The thing that bugs me about this model is that it's not challenge-response, so someone can play man-in-the-middle. While it's possible to hijack someone's phone number, as demonstrated, it requires a relatively high…
I was talking to someone recently who likened it to a shifting pendulum. For a while, he told me, terminal control languages were sufficiently complex that you could send a program to run _on the terminal_, and then…
Any news since 2010?
Unless your product is something that builds on Twitter's platform, I wouldn't recommend it. It means your users don't have a choice about how they're authenticated to your site, and A) Failwhale, anyone? B) Twitter…
I had some linting tool yell at me about this recently. It said something like '''forms["formname"] better written as forms.formname'''
Bah. I've been happily using Google services with a non-Google email for years now, but when I created a gmail account for that ID, all my notifications from all google products (e.g. google calendar notifications,…
Create a local 'apt' repository for Ubuntu Java packages: https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6 Just tried it earlier today on 11.10. Worked fine.
Yeah, and this is the one thing I didn't see addressed in the article at all. It doesn't have to be about "interesting problems," it's that your entire business model is based on something that no tech-savvy…
Thanks for this comment, as not yet having got into Scala myself, I had to read between the lines to figure out what the problem was here. I thought "Ok, you don't have binary compatibility, so recompile your…
I've found that when I use the webkit inspector, those unused values don't show in the Closure section of the Scope Variables display, and if I put a breakpoint in there and try to reference the unused variables I get a…
They're very good at posting their outages: http://status.fastmail.fm/
Yeah, I keep reading the post, looking for "no new clients" statement that is in OP's headline, and not finding it. I read it as you do; they suggest there's not a whole lot of opportunity in building more clients, but…
Status quo for a "40 hour week" at my current employer is 8-5 M-F with an hour lunch. I tried it for six months and decided it was a bad idea. I was able to renegotiate things to 9-5, but my manager acted like it was…
Isn't this what we tried with Pibb? May they have a better go of it than Pibb did.
Portland, OR - Decipher http://www.decipherinc.com/ We make surveys for market research; not collectible trading cards. We'd like someone with Python and Javascript web development skills to join us for a full-time…
You've been able to do that with OpenID for the last few years, that's why you can just have buttons for Yahoo, Google, or myOpenID instead of needing to type in joe.myopenid.com or google.com/id/aoeiasnexhtsanogysaeig==
The thing that bugs me about this model is that it's not challenge-response, so someone can play man-in-the-middle. While it's possible to hijack someone's phone number, as demonstrated, it requires a relatively high…
I was talking to someone recently who likened it to a shifting pendulum. For a while, he told me, terminal control languages were sufficiently complex that you could send a program to run _on the terminal_, and then…
Any news since 2010?
Unless your product is something that builds on Twitter's platform, I wouldn't recommend it. It means your users don't have a choice about how they're authenticated to your site, and A) Failwhale, anyone? B) Twitter…
I had some linting tool yell at me about this recently. It said something like '''forms["formname"] better written as forms.formname'''
Bah. I've been happily using Google services with a non-Google email for years now, but when I created a gmail account for that ID, all my notifications from all google products (e.g. google calendar notifications,…
Create a local 'apt' repository for Ubuntu Java packages: https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6 Just tried it earlier today on 11.10. Worked fine.
Yeah, and this is the one thing I didn't see addressed in the article at all. It doesn't have to be about "interesting problems," it's that your entire business model is based on something that no tech-savvy…
Thanks for this comment, as not yet having got into Scala myself, I had to read between the lines to figure out what the problem was here. I thought "Ok, you don't have binary compatibility, so recompile your…
I've found that when I use the webkit inspector, those unused values don't show in the Closure section of the Scope Variables display, and if I put a breakpoint in there and try to reference the unused variables I get a…
They're very good at posting their outages: http://status.fastmail.fm/
Yeah, I keep reading the post, looking for "no new clients" statement that is in OP's headline, and not finding it. I read it as you do; they suggest there's not a whole lot of opportunity in building more clients, but…
Status quo for a "40 hour week" at my current employer is 8-5 M-F with an hour lunch. I tried it for six months and decided it was a bad idea. I was able to renegotiate things to 9-5, but my manager acted like it was…
Isn't this what we tried with Pibb? May they have a better go of it than Pibb did.
Portland, OR - Decipher http://www.decipherinc.com/ We make surveys for market research; not collectible trading cards. We'd like someone with Python and Javascript web development skills to join us for a full-time…
You've been able to do that with OpenID for the last few years, that's why you can just have buttons for Yahoo, Google, or myOpenID instead of needing to type in joe.myopenid.com or google.com/id/aoeiasnexhtsanogysaeig==