manassehkatz‭

When I first learned about salting, I thought the same thing. But as I understand it, because each salt is unique (or substantially unique within a given database table), storing the salt & has...

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

I think these kinds of questions are fine, but I am just one person. open source product I have been using appears to be poorly-documented is an extremely common problem. I have actually seen the p...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

1 - Rearrange the code: Open stdin, read all parameters, close stdin, then process the parameters. 2 - Consider adding some validation to the parameters. 3 - Add an explanation of the magic number ...

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

This is a very common problem. First some basics: There are two very different things in email: Email Server (a.k.a. hosting) This is the system that sends, receives and stores email message...

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

Data compression uses a wide variety of tactics to reduce the storage needed for data, including (just off the top of my head): Run length encoding - e.g., store aaaaa as ax5 Tokenizing commonl...

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

As far as I can tell, there are no tags yet for the main Q&A. I suggest setting an initial group of tags which help organize questions. Two groups I think would be particularly helpful are lang...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Alexei‭

YES or NO: It all depends on the storage engine Fairly universally, though IIRC from looking at PostgreSQL a while back, PostgreSQL may not even do that, there is a difference between CHAR/VARCHAR/...

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

This will be community dependent - e.g., Software Development, Outdoors, Cooking, etc. might each have a different rule. IMHO, there are two issues here: How helpful is such information, compared ...

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

There is no "official" contact form. A form is a form is form. HTML (and by extension any language that generates HTML as output) has "forms". A form could be for "contact" or "order" or "chat" or ...

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

I would simply turn off foreign key checks: SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0; and make all the changes, and then turn foreign key checks back on: SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1;

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

From the PHP mail manual mail ( string $to , string $subject , string $message , array|string $additional_headers = [] , string $additional_params = "" ) : bool PHP manual syntax (typical for...

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

TL;DR Simply not necessary Markdown, and other methods of formatting (Word or similar documents, HTML/CSS, Latex, etc.) are used where the document is the product. In this case, the support ticket...

posted 2y ago by manassehkatz‭