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My SIL asked for help with a college group project (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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She was mostly looking for validation, since the guys in the group thought that hashing the passwords on an online banking application is waste of time, and the best way to handle login is to send the whole user database to the front-end so you can match the unhashed password to the correct account

Colleges should lower their limits for stabbing

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

A coworker of mine was working on some programming homework and we chatted about it. He was having trouble adding a b-tree sort function to something. I asked a few questions about how python handles that (it’s what they teach now) and explained how we’d do it in c. Made the mistake of asking “what is this for, course number of the second semester class?” No, he’s graduating in the fall.

I flunked out of computer science twenty years ago.