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Ok. Don't be angry on me. I am just starting out with writing code that someone other than me see.

Ask HN: What pattern you use to choose your passwords?

I am developing a tool which would guess what kind of passwords someone might choose by mining their social profiles (facebook for now). I have surveyed my friend circle for some patterns they choose. e.g one of my friends use his one of his siblings' name along with his, replace some characters with special chars (a with @ or 4).Please help me telling what pattern you use to choose your...

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Ask HN: Is Indian Government filtering Internet?

Recently I have been frequently stamping into blue messages saying "This Url has been blocked as per DOT/HIGHT COURT guidelines". I was visiting some media sharing websites and some websites with supposedly pornographic content. Are there others who have seen similar messages? Or is it just my internet provider trying to get smarter? Is Indian government doing the 'American thing' too?

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Re:Beginner's Guide to Wi-fi Interception on Friday September 20, 2013 @12:38AM (#6415953)
I stopped reading the moment I felt this dude thinks "good old windows" and "microsoft windows world" are better than "the linux things", and from the comments here I think the article is indeed as lame as I suspected.

Fu**ed up by Google docs offline

So for a reason I lost my internet connection for a couple of days. I had the chrome google drive app and offline enabled, and felt good to be able to work on my google docs even when offline. I thought (and as google told) all my offline changes will be synched when I get online again. And after two days work, the day came of hte mighty internet. And guess what, google wiped away my 2 days of...

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Re:How to handle millions of new Tor clients on Thursday September 05, 2013 @10:16PM (#6338325)
NSA trying to make a mess with TOR with all americans as their zombies? It is funny to see what american government is doing with its citizens. And with rest of the world. First they create terrorism, and then they"solve" it.
Re:Dart vs Java — the DeltaBlue Benchmark on Thursday May 23, 2013 @06:16AM (#5756052)
I suggest google employees should write "work for google" everywhere they comment or blog or say something about google projects. I bet half of the hype will just go away then
Here's the question paper of subject 'Web Administration' by my university (Punjab Technical University) for Software Engineering Undergrads. I still can't reason out the level of stupidity my eyes see in this, or the logic that how can an 'engineer' come up with such loose end noobish questions. My eyes bleed.

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