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No, it's called being terrible at your job. If you need to add complexity to your project just to save you some typing, you have no concept of what you're doing. It's like an accountant not understanding math.
Agreed, I have no idea how this is easier. If anything it makes it impossible to write dynamic code. This is a perfect example of a library that (theoretically) helps the programmer at the expensive of more inefficient code.
I would hope the people at Reddit are smart enough to check an IP and not just a user-agent.
People are much more forgiving of mistakes than they are of deception.
Saw that too, sounds like a convenient excuse for being caught in a lie.
AWS Employee #1: Hey, people are catching on that our status page isn't accurate
AWS Employee #2: Tell them it's cause of S3
I miss C++ Builder
Charge backs. For a long time those industries were dominated by affiliate programs, and so affiliates would hire firms in other countries to use stolen credit cards to inflate memberships, then charge back after the affiliate got their payout. By using shared networks of the finger prints we were able to identify computers already used for fraud on other sites or our own sites and refuse them the chance to even sign up.
EDIT: Sorry, to be clear, the people using the stolen credit cards didn't charge back, the actual owners of the cards would. But this affected the industries two-fold, first in constantly having to battle with credit card and billing companies that didn't want to provide services for an industry with such a high charge back rate, but it also hurt us in paying out to affiliates who cost us money instead of bringing it in.
How is this news? The adult and casino industries have been using this technology for years now to avoid fraud.
Yeah, but it's only dangerous because those people choose to stand there waiting instead of using their legs. It's their choice to be lazy and those create a danger for everyone else. We need to stop rewarding people who can't do anything for themselves.
Then don't you think they should encourage everyone to keep moving instead of being lazy and standing there. Escalators, like moving walkways, are designed to move people faster, not for people to just stand there like sheep.
Are they serious? It's faster for who exactly? The people who were already standing instead of walking? Why should the people who are walking care, they want to get somewhere faster so they walk, if people want to be lazy and just stand there then they can wait, that's the choice they made. This entire article and the time wasted on it is idiotic.