Stefan_H

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by Stefan_H 14y ago
If you initially parse everything after the comma as the aside, you then have only the fact that "two onlookers" is not something that George coul be to allow you to understand the sentence.
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
And with your clever repartee, no one will be able to contradict you. Sarcasm aside, your comment is useless. I think that there is still significant ambiguity in the sentence as written as you parent comment does. It is only saved by the
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
If I read this correctly, the main negative point was that the author was not paid as much as his colleagues, though he did get the position. The author suggests this is because of his height. To me (a young professional in the software d
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
I don't think anybody is saying that you shouldn't strive to understand crypto. I think the overall message is don't build systems with crypto unless you understand it, or have someone in your employ who does. If you don't understand cryp
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
Does the author not know how to write quotations? The use of parentheses instead of square brackets to denote the alteration of the quotation is confusing and painful.
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
The something you are (which generally doesn't apply to web-based authentication) are biometrics. So something you are - the pattern of blood vessels in your retina - is something very different from something you "do". The fact that you
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
There are also some very important facets to Information security that you are missing. You describe security as being "based on knowing, doing, or owning something that no one else can". But this is not quite right. You are speaking to
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
How would it be cheaper if the refueling stations are free?
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
did you mean "who DDOS'es Github"?
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
In that case, wouldn't the 200x200px square with the anomaly still be highlighted as unique from the rest of the sand, since none of the sand would match it?
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
You managed to, in more words than the original article, completely miss the point of the original article... None of what you assume a "fuck 'em" mentality means is suggested in this article. It doesn't say that you should go out and walk
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
So they finally got rid of those pesky creative writing classes, huzzah!
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
I totally mean skewed right. The big part of the curve is on the left.
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
Even if you take 78 birthday candles to mean reach the age of 78, then there is still an issue with that statement. Likely to reach the age of 78 implies that the median age is 78, not the average. The median age is likely different than
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
Your logic is infallible... I mean fallacious!
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
You hit the nail on the head... "an appropriate forum with as many readers as SO/SE" Stack overflow on the other hand is for people to: [A]sk practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questi
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
I have a real problem with this: "I guess my point is, that if you want to become a programmer, you have to be comfortable with having to learn new things constantly for the rest of your life." I really feel like this is the outlook everyo
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
The comparison is spot on. You do not need to "become a developer" in order to understand what is within the realm of possibility for developers to do.
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who has to do something when someone corrects a person, but is wrong themselves. One of my BIGGEST pet peeves!
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
Post-holocaust is perfectly correct. The event of nuclear war is often refereed to as a nuclear holocaust. Note the lack of capitalization on the 'h' making it not signify the proper name for the event, the Holocaust. http://en.wikipedi
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
This font: TiemposHeadlineLight - was VERY difficult to read and made me want to run for the high hills.
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
While I love the pointing out of logical fallacies, this is not necessarily an ad-hominem attack on the argument. I think this post provides important context for the reading of the article. Since I did not know of the blogger's backgroun
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
It wouldn't necessarily 'just happen'. From what I can glean, the idea is that if you are trying to play the game as well as possible, then the portion that you originally learned would be played better. You could certainly intentionally
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
There is a chance that if your DB is compromised, your code is as well. Additionally, what if you want to change your work factor, how would you handle doing that? If you upgrade your server environment and then all of a sudden realize th
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
I would only say that you would want to immediately reset all user passwords if the passwords were leaked, not necessarily if the algorithm that you are using is bad for whatever reason. And the idea would be to give users a couple weeks (
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
When I say "Add in interoperability of hashing functions", that is pretty much exactly what I mean. I realize I left out the specific method for converting the hashes over. And your separate column for when the hash has been converted is
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
Salting is no replacement for strong passwords, this would work against most any salting scheme.
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
Sure - but the idea of salting is to make the dictionary too time consuming to create. The security is NOT in how secret your methods are (it rarely is). Additionally, each salt is still unique per password, so the attacker would need to g
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
Yes, storing the algorithm used in the same column would be fine as well. But if you drop the "bcrypt$" from your example, you would still run into issues if bcrypt itself is broken.
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by Stefan_H 14y ago
I do not see this as premature optimization. Do you store timezone information with your dates even if you are not operating in a different time zone? Do you store measurement information with a unit even if you love inches? I would say

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