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by BarkMore 16y ago
The format is intuitive to read, but I always find myself going here http://golang.org/src/pkg/time/format.go#L50 when I am writing a format string. It's definitely an improvement over strftime because I need to lookup the escape codes wh
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by BarkMore 16y ago
You mentioned Amazon. Some other large companies are: Google (Fremont, Kirkland), Microsoft (Redmond, Bellevue), Facebook (near the Market).
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One of the reasons reasons that Facebook is implementing features for third party sites (like buttons, the new comment system) is that Facebook wants to collect the same type of data that Google collects with AdSense. The profile data and t
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There will be some justification for the high valuations when Facebook enters the display advertising space. Facebook will use like button log data and user profile information for superior ad targeting. Their ad targeting might not be very
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Beluga uploads a SHA-1 hash of the email addresses. http://community.belugapods.com/beluga/topics/privacy_concer...
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By using an unmodified MySQLdb driver, FriendFeed did not make asynchronous calls to the database. I searched around and found this comment w/ response from Paul Buchheit about the issue: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1479301 Do yo
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In what way does Tornado not support psycopg2? Because the Tornado code includes some convenience functions for working with an unmodified MySQLdb driver, I assume that FriendFeed also used the MySQLdb driver with no modifications. If the M
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by BarkMore 16y ago
> our politicians are underwriting irresponsible risk taking The government is underwriting risk by bailing out various institutions (Fannie, Freddie, Citi, AIG, ...). > why they believe bubbles are the only way to prosperity This i
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This is amusing. Quora might think that my real name is fake, but that's not a problem because I registered with a very ordinary sounding fake name.
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WiFi has been free at Starbucks in the USA since July 2010. Before that, a registered Starbucks card got you free WiFi.
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Instagram was started by a couple of people in August or September 2010. The platform choice was less obvious at that time. They could only pick one platform given that they only had a couple of people and they needed to build both a servi
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Instagram is inviting people to signup for access to the API. The API does not appear to be available yet. Picplz launched their API today (the actual API, not an invitation).
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by BarkMore 16y ago
I gave up on Clojure running on App Engine a year ago because I could not get the loading request time below 3 seconds. It is not as bad what you describe, but it was a problem. The loading requests happened frequently enough that users not
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by BarkMore 16y ago
I agree that my previous rant was about nits, but these nits add up and act as a barrier to entry to development in the space. You mention that XMPP is widely implemented on the server, but only a few of the implementations are actually any
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by BarkMore 16y ago
Why do you say that the author knows what he's doing? If your statement is based his work on Jabber (now called XMPP), then I am somewhat concerned. Several design decisions make Jabber difficult to implement with no benefit to the use cas
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by BarkMore 16y ago
Google could have made this story all the more interesting by using misspellings of the terms nihilartikel and mountweazel in the honeypot queries.
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JSON won because there's a straightforward mapping between a JSON document and the language's native arrays, maps and values. The remainder of the problems you list are not problems. There are one line parse and dump functions for XML. You
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He's mad because his comment was hidden through the collaborative organization process.
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Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPub and XML on the Web(25hoursaday.com)
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Given that Quora's content is collaboratively organized and in some cases edited, it seems obvious that Quora is not a service for content where the author wants his or her individual voice to be heard.
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by BarkMore 16y ago
The problem is not so much bulk sending of mail, but sending of unwanted mail from one user to another. Amazon might shut you down if you have a large number of recipients marking these unwanted messages as spam. Perhaps you should record e
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by BarkMore 16y ago
That's a nice application idea. I have some feedback: * The email subject is labeled "name of your reminder" on the input form and "title" on the confirmation page. I recommend using the term "subject" in both places because that's what p
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Example database-driven web application in Go(github.com)
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A nice feature of the Go JSON package is that it can unmarshal to strongly typed objects. This moves some input validation from the application to the JSON package.
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Many of the questions required knowledge of basic algorithms and data structures. This is all stuff that I picked up from reading a book used in a CS101 class. The questions did not cover any advanced topics (operating systems, compilers,
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Google does not necessarily require a CS degree. Google hired me with 10 years professional software development experience and no CS degree. Google hired my friend with similar years of experience and no high school diploma.
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The article discusses how many applications request write access when they don't need it. I think that the reverse problem is even worse. Many of the applications that I use (Posterous, Picplz, Instagram) only need write access, yet they al
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by BarkMore 16y ago
Mark Pilgrim is referring to the book Dive Into Python 3 in the quote. One reason that the book is not selling is that the adoption of Python 3 is slow. Most people are still using Python 2.x.
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Yeah, the silent attack does not work with POST. But POST does not eliminate the vulnerability in the target website.
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by BarkMore 16y ago
If the attacker can add a form and script to a page, then the attacker can arrange for the form to automatically POST using script. If the attacker cannot add a form and script directly to the forum, then the attacker can try to trick the v

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