godfreykfc

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by godfreykfc 13y ago
You're probably referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5482178
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by godfreykfc 13y ago
If I understand correctly, you are only asked to fill in a few of the 8 characters. (I have seen this before.) You are presented with * * [ ] * [ ] * * [ ] and you are supposed to submit * * [3] * [5] * * [8] so neither side would have enou
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by godfreykfc 13y ago
Wait. Doesn't that imply your bank is storing your password in plaintext, or at best salted and hashed each individual character of your password? (Which is still horrible, because it now takes O(n) instead of O(n^8) to crack stolen hashes)
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by godfreykfc 14y ago
The author did a talk at VanJS today, and he compared LucidJS with other events library[1]. From what I got out of it, besides the nice features it offers (set/pipe/etc), this is probably most useful for people who would like to release a l
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LucidJS: a lightweight, dependency-free event emitter library(robertwhurst.github.com)
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by godfreykfc 14y ago
I did something almost exactly the same[1] for a design project at school a while back, where I explained why current infinite scrolling UX is not great and how something like this could help[2]. I'm glad someone made this into a library! [
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by godfreykfc 15y ago
I am really skeptical (though I'd be more than happy to see someone prove me wrong) about these "framework" apps, that doesn't actualy do anything by itself, except to provide an API of some sort for others to take advantage of. They remind
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by godfreykfc 15y ago
What if this allows you to run faster. Should we allow this in Olympics? (I haven't made up my mind yet, but leaning towards a no.)
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by godfreykfc 15y ago
I smiled when I saw how you call them "unibody" terminals. We have come a long way since then. :)
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by godfreykfc 15y ago
I find this theory by a commenter on the original Kaspersky blog post very interesting. I certainly don't really have the knowledge to judge if it has any merits, but I still find it amusing nonetheless. http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/6
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by godfreykfc 15y ago
The text-shadow trick is really clever. I think a "progressive" version could be pretty cool. Just tried throwing that together real quick by changing the blur radius in 0.5px increment. Needs some fine tuning (shadow color perhaps), but yo