andrewgodwin

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by andrewgodwin 16y ago
The main problem with the fragment change solution is that it _doesn't work without JavaScript_. And we're not talking for the one user browsing the site - any links people post (on forums, mailing lists, etc.) that have fragments in them a
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by andrewgodwin 16y ago
My favourite part of the program archaeology is when he digs right down to the core and discovers the computers are still keeping time in seconds since the time when man landed on the moon (and then discovers it's really a time a bit more t
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by andrewgodwin 16y ago
As one of the two people working on something similar to Heroku or GAE (we're called ep.io), Beanstalk is simultaneously worrying and quite interesting - while it is an interesting player into the market, it's not _that_ hands-off, from wha
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Ep.io: The First Few Weeks(ep.io)
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by andrewgodwin 16y ago
Not only that, a DDoS can cost quite a bit in extra bandwidth costs (I've had a couple of small ones chew through a suprising amount). It's a bit more of a substantial repercussion in addition to hitting "brand", and often affects smaller c
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by andrewgodwin 16y ago
A point that might be interesting for HN people: the source code is freely available on GitHub at https://github.com/Spacelog/Spacelog We also made sure the missions were in a VCS-friendly text format, so people can fork and merge in chan
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by andrewgodwin 16y ago
The part I find worst is the comment saying that it's still alright because, statistically, "more sex offenders are male". If that's a valid judgement call, surely the fact that most child sex offenders are relatives/acquaintances of the vi
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by andrewgodwin 16y ago
I'm not sure I'd say it has "won" - such a phrase implies a long-term positioning at the front of the pack, and those that came before it for code hosting (SourceForge, Google Code) enjoyed their time in the spotlight before having somethin
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by andrewgodwin 16y ago
There's also eventlet, which gevent was (essentially) forked from - it has the advantage of having both libevent backends (like gevent, and aren't threadsafe due to libevent) and threadsafe backends too (not that I have much call to use thr
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by andrewgodwin 16y ago
Even more impressively, this appears to be for the new protocol version - the new protocol is significantly harder to implement a server for than the old one (I say this having written custom servers for both in Python), and requires, amon
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by andrewgodwin 16y ago
I saw that earlier in the year - it's a nice idea, but I can't help but think there's a significant portion of people who aren't on GitHub (for example, I have an account, but the majority of my projects are on BitBucket, mostly due to tech