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elithrar
12y ago
Tigertonic has a really nice API, but is also fairly JSON orientated. I think when many people say "web frameworks" they implicitly mean "serving at least some HTML", even if we all know the web != just HTML.
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12y ago
Goji ( https://goji.io/ ) is a really nice middle ground between bare net/http (and writing your own boilerplate over and over) without any dependency injection, fairly sane middleware chaining and no global request cont
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12y ago
> Instead of duplicating code to implement common/middleware functionality, I like to just pass around functions. The problem there is that it doesn't allow you to either: • Apply the middleware to routers or sub-routers; • You
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12y ago
> Are there any WISPs in your area? They should be able to hook you up in a single day with a direct connection to their network. The parent could certainly get a 4G connection with Telstra or Optus, and it'd probably even outperfor
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12y ago
It's more likely to be cheaper: less support calls/emails.
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12y ago
> by creating a public policy around municipally owned Layer 1 infrastructure between customers in their cities and a city exchange building. Conceptually it would be no different than the city owning the sewers and outsourcing the water
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12y ago
> Gorilla (through Gorilla Context), stretchr's Goweb, Goji and others provide a `map[string]inteface{}.` Okay, so I still lose the type system, but now I have to litter my code with a ton of `realValue, ok := myMap["myValue&qu
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12y ago
OS X, ever since I switched "cold turkey" when the first Intel Macs hit. Despite the niggles with the Finder and all that, it's hard to go past the Unix/BSD underpinnings and the open source software available because of
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12y ago
> There's no real benefit (and lots of downsides) as a developer if you don't need the Mac App Store for the exposure. Exactly right. I would say that most people in the market for Photoshop know they need Photoshop itself. Ad
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12y ago
Typically called a "tax receipt" - i.e. a receipt that breaks down the tax component and includes the seller's business number and trading name. Receipts from larger companies are often tax receipts; it's typically sma
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12y ago
> It's government that is granting Comcast the monopoly privilege to be the only ISP on the market. Not always. Comcast may have got in early and laid substantial infrastructure (copper/fibre/HFC) - something that can be s
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12y ago
> 125k salary ends up being about 250k once all other direct and indirect costs are factored in. I find an additional $125k to be a stretch, but I also have no data to back this up. I'd be curious to see the breakdown for this: $125
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12y ago
I use Prompt + vim as well. I don't always travel with my personal laptop and it's nice for prototyping or quick fixes.
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12y ago
Given it sounds like this application is not "web facing" (i.e. not an API nor rendering HTML), the use of any "web framework" or Gorilla doesn't make much sense.
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12y ago
I use Salt (used to use Puppet) to build out my Vagrant box(es) in development. When I'm good to go, I use Packer with the same Salt configuration to build an image and push it to AWS/DO/RackSpace as needed. Makes it super ea
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12y ago
> "Mistake #3: Unescaped SQL query..." This should be "failure to use parameterised queries." The term 'unescaped' may lead some to think that simply escaping characters is sufficient.
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12y ago
> High schools in Australia have electronics classes. They do? None of those I know (high school 2000 - 2005) in Perth did electronics. We had the usual woodworking/metalworking/art/photography electives, plus drama &
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13y ago
> Sorry for my ignorance, how is this different, better than Martini? What is the main goal of creating a new framework (instead of getting the features you are missing implemented in the currently existing ones)? I truly do not understa
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13y ago
Developers/publishers will likely opt-in to allow upload, similar to how Twitch streaming is opt-in.
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13y ago
The grandparent touched on the costs for upgrading existing vehicles.
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13y ago
$100, including labour, does not seem so incredible. Auto electricians may charge more than that per hour, too.
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13y ago
There was actually a $10/month offer for Photoshop CC and Lightroom CC (expires 31st March) - I got bought it for my other half. At $120/year it's cheaper than buying Lightroom in full here in Australia. The frustrating part
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13y ago
> Here's a simple solution to this whole moderation hammer: add a downvote for poor comments (ala Reddit). There are down-votes. You just don't get the ability to down-vote until > ~500 karma (it may be a bit higher now).
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> I'm glad you like it so much as to cite it as an advantage. It was a big motivation for me moving away from a document DB. As a "weekend dev", I don't have time to configure complex, redundant backup systems. But my
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13y ago
One of the biggest benefits of Postgres is WAL-E ( https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e ), which allows you to perform streaming backups (based on Postgres' WAL) to <location> (i.e. S3, an file server, etc) and also
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13y ago
> I do love their grid system though, does anyone know of a great lightweight grid system that's robust like Bootstrap's? If you use the LESS or SASS versions of Bootstrap, you can pick and choose what to import (grid, navbar,
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13y ago
I'm particularly happy that iOS Chrome is now a "first class citizen". There were some shaky times before where it (provided you saved your form) showed the mobile view that Safari gets; then where it failed completely (with
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13y ago
Go's major releases typically get a human readable changelog: http://golang.org/doc/go1.2 - but yes, something for the point releases would be nice but probably not worth the time.
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> DoS of the high-work-factor algorithms actually is a thing. The bad part is the attacker doesn't have to wait for a response, so he can actually initiate a bunch easily. Thankfully, rate-limiting login/registration forms is p
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> ... and can add huge delays in your sign-on Source? The typical benchmark is 8ms for a generation of a bcrypt hash on a modern machine. > My "Goofy" scheme is based on the practices which Microsoft, LinkedIn, and FaceBook
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