Questions tagged [online-identity]
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How to design ID code system for people database?
We are restructuring our entire database / filesystem / user identity system. As a first step, we have determined that we need to assign each user/employee in an organization unique ID. Surprisingly ...
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how to store online status
I'm developing realtime web chat using pubsub pattern. To be concrete I'm using python and tornado-redis on back end and websockets (WS) (tornado) on front end. I have WS connection open and close ...
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What is the rationale behind entering email twice for registration? [duplicate]
Many web sites ask users to enter their email address twice, sometimes taking the trouble to disable copy-pasting. What is the logic behind this? Is this e.g. a security measure?