chrishepner

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by chrishepner 2y ago
What's wrong with Polygon?
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by chrishepner 6y ago
It stands for "the f-ing article," i.e. the link in the original post. (When you have to explain it, you realize that a lot of common terminology in the "tech community" kind of sucks!)
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by chrishepner 7y ago
Amazon's one-click shopping patent expired on Sept 11, 2017: https://qz.com/1057490/a-patent-that-helped-amazon-take-over...
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by chrishepner 9y ago
http://playlist.cool/ It finds bands playing in your area in the near future and creates a Spotify playlist of them. It still needs a lot of work but it's a fun way to discover shows to go to.
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by chrishepner 9y ago
I don't see on what axis you could meaningfully separate Cernovich from the rest of the "alt-right" - the hateful conspiracy theory stuff aside, he says things like "diversity is code for white genocide."
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by chrishepner 9y ago
- Leadership Content Ideation - Monthly Numbers Meeting
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by chrishepner 10y ago
I once encountered a 2K+ line script handling submissions from something like a contact form. If a client submitted a value for which the key didn't exist in the database table, it wasn't ignored - the application would alter the
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by chrishepner 11y ago
I wrote an mitmproxy script to do just this: https://github.com/chrishepner/sh-mitm The kind of vulnerabilities that are basically just subverting a user's trust are totally fascinating to me.
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by chrishepner 12y ago
They are the second to most recent releases - RHEL7 was released in June, CentOS 7 in July.
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by chrishepner 12y ago
Unfortunately, I don't think it's as simple as "just use the 'url' and 'email' input types for their respective fields." Using the "url" input type can be a problem, due to strict validation
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by chrishepner 12y ago
Nitpick: The PHP function for setting error message levels is error_reporting() , not set_error_reporting() .
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by chrishepner 13y ago
I think I found a bug: On level 23, "orange:last-of-type, apple:last-of-type" doesn't advance you to the next level but "apple:last-of-type, orange:last-of-type" does. Very cool, thanks for making this!
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by chrishepner 13y ago
They don't ask for a copy of your social security card, no, but I have to have a cellphone tied to my account and I only have one of those.
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by chrishepner 13y ago
Because my entire account is banned, not just the device. If it were just the device, it wouldn't have been a problem - I could've just turned off the IMEI blocker and it would've been fine. Sadly, that's not the case!
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by chrishepner 13y ago
I am permanently banned from Uber. About 6 months ago, I noticed I was unable to log in to my account. Resetting the password did nothing, so I sent an email to the local support address. Almost two weeks later, I finally get the following
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by chrishepner 13y ago
I took the Dasgupta's algorithms class at UCSD a couple years ago. I don't know the legal status of the PDF there, exactly, but he gave the link out to the class and almost everyone in the class used it instead of a physical textb
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by chrishepner 13y ago
I'm not sure for the purposes of this case, but San Diego has some strange policies for their sidewalks. By CA law the property owner is usually responsible for the upkeep of the sidewalk on their property. However, if someone falls an
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by chrishepner 13y ago
I use fieldset and legend frequently. I believe Bootstrap uses these in their example forms, so I don't think these are nearly as obscure as the others. optgroup is occasionally useful for demarcating groups within lists, but this need
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by chrishepner 13y ago
Whether this works depends on the site's email validation script: many don't allow the '+' character. Gmail filters out '.' within usernames (e.g., john.smith@gmail.com and johnsmith@gmail.com are sent to the same account), but this gives y
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by chrishepner 14y ago
Ron Graham was a close friend of Erdős, so if you were to co-author a paper with him, you would have a Erdos number of 2. ;)