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Is your API broken?(blog.hackensplat.com)
1 points by billpg 12y ago|0 comments
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by billpg 12y ago
Shameless plug: I wrote about this issue with a lot of APIs some time ago. When a connection is broken unexpectedly, the protocol simply has no way to recover the state of play and there's a risk of duplicate transactions popping up.
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by billpg 12y ago
I once told the woman I eventually married that I "would rather die a lonely bitter old man than ever give a penny to the diamond industry." I since went back on that thought and clarified that those genuine diamonds grown in a fa
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by billpg 12y ago
"Our problem will be a very simple one: sum a list of n integers. To make this fair, we will assume that the integers all fit in a 32-bit signed int, and that their sum fits in a 32-bit signed int." What if my list is: [2000000000
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by billpg 12y ago
"I live in email… and if I can’t trust it, I’m in big trouble." Sorry, who told you that you could trust email? It has been broken ever since we decided an arms race was the best way to fight spamming. No, I don't have a bett
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by billpg 12y ago
It is possible that all .gov-to-.gov emails go over a VPN linking all their mail servers together. Having government business conducted on a mail server not on this hypothetical VPN would be a security risk.
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by billpg 12y ago
Are you a public official conducting the public's business through your own mail server? If not, you've got nothing to feel guilty about. (At least not in this regard. You may or may not have other unrelated things to feel guilty
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by billpg 12y ago
But... but... if its minimal, it can't be full.
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by billpg 12y ago
"Poaching"? Do they see their employees as property or something?
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by billpg 12y ago
HFT systems were tricked into making bad decisions? Boo hoo hoo! Won't anyone please think of the HFT systems?
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by billpg 12y ago
5xx - try again later, if applicable.
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by billpg 12y ago
"Humor is such a subjective thing, don't you think, Mollari?" -- Emperor Cartagia, Babylon 5.
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by billpg 12y ago
"New Machine Can See Bones, Organs in Stunning Detail" I call it a big knife. (b'dom ksh)
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by billpg 12y ago
Remember when we'd have one of these almost every year? Those were the days. Kids today... Get off my lawn.
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by billpg 12y ago
What happens if the folder is named .GİT or .gıt in a Turkish locale?
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by billpg 12y ago
I remember being shown this screen - after I had already installed Firefox and Chrome by downloading them. (Sorry Opera.)
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by billpg 12y ago
My hero!
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The Long Death of Project Hosting Sites(drdobbs.com)
2 points by billpg 12y ago|0 comments
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by billpg 12y ago
My mind added an exclamation point to that headline. Good News! You May Have Missed 2014!
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by billpg 12y ago
Answer: See Betteridge's law of headlines .
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by billpg 12y ago
That can only be transmitted in one direction. Its Herpes Duplex you have to worry about.
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by billpg 12y ago
What viruses "want" is to reproduce. Killing you is an unfortunate unplanned side effect. If only we could negotiate and agree to allow them to reproduce and not kill us, we'd all get along much better.
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by billpg 12y ago
What's more, if you send anything to the email listed in my whois, I'm going to think you're trying to con me before I've even read a single word.
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by billpg 12y ago
I should probably point out before someone else does, that my own blog, hackensplat.com, is one of those very websites I'm complaining about. In my defence, its just a blogger.com hosted site and I'm using their comment system. I
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by billpg 12y ago
Your point?
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by billpg 12y ago
HTML is great, mostly because it actually does the job and knows its place. Markdown and their ilk are all trying to be sorta-not-quite-HTML, but fail precisely because they are not HTML.
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by billpg 12y ago
One of those text-entry boxes with buttons for emphasis, list items, etc.
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by billpg 12y ago
Markdown and all the other Markdown-esque formats need to be consigned to the history books. No really. It is almost 2015 and we are still typing symbols on each side of words in text boxes when we want to emphasize something. Are we cave
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by billpg 12y ago
I humbly disagree. JSON Pointer is a syntax for specifying a location in a JSON object. Multiple form items with JSON pointer strings as names would map to the equivalent of a number of add operations in a PATCH call that start with an empt
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by billpg 12y ago
A new standard for referencing a point in a JSON object? I wonder if they considered RFC 6901 and rejected it. I personally prefer this new square bracket notation, but being a standard already gets more points.

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