rlidwka

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by rlidwka 10y ago
There is another basic choice: write a code that is intentionally incompatible with ad blockers. They can name an important navigation element "ad", so ad blocker will hide it for example. Then, when a bunch of users start complai
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by rlidwka 10y ago
You can store this hash on the server and use it as a password. If this hash gets stolen, the attacker will be able to log in on YOUR website, but not on other websites user may share passwords with. After that you can ditch server-side has
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by rlidwka 10y ago
I'm afraid there are plenty of potential victims out there for both FBI and Al-Qaeda. So one organization does not really interfere with another.
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by rlidwka 10y ago
Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. // quoting https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/
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by rlidwka 10y ago
Potentially, higher acceleration/deceleration would allow a computer to use simpler collision prevention algorithms. Also, there is no shifter there.
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by rlidwka 10y ago
> Without inheritance, as soon as you want to cast mixer to something else, you're either relying on binary wizardry by the compiler Why would you want to cast mixer to something else? What real-life task does it solve? > If we
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by rlidwka 10y ago
> Personally I believe that psychiatry can be both a science and not a science Like alchemy, astrology or theology? Or medical sciences in middle ages? Like all those "sciences", psychiatry lacks a solid base, a set of verifiab
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by rlidwka 10y ago
> Do you believe that psychiatry provides us valid knowledge that allows us to No, it really doesn't. If someone comes into a clinic and ask psychiatrist for a help, he is gonna be diagnosed with some kind of a disorder 100% the tim
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by rlidwka 10y ago
I remember some people being offended by an auto-generated captcha text.
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by rlidwka 10y ago
Better solution is: BEGIN TRAN; DELETE (without where clause) ... on the same line. I've lost a lot of data to "oh lets find that line in mysql history... up, up, enter, FUCK"
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by rlidwka 11y ago
I've read a few. Admittedly, I've read ToS less times than I've clicked on "Accept" button. Nonetheless, there is an external "Just let me ignore this!" button here: http://bugmenot.com/ I
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by rlidwka 11y ago
The way to ask politely is to provide "close this popup" button at an easily accessible place. Saying "you can't view this content unless you register/disable adblock" is NEVER polite, no matter how many times
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by rlidwka 11y ago
That's what being politician means. This job isn't about solving problems, it's about making an appearance that you solve them. Suppose a terrorist did something with his shoe that he wasn't supposed to. Here is how it s
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by rlidwka 11y ago
If he doesn't own BMW car, he didn't receive a written offer and can't really act on it. You have to refer to actual written offer made to one of their customers. The argument that "I didn't see the written offer, b
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by rlidwka 11y ago
"Popularity" and "Thanks" happen, those aren't very strong emotions. Sure people +1 post or two, but it wears off quickly. "Mercy" is a very popular way to counteract -1's, but it disappears if we get
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by rlidwka 11y ago
In a professional context it is essential that people can express disagreement provided they write exact reasons why they disagree. You know, "+1" usually has only one meaning: - "I agree with whatever you're saying
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by rlidwka 11y ago
Hmm... I wonder, if they put everything (both navigation and ads) on the same canvas (maybe pixel-by-pixel even), is there any way to block ads inside? If webgl will be adopted widely enough, this might even look plausible for some.
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by rlidwka 11y ago
"unlimited plan" means "you pay for a bandwidth instead of an amount of data downloaded". And if you're able to download 2TB in a period of time, you have the right to do so. Yes, I know, common carriers are oversel
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by rlidwka 11y ago
It doesn't list the word "Belgium". Even though according to Douglas Adams that's the most offensive word in the galaxy. :)
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by rlidwka 11y ago
> It is, to its very roots, a bad word. Even if every single human being using it was meant to be insulting, it still wouldn't make it a bad word. Because there are no bad words. Just like there are no bad numbers or bad colors or b
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by rlidwka 11y ago
> I've known a lot of awesome people with intellectual disabilities who have had this label applied to them in the past. It's amazingly hurtful. Applying it to someone is hurtful. Using this word is not. It doesn't matter
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by rlidwka 11y ago
I don't remember the exact quote, and might have used one out of place. I am thinking about it in binary terms, because it helps to prevent security through obscurity trap many seem to fall in. My point is: the fact that a particular b
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by rlidwka 11y ago
If facebook allows you to put an arbitrarily large img tag onto any of the pages under its domain (so internal navigation could be hidden under it), then yes it is a valid attack vector.
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by rlidwka 11y ago
It doesn't change anything. As some people used to say, "security is binary; you either are secure or you are not". While it's useful for phishing pages to be interactive, it's not strictly necessary: ---- "You
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by rlidwka 11y ago
> When someone can tell me who owns the number 2, I will tell you who owns our cultural heritage of songs. Well, the number 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640 is actually copyrighted.
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by rlidwka 11y ago
It won't be exactly the same point. With a fake name there is no proof that the information in question ever existed. I would've probably masked a name, but institution url should stay there, so anyone could check that the point
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by rlidwka 11y ago
If it adds an engine abstraction layer which would allow users to choose an engine (and somebody implements SpiderMonkey support there), sure why not. Though this is a job that is already done by JXCore.
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by rlidwka 12y ago
Moving the repo is the source of the issue here. From now on every developer will see "hey, this belongs to strongloop now". It is completely different from Automattic, because they took over almost dead project. I saw socket.io a
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by rlidwka 13y ago
There is no node foundation, "Node.js" is a Joyent's trademark. We had discussed this particular bikeshed in the mailing list last year. :)
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by rlidwka 13y ago
As far as I remember, "npm registry" is a trademark as well. Isn't it? At least, that's what is written here: https://github.com/npm/npm#legal-stuff . My point is: any single package README contains

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