I Was The Fastest Man For 30 Minutes

At least, that is what I'd like to believe. Sometimes self-deceit is bliss. This little 562hp, ΒΌ million dollar monster helped me in my quest:

Lamborghini Gallardo
Lamborghini Gallardo
Lamborghini Gallardo
Lamborghini Gallardo
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Illogical Ordering

I just do not get it. Just because logically the province is usually written before the country, it does not imply it is a good idea to blindly follow convention when implementing an address capture form.

Forcing people to first select a province (which is defaulted to the list of provinces based on the defaulted country), is meaningless for everyone not living in the defaulted country. And no America - you are NEITHER the only country in the world NOR the biggest. I always have to scroll past province, then select my country, then scroll back up to province and change it.

Country should be first. Then province. Stop this madness.

Wrong Audience

I just received an email from LinkedIn, with this paragraph:

LinkedIn has taken significant steps to strengthen account security since 2012. For example, we now use salted hashes to store passwords and enable additional account security by offering our members the option to use two-step verification.

The problem with this statement, though very beneficial to someone like me, is pretty useless for anyone not familiar with cryptography. Do you know why "salted hashes" are better than "normal hashes"? I bet 99% of the population that received that email, do not know the difference. If I were them, I'd rephrase it as:

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Ummm What?

Web scraping gone bad?
Web scraping gone bad?

What are the two greatest sins?

  • Dishonesty
  • Lack of integrity