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dteohon JSON Web Tokens

You can store the expiry time in the token itself. Then it is up to your server to validate that the token is still live. If you need to mass invalidate every token, you change the signing key.

dteohon Ask HN: Open Courses vs. Master degrees value in the IT market

> shuffling a deck of cards in O(1)

How? I'm aware of Knuth shuffle which is O(n) but I can't find anything about constant time shuffling.

dteohon Safe – EncFS-compatible encrypted filesystem for Windows and Mac

> On top of that, what other per-file cross platform encryption options are there?

Boxcryptor is an option, but it is not open source.

dteohon Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992)

I think the more grammatically correct question sentences would be "kami wa doko desu ka" (as for kami, where is it?) or "doko ga kami ga (ar)imasu ka" (where does kami exist?).

> Which kami I was thinking about is for me to know and you to guess incorrectly.

Well, if you used the kanji then we wouldn't have to guess ;)

dteohon Datacoin

Less computation power required to store new data.

dteohon History of T

PG didn't write this article, Olin Shivers did.

dteohon Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

I use Dropbox with Boxcryptor (https://www.boxcryptor.com/). It creates an encrypted drive/folder using a key of your own choosing.

dteohon The Gmail app for iPhone and iPad: version 2.0

I set up Gmail on iOS as an Exchange account and server side searching works for me.

dteohon Oracle and the End of Programming as We Know It

The Apache Harmony project has been discontinued.

dteohon Sparrow for iPhone

I wonder if they have plans to turn this into a universal app or if we will have to purchase another version for the iPad (not that I'm complaining about paying for a valuable product).

dteohon Google Singleton Detector

Enum version:

    public enum Singleton {
        INSTANCE;
    }

Guaranteed against multiple instantiation.

Edit: the class version of the singleton example should also be made final, or I could just extend your class and therefore bypass your singleton restriction.

dteohon Monster bundle by Appsumo - $99 for $5k+ services

The links from the newsletters also prompts for an email address, which is quite annoying.

dteohon I haven't used soap or shampoo in a year, and it's awesome

Discussion from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2069419

dteohon Breaking a WoW addiction

Didn't Blizzard at one point say no one can charge for addons or put in-game directions to donate or pay for the addon? How did Curse manage to get past this?

dteohon Lifetime Mixpanel.com Startup Plan - $17

I bought the startup plan some 10 hours ago, sent in an email but never received any follow up.

I've just checked my Appsumo account and see that the startup plan has been downgraded to basic. Will customers after the 1000 mark get anything or are you guys planning to refund?

(I think also think it is wrong of you guys to modify invoices which is supposed to be a record and agreement of a transaction.)

dteohon Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

http://hg.dteoh.com/treasuremap

It's a stand-alone version of Swing appframework 1.03's ResourceMap implementation. I didn't want to use their entire framework and also needed a few extra resource loaders.