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FTC technologist: frequent password changes are the enemy of security(arstechnica.com)
4 points by wtbob 10y ago|1 comments
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by wtbob 10y ago
And some of the problems of SF (e.g. the homelessness, the mentally ill, the dirtiness & shabbiness of the city) are a direct result of its liberal & progressive government.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Once again proving a) the security of a system, like a chain is only as strong as its weakest link and b) if something is theoretically broken now it will be actually broken tomorrow.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Not mine, since I have JavaScript turned off (how do you know I have JavaScript turned off? Don't worry, I'll let you know every time there's a browser exploit or privacy hole due to JavaScript — so at least thrice weekly).
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Isn't it implied that programmers are adults? It's one of those irregular situations: I'm a senior developer. You're an adult programmer. He's a stark raving juvenile lunatic.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I prefer what I do with Python in this regard: The IDE shows me unused variables, I can run my code with them, but I can't commit since the linting hook will produce a hard error at commit-time if something's wrong. The probl
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Do doctors spend their off-ours doing minor surgery in order to have "remarkable careers"? Quite a few go to the Third World to perform surgery for free — and, not coincidentally, increase their skills.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Do managers spend their off-hours coaching kids sports teams and running charities in order to boast their resumes? Yes, actually (and also to increase their social networks).
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by wtbob 10y ago
I think that one should only spend 36-40 hours a week on work, but one should also spend plenty of time outside of that honing one's craft. I think that neatly squares the circle of burnout vs. getting to 10,000 hours.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Meh, I just have emacs configured to run goimports on save, right along with gofmt. I never even worry about, unless I have to resolve which of two packages with the same final name component I'm using. That can be a bit annoying, but
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I like to complement this with memorization of the most difficult concepts, especially things I don’t run into very often while reading. You can use Anki for this (or any other spaced-repetition software). Sure enough, I took a look an
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Jade, a new JavaScript development environment for emacs 25(github.com)
2 points by wtbob 10y ago|0 comments
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by wtbob 10y ago
> In what ways is the security story on debian better than the security on ubuntu? See danieldk's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=12201051&goto=threads%... I'd add that Ubuntu encourages the
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by wtbob 10y ago
IIRC IPv6 requires ICMPv6 to work. I'd be in favour of SCTP support as well; dunno how it compares to QUIC for mobile devices though.
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by wtbob 10y ago
I think that this is basically what SCTP is/was (maybe with a few improvements: I don't recall how SCTP handled client mobility). The problem, as drdaeman indicates, is that too many networks consider themselves TCP (really, TCP&
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by wtbob 10y ago
From the point of view of what the Olympics were supposed to be about (independently-wealthy amateur athletes competing to be the best amateurs in the world), this actually makes perfect sense: none of the athletes needed to make money, and
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Vi is already installed most of the time. 60% of the time, it works every time, eh? :-) I use vi too, but less now than I used too. It's definitely a powerful little editor.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> The creators of XML were aware that it was verbose; they mention in their design goals that this was the least priority. Which seems pretty wasteful. > Child and attribute "dichotomy" is not a mistake. It's not for a
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by wtbob 10y ago
emacs is a terminal editor too … I have vi aliased to 'emacsclient -c' for just that reason.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Emacs can be installed on any server (and can be used to edit files on any server, from a client …), and it has smooth fonts and scrolling (if you like that; I turn off the scrollbar). And of course it excels at mouseless editing, navigati
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by wtbob 10y ago
You're not wrong: simple macros can be written poorly. Macros which don't properly use GENSYM should be rejected in review. Also, it's entirely possible to write a hygienic macro implementation with DEFMACRO: nothing stops a
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by wtbob 10y ago
> So the very first thing you do with your macro powers, and pretty much the only useful thing you can do, is break s-expressions. Once the first macro is written you can no longer assume that inputs to macros will be s-expressions with
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by wtbob 10y ago
> For hand-writing HTML/XML documents, which I do quite a lot, I really enjoy the tag style because of the verbose end tags and the ease of moving blocks. I can't say anything about liking verbose tags, which seems to me a matt
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Honestly, what changed was Ubuntu. Being able to have a fairly robust server on the cheap and maintain it fairly well with just a few apt-get commands was a huge game changer. That hurts to read. Debian (upon which Ubuntu is based) ha
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by wtbob 10y ago
> There is a very big difference - "with JSON one still must check the expected types anyway" is not really true, I can deserialize an arbitrary json and I will know the difference between 123 and "123" even if I don&
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by wtbob 10y ago
You may not leave JSON object properties unquoted, so it'd have to read: {"object": [ {"id": "1234"}, {"isEnabled": "true"}, {"props": ["abc"
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by wtbob 10y ago
> The second and third examples do not have namespaces. > How would you include an HTML summary, for example? As a text attribute, honestly — which would be necessary in XML as well (you could embed XHTML in XML, but not HTML). And
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Isn't that fact a huge tell-sign that perhaps you're not the kind of person for whom desktop Linux would be challenging? Well, sure — but I didn't spring forth fully-formed from my father's forehead knowing how to u
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by wtbob 10y ago
> If you're going to compare the two fairly, include appropriate indentation for both, not just the S-expression version. When I pasted it in from https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/atom.html#sampleFeed I
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by wtbob 10y ago
I don't get this idea that desktop Linux is challenging, not at all. I've been using a Linux box as my primary desktop since 1999, and as my sole desktop since 2000. It's not challenging, it just works. I won't say tha

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