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Re:Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @11:12AM (#13696552)
AppEngine doesn't support php7. Call me old fashioned but that's a show stopper for me.

Ask HN: Why is Paypal's 2FA so poorly implemtented?

Posted by maartendb on Friday February 03, 2017 @03:43AM
from the ask-hn dept.

First of all, I'm not a security expert so I'm talking about the end-user experience.While trying to enable 2FA for my Paypal account I couldn't find the option in my settings page. This couldn't be true so I googled it. I found a Paypal page which mentions 2FA via text message and a 3rd party website mentions Symantec's VIP. For both options you'd have to dig into the Paypal site to enable...

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Re:Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @04:32AM (#12965594)
You'll probably can't prevent this. That's why cars should be self-driving asap and common safety features like autonomous emergency braking, lane assist have to be mandatory in the meantime.
Re:UK votes to leave EU on Friday June 24, 2016 @07:00AM (#11968725)
Just travel a few times outside the continent and you'll have your answer.
Re:Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Investment in ... on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @01:10PM (#10259999)
I'd love to see more transparency in the way Cloudflare, or CDNs in general, decide to cache or not cache your content. For example: Cloudflare publishes crawl frequencies in their pricing table but what do they actually do with that content? Push it to all their edges? I'd doubt that. I guess it's based on website traffic, your website pricing plan, ... but it seems quite arbitrary to me.

Do CDNs always cache all your content?

Posted by maartendb on Thursday September 10, 2015 @05:05AM
from the self-post dept.

I'd love to see more transparency in the way CDNs decide to cache or not cache your content. For example: Cloudflare publishes crawl frequencies in their pricing table but what do they actually do with that content? Push it to all their edges? I'd doubt that. I guess it's based on website traffic, your website pricing plan, ... but it seems quite arbitrary to me.

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Re:CloudFlare and Google Cloud Platform on Thursday September 10, 2015 @04:20AM (#10196756)
I'd love to see more transparency in the way CDNs decide to cache or not cache your content. For example: Cloudflare publishes crawl frequencies in their pricing table but what do they actually do with that content? Push it to all their edges? I'd doubt that. I guess it's based on website traffic, your website pricing plan, ... but it seems quite arbitrary to me.