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You're underestimating the work that's been done in secure password managers in the last few years. Check the whitepaper Apple published regarding their iCloud Keychain mechanism. …

Scenario Heartbleed 2 - People heed the advice of this author, and soon all passwords are abolished, replaced with email auth. - Of course, emails still have a password, as you can…

The problem is that getting email or SMS and having to type that code in every time, then deleting that email/SMS, manually is less convenient that using a password manager. You ca…

> I fail to see how his process has this problem and yours magically doesn't. You're making a lot of hay out of whether his "reactive" events or your "imperative" messages are bett…

Everyone has to know about the business process logic to me is the opposite of decoupling. I'd rather limit coupling to a single actor, and let the other actors be reusable. You ca…

You actually said it, which is funny, but the right word for this is "validating". Here's the chain: 1. Get raw input. 2. Validate it (number, not number, in range, not in range?) …

No form should accept just "HTML" if you don't want just any "HTML" in your form. I was actively trying to talk about his script example and instead I had to second-guess his parse…

1. Paste alert("I am a hacker.") in TFA's comment box 2. Select Anonymous from the auth options. 3. Click Submit. 4. Laugh your heart out.

This is why I just call it encoding and decoding. Proper words, and assume context (encoding for what ... decoding from what ).

I can't post a comment containing in this comment form, because it's "disallowed", instead of just escaping it as plain text. The thick, thick irony of a guy who can't even follow …

Actually, shouting in the office means you coupled the FraudCheckActor to a PaymentCompleteEvent, and you coupled CancelOrderActor to FraudDetectedEvent. Your lower level actors ar…

This guy seems uneasy with Actors. His example is wrong and then he tries to solve it with a solution that's worse than the problem he thinks he has. Let's untangle that stuff. Act…

The irony of building a game for iOS which is a clone of a JavaScript game which a clone of an iOS game doesn't escape me.

Well, don't worry, malware writers will generate enough bitcoins to sustain the system. The cost of mining to them is practically zero.

Internet outrage - one the most promising resources of the 21st century. It's cheap, it's renewable, and the Internet is producing more of it than we can handle. If we could figure…

Well I'll give you this example. If Facebook would release 3 Facebook apps, where each has mostly the same features, but slightly different, and on top of that each requires a diff…

Fragmentation is having multiple incompatible versions of the same thing, namely, two apps which both have a Facebook chat. Now there'll be one app with Facebook chat and one Faceb…

This is why the description is good. Sure, it tests whether you can write a set of statements a computer can understand. But it also tests whether you can understand the intent beh…

I realize it, right. But I hoped you'd see beyond the direct comparison of lambdas with Objective C's blocks. I'm saying that short code doesn't automatically translate to more rea…

So, I don't get what the fuss is about. It port scans users, and does nothing interesting with it. But on the other hand, we're talking about Slashdot. I've forgotten it exists. Ma…

There's no honest attempt to explain the philosophy behind every language with real-world examples in Python. It's just childish jokes. It's the equivalent of saying "Ze fish in le…

So what's if it's shorter. You'll run out of screen? You'll wear down your keyboard? If you don't like typing it, have a macro. Otherwise, as Objective C shows, the verbosity of co…

Just like people believed the Universe revolves around Earth, they still have this naive believe that they're the center of intelligence in the Universe. Any other display of intel…