thirsteh

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by thirsteh 13y ago
Based on what?
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Test what?
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5659241
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by thirsteh 13y ago
> I think you need to look up the definition of "immigrant." You clearly do not understand what it means. Read the comment I replied to, whiz.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
> Emmigrants of East Africa. You know that those two sentences are synonymous, right? (Immigrant [in the United States] from East Africa, and emigrant [to the United States] from East Africa.) You and MisterBastahrd pointlessly chose
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Then all people living on Earth are immigrants from East Africa.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Yes. There's a reason modern science has mostly supplanted philosophy. To rephrase Occam's razor: things that seem intuitive aren't always true :)
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by thirsteh 13y ago
I do hear this a lot, and I have no comprehensive experience with Dvorak, but as far as I know there is no real support for the premise that Dvorak makes you type faster, at least. I'll buy that your fingers might not tire as easily.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
You're thinking about this the wrong way. It's not supposed to buy you security. It's supposed to protect the user. (Yes, in the narrow case where an attacker has access only to your accounts table, and you want to prevent them from being
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by thirsteh 13y ago
There's also apparently no real research which shows that Dvorak is actually a more efficient layout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard#Cont...
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by thirsteh 13y ago
> If you hash passwords on the client, you aren't doing hashing right! If you hash passwords on the client, all an attacker needs is a user's hash, and then he can send it to you and get logged in without ever knowing the user's passwor
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Barbara Liskov (MIT CSAIL) - The Power of Abstraction(infoq.com)
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by thirsteh 13y ago
I think you are right, and it apparently all boils down to hiring a bad CEO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5654251
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Thanks, this explained it nicely (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Johnson_(businessman) ): Due to his success at Apple and Target, Ron Johnson was hired by J. C. Penney in November 2011, succeeding Mike Ullman who had served as CEO f
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by thirsteh 13y ago
What exactly did jcpenney do that they're apologizing for? Just had a plummeting stock price?
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Similar: https://www.gov.uk/ http://storify.com/GovUK/gov-uk-wins-design-of-the-year-awar...
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by thirsteh 14y ago
I don't consider req a long variable name. What I'm trying to communicate is that req is better than request, and res better than response, since they communicate the same thing and are easier to read and write. When it makes sense, i.e. wh
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Hashed and salted means almost nothing. It could be one invocation of SHA-256 (or SHA512, or SHA-3) with a salt, which is fairly meaningless unless the key/password contains a large amount of entropy (almost no passwords do.) It's much more
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by thirsteh 14y ago
..are good if they are descriptive/intuitive. It's idiomatic Go--long variable names most certainly are not.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
The actual New York Times article is funny and sad: http://web.archive.org/web/20080704103647/http://it.is.rice.... Robert Goddard was ridiculed for most of his life for having such lofty ambitions, chiefly building a machine that had eve
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by thirsteh 14y ago
..or just use "their"
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Reading this at the top of the comments made me really sad.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
If backed up, this would be huge. Seismologists don't really stand a chance right now.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
I think you are overestimating how bad the "global economic crisis" is. Besides, computers are vital to many companies--they're not an expendable "luxury."
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by thirsteh 14y ago
You should add this. Savvy people will be positively surprised to see a company actually caring about doing password authentication right.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Indeed.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
People regularly talk about education alone not being a good gauge of a candidate's actual skill and viability. If we accept that degrees aren't everything, then certifications are all but meaningless--the primary thing they reflect is th
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by thirsteh 14y ago
What do the credit cards work with?
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by thirsteh 14y ago
That's actually fairly accurate.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Sure. It's been stated many times that Hacker News is for anything that might be interesting to hackers, not just "news" (anything that happened relatively recently.)

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