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Re:Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich Resigns on Thursday June 21, 2018 @09:21AM (#17364812)
How political was this decision? Seems like they wanted to get rid of him and citet some minor misdemeanor some time back.
Re:Understanding OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect on Monday April 30, 2018 @04:08PM (#16961787)
It even says so on the official website ( https://oauth.net/2/grant-types/implicit/ ) - astonishing that they can't get this right. Maybe says something about the product?
Re:AMD vulnerabilities enable persistent attacks [pdf] on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @12:05PM (#16577223)
Scammy site - see previous discussion:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16576516
Re:Developer Survey Results on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @09:44AM (#16576006)
I am not sure about you, but as my career as a developer progressed I rely less on Stack Overflow today as I did in the past. To me it seems that this survey may have a strong bias.
Re:Community Interaction and Conflict on the Web on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @04:35AM (#16574562)
Oops, not sure what went on in my head there. Corrected!
Re:Easy data migration for MongoDB using Python on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @04:34AM (#16574555)
Not entirely sure, but is the idea to implement something like https://github.com/emirotin/mongodb-migrations in python? If so, what's the difference to other tools like:

- https://github.com/ClearcodeHQ/migopy

- https://github.com/DoubleCiti/mongodb-migrations

The article doesn't actually talk about preventing injection attacks, but rather identifying potential attack surfaces by doing an AST search for eval/exec in combination with mutable variables. The article does not explain what limitations exist for their runtime check:

> This results in 5 false positives (out of 56 benign inputs), which are caused by limitations of the static analysis (3/5) or node types outside of the safe set (2/5).

Besides that, it's good to see more security tools - especially when the research is open source: https://github.com/sola-da/Synode

Re:Community Interaction and Conflict on the Web on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @04:05AM (#16574468)
Something being apparent (in a certain demographic) does not in any sense reduce the validity of scientific research in this area. There have been great papers on topics like these in the past, some of them even award-winning and read-worthy.
Re:Developer Survey Results on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @04:03AM (#16574459)
Were are you reading that? It's a long report but I wasn't able to find what you're referring to. Would be awesome if you could clarify!