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by davepeck 14y ago
Why think about it when http://TechBubbleForEveryoneOrJustMe.com/ has you covered? ;-)
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by davepeck 14y ago
It's worth pointing to Graham Dumpleton's blog [1] -- he seems to be the Python world's web hosting ninja. See the great slide deck [2] from his recent talk on hosting python web apps [3] -- the deck nicely captures the recent state of the
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by davepeck 14y ago
Ah, right -- kind of an oh, duh moment for me. Thanks!
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by davepeck 14y ago
ELB endpoints are domain names, not IP addresses. How would ELB help them "acquire additional IP addresses"?
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by davepeck 14y ago
I think we're actually in agreement about the positive effect of these clauses, at least for some users. I certainly want simplicity and unity in my experience too. We perhaps disagree about the motivations behind the clauses, but without i
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by davepeck 14y ago
It's awful, and it's painful for everyone -- not just those using the DropBox APIs. The origins of these clauses are with iBooks and the Kindle app for iOS. I wrote about it in a recent blog post: http://davepeck.org/2011/11/04/kindle-clau
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Samurai And Ideas(davepeck.org)
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by davepeck 14y ago
Heartbreaking and infuriating. My only consolation is that I suspect an epic John Peel torrent will pop up a couple years after the archive goes live. Without the bits, the online 'collection' strikes me a hollow facsimile of the real thing
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by davepeck 14y ago
Good question. I built a site to help us decide: http://techbubbleforeveryoneorjustme.com/
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by davepeck 15y ago
A great start to what looks to be a promising series of articles. My Walk Score means a lot to me [1]; if you're looking for a new place to live, Walk Score's apartment-finding service is the best tool I know [2]. The commute times feature
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by davepeck 15y ago
Started in 1985, when I was 7, with BASIC on a TI 99/4A. Guess that makes me part of the old guard 'round these parts. ;-) Sad truth: I think that, until I got my TI, I was a normal well-adjusted kid. After the TI: I'm certain I wasn't.
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by davepeck 15y ago
I agree in principle. And I have built a custom CSRF page to help my potential customers out. In practice, lots of my potential users don't even understand that their AdBlock/whatever extensions are mucking about with Cookies in ways that b
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by davepeck 15y ago
Yeah, there are plenty of reasons to do what you're doing that seem fair to me. But at the same time, through no fault of yours, your requests are indistinguishable from potentially malicious ones. The whole thing is a mess, effectively a b
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by davepeck 15y ago
My app's web site is built with Django. I use the built-in CSRF tools. (I should emphasize that my site is strictly HTTPS.) In theory, no normal user will ever fail CSRF checks. In practice, tons of people have complained that they see Djan
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by davepeck 15y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but I guess I still can't agree. 1. Nobody's saying this. The original post actually asks for the ability to maintain older versions in the app store (so that, presumably, users who don't want to upgra
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by davepeck 15y ago
To address your point: this might seem like a good idea until you follow it to its logical conclusions. The support burden, especially on smaller developers, would be massive after even a small number of upgrades. Moreover, it's unclear how
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by davepeck 15y ago
Nitpick: EC2 (and AWS) isn't PaaS. It's IaaS. I think this is an important distinction. Most PaaS (like Heroku, App Engine, etc.) takes away the need to play administrator and lets you focus on your code, less your infrastructure. On the ot
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by davepeck 15y ago
2180 is a dev build; 2181 is a beta build. If you're using dev builds, beta builds (which ship about once a month) won't be part of your update stream.
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Mountain Lion: "Today these APIs are a carrot..."(davepeck.org)
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by davepeck 15y ago
I'd suggest reading Lawrence Lessig's new book, "Republic, Lost". It is a deep, sober-minded inspection of the issue of campaign finance. You may arrive at the other end feeling differently than you do now. (It certainly changed my perspect
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by davepeck 15y ago
So: "cryptographically scrambled" -- do we believe they use a good hash, and salt? Or... not?
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by davepeck 15y ago
I just signed up GetCloak.com. We're excited at the chance to participate!
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by davepeck 15y ago
Hi arb99, If you click "learn more" you get a lot of information about both the company and the team, including our address, phone number, photos and bios of the three of us, and links to our Twitter accounts. What contact information were
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by davepeck 15y ago
Sweet, thanks. I did a "hey, HN, check out my beta" post a few months back. When we hit 1.0, I'll probably do another. I look forward to your feedback.
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by davepeck 15y ago
Hey neat, my app https://GetCloak.com/ made it into the list. And we're still beta -- though v1.0 is coming quite soon. Fun!
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Matrix multiplication in O(n^2.373)(scottaaronson.com)
166 points by davepeck 15y ago|52 comments
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Kindle Clauses(davepeck.org)
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by davepeck 15y ago
...and the original VisiCalc executable [1], at 27520 bytes, is smaller than the _app icons_ in a modern iOS app bundle! VisiCalc was, essentially, _the_ killer app of the early PC era. The march of progress. ;-) [1] http://www.danbricklin
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by davepeck 15y ago
OnSwipe. Thank you. I now have a name for the evil I've seen. OnSwipe. It's so miserably executed, so misunderstanding of the iPad's fundamental interaction metaphors, so... unutterably awful. OnSwipe. Alas, there does not seem to be a way
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by davepeck 15y ago
As a Seattleite who has spent time out that way, I'm curious where on the island you are? A beautiful place!

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