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_ikke_on New 25 GPU Monster Devours Passwords In Seconds

Aren't phrases easier to type on mobile devices than letter / number combinations? I always find it annoying to have to switch to different keyboard modes (text / numbers), or having to hold the letter / number key for a few seconds.

_ikke_on New 25 GPU Monster Devours Passwords In Seconds

Passwords shouldn't be encrypted anyway. Chances are hackers will be able to obtain the key too, and then passwords are really easy to fetch.

Passwords should be hashed non-reversible (ideally using a slow hash). The original password is to no use of the application.

And sending plain-text passwords to users is even more bad[1].

[1]: http://plaintextoffenders.com/

_ikke_on Why did Git become so popular?

My first encounter with git was in about 2009 on windows, and I don't recall it being unusable.

_ikke_on Git add -p: a powerful git feature

With stash -k you can test without committing first. Although git is very flexible regarding this, I prefer to at least test the code before committing it.

_ikke_on Git add -p: a powerful git feature

If people forget to test their commits, they're going to forget them without using git add -p too.

_ikke_on Git add -p: a powerful git feature

git stash -k; make test; git stash pop, git commit;

Problem solved.

_ikke_on Kohana 3.3.0 released

The release of this version has been delayed, but is out finally. Thanks to the devs for finalizing this version.

Major changes are PSR-0 support (conventions for naming files and directories for autoloading purposes), and better Request / Response isolation.

_ikke_on Git 1.8.0

git archive allows you to download only a specific version (though, it doesn't work for github because they haven't enabled it)

_ikke_on Git is cheap

Branching in SVN is not cheap. It basically has to copy the entire directory structure into a new subdirectory (branches directory).

In git, it just creates one file with a 40 byte hex.

_ikke_on Git is cheap

In git, I would create a seperate repository for each project. No need to mix up history of several projects into one repsository.

_ikke_on Git is cheap

Branches in git are just pointers. If two branches point to the same commit, they're the same branch.

_ikke_on (l)uriel has passed away

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4621154 - 8 days ago

_ikke_on OAuth 2.0 finalized

There are several flows possible with OAuth2. This is only one of them. So his critique is based on the total of OAuth2, not this small part that is fairly simple.

_ikke_on Linus Torvalds Answers Your Questions

Most tool require you to learn an interface to operate, and not the internals. Git is quite the opposite.

If you are learning a set of 'incantations', git will always seem hard to use. But if you take some time to learn how git works on the inside (which is really not that hard), it gets much easier to understand why and how you need to use a certain command.

Some argue that this is why git is bad, but I'd argue that this in the end is a good thing, because it gives you so much more power.

Learning how to use git is an investment, bit in my opinion an investment worthwhile.

_ikke_on Spotify loses $59.1 million on $244.5 million in revenue

Since recently you can register again without a facebook account. You just have to scroll down. (https://www.spotify.com/nl/signup/open/)

_ikke_on Stack Exchange Machine Learning Contest

Because it's not making the final decision on weather a question will be allowed or not. It just aids in providing the user advise about how to improve the question even before the user has asked it.

The problem right now is that the user mostly has very little opportunity to improve his question, because most of the time it has already been closed, and has very little chance of getting opened again (unless the question is flagged for moderator attention).

_ikke_on How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community

There is readable [1]. It gives you a bookmarklet with your personal preferences.

[1]: http://readable.tastefulwords.com/

_ikke_on Git Collisions?

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=number+of+combinations...

> 983.544.651.006.435.431.129.340.665.918.456.708.968.598.498.835

or 9.8 * 10^47 combinations are possible. Although this doesn't give the complete picture, this shows how big the sha1 space is.

_ikke_on New Programming Jargon

10k+ users have the possibility to undelete questions. In order to do that they would have to be able to see them first.

_ikke_on PHP: The Right Way

There's a fine line between filtering and validating. What's meant with filtering is things like add_slashes and mysql_real_escape_string, a uniform transformation on the input, regardless of it's destination.

Validating on the other hand is checking if the values satisfy the expected requirements.

You only want to apply certain filters if you know they apply the current output. (htmlentities if output as html, mysql_real_escape_string if embedded in a query).

_ikke_on PHP: The Right Way

I'm wondering why a specific code style is 'enforced' while it has nothing to do with interoperability.

Libraries with different code styles can be used together without problems. It seems like they are using the PSR to declare they're own style as superior.

_ikke_on Focus.py

Yes, but it modifies the response to have a very low TTL so that it's cached only for a show while (in as far as browser actually get the query response).

_ikke_on Pwning a Spammer's Keylogger

Google cache version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...

_ikke_on Pastie.org host pulls hosting after DDoS attack

You ignore the fact the this customer wasn't paying for the hosting. He only costs them money, a lot of time (through dealing with DMCAs, DDoSs and more).

At this point they had to make a choice and they chose for their paying customers and drop pastie.org

_ikke_on Google App Engine community support is moving to Stack Overflow

Because they believe a good community is part of the success of a stackexchange site. By allowing people to artificial keep up a topic site, the chance is big you'll create 'ghost towns' where there's nobody to answer questions, which would be detrimental to the users experience.

That's why they enforce people to incubate a topic site and only allow it to go through if it's substantial enough.

_ikke_on Legit. Git for humans

And in every git status message.

_ikke_on The Pirate Bay now blocked in the Netherlands

Note that it only counts for two ISP's (XS4All and Ziggo). People with other providers are (still) safe.

_ikke_on Real-time Chess (not turn by turn): Ninja Chess

This reminds me of kunfuchess, which has the same gameplay. I'm not sure if that's still around.

_ikke_on PHP needs to die. What will replace it?

Note that python3 still doesn't have widespread adoption, because there are still widely used libraries lacking support for it.