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by enaeseth 13y ago
Will having the private key allow the decryption of ciphertext that was previously intercepted (while the service was active) and stored? Lavabit was already shut down, so this revocation is equally useless for user security. :(
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by enaeseth 13y ago
Reddit posts often get one off-topic top level comment that spawns a huge subtree, but it's easy to deal with there because the uninterested reader can click the [-] button to collapse the whole mess. I wonder if HNers would stop viewi
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by enaeseth 13y ago
If the package repository acted as a certificate authority, and generated distributors' certificates by verifying the distributor's appropriate virtual identity (GitHub, BitBucket, DNS), then I think you can at least be pretty s
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by enaeseth 13y ago
Interfaces communicate with their users (at least, if you ask me), and I sometimes find it helpful to explicitly put into words what I think an interface is saying. I interpret The Ladder's cancellation screen as saying, "You cann
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by enaeseth 13y ago
Online login services are generally many-to-one. For example, many sites accept Facebook login, but for a user to log in that way, there is only one identity provider they can use: Facebook. If you don't have a Facebook account, or don'
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by enaeseth 14y ago
I don't think it's fair to blame the user for that. This is a standard-looking login form that users will have seen hundreds or thousands of times before. You don't reinterpret the words on a login form every time you see a new one; you typ
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by enaeseth 14y ago
I would think that the fun and interesting events of his year are the ones that don't need this kind of reporting to remember or get insight into. Everyone has mundane parts of their life, and with this report, now even those parts are kind
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by enaeseth 14y ago
You can try to report it as a bug, but the docs indicate that this is by design.
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by enaeseth 14y ago
Here's the source of Flask's `route` decorator: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/blob/master/flask/app.py#... When you call `route` with a URL pattern, it returns an inner function which is used as the decorator. That decorator just rec
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by enaeseth 14y ago
Thanks! It is indeed the first in a series of Python posts that will be on the Thumbtack engineering blog.
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by enaeseth 14y ago
Oh, Guido. Thanks, I've updated the post.
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Docopt – The Pythonic option parser that will make you smile(github.com)
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by enaeseth 15y ago
All of the array_* functions, as their names suggest, only apply to arrays. Underscore methods work on arrays or any Traversable (Iterator or IteratorAggregate) object. It's nice to have.
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by enaeseth 15y ago
We came up with our model of tracking independently, but I found out later that Mixpanel has an eerily similar tracking API (see http://mixpanel.com/api/docs/tour ). I think it's a fairly natural design, though, and wasn't surprised to see
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by enaeseth 15y ago
We're storing complex, loosely-structured data, which perfectly fits MongoDB's schemaless document model. The fact that it will easily scale up with us is just icing on the cake.
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by enaeseth 15y ago
The most important concern we had about Mixpanel was cost: at the volume of data we collect, their tracking would be quite expensive. It also doesn't support as flexible of segment comparisons as our analytics tools, and requires you to sen