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nickfrostatx

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About nickfrostatx

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/nickfrost; my proof: https://keybase.io/nickfrost/sigs/zT31cKbt1NUXuoYcj_Sy50u2WJ8KaMTVxy5LxPC_xUQ ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #13813942

    > acting solely out of greed. That's a weird thing to complain about. In a capitalist country, how would you prefer companies act? Not greedy? The whole point of a free market is t…

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    Comment #13632729

    Okay, so don't associate the SSN hash with the account. Come up with a mechanism to store anonymized SSNs to detect duplicate accounts.

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    Comment #12402703

    You can always drop out if you feel the tuition is too high. We can talk all day about how much it ought to cost, but clearly you feel it's worth it to stay enrolled.

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    Comment #12395648

    I agree with most of what you're saying, but I'm not sure about shifting the cost of textbooks to the school and charging for it through tuition. In my three years of school so far…

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    Comment #12265639

    They usually set the content type to that of an image so the browser won't execute the JS. They've messed this up in the past, see this legendary bug bounty report [1] 1. https://w…

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    Comment #11709773

    Given how important domain names are for security, it would be concerning if domain names get truncated. I could craft: evil.net/this-is-a-very-very-long-path/bankofamerica.com/acc…

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    Comment #11687504

    One problem I have with this tool is support for pre-computed public keys or CSRs. The client prefers to generate a new key pair for every certificate. Automated renewal that works…

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    Comment #11685127

    See also: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com

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    Comment #11684922

    This is exactly the problem that Uber's rating system solves, but without all the arbitrary factors that tipping incidentally includes.

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    Comment #11684818

    The article admits that information from eight drives is "a hopelessly anecdotal number"... then goes on for several paragraphs to imply that these eight drivers are evidence to sy…

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    Comment #11639139

    Your comment was seen as pedantic and nonconstructive.

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    Comment #11579029

    The S3 Free Tier can be a good alternative as well. https://aws.amazon.com/s3/

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    Comment #11567832

    "Do you mind" would be counterintuitive. I see analytics and want to respond "n", for no analytics