smtddr

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by smtddr 11y ago
There are a lot of things I wish the general public would try to get educated about so they can make informed choices. 1) Nutrition 2) Politics(especially taxes & wars) 3) Computers 4) Finances If you can figure out how get
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by smtddr 11y ago
There's a comic for this -^_^- http://i.imgur.com/833CgHX.png
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>And having a single development job at a big company for a decade isn't some kind of career-killing move... unless you turn it into one, by letting your skills stagnate and wither, which is on you. HN is going to hate me for
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by smtddr 11y ago
As long as the user needs to opt-in & agree to some kind of specially written dating/match-making, must be 18+, etc. sounds reasonable :)
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by smtddr 11y ago
Seems that way... http://www.today.com/money/riders-look-love-uberpool-lyft-li...
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by smtddr 11y ago
Sure, but there are some shops that do their security from a point-of-view of "Attacker can run commands on your server as the user that started whatever-public-service/webapp/api" , and go from there. I happen to think
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by smtddr 11y ago
This is the bane of my existence when it comes to Twitter. Why are you even allowed to have 2 names anyway? The real one(the one in your url,.e.g. twitter.com/<realacctname>) and that $WHATEVER_STRING_YOU_WANT username? Idea, som
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by smtddr 11y ago
If an attacker can get the process that's running the webapp.py to exec some abitrary bash command, that process has the ability to read its own /proc/$PID/environ . In general, you can read /proc/$PID/env
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by smtddr 11y ago
Here's my caution to this. If low level processes can do "ps aux", and they see something like: DB_USER=scott DB_PASSWORD=b3withm3pl3aze /usr/bin/python webapp.py That could be troublesome if an attacker figure
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>It made me wonder in my own professional work: should I also focus more on getting things done instead of trying to find the best solution? As an SDET who has dealt with code perfectionist, please just focus on getting things done
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by smtddr 11y ago
I just had a discussion about this with a coworker. I very strongly agree with this article. Diversity does not survive in expensive areas and I strongly believe that is worth preserving in San Francisco. I understand the problems rent-cont
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>But 100 hours a week, for years? There's something bigger going wrong there--either you're trying to sell something people don't want, you've hired a lot of the wrong people, or whatever, I don't know. That
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>A twenty-so young boy has no lesson to teach. That indefensible statement alone is enough reason for a downvote, imho.
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by smtddr 11y ago
Yup, I think a lot of commenters here are taking this literally at face value. I got 2 kids of my own and I get the "vibe", or direction/intent, Taiwan's lawmakers are going for. They know they can't enforce it; the
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>Organized political disruption of markets and business is terrorism. By that logic, employees protesting in front of supermarket entrances are terrorists. Yes, I know technically protesters shouldn't be blocking the entrance
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by smtddr 11y ago
Nitpicking? I had no idea what this submission was even about. I thought maybe Google, the company, was hacked by outsiders. That was my best guess. Or even "Google hacked" could imply "Hacked by Google", I don't ev
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by smtddr 11y ago
This whole drone thing is new and people are flying them around crowds. So actually, yeah, the dangers of drones are a new trendy thing that does need to be looked at.
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by smtddr 11y ago
Let me also add to your comment: Oil CEO Wanted University Quake Scientists Dismissed --- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-15/oil-tycoon... Still Borns in Vernal, Utah ---- http://www
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by smtddr 11y ago
The sliding effect and animations are cool at least. You should have seen my first webpage. Animated rainbow gifs, crazy backgrounds on crazier font-colors. Their site is much better. Mine looked like those Myspace pages from back in the da
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by smtddr 11y ago
1) It's totally on topic, I don't see how you could argue otherwise. 2) As a person from a Nigerian family myself, I happen to like seeing people of my heritage being seen in a different light rather than the same old scam-email-N
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by smtddr 11y ago
I would love a website that just collected a bunch of past ideas, along with all the naysayer comments, that end up being huge successes later on. That would be pretty uplifting, imho. It'd probably have to include even one of my comme
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>There is precedent for this, for example in the Unix filesystem permissions: to be able to delete a file, you need write access to its parent directory; the permissions of the file itself are not taken into account. My mind has be
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by smtddr 11y ago
Despite your asserted uselessness, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_resources_of_Africa "Some economists have talked about the 'scourge of raw materials', large quantities of rare raw materials put
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by smtddr 11y ago
I have no idea. It's just this phrase on their website "Coinbase will execute an instant sell in the background." could be false if they never bought any bitcoins to begin with. But I admit this is wild speculation based on
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by smtddr 11y ago
But they don't have to. That's the genius of it all. "You can also receive bitcoin and Coinbase will execute an instant sell in the background." If I can use my money to send you bitcoins that'll be automatically
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by smtddr 11y ago
fwiw, doesn't crash for me. FireFox devEdition 40.0a2 (2015-06-17) pikachu@POKEMONGYM ~/Music $ cat /etc/issue Linux Mint 17 Qiana \n \l
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by smtddr 11y ago
Meh, I think the whole low/non-fat trend is also a scam.... but who knows. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/why-eating-a-low... http://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaiken/2013&#
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by smtddr 11y ago
Sure would be nice if that unlimited information was universally accessible and accompanied by unlimited opportunities to actually implement anything learned from said info... because it sounds to me like your comment is basically saying &
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by smtddr 11y ago
FWIW, even the changed link on HN ( http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-tech-startups-play-the-numbe... ) didn't work for me, I still had to Google it first. A referer Request Header thing maybe?
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by smtddr 11y ago
Because of this my wife took iron supplements during pregnancy with our 2 kids. Seems to have worked? Of course I have no idea what would have happened without the supplements. Also, a lot of these things are part of our household diet even

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