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by mfenniak 11y ago
I'd suggest that you be wary of going down the route of making your API too flexible. It becomes very difficult to scale up a service that provides flexibility. Imagine a simple case where you're storing hundreds of records of us
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by mfenniak 11y ago
You could address that by creating a control on the price. "I want to run this campaign against 500 users. But my budget is $100." The service sends out e-mails up to the $100 cost if they all clicked through, then deducts the
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by mfenniak 11y ago
How is it monetized? The beacon is free to the business, the customer doesn't pay Facebook to view the business's page.
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by mfenniak 11y ago
Except Canadians. Unless they're NEXUS pass holding Canadians, in which case they have been fingerprinted. I just got fingerprinted this weekend for a NEXUS pass; my fingerprints are apparently "perfect". The US CBP agent t
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by mfenniak 11y ago
Totally. There's much more to the world than the US. Use your differences to your advantage -- you can be more localized. For example, I'm working in a little niche with some US competitors. But my partners have found that bein
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Docker really is the future(blog.circleci.com)
99 points by mfenniak 11y ago|61 comments
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by mfenniak 11y ago
And to take this example to Spotlight, when I search for "used iPhone" with Spotlight today I get.... absolutely nothing of value. The top hit on my Mac is an Ember.js JavaScript file. Certainly not what I wanted. Paid used iPh
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by mfenniak 11y ago
Semi-monthly paydays for people on salary are pretty common. I have, in fact, never worked at a job that doesn't pay according to that schedule (in Canada).
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by mfenniak 11y ago
The app can support IPv6 while not actually using it for communication. This would be a matter of allowing people to enter IPv6 addresses, websites, e-mail addresses, etc; logging, and displaying IPv6 addresses rather than hard-coding IPv4
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by mfenniak 12y ago
Yes, it builds upon it. It's a fork with some pretty large incompatible changes, based upon this proposal: https://github.com/square/dagger/issues/366 The documentation seems to still be in-flux, but th
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by mfenniak 12y ago
Huh. Localize.js sounds really cool. Fantastic idea. Can you explain your example a little more? What would translators see in this case for Arabic; would they need to provide three translations? And if there were two variables, nine tr
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by mfenniak 12y ago
There are a few posts on the pgsql-hackers mailing list that have some more detailed information, for anyone interested in reading more about the approach taken: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5CFE0CA1-E5CC-4CD1-9
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by mfenniak 12y ago
Oh, weird in what way? I was considering using it for horizontal redis scaling recently, under the impression that redis cluster was further away from release than it seems to be.
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by mfenniak 12y ago
I have very little evidence to support this, but they probably use twemproxy. twemproxy is a proxy for redis that automatically manages routing commands to multiple redis servers efficiently. They definitely don't use redis cluster, b
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by mfenniak 12y ago
I would've thought the opposite. The default subs have large numbers of subscribers (of course), but I feel like they don't have strong communities, or specific themes, that would appeal to an advertiser. Like... /r/fu
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by mfenniak 12y ago
The human skull does seem like a solid symbol of death, but that doesn't prevent us from turning something like the Catacombs of Paris into a tourist ground ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris ). The
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by mfenniak 12y ago
Rejecting an improvement because it's just "too much code" is... brilliant, disciplined, and extremely difficult to do. Such a high percentage of software development is maintenance, and it's easy to underestimate that
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Hm... I've been quite happy using an Open Source tool called FreeMind. It seems to be a "tree editor", although I'm not sure it quite satisfies what this author is looking for. Screenshot: http://freemind.sou
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by mfenniak 13y ago
It's actually worse than this when you consider that aircraft become more fuel efficient the longer they fly, because they're not carrying around the fuel they've already burnt. An electric aircraft would presumably have a c
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by mfenniak 13y ago
I've heard good things about Apigee. My understanding is that their backend-as-a-service is built upon the acquired and open-sourced usergrid technology, which leaves you the option of hosting it yourself in the event they ever go ahe
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PynamoDB, a clean and simple Python interface to Amazon's DynamoDB(github.com)
2 points by mfenniak 13y ago|0 comments
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by mfenniak 13y ago
> Foreign keys don't need indexes on the from side Yes, they're not a hard requirement. However, be aware that any field with a foreign key constraint will be searched during a DELETE that affects the related table, to check R
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Amazon success is a strong indicator: RESTful APIs don't really matter. You can build a very successful business without focusing on the format of your APIs, as long as you build something valuable.
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by mfenniak 13y ago
There are a few advantages to being completely managed, rather than using native code. Portability (eg. mobile devices, different OSes), and functional code access security are two reasons that come to mind for me.
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Go errors are machine-readable data. Most modules expose variables with the naming convention Err... that represent the errors that they can return. The errors can be compared with those values (eg. err == os.ErrPermission). Some modules
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Hm, "signing up" by providing read-only OAuth access to my GitHub account is... fascinating. :-) Very clever way to make signups easy, relevant to the interest you're trying to gauge, and gather far more information about me
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Well, how would you feel if your death on a plane crash was actually the responsibility of an Air Traffic Controller on the ground, and not the pilot of your aircraft (who also may or may not have perished)? Seems like you could already be
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Show HN: Apislice, a documentation testing service for Web APIs(apislice.com)
2 points by mfenniak 13y ago|0 comments
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by mfenniak 13y ago
That is a pretty steep rate, but I figure you'd treat their storage like an "INBOX" and grab images through the API and put it into your own persistent storage. So, the 5GB free component should probably cover a good number
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Reliable Pricing: Send pictures for 2¢/message and receive pictures for just 1¢/message. Storage: Store 5GB of pictures you send and receive for free, then just 20¢ per additional GB.

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