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Re:Kevin Mitnick has died on Thursday July 20, 2023 @10:02AM (#36800567)
Thank you for sharing, sorry for your loss.
Reading your comment. I had "PC LOAD LETTER" jump to mind.
Re:In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware on Thursday March 17, 2022 @12:53PM (#30713270)
When I've practiced as a paramedic the best practice was to ask the patient to point to the pain and not just verbally confirm
Would like to see a wrapper generator around C# libraries so they could be easily be loaded into node.js

That would make all sort of integrations between legacy systems with existing C# support libraries and newer lighter node.js projects work without jumping through crazy marshaling hoops.

Seems like a very interesting direction, embedding managed languages into JS.

Thanks. We are familiar with it. FB was chosen for the beta, we use it on both the device and the website.

Upvoting GoogleID.

upvoted Google Id
Great scenarios! Writing these down to make sure we will be able to cover them.
Thanks. Added a vote for Microsoft Account (LiveID)
Thanks.

BrowserID is well on our list (Personally I like its approach).

Added a vote for OpenId, and dedicated account.

The main difference is that you can write a JavaScript snippet that is pushed to your phone and executes.

The JavaScript can register on device triggers and you can control the logic to do whatever you like. You can code it to be very specific in contrast to other rule based platform which have to be broad to cover main scenarios.

You still have pre-coded recipes which you can choose and quickly configure and install, and one of the coolest things is that you can actual see the recipe's code and hack it to your own profit :)

Facebook was chosen for the beta. What other authentication schemes would you expect?

(besides creating a dedicated account)

Anode - a node.js PaaS on Microsoft windows azure

http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/anode-An-Experimental-nodejs-Platform-for-Windows-Azure

anode is an experimental platform for rapidly prototyping web apps on Windows Azure. anode is built by Microsoft entirely with node.js and uses many great open source modules written by the awesome node.js community around the world. This is not a service. It's an experiment. That said, the anode team, as members of the node.js community, have released the modules they've built as part of the...

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