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by sbov 9y ago
> Most injection attacks are due to this; if html used length-prefixed tags rather than open/close tags most injection attacks would go away immediately No it wouldn't. It wouldn't fix sql injection and it also wouldn&#x27
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by sbov 9y ago
In theory dividends and share buybacks will be reinvested by the stockholders. In practice I wonder how much just further inflates various asset bubbles.
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by sbov 9y ago
It's really hard to interpret that graph when you consider things like relationships and marriage, and that older people are probably more likely to be married.
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by sbov 9y ago
So would you say this is more about your mindset when programming in LISPs? I like to use Clojure for my side projects and don't seem to feel the same way about my programs as you do. Even as a long time primarily imperative/OO
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by sbov 9y ago
Part of the problem is random bureaucrats have no way of knowing if Joe Schmoe's Web Shop can actually do the job. Some of it has to also be covering your ass - if there are serious flaws in the system, your ass is covered if you spen
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by sbov 9y ago
Privacy badger detects zero trackers. When I open my developer toolbar, all hits when I search are to duckduckgo.com. When I installed uMatrix, the only thing I see are references to duckduckgo. And zero cookies. This is using Firefox
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by sbov 9y ago
Here in SoCal, I have to fight off door to door solar salesman at least once per month. It's really annoying.
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by sbov 9y ago
I think the problem is more serverless architectures than EC2. If you build for EC2 you can probably fairly easily migrate between hosts (at least, for our codebase it is). But if you build for Amazon Lambda there's more vendor lock
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by sbov 9y ago
> I'm an artist and people tell me my work is good and I do sell some It's interesting that we might view Patreon as "begging", rather than selling your work to more people, for a smaller amount.
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by sbov 9y ago
I was told they usually aren't used until at least a year after the fact, because this line of reasoning. Not sure how true that is.
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by sbov 9y ago
You don't need to be able to write down in a blank sheet what you actually want to do if you don't need someone else to do what you want to do. Software developers aren't special in this sense - even when writing our own soft
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by sbov 9y ago
The massive battles are pretty boring. They also last forever because they slow the game down to something like 10% speed to help the servers keep up. It's way more fun reading about them.
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by sbov 9y ago
In a world without the Internet, sure. But in the one we live in, it seems trivial to "sneak" digital contraband into the United States.
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by sbov 9y ago
There isn't a lot written about that time. So my understanding could be incorrect. But as far as I know, back in the 40s/50s, programmer meant something different and very specific than what people today might mean. Basically,
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by sbov 9y ago
How tightly bound we are to just a few large tech companies is... unfortunate. I would love it if it were easier for the common person to host their own stuff. Between all the concerns involved (security, hardware, demand, etc.) I'm n
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by sbov 9y ago
It would, but then there would be no one left to comment.
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by sbov 9y ago
Define "use". I've had a steel rod in my leg for 14 years now. I use my leg to walk more than I use my phone.
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by sbov 9y ago
IIRC Google Fonts aren't easy to download because they vary by user agent.
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by sbov 9y ago
None of these contrived scenarios compares to the rate at which humans simply fail to stop when they should have stopped. I don't know anyone who got into or was rescued from an accident by pulling one of these maneuvers. I know plen
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by sbov 9y ago
Someone did that, back in 2003! It looks like its changed over time (and its security certificate is recently expired). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bountysource
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by sbov 9y ago
It might make sense to separate SF from San Jose, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to separate San Jose from the south bay - San Jose borders some of these cities on 2-3 sides.
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by sbov 9y ago
The difference is that their intentional leaking of classified information as people with a security clearance is letter of the law illegal. The difference seems huge and obvious to my untrained eye.
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by sbov 9y ago
> So, if I hack TU, all I need to do is get the data of the people who asked for a credit freeze. Sure, but TU already has all the above information anyways.
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by sbov 9y ago
I used to dream about software development flaws applied to "reality". E.g. I've had radios in my dreams that wouldn't turn off unless I unplugged them because they didn't properly implement graceful shutdown. Or
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by sbov 9y ago
I consider the names article more a thought experiment. Consider the last point: > 40. People have names. Good luck getting names right.
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by sbov 9y ago
My personal version is this: 1. Everyone is ignorant of something, so don't be condescending. 2. Everyone does stupid things, including you, but it doesn't make them stupid.
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by sbov 9y ago
Plausible deniability if they get their hand caught again? "We suspend thousands of accounts for suspicious behavior, a few are going to get through".
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by sbov 9y ago
I think large companies love it the way it is. Healthcare being so tightly bound to employment makes it more difficult for employees to leave, which probably has a dampening affect on salaries. I haven't had to deal with it in a whil
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by sbov 9y ago
I'm pretty sure companies would not be happy if they found out Amazon was tracking those companies' customers. If it got out, it would probably be huge. Not worth it for Amazon to do this.
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by sbov 9y ago
Game dev is built on the backs of people sacrificing salary for "working in games". You really can't compare it to any other job. All my friends who worked with C/C++ in game dev that moved out of game dev, but still u

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