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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 4y 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 5y ago by manassehkatz‭

No. Software Development is about writing software. Yes, you can stretch almost anything that is an input to software to be "writing software". But arguably the closest analogue in actual Software ...

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

What specific algorithm makes it possible to scramble data into an unrecoverable form, yet still be usable for its intended purpose? It isn't any one specific algorithm. There are many differe...

posted 1y 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 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 4y 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 4y 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 4y 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 5y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Alexei‭

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 5y ago by manassehkatz‭

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 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 4y 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 4y 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 4y 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 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 4y 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 4y ago by manassehkatz‭