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Radical Simplicity in software and the Division of Labour(bens.me.uk)
1 points by bensummers 14y ago|0 comments
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"It Depends" (about the MongoDB Java driver)(mechanitis.blogspot.co.uk)
1 points by bensummers 14y ago|0 comments
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Searching for techniques in a changing world (localStorage messaging followup)(bens.me.uk)
1 points by bensummers 14y ago|0 comments
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by bensummers 14y ago
http://caniuse.com/#search=localStorage needs another column. I was intending this to be a "nice to have if it works", rather than essential to my app. But do people really use multiple tabs on a single site that much on mobile devices?
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by bensummers 14y ago
Yes, there are potential security issues with this, but as with anything in the browser you need to think through where your secrets are held. A similar issue comes with setting an expiry time of a few hours on a resource to let the browser
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by bensummers 14y ago
Thank you. I was impressed with how few lines of code were needed to use the API, always a sign of a well-designed system.
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by bensummers 14y ago
That's rather cool. And nice to see a use of the Lamport algorithm in a browser. :-)
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by bensummers 14y ago
I am disappointed I did not have an original thought. Nothing is new in this world. I propose we rename it the "Web Storage And Messaging" API.
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Inter-window messaging using localStorage(bens.me.uk)
103 points by bensummers 14y ago|28 comments
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Exceptions for control flow considered perfectly acceptable(drmaciver.com)
51 points by bensummers 14y ago|85 comments
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Prepare for 'post-crypto world', warns godfather of encryption(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by bensummers 14y ago|0 comments
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Big Data tools cost too much, do too little(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by bensummers 14y ago|0 comments
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by bensummers 14y ago
http://caniuse.com/ is a wonderful resource for checking exactly which browsers support new and exciting features, and whether they need a prefix.
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2e2: VC funded acquisition leads to failure of UK service provider(channelregister.co.uk)
1 points by bensummers 14y ago|0 comments
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The economics of brokers: Could YOU shift nuclear plant scrap?(channelregister.co.uk)
1 points by bensummers 14y ago|0 comments
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by bensummers 14y ago
I now have something new to link to whenever someone posts something suggesting that a "pipe curl to shell" command isn't insane! http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/42921614369/omg-r...
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by bensummers 14y ago
On the plus side, we've now got another method for doing NAT traversal. :-)
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You can take my passwords, out of my cold dead hands(abstractgeneratorfactory.blogspot.co.uk)
2 points by bensummers 14y ago|0 comments
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by bensummers 14y ago
The point of linking to another comment (made by someone else who is more qualified to comment around 2 years ago) is to point out how people just aren't learning. While it may seem like it's just a convenience, these things tend to take on
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by bensummers 14y ago
I've never heard anyone argue using number of upvotes as evidence before! And I'm not sure that the right thing to do is always the most popular option. Simplicity is desirable, but not at the expense of security. I'm sure you wouldn't su
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by bensummers 14y ago
Obligatory link to "| sh" HN comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2427492 Why do people still do this for every new project? It's not as if roots isn't packaged properly with npm.
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by bensummers 14y ago
London, UK - http://www.oneis.co.uk/ We're looking for the third member of our team: someone who can help us in just about every aspect of building and deploying a complex web application. We've created an interesting Platform for quickly
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My daughter sees technology as just another way to be creative(littlemissgeek.org)
2 points by bensummers 14y ago|0 comments
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Design for Start-Ups(slideshare.net)
5 points by bensummers 14y ago|0 comments
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by bensummers 14y ago
BenConf has a policy of inclusivity, it's just that calling everyone Ben makes the name badges so much easier to print.
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by bensummers 14y ago
Well in that case, why haven't you signed up?
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by bensummers 14y ago
I'm so very sorry. It was a silly joke which got out of hand.
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by bensummers 14y ago
Obligatory link to "| sudo bash" HN comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2427492
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by bensummers 14y ago
If your aim is to be a PaaS vendor, you'd probably able to put something together much more quickly and cheaply by just licensing Joyent's SmartDataCenter product and building anything else you need on top of that. And then you'd be running
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by bensummers 14y ago
So what's the magic in GoScale? Adding an API? [Edit: Remove comment about spam]

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