There are some short comings about using email codes but I fail to see how this worse than passwords when the same exact kind of attack would work for passwords. The difference being that it would be worse with passwords which can be stored, reused later or sometimes changed directly on the service.
My password manager will never fill my password into the wrong site. I would need to do so manually which sets of so many alarm bells in my head.
With email pasting the number into a random website is the expected flow and there is basically no protection (some phones have basic protections for SMS auth but even this only works if you are signing in on the same device).
OP is just ragebait for nerds. How many articles have been published in the last 20 years about the issues with passwords? Now we're saying that the small chance some user ends up on bad-minecraft.com with a login form is actually worse than using "L3tmein!" as a password everywhere? Please find something more worthy to spend your time thinking about.
Actually AST edition with touch interface has been experimented by MS Research with Touch develop (https://www.touchdevelop.com/). In their editor you just insert/combine AST parts instead of typing them.
Parent comment is referencing the "let inline" construction that in addition to inline code allows to constrain generic types structurally over member definition[1] instead of by name as usual. This gives us poor's man type classes which is useful nonetheless.
I guess the conclusion is that the definition of duck typing is fuzzy and misleading.
Just a side note, Thumbs.db are no longer created in visited folders since Vista. Mac OS seems to be the last OS that randomly trashes removable mass storage.
Just a slight correction, it's debit cards that are common in France and not credit cards. But yes indeed, at least in Paris, a lot of people buy everything with debit card (you can buy as low as 1€ by debit card in big chains).
Yes I really meant "cards" rather than specifically "credit cards". An AFAIK France doesn't really make a difference between debit and credit cards, that's a concern between clients and their banks.
Its also a concern btwn the end user and the card. Credit cards, bc of the inherent line of credit and their ability to accommodate you into a large amount of personal debt, free the end user up to become a consumer beyond their means. Debit cards don't. I think a lot of what you're talking about, in terms of payment issues in the US, stem from this.
We're spending money that hasn't been earned yet, and there is a lot of space to disrupt that as the industry is held by legacy companies who give out credit.
> Its also a concern btwn the end user and the card. Credit cards, bc of the inherent line of credit and their ability to accommodate you into a large amount of personal debt, free the end user up to become a consumer beyond their means. Debit cards don't.
To an extent, overdraft is a thing on debit cards.
> We're spending money that hasn't been earned yet, and there is a lot of space to disrupt that as the industry is held by legacy companies who give out credit.
But Square isn't in that business, they're in the business of ferrying money between the consumer and the provider of goods and services.
