baudehlo

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   by baudehlo 13y ago

   Even in 2000 it wasn't just about VCs. Big old companies put a lot of effort and manpower into new tech too. Those long established companies rolled back projects at the same time as the crash, funding was pulled from technology depart
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   by baudehlo 13y ago

   True. It does far too little at compile time. I don't understand why. Maybe we need a "use compile strict" ;)
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   by baudehlo 13y ago

   A lot more JS coders could benefit from adding "use strict" to their code too. It's frankly amazing it isn't used more.
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   by baudehlo 13y ago

   I was once one of the most prolific authors on CPAN, and this, along with my answer above about lack of performance, drove me away. Perl(5) just needed classes and clean up a few bits of historic cruft (like the need to end modules in &quot
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   by baudehlo 13y ago

   Along with the other excellent answers, one thing Perl never got was a faster runtime. This drove me into the arms of V8 (via Node.js). Ruby got jRuby and Rubinius, PHP got the excellent work Facebook did, Python got PyPy, and many cool lan
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   by baudehlo 13y ago

   Yes, it's on my profile page here
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   by baudehlo 13y ago

   Would love to chat to you directly about all this. Your contact details are hard to find!
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   by baudehlo 13y ago

   But all the credit unions are owned by desjardins if I recall correctly.
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   by baudehlo 13y ago

   I didn't say it was faster than sphinx (yet) but it is definitely faster than lucene in all the benchmarks I've thrown at it.
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    I have extremely strong doubts about that. Everything can be modelled in modern databases, and SQL is probably much more powerful than you understand here.
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    This sounds like something you could just do in SQL and have it all done in milliseconds.
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    Pg's built in full text search works amazingly well and has all the smarts. It's also faster than lucene.
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    It never was the case. Ignore the stack overflow dribble.
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    But note it's at the expense of a very large index file - 800MB (vs Mongo's 100MB). Although Pg's index covers the entire JSON structure, whereas Mongo's index only covers the leafs being searched, so it will optimize a
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    Whatever the cause is, it's still Google's fault/problem. I too have a big gmail spam problem (related to my email address being very short and guessable), and mark as spam on average about 10-20 emails a day.
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    My one story about Molly - I met her as a speaker at an XML Conference around 1999 or 2000. She was extremely welcoming and kind to me, a wet behind the ears nobody at the time. We went for a speakers' pre-conference dinner that night,
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    You do not need the full text for search. You can hash every word and search hashes.
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    I thought the same. For redis there's Kue, which looks a lot more feature complete. https://github.com/learnboost/kue
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    And many years later we had email viruses bringing the internet to its knees, notably the LoveBug virus which we were the first to stop at MessageLabs. Now it's all just DDoS. Far scarier, and a lot less fun.
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    But only at 720p. Enough for presentations but terrible as a second monitor.
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    It's not a wonderful world scraping that stuff either. I worked on a startup doing just that - we wrote our own after evaluating the various options including yodlee. The banks make it hard. The only good thing is they evolve like mola
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    More likely historical database backups
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    As a keen rider (S1000-RR) I would love this. I mostly commute on mine and in the hot Toronto summers the heat is what kills you. I'm pretty sure this thing would run way cooler.
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    Can you expand on your experience with IE8 and Angular?
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    EV Certs show the company identity, which has been verified. Go to paypal for an example.
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    The fragility of parsing emails is a big problem though. But I agree that for the equivalent of webhooks it is the perfect platform, and simple scripts work. Except at scale.
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    Just don't disable SSL on your server. http://baudehlo.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/stripe-webhooks-don...
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    Part of the problem has traditionally been that email servers haven't been as easy to "hack" as web servers have. That was a failing on the part of the developers of those servers. Thankfully now you have things like Qpsmtpd,
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    Also you need to support SSL as well as TLS if you want to support IE6, and surprisingly - Stripe webhooks (see my blog for details).
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    by baudehlo 13y ago

    You can do that today with a Bluetooth headset helmet and a smartphone.