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by firlefans 14y ago
This is simply unfair, should the language maintainers be held accountable for user behaviour? A more interesting and fairer topic is whether PHPs count() is considerably slower than python's len()
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WURFL and Database Copyright(shkspr.mobi)
1 points by firlefans 14y ago|0 comments
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by firlefans 14y ago
This guy is a hacker in the truest sense, I read a blog post over a year ago about him tinkering away on this. It didn't seem he'd take it this far. It's a great achievement and I'm glad he's been insightful enough to keep it free.
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by firlefans 14y ago
Yup Rubymotion isn't interpreted, it's compiled file by file to LLVM bytecode, this negatively effects development speed but it means it runs (roughly) as fast as pure obj-c (or so they claim on the rubymotion site). We're using it at the
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by firlefans 14y ago
Firstly, yes our whois parser needs work, whois is a dirty protocol with lots of inconsistency and we haven't spent enough time dealing with parsing ALL the data out. Oddly enough it has already proved useful to some customers and some fi
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by firlefans 14y ago
I found Mashape via google as I was looking for a simple way to monetize our API (and get some exposure) about a year ago. We posted our Whois API ( http://www.mashape.com/nametoolkit/name-toolkit ) on Mashape. In the early days it was quie
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by firlefans 14y ago
My worry is that in the interim period between this and an improved auth protocol we all agree on, devs will continue to just roll their own (much less well conceived) authentication protocols. Surely Bray's response has merit, and is more
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by firlefans 14y ago
Firstly, I'm only discussing it's application to HTTP and I realise this is a more general rule. Customer X- headers are a hack, but they're also incredibly useful for simple debugging ala FirePHP, for transmitting application specific meta
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by firlefans 14y ago
YouTube is already unusable from a German IP, the most ridiculous example of which is that the German National Anthem can't be watched from Germany.
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by firlefans 15y ago
Check out Skulpt and Pyjamas. Wouldn't recommend either for production use but Coffeescript gets you a similar, even cleaner syntax and there is a js lib for everything these days.
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Responsive web design is missing the point(bradfrostweb.com)
2 points by firlefans 15y ago|1 comments