General things I find interesting
Posted in General on Jun 12th, 2013
Lately there have been several Ars articles discussing passwords and online security. In today’s world, people generally use passwords which are completely inadequate for securing anything, much less private or financial data. Additionally, the “tricks” people are taught on securing their passwords are the wrong lessons (cue obligatory xkcd). So, one of the best solutions [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2013
Anyone who uses multiple IDEs along with Xcode recognizes just how far behind Xcode is compared to others. I would even go as far as to argue it is at least half a decade behind Eclipse. Features which I have long grown use to having are completely absent in Xcode. Then, about a month ago, [...]
Posted in General on Mar 10th, 2013
I often use single vendor credit card numbers for my online transactions because in the event of a breach or theft, the numbers cannot be used elsewhere. Many credit card companies offer these under other names, such as Discover who calls these “Secure Online Account Numbers.” These work really well, except for the fact that [...]
Posted in General on Feb 20th, 2013
Suddenlink seems to think that this is 15Mbps: I’ve called them at 5-10 times in the past few weeks, and this is still the speed that I get. I have tried changing modems and three separate technicians have said that my connection is good and yet it is no better. This is consistent across nearly [...]
Posted in General on Nov 10th, 2012
In the debate between Mercurial and Git, I’ve long held the side of Mercurial. This is mostly due to the fact that Mercurial’s commands are far easier to understand, but I’ve also liked the fact that Mercurial doesn’t encourage rewriting a repository’s history as much as Git does. This has encouraged me to seek to [...]