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Zecc··on Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen
So if I understand this, this is how it would work.

At any time you'd have two passwords: one regular, which you use every day; and one for one-time-use only, which you keep around in case of need.

When sitting at an untrusted computer, you use your one-time-use password. This proves your identity, but also immediately expires your one-time-use password. Next time you want to generate a usable one-time-password you'll have to login with your regular password again.

Is that it?

Zecc··on Performance extensions for D3.js
A quick glance at D3's source code confirms what I suspected: all it does is call setAttributeNS on the DOM. So the re-rendering isn't really its concern, but the browser's.

As for performance, I believe the focus is on the user's performance, not the computer's.

Zecc··on Never Heard of It
This is completely off-topic, but Lyza Danger Gardner is a pretty badass name.
Zecc··on Frosted glass effect with CSS and SVG
>> <h1>If you see this, something is broken.</h1>

The funny thing being that I only saw that because I browsed the source, because the page was so broken for me that I only saw a black screen.

In any case, I see

    Message(null, " This demo is only available for iPhone 5 and iOS 7. Sorry! " )

So I'm out of here.
Zecc··on Introducing the Humble Store
I'm more interested in the fact that they are selling Arkam Asylum GOTY + Arkam City GOTY + F.E.A.R. 2 + F.E.A.R. 3 + two other games for (currently) under 5 bucks.
Zecc··on Nonplussed
I don't remember ever choosing to use G+.
Zecc··on Co-founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years
For the record: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6695904
Zecc··on Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance
0. Become a hermit and stop using the internet
Zecc··on Pure CSS3 dancing Bender
> This Site Totally Doesn't Work Without JavaScript.

Fail!

Zecc··on Myst creator Cyan Worlds announces Kickstarter for Obduction
From the FAQ:

> We are excited about Oculus Rift (we have a dev kit) and VR in general, and we'd love to have a stretch goal that heads that direction.

Zecc··on Why I Silence Calls Even When I'm Free
> Last Download: Mailbox.

> “I use [it] to keep things at ‘inbox zero.’

Well, only 129 to go.

Zecc··on 8pen + Leap Motion
I remember Dasher. It's amazing the first few times you try it. I wish I could use it on my phone.

Edit: apparently they have an Android version now.

Zecc··on D3.js: How to handle dynamic JSON Data
Did you mean: > Should I learn d3 or three.js or raw canvas first?
Zecc··on The Internet Alphabet
Well... not only was this entertaining for a bit, but it also reminded me of the existence of overapi.com, which is a good thing.

It's interesting how some of the (uncommon) letters bring up suggestions of sites I even don't remember ever visiting. In some cases it's even dead links.

Zecc··on My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me
Your interpretation explain the use of "[sic]".

But personally I think the "its" refers to the section and not the quotes, making the "[sic]" unnecessary. But I don't have access to the original text.

Zecc··on The Difference Between Funny and LOL
It's in their About page (https://readtapestry.com/about#) too:

>> It's simple: tap to move forward in a story. There’s no going back, so take your time—that’s the whole point!

Not allowing the viewer to know how many slides there are and navigate between them is a terrible, terrible idea.

I think Mike Bostok's Stack is worth a mention: http://mbostock.github.io/stack/#0

Zecc··on How Apple hides new functionality in iOS: isYoMamaWearsCombatBootsActive
Also isYoMamaWearsFancyGlassesDetectionEnabled
Zecc··on GCP - cp with a progress bar
This seems relevant:

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/4553/copy-a-file-...

dd does not show a progress bar, unfortunately but it does report its progress.

Zecc··on Bluepass: an open trust no one password manager (fundraising)
Not a question, but a pet peeve. You have a typo on your homepage. Search for 'synchronziation'.

Also, please don't have text that looks like a hyperlink if it's not (even if it is a placeholder), specially if you then have hyperlinks that look the same.

Other than that, good luck on the project. It seems promising.

Zecc··on How an accident revolutionized guitar sound
It's at 6605, after nine hours (according to the time indicator between your username and "| link | parent | flag"; you forgot to say in what timezone you're in).

One of them is mine, and I only went there because of your comment to be honest.

Edit: you said "19:25" and "nine hours ago" was 2013-08-07 09:03:45 UTC, so you're at EDT? (incidently, everytimezone.com is pretty cool)

Zecc··on Kindergarten coders can program before they can read
Getting started early on life's lessons.
Zecc··on New Py articles website. Do I suck at this?
Looks good to me.
Zecc··on New Py articles website. Do I suck at this?
I'm not a designer either, but I don't think there was anything wrong with the choice of fonts. I'm on a HTPC and I've found the body to be quite readable. The header's font seems kind of Comic Sans-y, but I for one have absolutely no problem with it. My beef is with the space between paragraphs, which I think is too short. And I'd probably move the separating lines to before the subheaders rather than below them.
Zecc··on 3D printing will explode in 2014 thanks to the expiration of key patents
This printing press at work, was it a commercial 3D printer? That would have been quite ironic. (under some definition of "ironic")
Zecc··on SML#: a new Standard ML family programming language
TL;DR: the CLI is the specification, of which the CLR is Microsoft's own implementation. Another/the other implementation of the CLI is Mono.

Which begs the question: you've written "Microsoft's CLI", which does make sense because they were the ones who've come up with it, but can't that be interpreted as a synonym for CLR? Maybe that's what 616c meant.

Zecc··on GorillaScript
> Well, since GorillaScript doesn't require parentheses for invocation, you'd need to have some delimiter between the context and the arguments or have to wrap one of them.

Well, I was trying to think why you'd even need a delimiter. I thought the absence of the comma between the context and the first argument would disambiguate:

  f@x (a, b, c)
would be written as:

  f@x a, b, c  // Comma between a and b
While:

  f@(x a) (b, c)
would be:

  f@x a b, c  // No comma between a and b


Then again, a call like:

  f@ a b c d, e
would be ambiguous, so on second thought I think you've made the right decision.

Heck, even the non-ambiguous cases seem easier to mentally parse with the comma there.

So I retract from what I said. I should have thought this through before posting.

Edit: I see you've also added the example of dashed-names to camelCase conversion to the page. Thanks, that helps. Edit2: formatting.

Zecc··on GorillaScript
>> x and= y - Same as if x then x := y

I'm having trouble imagining when you'd need to do this. But oh well..

>> There is also a short syntax for single-word strings that also convert dashed-names to camelCase just as normal identifiers do.

I'd like to see an example of this. I don't think I quite understand what it's meant to do.

>> Binding access

I would have preferred: f@obj (arg1, arg2, arg3) for function application over: f@ (obj, arg1, arg2, arg3)

Other that that, I can certainly appreciate the huge amount of work involved in creating this and I wish them success.

Zecc··on Ubuntu 13.04: Getting Excited About Ubuntu Again
> It now allows you to switch between windows of the same application on the same desktop which has to be in the running for the most useless UI function ever devised.

You don't use file managers much, do you?

Or work with more than one spreadsheet or written document at a time.

Or have remote sessions into different machines.

Or...

Zecc··on "Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23
UI discussion aside, changing the option on upgrade seems a little... impolite, to say the least.
Zecc··on Too scared to write a line of code
Upvoted again, because I felt like it. But it's still one upvote short, I guess.
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