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by mfenniak 13y ago
I believe the fear here is that if you can guess URLs, and one of those URLs works and provides you with a script that contains an API key, you could use that API key to perform other, non-Longview-related API calls to Linode's managem
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by mfenniak 13y ago
A decent approach to doing this in the Windows world would be to use PsExec.exe ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb897553.asp... ).
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Pgreplicaproxy Load-balancing proxy for PostgreSQL read-replicas (beta)(github.com)
2 points by mfenniak 13y ago|0 comments
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Absolutely agree, I have dozens of unopened e-mails right now because I'm saving them for the weekend (and it's only Wednesday). I think that just highlights how Jaana felt that her launch had failed, even though it was completel
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by mfenniak 13y ago
It looks like someone is working on building a service provider for RethinkDB: https://www.rethinkdbcloud.com/
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by mfenniak 13y ago
I think the answer is yes, it performs the calls asynchronously. I've been searching through the source code for the postgres module ( https://github.com/FRiCKLE/ngx_postgres ), and it appears to use the libpq asyn
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Woohoo, I out RethinkDB'd RethinkDB! :-D Aside from that detail, this is a cool post. I like seeing the power of ReQL.
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Slava, why "r.table('fib').orderBy('id').nth(x.sub(1))"? It looks like "r.table('fib').get(x.sub(1))" would be the same behavior but more efficient, using a primary-key lookup rather than r
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Professional photographers know they need to backup their photos. It looks like your product targeted consumers, but professionals seem like they'd be a better market. And it should have been priced way, way higher; the more it cost,
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by mfenniak 13y ago
According to this article ( http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/21/us-tesla-swap-idUS... ): A battery pack swap will cost between $60 and $80, about the same as filling up a 15-gallon gas tank
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by mfenniak 13y ago
I think it'd be a hard sell. You'd need to find some real, concrete pain points that people suffer from, and then address them, and then market it towards people suffering from those issues. I'm a desktop Linux user (Mint),
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Is your Web API susceptible to a CSRF exploit?(mathieu.fenniak.net)
1 points by mfenniak 13y ago|0 comments
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by mfenniak 13y ago
I think this advice is correct, but if I follow it I'm going to have a hard time ever getting the most important thing done. Why would I want to work on that, when I can work on the most interested thing instead? :-) I guess at some p
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Most https clients support server name indication ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication ), which effectively allows the "Host" header content to be presented before a server-side certificate is
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2013's Most Popular and Successful Web APIs(mathieu.fenniak.net)
2 points by mfenniak 13y ago|0 comments
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Amazon actually regularly sends you e-mails letting you know if your configuration can be optimized to reduce it's price by moving to reserved instances. This suggests to me that they favor the reduced revenue but predictable capacity plan
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by mfenniak 13y ago
I'm the author of a .NET RethinkDB client ( https://github.com/mfenniak/rethinkdb-net ), and I can add that RethinkDB's lambda functions were very easy to implement in .NET by using C#'s expression tree feature ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/e
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Hi Joe, I just wanted to pipe in and say that's excellent reasoning for this design, especially since the ability to create indexes on arbitrary ReQL expressions would make an intelligent query planner into a lot of work. I'm looking forwa
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Here's Brennan's e-mail newsletter signup page: http://freelancersweekly.com/
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by mfenniak 13y ago
"410 Gone" is probably preferable to 404, as it would indicate there used to be a resource at that URL.
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback. There are usability issues, and as you point out, the importance of the links is not evident at a first glance. I like the popover idea; I'll have to give that a try.
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Thanks! The enterprise integration patterns links are interesting to me; thanks for point those out. I can definitely see how they could use a connection to reality. I can look at a random one and see what it is, but understanding why you
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by mfenniak 13y ago
I have absolutely considered adding weights. But, it quickly leads to the idea that my priorities are not necessarily the same as everyone else's, and that leads to user-customizing, and that leads to... well, it got to some cool ideas, bu
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Idempotent Web APIs: What benefit do I get?(mathieu.fenniak.net)
60 points by mfenniak 13y ago|53 comments
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Ain't Nobody Got Time For That: API Versioning(mathieu.fenniak.net)
1 points by mfenniak 13y ago|0 comments
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by mfenniak 13y ago
These spreadsheets are nice little tools. An increase in traffic vs. an increase in conversion rate vs. an increase in product price are not directly comparable, but when you convert them to revenue they sure are. Handy.
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by mfenniak 13y ago
old-gregg makes a great observation here. The addition of a ZFS benchmark without-compression is needed to isolate the compression as a factor in the speedup. That aside, I thought this was a wonderful article with non-intuitive findings.
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Ooh, very interesting questions. :-) I'm not sure I have the answers for these questions, but I do have some ideas. Most APIs don't want to provide data analysis capabilities. They want to provide data. Data analysis is a really hard pro
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Ah, thank-you for pointing that out. That's definitely a mistake in the article. I've amended point #4 with another possible approach. Intent-driven design reduces the fragility of your API, gives you a wider variety of changes that you
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Hi Pete, When I read your comment, I'm left with the distinct impression that we agree on 90% of what you're saying. Of course you're going to document your API and define the format of what comes back from your requests. An API is a contr

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