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by bromley 15y ago
Looks useful - something that my company could use at any rate. We're currently a customer of geonames's commercial web service. I have a few recommendations for the developer: First, the GMail account restriction sounds odd. But I'm gues
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by bromley 15y ago
Clickable link: http://www.degreedays.net/api/
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Show HN: Degree Days API for Bulk Analysis of Heating/Cooling Energy-Usage Data
1 points by bromley 15y ago|1 comments
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by bromley 15y ago
Thanks. It's not clear to me from the post that it's using TLS but that would make sense. Though if requiring TLS I wonder why not just use basic auth since it's simpler and since TLS would protect the password. One of the things that's nea
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by bromley 15y ago
As far as I can tell the signature applies only to the date header. Which means that if an attacker can intercept a signed request they can swap in any request of their own without having to change the signature at all. And the server will
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by bromley 15y ago
Yes, please, verbatim: or similar would be great, especially for use on a mobile.
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by bromley 15y ago
I think you mean 5.3 Watt-hours (Wh), 4500 W, and 725 kWh? http://www.energylens.com/articles/kw-and-kwh
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by bromley 15y ago
Yes but you still need a proxy. With versioning in the subdomain you can easily route requests for different versions to completely different systems. That flexibility might come in handy one day.
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by bromley 15y ago
Speaking to potential customers about the specifics of feature implementations might sometimes be a bad idea before version 1.0, but I definitely think it's good to speak to potential customers. It's by far the best way to understand your
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by bromley 15y ago
Here's a fairly recent article: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=inside-the-... I'm a lot more enthused by the thought of petri-dish-grown steak than mealworm.
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"Metres" vs "Meters": How the US Put Its Mark on an International Standard(metricationmatters.com)
1 points by bromley 15y ago|0 comments
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by bromley 15y ago
I often hear programmers announce how they did something in minutes that would have taken me days. I'm going to keep this on hand to cheer me up on such occasions.
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by bromley 15y ago
I work in the shower. Great place for thinking.
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by bromley 15y ago
I struggle to see how "her" could be considered gender-neutral. In my opinion that's just making the same mistake all over again. Not meaning to dismiss the underlying issue though. I just think that, short of inventing a new word, singul
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by bromley 15y ago
So they appear to be aiming for consecutive numbers: Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006 (MST is GMT-0700) Month: 1 Day: 2 Hour: 3 (15 being 3pm, or 03 for 12-hour clock) Minute: 4 Second: 5 Year: 6 (2006) GMT offset: 7 (well, -
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by bromley 15y ago
Folks, for those of you that haven't seen this sort of stuff a million times before, here's how it works: It's a classic sell-the-dream pitch to inspire you to believe that if this guy could do "it", given his difficult situation, even you
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by bromley 15y ago
I have an idea for a slight variation: a way for people to remind themselves about things they need to do. Let people specify a message, and a datetime that that message should be sent to them. Or let them specify recurring tasks like on d
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by bromley 15y ago
I think www can be useful offline. We here all recognize domain.tld as a website, but I suspect that www.domain.tld is more recognizable to non-technical folks. "Visit www.domain.tld for more information." etc.
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by bromley 16y ago
I was thinking how painfully slow it was, until I remembered the adage: "make it work, then make it elegant, then make it fast." It works, and it is certainly elegant.
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by bromley 16y ago
I wonder this as well. Lustig seems to say that fruit is fine - the sugar in fruit is nature's way of getting you to eat the healthy fibre or some such - but I've yet to see a scientific explanation of why sugar is bad but sugar in fruit is
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by bromley 16y ago
You could try soya milk, rice milk, or oat milk as well. Personally I like soya milk, though only the unsweetened kind. For some reason most soya milks are sweetened and consequently taste like some kind of watery pudding. (I gave up dairy
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by bromley 16y ago
Multiple big projects on the go at once -> Dedicated effort to finish one before getting too distracted by the next Valuing money more than time -> Valuing time more than money Trusting only logical reasoning -> Trusting my gut
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by bromley 16y ago
Perhaps a way to include a private note with a downvote, so that downvoted commenters can better understand why they were downvoted (without that meta discussion being public).
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by bromley 16y ago
"You may not establish and/or operate links to this website without the prior written consent of Ryanair. Such consent may be withdrawn at any time at Ryanair’s own discretion." I wonder if Google have got written consent to link to Ryana
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by bromley 16y ago
Can you point us to some authoritative research proving that the personal experience of smart individuals is neither interesting nor valuable?
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by bromley 16y ago
"little Johnny can't visit any website where the domain component of the URL ends in the string “.xxx”, in which case all little Johnny has to do is go to a web-based nslookup tool, type in the domain he wants to look at, and then replace
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by bromley 16y ago
I'm working on an RPC API that works with XML over HTTP. I'll be calling it an XML API. If it did JSON I'd call it a JSON API. Some customers seem to want to call it a REST API, but it would pain me to call it that when it isn't.
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by bromley 16y ago
I was finding it hilarious until I got to: "SaveIE6.com was put together as an April Fool’s joke by the uptime monitoring service Pingdom. Due to the tremendous interest it has received we have decided to keep this site up and running. Tha
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by bromley 16y ago
Free alcohol changes the social dynamic of an occasion. There's less awkwardness about offering to get someone a drink or vice versa. Less concerns about expectations of reciprocity. And people generally seem to end up drinking more. All
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by bromley 16y ago
Thank you Paras :) Focusing on historical uptime sounds like a good plan to me, and it's pleasing to hear that the companies don't tend insist on an SLA if you can demonstrate that. Custom contracts are frightening. On the plus side they g

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