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mckiddy

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    Comment #10437124

    Legacy code?

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    Comment #10437121

    However, either case is an equally valid reason to uninstall the app.

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    Comment #10372353

    His entire job was teaching students, so I don't give a rat's ass about what the rest of the faculty thinks if the students like him and perform well.

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    Comment #10364311

    The second dotcom boom is coming to an end. Have fun everyone

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    Comment #10344437

    In that case they should just leave out the examples entirely. If the code runs, someone in the world WILL copy & paste it into their project and walk away, no matter if it's marke…

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    Comment #10231825

    Silicon Valley egos at their finest: "Use our product so we can make billions of dollars, but fuck you otherwise." I use venmo with friends because of their network effect and it's…

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    Comment #10175766

    Plaintext actually stands out pretty easily in a hex editor, just because everything else is basically gibberish.

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    Comment #9860828

    The missile argument is a bit of a stretch to me. The F-35 can carry way more than four missiles if they're attached to the wings (like the Su-35 the author compares it to), it wil…

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    Comment #9656159

    Except this also adds very little benefit. Sure, 3 ciphers might be better than one, but as the top comment said the cipher is already the strongest part of the entire process.

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    Comment #9656117

    Exactly, this will fail just as fast as a single cipher when your users inevitably use 'password123' for their password.

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    Comment #9635266

    On modern bows it's called the riser. I'm not sure if that has always been the case though.

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    Comment #9594461

    scrypt deliberately uses lots of memory in addition to CPU, which makes it much harder to parallelize using a GPU

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    Comment #9594457

    scrypt is deliberately designed to use a large amount of memory when calculating hashes, which makes it much more difficult to parallelize using a GPU (which don't have much RAM av…

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    Comment #9536124

    If you know the HMAC key, why would you ever need to generate a collision? You can just reevaluate the MAC and replace the old one.

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    Comment #9510929

    MUNI in San Francisco is also like this. Very useful.

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    Comment #9484491

    Thats true, but I just wanted to point out that humans are actually one of the best species on Earth at distance running http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2012/06/lon…

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    Comment #9417826

    How does this provide any better performance to the company using it? If anything it's doubling the work requirement because now you have to do 2 rounds of bcrypt/etc instead of 1.…

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    Comment #9373478

    Because so many of these points are demeaning, right? Practically everyone I've ever met uses "you guys" in place of "you all", etc, with no derogatory intent. Certainly anyone fam…

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    Comment #9371188

    Are you serious? Opinions like these are exactly why women are having a hard time in tech in the first place. If I have to spend every waking moment at work obsessing about whether…

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    Comment #9361012

    The evidence also wouldn't be available if he simply hadn't recorded the videos in the first place.