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Misiekon Gmail hack – how was it done?

She probably registered to a forum or the other portal and she used her email with the same gmail password. And then the data (list of emails and passwords) form a forum/portal leaked. Ask her if she use the one password to all accounts.

Misiekon Ask HN: What does modern front-end web development look like?

I think the most important part of modern web developement are frameworks:

JS frameworks: jQuery, AngularJS, BackboneJS

CSS frameworks: Bootstrap, Foundation

and tons ready-to-use solutions on Github.

Misiekon Show HN: AtoZ CSS

thanks for sharing

Misiekon Ask HN: How productive are you?

My productivity tips:

- to do lists and pomodoro technique

- automate everything what can be automated

- delegate everything what can be delegated

Misiekon Kill your index.php

btw of "rise in popularity of Ruby on Rails":

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Ruby%20on%20Rails%2C%...

Misiekon Ask HN: What new technology in 2014?

Laravel

Misiekon Help me build the developers nightmare list:

IE<9

Misiekon Ask HN: Do you trust a company with a website built with Twitter Bootstrap?

Twitter Bootstrap is the best CSS framework but you mean rather a website with a default theme. There are a lot of themes and templates of Twitter Bootstrap that don't look like Bootstrap, for example on wrapbootstrap.com.

Misiekon Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?

http://www.dzone.com

Misiekon 2012, My Year of Code

Any code examples? What did he build?

Misiekon Ask HN: How did you discover your start-up idea?

I always build a site I need and I want to use

Misiekon Ask HN: reCaptcha isn't stopping spam, what should I do?

You can change an action of the form using Javascript (ie. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2701041/how-to-set-form-a...). Spam robots don't emulate Javascript. Users with no Javascript will see the message "This action requires Javascript".

Misiekon Noodlejs - Node.js web scraper

how to get the list of urls in this example on http://noodlejs.com/?

the selector: 'h3.r a' allows only to get the list of names

Misiekon Ask HN: I'm a chronic procrastinator – how do I break it?

in your case "fap" means doing bullshit like playing games or reading news. If you want to stop doing bullshit you should train your willpower. "No fap" is not only about fapping but about our weaknesses.

Misiekon Ask HN: I'm a chronic procrastinator – how do I break it?

Try http://www.reddit.com/r/nofap

Misiekon I've lost interest in myself

Don't give up. Motivation is a skill that can be trained like a muscle. Don't be afraid to make mistakes but never do the same mistake twice. Learn from other's mistakes. Exercise, I recommed martial arts. Read interesting books and watch good movies - start with http://www.imdb.com/chart/top. Eat dark chocolate and drink a glass of wine (or beer) every day. Fall in love. Start a family, have a baby.

Misiekon Ask HN: What is the most surprising quote you ever read?

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Misiekon Ask HN: Is there a mobile version of HN, or an app?

I tested many HN clients for Android but this is the best one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glebpopov.... (Hacker News Droid)

Misiekon Ask HN: How much do you make from Adsense?

now $30/month (max: $120/month, about 1k visits/day)

Misiekon Strikingly Creates Simple, Beautiful Web Sites in Minutes

Is there an open source script witch scrolling page effect like in Strikingly?

Misiekon PHP frameworks: Which would you pick and why?

Try Fat Free Famework https://github.com/bcosca/fatfree

Misiekon Goodbye Ubuntu

I'am also disappointed with Ubuntu (version 10.10 was the best but 12.04 the worst). I wanted to try Fedora but I was reading interesting Fedora 18 Spherical Cow review on HN yesterday: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fedora-18-kde.html What is the best Linux distribution (with Gnome 2) for Web Developers?

Misiekon 0.3 - 0.2 == 0.2 - 0.1 is falsy. Which language gets this right?

PHP (5.3):

  echo ((float)(string)(0.3 - 0.2) == (float)(string)(0.2 - 0.1)) ? 1 : 0;
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Misiekon Google does not index anything on meteor.com

Site meteor.com is not indexed by Google because there is no text. Content is generated by javascript and it is not interpreted by Google robot. Website owners should use <noscript> tag.

Misiekon Speed Hashing

yes, I put the first salt in database and the second salt under www-root. Hacker who hack the database only will not know the fist salt.

Misiekon Speed Hashing

I thought that hashing password with two types of salt (one of them is unique for every user) and two places to storage salts is secure enough.

Misiekon Speed Hashing

What is the best way to secure passwords?

Misiekon Speed Hashing

but only the second salt is stored in a database, the first salt is stored under WWW-Root.

Misiekon Speed Hashing

"salts alone can no longer save you"

I use two salts to hash a password: sha1(SALT . SALT2 . $password); the second salt is unique for every user and stored in a database. Why is it not secure?