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narad

1,666 karma · joined February 3, 2011

I am someone who juggles many hats and dabbles in programming, marketing, product dev, project management.
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narad··on New GitHub phishing attack due to missing DMARC
Microsoft should shutdown these domains. I see that this domain was setup recently 21-Jun-2020. A similar domain with CN TLD is there.

https://who.is/whois/****gltnub.com*****

This could have been setup to do target a large private project and steal the source code.

narad··on How Simple Analytics calculates unique visits without cookies or fingerprinting
I am wondering how they will try to compensate when the browser is actively blocking referrer information. In that case the data will be polluted like the website has received more unique visitors, but it is not the actual.

In earlier times, this kind of tracking was the norm. Big Analytic companies tried to distill this information and add value to the existing data to make sense. So the cookies and fingerprinting were added to distill that data.

narad··on Show HN: A few simple games not only for kids
In firefox, I get a partial page.

In console, there is a warning as "no wasm support" -- easy.js

narad··on Free Font: Norwester
This font will be great to use in headlines. Will this font be available in Google Fonts [1]? Because Google hosts many fonts under SIL Open Font License .

[1] http://www.google.com/fonts

narad··on Argentines are now allowed to know the real rate of inflation
Spot on.. I changed the country name from Argentina to India in the price stats URL.

Alas! It's 404.

narad··on Google Affiliate Network closes
DoubleClick Performics was rebranded as GAN. They did not improve the system after buying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performics

narad··on Online Dispute Becomes Internet-Snarling Attack
The heart of the problem, according to several Internet engineers, is that many large Internet service providers have not set up their networks to make sure that traffic leaving their networks is actually coming from their own users.

Why the ISP networks are not doing their job? Isn't is very simple to filter?

narad··on Analytics used to predict who will leave a job
Here is an another one from IBM http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/01/29/ibm-security-tool-can-fl...
narad··on A confirmed security vulnerability in 30 web sites
I am getting "Sorry, this page is temporarily unavailable while we perform necessary server maintenance." Good move.
narad··on The Problem with App.Net
Due to HN effect, the Server seems to be down. I am getting CPU limit reached error.
narad··on GoogleIO easter eggs (and how I got them)
Can the Mods update the URL... it is http://zakelfassi.com/2013/03/08/all-googleio-easter-eggs/ instead of http://zakelfassi.com/2013/03/08/all-googleio-eater-eggs/
narad··on Long-lost continent found under the Indian Ocean
It was called Kumari Continent[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumari_Kandam

narad··on 'Nightclub bouncer' phishing scam found by researchers
There is already a term for it -- spear phishing attack.
narad··on Ask HN: Gmail Account Consitently Hacked
Have you checked whether some of your mails are getting forwarded to an unknown email address?

Go to Gmail settings page and check all the settings.

narad··on Betrayed by LinkedIn
I get this drupal error.

-- PDOException: SQLSTATE[40001]: Serialization failure: 1213 Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction: DELETE FROM {semaphore} WHERE (name = :db_condition_placeholder_0) AND (value = :db_condition_placeholder_1) AND (expire <= :db_condition_placeholder_2) ; Array ( [:db_condition_placeholder_0] => variable_init [:db_condition_placeholder_1] => 112720946350f00b3f105ad8.99608950 [:db_condition_placeholder_2] => 1357908800.0644 ) in lock_may_be_available() (line 181 of /export/content/data/dlc/shared/www/developer/includes/lock.inc). --

Why would somebody spit the SQL exceptions on the browser instead of the log file?

narad··on Show HN: Designing Web Applications
@nathanbarry Quick Question: Why there is no button or call-for-action after the last line?

" So, are you ready to buy the book now?"

narad··on Ask HN: Dropbox security bug?
I am able to view your files. Did you contact Dropbox and check with them?
narad··on Zombie bees leave the hive at night
"honey bees that have been parasitized by the Zombie Fly Apocephalus borealis." [1]

[1] https://www.zombeewatch.org/

narad··on SubtlePatterns.com has been hijacked.
Currently, the owner name is shown as some one from Amsterdam. http://who.is/domain_archive-com/subtlepatterns.com/
narad··on Google blocks Extensions/UserScripts from origins other than Chrome WebStore
Someone had suggested me to use TamperMonkey [1] for installing scripts on Chrome. It worked for me.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dhdgffkkebhmkfjoje...

narad··on I keep typing "www.hackernews.com"
Did you mean "hn"?
narad··on How Cookies Can Compromise Your Website Security
LOL. I read the site name as Scammysite.
narad··on This man wants to destroy Amazon
Rakuten CEO has stated in the comments that their business model is not like Amazon market place and they would focus on how to empower mid to small size merchants.
narad··on Facebook has now a patent granted on having a user privacy settings page
I am completely flummoxed by this patent.

1) Setting cookies is a browser feature. How a social networking site, which was not involved in developing a browser can patent this? 2) How can setting a cookie be termed as an invention?

narad··on Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief
My thoughts goes like this....

Down the line, Yahoo will sell itself to Google. Just like EDS was sold to HP. Consolidation is on the horizon.

narad··on Nice HTML5/GLSL explosion demo
The demo crashed my browser. Chrome 19. May be due to too much CPU resource usage.
narad··on Ask HN: next viable domain suffix after .com
As you said that you are targeting enterprise users, I would suggest to negotiate with the owner of .com domain. Have you contacted them?
narad··on Why ICANN's gTLD process leaves a lot to be desired
That's a good point.

Even then, I wonder why would Google choose a gTLD over any other TLD. For Google, content only matters. It doesn't matter what your address is. If your meal (content) is good, then spidey is happy to munch it and send it's recommendations (traffic).

narad··on Accepting my first credit card payment without PayPal, part 1/2
Can you name that German company? Curious to know.
narad··on Google Adds A/B Testing to Google Analytics
Website Optimizer is getting closed by July 2012. We’re saying goodbye to Google Website Optimizer. Many marketers and publishers have improved the web by using insights from Website Optimizer to create better experiences for their users.
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