lhgaghl

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by lhgaghl 12y ago
"bye bye passwords, hello blocking IP addresses from viewing our blog"?
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by lhgaghl 12y ago
What exactly do you mean by poor quality? Have you ever run the OS? Do you have a reference to some results that reveal some aspect of it that is poor?
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by lhgaghl 12y ago
I'm having trouble reading this article. It seems to make a giant bar that takes up a large percentage of my screen as I scroll through it: http://image.bayimg.com/6f1dce58aa37b2825e74cec05895180a1473... Anyone know ho
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by lhgaghl 12y ago
> Buffer bugs in C don't come from the language, they come from the tendency of C programmers to value performance highly. You have to use other people's code / language constructs which are underspecified and/or you
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by lhgaghl 12y ago
This is why corporations with 12 million users need to establish personal relationships with every client. If that was the case, they'd have just known she was the real owner.
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by lhgaghl 12y ago
I can't see the page, says "403 forbidden"
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by lhgaghl 12y ago
> After seven years, exactly one person gets off the gov’t no-fly list Sounds like they know what they're doing.
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by lhgaghl 12y ago
George and I trade Pokemon cards a lot. Daddy says I can't play with Pokemon cards anymore. That means I can't hang out with George. Also, there are other countries besides the IRS one (with an order of magnitude more people). Thi
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
They may not have gone insane, but Sun Ra has been on Saturn.
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
or black metal
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
%25 pay cut for not showing up to pointless meetings? sheeeeit.
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
> .io not sure if legit
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
> microwaves wat.
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
Rephrased: it is a feature, but it implies a tradeoff: people who are considered more important than you control your money. One which I don't consider worth it. I've never had a problem with stolen assets of any kind other than i
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
And I can become a prostitute. If I get robbed/assaulted, I can contact my pimp and he can go with his gangsters and kill the offender. > There's no such thing with Bitcoin. This is a feature.
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
It's not even clear what you're complaining about here. Exchanges get hacked because they suck. Banks don't affect the customer as often because they are old and already have been hacked many times before, and have all kinds
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
> Most of real world fraud is exactly this kind of stuff. So what? Banks have the same problem. If I call up my bank and ask them to do something, they'll ask for a bunch of random information I didn't know I'm supposed to
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
This is Rogers you're talking about. The sell you a shitty expensive connection capped at 60GB, and then they hijack your DNS failures to resolve to their shitty ads page, and throttle your traffic depending on the protocol. If you dri
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
> Normal banks simply reverse transactions if they are fraudulent. That's not a feature.
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
What's easier to prevent? a) leaking some long numbers b) some tech support dude who just wants the boring work day to end so he can go play video games who doesn't know anything about you accidentally letting an imposter act on y
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
These kinds of people are terrible coders. They are made aware of one possible thing that could go wrong in a piece of code they're writing, and once they avoid that trap, they magically think since they avoided that one pitfall, they
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
> No, I don't "don't like Haskell" for any reason, I just see many people talking about how cool and productive it is, so I want them to stop talking and show it in practice. Because, as I said, there aren't many
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
> Writing GUI app? GUI bindings for Haskell are pretty awful and unnatural. I've never had a problem with GUI coding in Haskell... Here's a few lines of some WX code I wrote: p <- panel f [] startButton <- butto
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
I heard there's this language called PHP and it's used by facebook and wikipedia. You might be interested in it.
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
> God, I hate that "link expired" stuff. Heh, I use tor, and it just took me over 10 tries to login to reply to you (changing exit nodes to find one that isn't blocked, etc). If you don't like Haskell for some reason,
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
I was listening to this song while reading the page, goes good with the flashing background: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBb8e7G4dBk
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
Off the top of my head, any of these would have been a much more sane choice: Standard ML, Ada, Java, concatenative languages, E, Lisp, Haskell, Erlang, Python. > few people (including me) would accept a "security upgrade" whic
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
> Just a traditional password reset email will do Well yes, I would much prefer that to sending in a picture of my drivers license, only logging in from one IP address, etc. This only really happens with financial sites. For normal sites
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
Yes, because users would hate so much to be told explicitly that all they need to remember is a password. They much rather have 20 different pieces of information, some combinations of which if they share, people can take over their account
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by lhgaghl 13y ago
BTW, this comment was meant to be in response to the other thread "How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username (medium.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7141532 But they're both pretty much the same probl

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