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smarx

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About smarx

Steve Marx is a founder of site44.com.

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    I think it's Kernighan, actually: https://www.laws-of-software.com/laws/kernighan/ .

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    Comment #38115663

    The ship has sailed on this term of art, but as a native English speaker, I agree with you that it's ungrammatical. I would use a hyphen, though: "physics-based." This answer agree…

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    Comment #30415244

    I believe you failed the CAPTCHA. I assume the bottom right is the only correct answer.

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    > Truly secure entity just wouldn't have private keys on a server at all. They don't. They have your encrypted private key, but there's no need to keep that secret. (The decryption…

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    Comment #28118584

    That experiment shows that whatever is stored on ProtonMail's servers plus your password is sufficient to decrypt your emails. This could be explained by the private key being deri…

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    Comment #16247963

    It's worse than that. They could just throw away all the sales from this contract, since it's not connected to anything. They also failed to verify source code for the contract: ht…

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    Comment #15600024

    As far as I can tell, the IV is randomly chosen, as you would expect: https://github.com/cryfs/cryfs/blob/master/src/cpp-utils/cry... . Did you see something different? Assuming th…

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    Comment #15522420

    I think this is what you're asking for: ReactDOM.render( Hello, world! , document.getElementById('root') );

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    Comment #15323033

    You've given a clear, easy to understand example of something , and you've told people that this something is a zero-knowledge proof. Anyone who doesn't know what a zero-knowledge …

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    Comment #13538408

    Just to close the loop here, we’ve updated the page to include a checkmark for 2FA in the Pro column too. Again, all account types can use 2FA (and we recommend that they do!), and…

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    Comment #13537107

    I'm not 100% sure what that is about, but I'm pretty sure it relates to new functionality for migrating data from existing file servers. The API at https://www.dropbox.com/develope…

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    Comment #13537043

    Engineering Manager at Dropbox here. Sorry for the confusion! This is an error on that page, presumably some miscommunication between groups at Dropbox. 2FA continues to be an avai…

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    Comment #13526612

    https://www.site44.com (I'm a founder.)

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    Comment #11838561

    > The first display using this platform is in the 8th Avenue lobby at the Google NYC office.

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    Comment #11341927

    If you mentioned what company you're talking about, it might be easier to get help. Is there a reason you're not doing that? As JacobAldridge points out, the "authority" in this ca…

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    Comment #10510980

    It's not in v2 yet (coming soon!), but check out /log/get_events [0] in v1. I'm not sure that it will cover what you want if you're looking for file changes. That might be better s…

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    And Dropbox has one for API v1: https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-js . There will be one for v2 as well.