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Being aware of exploits and protecting against them comes with the territory. Luckily there are things like owasp.org to help developers keep up on web security. However, security …

"If this was such a beneficial mutation, why isn’t it more common?" Based on natural selection it would only necessarily be more common if it affected reproduction. It may begin to…

I don't know the history but if that were the case then the non-compete should be between the owner and buyer, not employer and employee. It makes no sense to go after the employee…

Haha, indeed. Who would ever have thought to put a picture on a white background? Gotta protect that IP!

You're correct about the forward secrecy. That's what I get for commenting at 2am. I was thinking about TLS where there can be a frequently rotating asymmetric key pair. The symmet…

If you're not bothering with the HTTP protocol then you don't even need a certificate at all. You just need to have something like SSH's 'known_hosts' file. All you need to know wh…

> mixing of HTTP/HTTPS content This is ALWAYS a bad idea. A few points: - The only purpose of HTTPS and encrypting communications in general is to prevent MITM attacks. - If your s…

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It's not necessarily "advanced", but it is unexpected behavior I think. I've run into this same sort of issue myself. It didn't take ages to figure out, but it was annoying. It's o…

I never stated whether I believe in a creator being or not, nor will I since it is not relevant to this conversation. The belief that a creator is orchestrating things is what's kn…

See, this is what bothers me. Too many people seem to think that there is a conflict between evolution and creationism. The thing is, both can in fact be true. Who's to say that th…

So if I believe I have the right to drive really fast and I think the laws need to be changed; but you believe I shouldn't have the right to go fast, does that mean that you believ…

Given your analogy, it seems to me that if one wants to work for a start-up it would be wise to vet the CEO as much as they should vet any engineer. Naturally, not all CEO's are cr…

It seems that OP thinks the asynchronous nature of JavaScript was meant as a performance optimization. Let's go back to its origins. It was originally a scripting language for the …

A better solution might be to throttle multiple requests to the same domain. Also, they could prevent it from fetching the same content multiple times and use a cache instead based…

I never got that. He wrote a great article about the issue and then ended with using UCS-2. I always wondered if there was something I missed that made him choose UCS-2 over UTF-8,…

If your problem is the same as mine then I think I can help. I find that I often struggle to focus and be productive as well - even to the point of zero productivity. There are fou…

That depends on how you measure success. Those "failures" added up to your successes today. So back then you must have successfully learned something...

Regardless of how "proper" your memory is at age 5, you can still learn things and figure things out. You get better at it with practice. It's also a well studied fact that younger…