points by saturdayplace 12y ago|221 comments
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
> Finally, they told me that at the moment someone allegedly bought an option for a screen version of the book. But, reading between the lines, I realized that they just do not want to work with an unknown person. Maybe they were just t
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
"¿Por que no los dos?" I think the spirit of Patrick's response is "Knock yourself out." And I get the feeling, having followed what he's had to say about how programmers typically negotiate salaries and consul
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
This one had a lot of discussion recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9159557
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
> YC is still stuck in a world of ideas based on controlling others through the creation of debt and claiming lifetime ownership of others' work. I don't understand this sentiment AT ALL. There is no debt involved, so I don&#x2
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
"fizzbuzz" is coding exercise, used by companies looking to screen out applicants who claim to be able to code, but in fact cannot. The applicant is asked to write a short program that prints the numbers 1-100 (or whatever). When
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
Well, sure they accumulate. So do salaries. If it's not worth the money to your company, don't spend it. Same goes for salaries.
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
I thought Adrian Holovaty's take on Chicago's tech scene was really interesting: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/chicago-bootstrapping/
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
As far as I can tell, this tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/555803747792609280 is the only thing he's said about it at the moment. Looks like he's also planning on having an annual pod-racing c
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
That's addressed in the essay: > It's usually a mistake to talk to corp dev unless (a) you want to sell your company right now and (b) you're sufficiently likely to get an offer at an acceptable price. In practice that mea
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
Must be something in the water. I'm working on something similar I hope to release early this year that should work cross platform. My plan was to build it as a self-hosted web app, so all the editing happens in the browser, but trigge
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The Rapidly Disappearing Business of Design(wired.com)
32 points by saturdayplace 12y ago|16 comments
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
Hollywood has already validated its product, and found product-market fit. It's now just stamping out products it's pretty sure people will buy. Anyone claiming Hollywood doesn't make things people want to buy would, given th
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
The last offer I successfully negotiated went like this: Recruiter: What kind of number are you looking for? Me: I'm looking for a minumum of $num. (A 25% raise from current gig) Recruiter: We can totally do $num. <a week or so pass
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
While I'm not certain, I think most people go with option 3, and I'd put money down that's what Patrick's planning on.
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
> The only time in recent memory I used it myself was when a Redditor asked for anti-Bitcoin bingo cards, a request which I am unquestionably the best qualified person in the world to answer.) Apropos of nothing, it seems that if you&#x2
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
SEO. It's a an exact match for the search term he was gunning for, and the .com wasn't available but the .org was. Exact-match domains get hit with the +15 wand of visibility in search results, and the whole .com vs .org distincti
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
I have anecdotal experience that might confirm the economic plausibility of a LA-LV line. Driving south on I-15 from LV on a Sunday will likely drive you absolutely up. the. wall.
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
Patrick, if you haven't yet gotten any emails about this, the Amazon link to "Predictable Revenue" is to the .co.jp domain.
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
Two things: 1) I have neither a computer science nor a teaching background. (I'm a self-taught web-dev hack) but I am interested in introducing local kids to programming. I helped run a couple Hour of Code sessions last week at my kids
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
Before I was a working programmer, I worked in graphic designer and 3D modeler and sometime animator. In 2008 I was working for an architecture firm building pre-visualizations for the projects they were either currently building or ones th
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
I like vertical Mice. I've had two and prefer the Evoluent over the Anker. Seemed to help quite a bit when I started "noticing" my mousing wrist.
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
I was going to bookmark the linked comment, and found that I had in fact already done so. It is a very useful, actionable piece of advice. Thanks for writing it.
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
> While he paid me a premium, he received a much better prodcut n.b. That's how good business owners will look at this transaction: in terms of ROI. Sure this client paid a lot of money, but it was an investment in his company. It
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
I don't think either of the posts you've replied to in this thread state that all employees at all companies require physical proximity to collaborate effectively. Just that Matasano (by virtue of its leadership) prefers proximity
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
This is the solution. Your manager understood his job, and its impact on yours. Everyone should be so lucky. So far, I have been! At my first job, my boss told me right off not to let everyone who comes by add work to my pile. It's ha
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
I'm not sure a name has that much of an impact on a business's success. I posted this comment in another thread recently: The word "Target" doesn't really carry any signal about what that company actually does. A
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
In this thread: just talking or writing _about_ encryption can be difficult. To say nothing of correctly implementing it in a project.
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
Seconded. Please, Maciej!
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by saturdayplace 12y ago
An interesting thought I ran across once, is that there is no such thing as "no design": > Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good desi

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