Hacker News: garethadams

New comment by garethadams in "Hackers account for 90% of login attempts at online retailers"

garethadams — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 17:32:55 +0000

While this will work a very large proportion of the time, and has a big benefit of offloading security as you mention, email is fundamentally asynchronous and can be affected by issues outside of your (and the email providers') control.

Another point that UX designers might make is that this solution necessarily takes users away from your site to complete login, and that can introduce a place for users to drop off. I'm not sure it's that significant, but I've heard it used as an argument.

New comment by garethadams in "Colorls – A Ruby script that beautifies the terminal's ls command"

garethadams — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 17:21:31 +0000

Let's check the first paragraph of the readme…

> Here are the screenshots of working example on an iTerm2 terminal (Mac OS), oh-my-zsh with powerlevel9k theme and powerline nerd-font + awesome-config font with the Solarized Dark color theme.

New comment by garethadams in "Still locked out of my AWS account"

garethadams — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 17:06:37 +0000

> let me pay the bill and shut the account down

The account gets shut down

New comment by garethadams in "Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub"

garethadams — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 08:43:16 +0000

> The article starts by complaining about "drive-by issue comments", then described opening what might be considered a drive-by issue. That could be construed as contradictory.

The article is reasonably clear that "drive-by issues" are ones where people leave comments uninvited, and it's also explicit that Caroline was specifically asked to review the survey in question. So it's hard to read that as contradictory.

New comment by garethadams in "Adding a security key to Gmail"

garethadams — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 09:57:12 +0000

"can get the original secret" is a phrase which should worry a security-conscious person

New comment by garethadams in "Web Scraping: Bypassing “403 Forbidden,” captchas, and more"

garethadams — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:02:38 +0000

That's fine as a discussion starter, but thinking a law is wrong isn't a reason to break it – if that's what you're suggesting.

That argument often turns into "But I probably won't get caught" which is a similarly weak defence.

New comment by garethadams in "Announcing new tools, forums, and features"

garethadams — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 22:39:49 +0000

> 1. Can you rebase in the GitHub interface?

> 2. Does GitHub have an option to fast forward merges?

So is Gitlab's aim to just play catchup to Github?

New comment by garethadams in "Twitter now lets anyone request a verified account"

garethadams — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 13:57:38 +0000

To be fair, everyone shits

New comment by garethadams in "Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger"

garethadams — Sat, 04 Jun 2016 10:19:42 +0000

That's interesting, because from your comment history you're in favour of user-specified preferences: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11114154

New comment by garethadams in "Did I just win?"

garethadams — Fri, 13 May 2016 23:25:59 +0000

Does it?

New comment by garethadams in "BMW are complying with the GPL"

garethadams — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 23:01:26 +0000

One of these things is not like the other… https://github.com/edent/BMW-OpenSource/blob/master/FOSS_S1/...

New comment by garethadams in "HTTP/HTTPS not working inside your VM? Wait for it"

garethadams — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 08:37:05 +0000

Is this the millenials' version of the "500 Mile Email"? - http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

New comment by garethadams in "A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers"

garethadams — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:39:33 +0000

I'm not certain, but I believe the subtle point parent was trying to make, is the difference between "base 10" and "base ten". Every base is "base 10" in its own base ;)

New comment by garethadams in "I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was as bad as you'd think"

garethadams — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 19:25:47 +0000

Because of this[1] Chrome extension, I wasn't sure whether you were talking about Donald Trump

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

New comment by garethadams in "The Sign Up with Google Mistake You Can't Fix"

garethadams — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 00:23:49 +0000

Maybe because the app could be a mail client? If I downloaded a mail client and it wasn't able to delete my email I'd think it was a pretty crap piece of software. The same as I'd expect if I wanted a fully featured mail client to connect via IMAP.

I'd also feel a bit annoyed if a Twitter client I was using was unable to delete tweets, and I had to go back to the Twitter website to do that.

The thing about making APIs to let other people interface with your product is that you have to expose all the functionality of that product, or there's not really any point.

There are some fair comments in this thread saying that the "manage" permission is significant enough that it should be flagged a bit (or a lot) more strongly than the common "identify" permission, but personally I don't think the point of the API is something that needs questioning.

New comment by garethadams in "Things to avoid in Docker containers"

garethadams — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:58:49 +0000

Well, apart from "6) Don’t use only the “latest” tag".

If I'm not using latest, and I don't know that the Apache and Nginx images have been updated, then it's very likely that "yum update" might do something.

New comment by garethadams in "Issue and Pull Request templates"

garethadams — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 18:00:16 +0000

Right, see:

New issue: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/new

issue_template.md file in repo: https://github.com/owncloud/core/blob/master/issue_template....

New comment by garethadams in "Why winners become cheaters"

garethadams — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:52:35 +0000

Your point about whether doping is inherent in cycling is a good discussion point, but the research that the article describes shows how "Winners turn to cheating" even in cases where drugs aren't part of the equation.

New comment by garethadams in "Elixir-mail – Build composable mail messages"

garethadams — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:47:17 +0000

The parent wasn't talking about the individual validation of email addresses (although I guess that may be a part of the answer), but instead about checking the presence of a recipient, subject, sender etc as part of static typing.

New comment by garethadams in "JavaScript web apps considered valuable"

garethadams — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:42:40 +0000

I can see where that comes from, the functionality of Youtube is nothing without its videos.

But on the other hand, Youtube wouldn't have as many videos – specifically the content creators wouldn't have as much of an incentive to upload them – without the social features being there.