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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
You're right, although I expected a much lower drop-off. We'll post follow-on data soon(ish).
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
Yes, asking for FB permissions twice was tripping over our users however. What seems to work right now: login with Twitter or username/password, and add FB auth later when a user wants to share. This apparently doesn't feel the same as allo
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
Not much - you can always login by granting FB permissions again, and you'll return to the same account. FB just provides you with a facebook id that you use to lookup the user in the db.
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
Initially we had a 2-step process: ask for email permissions only during signup, and for post permissions later when you actually wanted to share something. Unfortunately this confused our users even more - they didn't understand why they h
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
Agreed, the headline comes from a real email from one of our users. It's just one of many pretty direct responses to (only) fb auth (I'm the author)
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
I find their service excellent. The website doesn't have the latest hip look, but the service is solid, and they are very responsive and helpful in case you run into an issue. For a free service, that's impressive.
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
This is really an awesome presentation - lot's of great nuggets in here. Thanks for posting Ilya!
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
A long time ago I once had a "rm -Rf ..." in a bash script. Missed a space, and yep, it deleted everything. Luckily the DB wasn't owned by the logged-in user so everything was recoverable. One of these "learning the hard way" examples of wh
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SEO tricks from Patio11(melmiranda.com)
409 points by dikbrouwer 15y ago|118 comments
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
This video was made by Firespotter labs, the same team that developed Nosh, before Oink was released (so no, nothing to do with each other).
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
using strict sounds like a great idea - I wonder what other implications that has, need to look into it.
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
One thing you can do to help avoid this: use JSLint (or something equivalent) to check for missing var keywords. And, the obvious (as you already mentioned) coffeescript. Would love to hear of other suggestions on how to effectively debug t
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
You're awesome, thanks!! http://db.tt/PBZur7i
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Why gamers are a great fit at the gym(cnn.com)
5 points by dikbrouwer 15y ago|1 comments
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
Safari mobile (iPad) doesn't work (SSL error). Did you try running one of the SSL verifiers? (don't know the sites on the top of my head, google it).
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
To me, the biggest advantage of MongoDB is autosharding. If you read the friendfeed article, you'll see that they also have to deal with 'eventual consistency' on the indexes.
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
You can replace the toDict() method in your model with the values() method on the default manager. For example: Todo.objects.values('id', 'order', 'content', 'done').get(pk=x)
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
I see a few people suggesting that you start a new entity and have that company hire you. Be very careful about this since the DHS specifically tries to prevent this type of setup. In fact, it is very difficult for a startup to prove that t
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
That's funny, I did the same thing. The two screws pierced all the way through the keyboard though and it didn't work anymore. :|
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
"MongoDB does geospatial stuff" - FYI, PostgreSQL with Postgis has many more geospatial querying capabilities vs Mongo which primarily uses geohashes.
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
True, my bad
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by dikbrouwer 15y ago
Exactly, it doesn't. Only self-recursion with recur is tail optimized by the JVM
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by dikbrouwer 16y ago
I'm almost falling of my chair laughing (I do feel bad about this), but we've had so many similar issues with PayPal it is just crazy to think they once were the small guys fighting the establishment. What you are trying to do is indeed ver
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by dikbrouwer 16y ago
I'm not so sure about "Google and StackOverflow are kinda the same step". In my experience, Google sometimes points to StackOverflow, sometimes to a copycat (really annoying), and sometimes there is no good result. I've had better results o
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by dikbrouwer 16y ago
I'm a bit confused by this post. The author seems to celebrate a private office. I strongly prefer open work spaces that you share with others, as do many companies I've worked with/seen. Care to share your opinion? I'm curious...
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by dikbrouwer 16y ago
Although it may sound unintuitive since Objective-C is indeed a bit more cumbersome vs. your average web stack: yes. I do think it is easier in a way to design/develop apps with a great UI on iOS devices. The point is not Objective-C, but 1
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by dikbrouwer 16y ago
Yes, but the interesting question is why? Many large corporations indeed use Java, and the often-touted reason is safety and/or speed. Is that still a valid answer in today's web dev world? What would you recommend that AT&T for example
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by dikbrouwer 16y ago
Let's not forget that this is all fairly US-centric; In Europe the handset manufacturers are more powerful. As a consumer, you select a device first and add-on the network operator after. That's 180 off from what's going on the in US. Howev