jwbaker's comments

jwbaker | 13 years ago | on: Want to be more secure? Build two-factor authentication into your webapp

Oh yeah, that'll be way more convenient. Right up until you need to login when your phone is out of batteries, not in wireless coverage, under water, etc.

jwbaker | 13 years ago | on: The weakest link by far is Apple

You should never give legit answers to these security questions. I just paste in the output of pwgen -s 32 1. This may make your account harder to "recover" but it also makes it harder to steal.

jwbaker | 13 years ago | on: Please turn on two-factor authentication

I feel your pain, slightly, but isn't the majority of this list caused by the fact that Apple's software stinks? There's no way for apps on iOS to share the account details. You don't need to do any of that junk on Android. And you wouldn't have to do any of it on a Chromebook, either.

jwbaker | 13 years ago | on: X11 and the disturbing trend of Apple removing functionality from OS X

It's been some time since Apple shipped the X11 package by default. You've had to download it yourself. They're not saving anything by removing it from people's computers

jwbaker | 13 years ago | on: X11 and the disturbing trend of Apple removing functionality from OS X

That certainly does not justify the installer removing X11 from a perfectly working Mac.

jwbaker | 13 years ago | on: X11 and the disturbing trend of Apple removing functionality from OS X

I guess there's nobody left at Apple who believed in the spirit of this advertisement:

http://www4.macnn.com/macnn/articles/unixad.jpg

Now that the Apple no longer needs to be saved by dorks, the dorks are being thrown overboard.

jwbaker | 13 years ago | on: The new Disqus 2012: Elevating the Discussion

At first I thought "what demo, there's just a screenshot here" but wow, nice demo.

jwbaker | 13 years ago | on: Lockfree algorithms

These docs can retain their usefulness even when their titles are long since obsolete. "The C10K Problem" comes to mind.

jwbaker | 14 years ago | on: Go version 1 is released

Isn't that just because parsing XML in Go is difficult bordering on impossible? Or are you saying there's some other language that forces you to think about XML when you don't want to?