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by mark242 14y ago
"Hey everyone! The IRS is using your check-in data to police the places that you frequent!" I'm sure nothing bad at all would happen upon people reading that headline.
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by mark242 14y ago
The example to date is the Eiffel Tower, with 36429 checkins over the 3 years of Foursquare's existence. Approximately 6.8 million people visit the Eiffel Tower each year. It doesn't take a math major to realize that this is a laughable ide
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by mark242 14y ago
Why?!? Play2 is essentially a collection of specialized Akka actors. When you run Play, you get Akka integration for free. Having an architecture where your Play actions send Akka messages to a cluster of computational nodes/actors requires
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by mark242 14y ago
While this is not a direct violation of California law SB1386, it is not a long distance to be able to argue that the companies in question are acquiring unauthorized personal information. While we're not talking SSN, driver's license, etc
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by mark242 14y ago
You have something extremely wrong. Maybe it's at the hardware level. Maybe you have a crap SSD. Something. I just created a test database on my workstation, with a spinning disk, with the same type of data, and a temporary view against 50k
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by mark242 14y ago
After reading the article, I'm convinced that the author has something really, really, REALLY wrong with their data format, or their view code. 20,000 new documents per _day_ (from the article) is absolutely nothing for CouchDB. Our dataset
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by mark242 15y ago
Look at Braintree, they offer international payments.
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by mark242 15y ago
Or for you nginx users... server { server_name example.com; rewrite ^ http://www.example.com$request_uri? permanent; }
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by mark242 15y ago
"It is also stored securely on our servers using industry standard firewall technology." Undoubtably in plaintext. Having "industry standard firewall technology" didn't do jack for Zappos, why would Path's data be any more secure?
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by mark242 15y ago
Zero. The 2.8 to 2.9 upgrade took exactly one extra build cycle, which we had already committed other code to test anyways.
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by mark242 15y ago
You're sort of touching on two of the important metrics; product views per session, and page views per product view. You want to maximize the former, and minimize the latter. Why would you want to maximize the former? Stickiness. Your custo
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by mark242 15y ago
"You'd be silly to make the assumption that greater click through = greater revenue." Performance is based upon how well the conversion funnel performs. Revenue of course matters, but the way you get that revenue is to get people to go thro
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by mark242 15y ago
What's your expectation? That IE < 9 will sink to a number that you won't have to support? That clearly isn't going to happen for many, many, many years. Microsoft could file chapter 7, today, and you'd still see IE as a large-enough-to
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by mark242 15y ago
This is really interesting-- Formula 1 has systems like this whenever they go to a track; whenever there's the chance of rain, you always see television shots of the local weather radar, combined with "Rain expected at 3:30 local time, inte
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by mark242 15y ago
I think it's also important to add-- writing a "driver" for Couch is, basically, writing an API that essentially calls some HTTP library with some options set, and then parses the resulting JSON data. For example-- Ektorp, one of the more p
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by mark242 15y ago
Couchbase offers 3 products -- Couchbase Server (which is Membase, with an instance of CouchDB for persistant storage). Couchbase Single Server (which is CouchDB plus Geocouch plus a few other addons). Couchbase Mobile (self-explanatory). M
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by mark242 15y ago
Go to one of the http://www.couchbase.com/couchconf-world-tour CouchConf days and ask your question again. The San Francisco edition was exciting; anyone know how New York turned out?
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by mark242 15y ago
X-Associated-Content still requires each file to be broken out as its own, doesn't it? I'm thinking more of a single file with a manifest, highly compressed, that only requires one fopen() to push all of the data to the client. Sort of a br
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by mark242 15y ago
I'd like to see an "enhanced" SPDY added to every browser and web server implementation, one that allows for a package of assets to be concatenated, compressed, and sent in one chunk, rather than waiting for a browser to interpret HTML befo
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by mark242 15y ago
You're right, but for a successful business, you need to provide a service that would normally take more than half a day of development time, or have a wider breadth of functionality than your competitors (Mailchimp, Bluehornet), or -- wors
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by mark242 15y ago
From reading this blog post, it appears that you have successfully attached the RESTEasy framework to the Apache Commons Email framework with one POJO. Uh, congratulations?
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by mark242 15y ago
"If the kids can pick up ABCs/Numbers while watching 1/2 hr of TV or 1/2 hr of you working hands on with them, doesn't change anything." I really hope you didn't just say that there's no difference in learning between talking with your kid,
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by mark242 15y ago
There doesn't have to be any-- the reality is that for a vast majority of parents, it's easy to slip and let your kid watch Yo Gabba Gabba for a half hour once every few days, just to catch the slightest break.
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by mark242 15y ago
The point of the study isn't that kids can't learn from the TV-- of course they can-- but that they'll be _better_ at learning when it's you talking to them, or reading them a book, or playing, or something that's more interactive. We have
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by mark242 15y ago
I cannot suggest KnockoutJS enough. Just throw the data to the client; your template is basically inside your HTML file. Knockout will take your development to a whole other level. My team is at the point where we're seriously doubting if o
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by mark242 15y ago
"Would you like Python to disable os.exec* by default just to make websites more secure?" Yes! Under no circumstances should you ever be spawning new processes from your web application on the fly, ever. You should be using trusted communic
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by mark242 15y ago
Okay, yes, a considerable amount of blame lies with apps and frameworks that have security holes. But here's the thing: make the runtime secure /by default/, so that -- if you really want to run Wordpress, you have to uncomment the PHP conf
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by mark242 15y ago
I'm reading this, and I'm just dumbstruck that, in over 15 years of development, that this is actually a recommended solution to PHP security. This isn't a knock against your configuration; I'm sure it's (probably) fine for your usage, but
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by mark242 15y ago
The second coming of Java is already here. It's called Scala.
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by mark242 15y ago
The reason why this is a big deal is that it appears to satisfy PCI DSS requirements for key management (though I'm curious about their key rotation strategy). E-commerce hosts just got a lot more interested in S3.

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