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by gohbgl 5y ago
Yes, tutorials should be expected to teach people about security if it is within their scope. But the problem with the tutorials from the article is that the authors seem to be genuinely unaware of the security issues. That may also be the
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by gohbgl 5y ago
Some time ago I found this video series on YouTube about how to build a PHP application from scratch. Ten hours worth of XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, badly coded authentication, you name it. When confronted, the instructor said that he did not
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by gohbgl 5y ago
How do you know when you paid enough money for roads and bridges? I mean they don't give you an invoice.
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by gohbgl 5y ago
I find it hard to believe that there is such a thing as a long lasting natural monopoly. The only monopolies that seem to last are the ones that are rooted in state coercion. Besides that, when I talk about "getting rid of regulation&q
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by gohbgl 5y ago
Wow, the voice of reason in the first comment? Am I really on HN? Of course, you are 100% correct. There is nothing stopping one of the big players from offering a more "repairable" product to satisfy all of the supposed demand. R
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by gohbgl 5y ago
As far as there exist unjust laws that prevent people from repairing their devices, by all means, get rid of them (IP laws especially). But by all means, do not add more regulation.
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by gohbgl 5y ago
There are many factors that contribute to appreciation and depreciation. Decay is just one of them. There could be other appreciating factors that outweigh the depreciating ones. Also, if you measure the value of something in a generally de
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by gohbgl 5y ago
New browser extension coming in in 3, 2, 1, ...
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by gohbgl 6y ago
What is the bug? I don't see it.
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by gohbgl 6y ago
In an IP world you can license it. Otherwise you can crowd fund for new versions, ask for donations, offer support, etc.
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by gohbgl 6y ago
Should farmers have the right to force manufacturers to provide parts, schematics, tools and software?
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by gohbgl 6y ago
Well, in the tech space this is very easy to explain: They survive by selling new devices. People will eventually buy new laptops to get access to faster hardware.
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by gohbgl 6y ago
I like the idea, but I will 100% not buy it for these reasons (most important first): 1. Bad keyboard layout: Small arrow keys, lack of dedicated home/end and page up/down. 2. Screen is too small. I need at least 15.6 inch. 3. Rep
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by gohbgl 6y ago
A couple of frameworks use a radix tree for routing, e.g. ASP .NET Core. Sadly, routing isn't even part of the TE benchmarks. There are some applications out there with 500+ routes, so I think it is pretty relevant.
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by gohbgl 6y ago
Better yet, post to your own blog and have it get automatically added to dev.to.
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by gohbgl 6y ago
Try to find a used Dell Latitude 7370. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Latitude-13-7370-Ultraboo...
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by gohbgl 6y ago
People are paying for negative externalities of burning fossil fuel by paying taxes on gas.
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by gohbgl 6y ago
Probably as enforceable as having "looking at me is prohibited" written on your shirt while walking down the street.
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by gohbgl 6y ago
Doctor ...
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by gohbgl 6y ago
A while ago I listened to a podcast [1] where the guest Stephan Kinsella argued that the state justifies taxing and regulating corporations by granting them special rights like limited liability. The guest then continued to explain that thi
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by gohbgl 6y ago
So basically the author does not like it when someone competes with them (who does?) and runs to the government to get a monopoly on the product. Spending money and effort on suing instead of continuous innovation and improvement. What a gr
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by gohbgl 6y ago
I created a stylesheet to remove the censorship for the viewer. https://userstyles.org/styles/190934/hacker-news-top-comment...
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by gohbgl 6y ago
> I don't understand why anyone is up in arms about this. Because copyright is controversial.
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by gohbgl 6y ago
You should read into Austrian economics and in particular the studies of Ludwig von Mises because it builds on fundamental "tangible" truths. Search for the term praxeology
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by gohbgl 6y ago
Thanks to strong unions and labor laws Sweden is the worker's paradise and everybody has a great job. If Amazon wants to entice people to work for them then they must make a better offer than all* existing employers. What is there for
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by gohbgl 6y ago
Now they have to find the clown who stole the rifle from a police car in Seattle and got disarmed by Shooter Rughi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVAMUejexa0
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by gohbgl 6y ago
I am glad that you are unable to stop people from sharing information on the internet.
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by gohbgl 6y ago
Copyright is brain damage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO9FKQAxWZc
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by gohbgl 6y ago
> I don't buy that. Well now you have a control group to compare against.
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by gohbgl 7y ago
With modern noteboock CPUs the base clock is only a loose indicator for how a CPU will perform. The CPU will still be downclocked and undervolted depending on the load.

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