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by vivekseth 8y ago
Hashing passwords client side has no benefit if a site uses HTTPS. If a site uses HTTP, then hashing the password client-side and sending it up to the server is equivalent to sending a clear text password. If an attacker can already read yo
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by vivekseth 8y ago
You are making a false comparison. Why would an SPA not be a "ad hoc jQuery tangle + ad hoc server side endpoints that know to speak to random jQuery UI libraries" ? I think it's quite possible to design an SPA like that.
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by vivekseth 8y ago
This is a great list. Thank you for sharing!
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by vivekseth 8y ago
Apple maps seems to have roundabout support in the Bay Area. Maybe they have not collected the data for Spain yet.
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by vivekseth 8y ago
I suppose ads could be cached server-side, but it would probably be more efficient to cache an ad client-side. If ads are personalized few users of a website may see the same ad, but an individual may see the same ad on different websites.
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by vivekseth 8y ago
Apple Maps. I’ve been using it as my primary maps app for about an year and it’s been pretty good. I live in the bay area so YMMV if you live somewhere else.
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by vivekseth 8y ago
How would server-side ads improve the user experience? I have some ideas about what you might mean (improve page load time, prevent content from jumping as ads load), but curious about what you think.
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by vivekseth 8y ago
Yeah, I don’t think racism is an American issue. I think racist attitudes can result wherever people have low exposure to people of different races. For example, I feel that India has a lot of racism (just from my personal experience visiti
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by vivekseth 8y ago
My point was that Apple is a large company with many teams. I didn’t understand why OP would write off an an entire company because they didn’t like 1 team.
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by vivekseth 8y ago
So you will never work at Apple because you had 1 bad interviewer out of a sample size of 8? That seems foolish.
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by vivekseth 8y ago
Try turning off the sound in your map app. That way you can ignore the steps you already know and look at your phone whenever you need directions.
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by vivekseth 9y ago
This reminds me of the movie Snowpiercer
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by vivekseth 9y ago
How would this stop crawling by users who cannot afford the API subscription or don't want to pay for it? I think your suggestion would reduce crawling, but not prevent or block it.
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Jump Address Hacking to Execute Code Stored as a String(github.com)
1 points by vivekseth 9y ago|0 comments
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by vivekseth 9y ago
What kinds of Show HNs are you asking about? What do you mean by how is a site doing? My Show HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14778497 ) made it to the homepage, but I don't think its what you're asking ab
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Perspective Transform vs. Homography vs. Essential Matrix vs. Fundamental Matrix(github.com)
2 points by vivekseth 9y ago|0 comments
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by vivekseth 9y ago
Does it? In monospaced fonts, you can use width to know how many characters are in a ligature.
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by vivekseth 9y ago
This is amazing, thanks for sharing!
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by vivekseth 9y ago
I might be taking you too literally, but I think “just wait” is bad advice. Many of my peers at college graduated without ever building anything of substance on their own. Don’t know where they ended up, but I doubt they got good jobs. I th
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by vivekseth 9y ago
There _is_ a major disconnect! You’re studying computer science and wondering how it applies to software engineering. When I studied CS (graduated a year ago) we never went over things like building a GUI, reverse engineering an API, or des
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by vivekseth 9y ago
Maybe it looks like it’s orthographic, but it’s actually a perspective projection. You should be able to tell if you use the arrow keys to move around. Check out drawLine3D() in until.js to see where I apply the perspective projection.
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by vivekseth 9y ago
One of the other commenters mentioned this: https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki If you’re interested in learning graphics, this is a great place to start!
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by vivekseth 9y ago
From a performance standpoint it’s definitely not better. I just built this for fun.
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Show HN: 3D Renderer Built using 2D HTML Canvas(vivekseth.com)
54 points by vivekseth 9y ago|28 comments
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by vivekseth 9y ago
Probably so it’s human readable.
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by vivekseth 9y ago
I think it should at least know which thread handles mouse movement.
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by vivekseth 9y ago
I think we should encourage that. If students can catch their mistakes early and learn from them, I think they should. What we should discourage is students using Wolfram Alpha to just get the answers without any initial work. That robs stu
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by vivekseth 9y ago
For those who don’t know there’s a data structure called a HyperLogLog ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperLogLog ) that does something similar. Just learned about it last week.
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Drawing Parametric Graphs with the HTML Canvas(github.com)
3 points by vivekseth 9y ago|0 comments
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by vivekseth 9y ago
You describe him as if he happened to be a genius who was discovered by the right people. My interpretation of the article was that he worked hard to become skilled at code and through persistence and determination managed to convince peopl

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