Firehed

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Best architecture for building a web service(slant.co)
7 points by Firehed 14y ago|2 comments
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by Firehed 14y ago
No. Swipe-to-archive means working the same way as it works in every single other iOS app that implements that functionality: left-to-right. edit - To clarify: widely-adopted shortcuts are only effective when they work the same everywhere.
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by Firehed 14y ago
getting caught poking around in someone's personal data is a great way to get fired ;)
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by Firehed 14y ago
I dunno about that - I really wanted to like Sparrow for iOS (aside from a couple bugs dealing with insane volumes of email, I love it on the desktop) but it never felt quite right to me. I've actually just now reinstalled it to check what
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by Firehed 14y ago
My experience is in the context of payments - when charging someone's payment card, check whether it's one we've issued and just run it as an internal balance transfer rather than run it through Visa (read: free). When doing the whole "buil
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by Firehed 14y ago
Based on my own experience... yes, at least to start. Depends how easy (and fast) it is to detect that both parties exist within the network.
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by Firehed 14y ago
It's also a (moderately) higher barrier to entry, so it's less likely to be aggressively used by heavy-handed copyright holders. Though in practice, fax has turned into this bastard child of excessive analog-to-digital conversion, at least
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by Firehed 14y ago
It's not like you have to pick between the two even with the default Mail.app - you can browse one inbox at a time or select "all inboxes". I happen to like unified view 90% of the time, but for that other 10% it's literally two taps to vie
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The Gmail app for iPhone and iPad: version 2.0(gmailblog.blogspot.com)
137 points by Firehed 14y ago|127 comments
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by Firehed 14y ago
ACH chargebacks are even worse than CC chargebacks, from the perspective of being able to fight them. As soon as a payment touches any of the existing networks, it's at risk. The only way to fix it completely (or at least significantly impr
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by Firehed 14y ago
Yes, the thundering herd problem. While the site may be briefly less responsive, if the traffic is all to a single piece of content as long as one of them goes through you'll end up with the content in cache and then the load immediately dr
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by Firehed 14y ago
There's overdosing (to the point where you risk it being lethal) and then there's general ill effects. Even as someone very light (OD dosage is based on your weight, unsurprisingly[1]), it would require me to take multiple caffeine pills be
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by Firehed 14y ago
Then continue using HTTP/1.1. SSL needs to verify the site's identity to be effective, period. For a certain level of trust (EV certs, for example) that requires humans doing work, at least for now. Humans cost money. StartSSL's free certs
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by Firehed 14y ago
$0; use StartSSL. They're in the trusted root CAs for Chrome and Firefox which are the only browsers that support SPDY so far (I think they're trusted in all major browsers, but I don't spend my day examining IE6's list of trusted CAs) The
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by Firehed 14y ago
Totally valid point. One of my housemates loves Haskell for very much the same reasons, and all other things being equal I'd prefer that as well (who wouldn't?). But of course, anyone who's worked on production systems knows that all the ma
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by Firehed 14y ago
Meh. I use bash on my laptop and zsh on my VM, and barely notice a difference between the two other than my different prompt. That tells me I'm not getting the most out of it, but it also tells me that the out-of-the-box improvements are p
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by Firehed 14y ago
This is of course wild speculation, but with the materials this is made of, I'm guessing it's a lot safer than the crappy, cheap mattresses many people sleep on. I've woken on my arm many times to no ill effects, and I can't possibly see t
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by Firehed 14y ago
I just don't understand the hate. Like any language it has some syntactic quirks and inconsistencies. There's no way to objectively say that one language is superior to another, because there are so many metrics that contribute to superiori
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by Firehed 14y ago
25¢ to receive a message is not something I'm willing to pay; it's something I literally have no way out of if I want a cell phone and don't want to cough up even more for unlimited SMS. AFAIK there's no way to just turn off SMS entirely, w
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by Firehed 14y ago
And yet nobody seems to complain that all of our other utilities are charged based on usage: electricity, gas, water, landline phones (remember those?). I'm aware that it's a lot harder to judge data use than it is for water, so there's a r
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by Firehed 14y ago
These days, Twitter seems to be a "let's piss everyone off, we're big enough that they can't do anything about it" company. I've been a member since 01/2007 and have been developing against their API for nearly as long (though for what I im
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by Firehed 14y ago
> And it's not something you can really do if you loose your phone (i.e you need two-factor authentication to get there to disable two-factor authentication). Backup codes. It's not the cleanest approach in the world, but it's still an
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by Firehed 14y ago
re: key length - Google Authenticator supports any length of key; Google happens to provide 80-bit (below the 128-bit minimum, per the HOTP spec!) keys for their own services. However, it does NOT support > 6 character output length, no
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by Firehed 14y ago
You don't necessarily need to register a trademark in order to defend it (although you do need to defend it once it's registered unless you want to risk using it). From Wikipedia: > In the United States, neither federal nor state regist
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by Firehed 14y ago
As someone who's heard the name "moot", I would have (prior to reading this article, which shows otherwise) assumed that a service named "moot.it" offering discussion forums is associated with Moot/Chris Poole. Preventing this kind of confu
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by Firehed 14y ago
Leaked? It's a sitemap. That's being intentionally published.
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by Firehed 14y ago
Recognition issues are comparatively easy to fight (unless it was an Amex payment, as they charge merchants more to get more screwed over) but you still get dinged with the chargeback fee and potentially a higher discount* rate because of t
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by Firehed 14y ago
That's nothing compared to when one of the issuing banks @replied to the person doing it, telling them to remember to set up online account access. Yes, I'm serious.
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by Firehed 14y ago
They're a bit better on OS X 10.8 with Notification Center, but still subpar overall. But that's the nature of taking a power user tool and dumbing it down for mass-market consumption.
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by Firehed 14y ago
It affects current clients; they just enforce the limits differently. You can get up to the greater of 2x your current userbase or 100,000 users at the time of the announcement. For applications with a massive install base that could still

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