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by blasdel 16y ago
None of the AWS 'REST' APIs are worthy of the name. While the S3 API is one of the less ugly ones, a bunch of it is crappily stateful and non-idempotent (like bucket creation).
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by blasdel 16y ago
> Use the HTTP PUT verb to upload your files to the service. Since this is a REST interface, the file will live at the path you specify. Retrieve it with an HTTP GET. You cannot replace existing files. PUTs to existing files will fail
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by blasdel 16y ago
These are just shitty keyboards for affected gits. This (with a usb-parallel adaptor) is a USB Teletypewriter: http://www.wabdo.com/fred/printernet/ (it's printing this thread: http://metatalk.metafilter.com/16190/Print-Stylesheet-for-Me
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Visual Guide to NoSQL Systems(blog.nahurst.com)
2 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
No realistic ones, no. Do you really expect Afghanistan to turn into Canada or Australia, much less Norway?
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Grasping the nuclear fourth rail of Python syntax with both hands(glyphobet.net)
3 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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Dr. Richard Hipp calls them "Postmodern Databases"(xaprb.com)
47 points by blasdel 16y ago|25 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
Congratulations, SeoMoz, you're king of the shitpile!
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by blasdel 16y ago
You've still got the user interface backwards — you shouldn't have to present a dialog with a phone number for the user to dial, your app should simply call the user when they click a button. Amazon does this as a confirmation step when you
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by blasdel 16y ago
Your retail RAM prices are inflated about 3x, but I think your point is correct. You know how Google has always had that little blurb about how long it took to process your query on the results page? Back when they were for sure running eve
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by blasdel 16y ago
BigTable is not a motherfucking key/value store. It's a sorted tuplestore with built-in multidimensionality. Hypertable is a direct clone, HBase and Cassandra use the same style of API but have slightly different storage backends. Just beca
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by blasdel 16y ago
You think Google's mainline storage of their index is on disk ? It is to laugh. I don't think that's been true since around the time they stopped building server shelves out of lego or cardboard. They've been keeping the full text of the
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by blasdel 16y ago
The EVO and all other Android devices hav stingy minimal built-in storage (originally 256mb, now 512mb since the OS didn't fit anymore). They all have SD card slots, but they need an SD card inserted at all times to not break apps. They'v
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by blasdel 16y ago
iPhone apps can only invoke one another via registered URL handlers, which can't be overridden — the one-way loose coupling of a modern hyperlink. Android apps can one effectively link with one another with Intents and transclude one anothe
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by blasdel 16y ago
Well the web needed a means of setting the viewport scale, and the one Apple came up with is as good as any. Are you really insistent that you come op with your own "-moz-viewport" crap just because there isn't a draft standard? The vendor
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by blasdel 16y ago
Alan Kay is a particularly odd case — he's had to start over with Smalltalk half a dozen times because it was too successful . Because people from elementary schoolkids to Disney to IBM were invested in it, he couldn't keep iterating. He h
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by blasdel 16y ago
The Windows features that succeeded most (loosely coupled applications with root access) don't overlap at all with what Android is trying to do. Android is trying to do tightly-coupled sandboxed applications that invoke and include one anot
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by blasdel 16y ago
Well, the iPhone is expensive because Apple can collect fat pure profits in rent from the cellular carriers. Unsubsidized, the iPhone costs $800 when the iPod touch costs $200. The cell modem that differentiates them costs a tenth of the di
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by blasdel 16y ago
> You don't see linux users purchasing Apple hardware to install linux on generally Linus Torvalds does this, and has for a decade (he had several Powerbooks before the Intel transition). A lot of the other kernel developers do too. T
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by blasdel 16y ago
> Open source is designed by programmers, for programmers. And we are weird. As a programmer, I like programs like this, because I am weird. But Ubuntu and Firefox and Android are not actually designed for programmers, and that's why
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by blasdel 16y ago
I suggest we all go to the Brain Slug planet -- just walk around, not wearing a helmet.
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by blasdel 16y ago
The majority of these features have already existed in the upstream WebKit Inspector for several years, but because they ripped out the original javascript implementation to replace with V8, the Chrome people couldn't use any of it.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Because neither Verilog nor VHDL is code. HDL is a slightly handwavey description of the graph of a machine, not something that runs on a machine. You have wires, not variables: real physical wires connecting gates and LUTs. Since you're de
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by blasdel 16y ago
That's not what RESTful means. What your URLs look like has absolutely nothing to do with REST -- the whole point is that it treats URLs as opaque references to other similarly hypertextual resources.
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by blasdel 16y ago
No same-origin-policy, since you can't access the data in the response, but you could do that already with hidden iframes.
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If a tree falls in a forest, it kills Schrödinger’s cat(yosefk.com)
3 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
You simply do not understand REST. At all. Caring about what URLs look like is at best irrelevant, but normally extremely counterproductive to actual RESTful implementation. If you're building URL strings to make requests (save for get-base
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by blasdel 16y ago
Given that he developed Django, the framework that thankfully euthanized Zope, he's probably seen things us people wouldn't believe.
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by blasdel 16y ago
This. (or rather, self ) The answer to 'Why Python?' is a lot better than what you're going to get for Ruby, Scheme, or the continued use of Perl. At least PHP has its execution story going for it (immediate mode) even if the language suck
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by blasdel 16y ago
s/Utah/JTAG/ -- goddamn iPhone

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