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theboss

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About theboss

On Hacker News I am theboss but in real life I am the boss.

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    Comment #7884409

    414141. I know I'm not alone out there =]

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    Comment #7884392

    I'm curious. To people who have purchased bitly, why? I feel like setting it up would take as long as writing your own. My very first web project I ever did was to write a url shor…

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    Comment #7878978

    What's sad is that not even wrong security was in place here. They didn't even try. There was NO XSS prevention. javascript is the first payload you try when looking for the stupid…

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    Comment #7865578

    As someone who has only just entered the `real world', I found it so incredibly odd that people's employers very often get involved in these internet dealings by firing someone bec…

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    Comment #7847857

    This actually starts before steroids were invented.

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    Comment #7843383

    What's a native client do if Google still stores all your emails, receives all your email's, etc. It's not like once you read the email in your client Google forgets it ever saw th…

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    Comment #7830076

    Ah thanks I never realized.

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    Comment #7829380

    I'm seeking work to freelance as a security consultant on short engagements or small projects. Because of this my going rate is quite low. I specialize in webapp security, cryptogr…

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    Comment #7826524

    I'm a recent grad with my MS in CS. I mostly focus on information security and cryptography. I want to know everything about the two subjects. I'm about to start working at a SaaS …

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    Comment #7820289

    This is like....seriously one of the worst documents I've ever read.

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    Comment #7815080

    My post is "on paper". In reality, projects are squeezed for nickels and dimes. My point is that while open-source should be better, right now it seems that everything is equally n…

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    Comment #7815060

    There are pros and cons to both closed source and open source. Open source is nice because the community can audit the code and see for themselves, but closed-source is nice becaus…

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    Comment #7796425

    There's a difference between not allowing spaces and not hashing. They could have just written a bad PW policy that doesn't completely make sense You're drawing conclusions from in…

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    Comment #7792261

    In high school, I didn't know there were such things as "top colleges". I knew Harvard and Yale existed and were good...but beyond that I honestly didn't even know MIT existed. It'…

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    Comment #7791760

    I think you're going to see a huge amount of digitaloceans since "production" for me isn't exactly getting a lot of traffic, so it's on a $5 instance.. So I predict digitalocean wi…

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    Comment #7777098

    I accidently upvoted you and now I have NP idea how to remove it. It depends on what you do. A secretary will make far less than the chief of police but they both happen to be gove…

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    Comment #7774816

    I mean...there are plenty of really good people who don't smoke marijuana too, and they do an exceptional job recruiting them from schools in the DMV area. At the University I went…

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    Comment #7762744

    I don't know what you mean. Cross fit undoubtedly has pretty good equipment compared to a globo-gym, but globo-gyms will have everything you need 99% of the time. A squat rack, a b…

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    Comment #7762693

    Like I said, there are a lot of reasons for backlash. I didn't even touch on most of them. I disagree that their goal is "Sports conditioning training". Because this is not consist…

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    Comment #7762630

    cross fit is really an infiritating thing. The people who do it are sometimes diehard fans with absolutely no knowledge of how to build strength or an "elite athlete". A lot of peo…

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    Comment #7758715

    I learned not a whole lot happened in Spain in the year 2000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_in_Spain

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    Comment #7758279

    Funny. I typed up my edit2, hit enter, and had a reply from you basically saying the same thing. Also, I never said anything about use-cases, signing code, etc. Only "does this saf…

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    Comment #7757963

    There are a ton of other problems associated with crypto code. I'm talking about crypto primitives being provided by the browser. The rest of the problems associated with it, I'm n…

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    Comment #7757936

    I'm only talking about solving this 1 problem related to js crypto...

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    Comment #7757892

    Why can't browsers just build crypto primitives in that can be called from js? I don't understand what people's obsession with browser crypto is...but I don't know enough about bro…