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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 rev…

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 coll…

If the package repository acted as a certificate authority, and generated distributors' certificates by verifying the distributor's appropriate virtual identity (GitHub, BitBucket,…

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…

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:…

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…

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 the…

You can try to report it as a bug, but the docs indicate that this is by design.

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 functi…

Thanks! It is indeed the first in a series of Python posts that will be on the Thumbtack engineering blog.

Oh, Guido. Thanks, I've updated the post.

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 t…

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…

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.

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…