al_james

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by al_james 15y ago
Considering dyn.com started interrupting Everydns' users services two days earlier than they said they wound (in their own instructions), I have moved to alternative DNS providers, and I really hope many other users did too.
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by al_james 15y ago
Define bigger? More nodes yes, but less cores, RAM and disk space.
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by al_james 15y ago
http://crossbrowsertesting.com/ is an alternative that has proven very good and cost effective for me. This does appear to be cheaper though. The local testing thing may be cool. Not sure how that will work.
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by al_james 15y ago
Wow, a homepage with some bullet points. Really detailed! Where is the API doc?
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by al_james 15y ago
This is sickening.
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by al_james 15y ago
Excellent updates. However disappointed that the improvements to aggregation previously mentioned for 2.0 did not seem to make the cut.
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by al_james 15y ago
Better because it allows you to simply share your location with your friends without all the rubbish foursquare adds. I know the places I want to go and I am not interested in earning a 'badge' to go there. I just want to let my friends kno
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by al_james 15y ago
Build them using a syntax builder framework, but it is possible to pass raw SQL strings in in exceptional circumstances. Obviously, the developer needs to be totally aware of the risks of this. Not ideal, but needed to solve a couple of
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by al_james 15y ago
Yes, exactly, the meaning of 'safe string' depends on its context. I personally believe that all code that is sensitive to escaping issues, should be escaped on output (or storage / sending to the database / whatever) by default unless you
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by al_james 15y ago
"Pretty difficult to read IP Address lookup" you mean.
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by al_james 15y ago
Interestingly (but inevitably) as a java developer who first learned Android and then moved to iOS, the sticking points he mentions are exactly the same ones I found, but the other way around. I think Eclipse makes sense if you think like a
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by al_james 15y ago
I think this may be the Hindenburg moment for services like this built purely on trust. Trust alone is a naive defence that only works when your user base is small and well aligned with your core concepts. In many ways its the coming of ag
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by al_james 15y ago
Interesting. Does the user need to be logged in to G+ and a friend of the person you are requesting the feed for? Otherwise its a bit of a privacy bug! Edit: Reading it again, it clearly states public posts only.
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by al_james 15y ago
>direct string concatenation is 2X faster than using "implode" That depends on how many strings you are concatenating. The beauty of implode is that you can build an HTML snippet and implode it all at the end before output.
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by al_james 15y ago
This article smacks of being written by someone who came to javscript from the design world, as opposed to coming to javascript as a programmer.
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by al_james 15y ago
Yes you would. Right, thats by sunday afternoon project taken care of, a transparent write-through HTTP cache using web SQL in javascript. Awesome.
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by al_james 15y ago
I guess you could store images as base64 encoded text in the Web SQL database, then create the images using the data: protocol. However, not sure you could fit many images in as the file size would be higher.
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by al_james 15y ago
I am very cautious of Thrift's custom network stack. We have a java backend service that gets thousands of requests per second per node and where latency is of upmost importance. We tested thrift for communication between the backend servic
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by al_james 15y ago
This EC2 outage only affects on single AWS region. This is exactly why AWS provides multiple regions and availability zones. The sites on that page should have taken advantage of these features. Don't put all your eggs in one basket (cloud)
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by al_james 16y ago
> Planar Thanks.
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by al_james 16y ago
Sorry, I was talking more about 3D games, in particular those that became popular around the time Doom came out (1993) which is the same year the CD32 was released. The Amiga was great for 3D production graphics. Software such as Lightwave
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by al_james 16y ago
Although I used to be a huge Amiga fan, I think that Amigas of the time lagged behind other systems for gaming. PC's having chunky display formats (as opposed to plainer (planer?) on the Amiga) meant that PC's could do far more 3D graphics
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by al_james 16y ago
This looks very similar to Scala. Why reinvent the wheel Red Hat?
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by al_james 16y ago
I don't think its enough of a discount to be honest. I would not even consider it for $25. $50 maybe. I would have thought amazon could get $50 / user for these ads over the lifetime of the device.
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by al_james 16y ago
Well, you have to admit that the perceived option (c) "sue some people to make them pay you more for doing the same" would look appealing.... If short-sighted.
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by al_james 16y ago
...in particular people from industries that were once more profitable than they are currently. There is nothing like decreasing revenues and companies going to the wall to make people get greedy.
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by al_james 16y ago
Not if your HUGE
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by al_james 16y ago
This looks great. I wonder if its usable for real-time (low latency) queries? Looks a bit batch oriented to me. Also, is this open source? Can I download and play?
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by al_james 16y ago
Wow. Is it me, or do those 'monster characters' on the landing page so really, really amateurish?
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by al_james 16y ago
>Treat it like an iPhone app. plenty of folks waiting to click Install. In the App Store maybe, but not many people are waiting to pay for web apps.

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