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by mfenniak 13y ago
Hi Alex, I never advocated breaking compatibility by adding, removing, or renaming fields in this article. Would you please let me know what gave you that impression so that I can clarify it? I also did not state that having a versioned AP
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by mfenniak 13y ago
Awesome, I'm so glad to hear that. Thanks for your feedback. :-)
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Stop Designing Fragile Web APIs(mathieu.fenniak.net)
63 points by mfenniak 13y ago|28 comments
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43 Things To Think About When Designing, Testing, and Releasing your API(mathieu.fenniak.net)
3 points by mfenniak 14y ago|0 comments
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by mfenniak 14y ago
Ouch. I think I would've quit that job when I found out there was an "open source review board". That reeks of bureaucracy.
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by mfenniak 14y ago
An ASIC is an application-specific integrated circuit. Basically, dedicated hardware like this: http://www.butterflylabs.com/
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by mfenniak 14y ago
I've got the Zenbook UX32VD as well. I've replaced the HDD with an SDD (a Samsung 840 Pro 256GB). I love it. You have to run a bit of cutting-edge software, but there's lots of good documentation on the Ubuntu wiki about how to support th
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by mfenniak 14y ago
I think the advice in point #1 only makes sense with a caveat: When performance is an issue, if you can calculate or process it at the application layer _without adding load to the database layer_, then take it out of the database layer. Fo
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by mfenniak 14y ago
Chrome will probably never make this the default, unfortunately. But, this is an option in Chrome. Settings > Show Advanced > Privacy > Content settings... > Block third-party cookies and site data. It's not exactly obvious
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by mfenniak 14y ago
Thanks for posting the fixed link; I copied it from another computer, and missed a path. Doh.
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by mfenniak 14y ago
I would say it's far more difficult if you want to support the full range of capabilities that the Accept header supports. Accept can support more than a single mime-type, and can also include priorities on each mime-type accepted. If you
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by mfenniak 14y ago
I love this point of view. If every business person thought like this, and could visualize far enough down the road to see the effects their actions have, capitalism wouldn't have a bad reputation. :-)
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by mfenniak 14y ago
Because that approach isn't recommended anymore. In short, it's much harder to for a cache to work effectively based upon Accept & Content-Type headers than it is for it to work on the URL. For example, here's a quote from Roy Fielding
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by mfenniak 14y ago
I've previously used this as an interview pre-screen question for job candidates. It's a great question to ask; there are so many levels of details involved. As a web company, you generally want potential employees to at least mention "HTT
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by mfenniak 14y ago
Congrats! I wish you good luck and prosperity. :-) I am in a similar position. Starting in April, I'm dropping my full-time employment down to 3 days/week to give myself time to start building my business. It's exciting to put things in
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by mfenniak 14y ago
Looks like there are a couple packages that would solve this problem, but neither appear to be production ready or up-to-date. https://github.com/madari/go-socket.io https://github.com/igm/sockjs-go/
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by mfenniak 14y ago
> The problem is the government/customs knows that and thus catches and taxes a lot of people who try to bring over $500USD worth of products. Does this mean the difference in the price of the Macbook is entirely taxes? Or, after payi
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by mfenniak 14y ago
Huh. I'm not a giant fan of his votes... but I really like reading why he is voting on each issue. I hope he is truly transparent and honest; the cynic in me believes he'll probably only share politically polite reasoning for his votes. I
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by mfenniak 14y ago
I wonder if that's when Google started recognizing that "C#" wasn't a typo of "C". :-) C# has always been a PITA to search for (although, maybe not as bad as 'Go').
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by mfenniak 14y ago
Does Heroku's Postgres implementation run with a server-side connection pooling tool like pgpool or pgbouncer?
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by mfenniak 14y ago
I recommend the Honor Harrington novels for "plausible" Sci-Fi combat scenarios. Over the series of novels, the style of space combat changes dramatically multiple times as factions develop new technology, strategies, and tactics. They're
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by mfenniak 14y ago
The first book listed on the "Books" link is: JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual Heh.
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by mfenniak 14y ago
I'm with you. knockout.js is a sharp tool that does one specific job very well. It lets me stop writing boring JavaScript, and focus on business logic. Backbone just feels complicated by comparison.
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by mfenniak 14y ago
I think there's a pretty straight-forward reason for this. If you've worked as a software developer for 10 years, you know what business domain you know really well? Software development. That makes it a natural place to start in looking
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by mfenniak 14y ago
My thinking is that I want experts working on the low-level configurations (power, racks, UPSes, etc). I don't have that expertise myself. Now, I could try to hire some experts to set up highly available hardware from me... or... I could
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by mfenniak 14y ago
Very nice. Almost painless upgrade here; had to make one change to my custom create_url_adapter to adjust for the possibility of request being None, but that was a minor change and documented to boot. Flask rocks.
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by mfenniak 15y ago
#1: There are a few devices out there that work like a Bluetooth headset merged with a cordless home phone. Here's one example: http://www.sigelectronics.com/SIG/Panasonic-KXTG7622-Link-to...
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by mfenniak 16y ago
My mistake, I was not aware of those configuration options. Thanks for the correction.
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by mfenniak 16y ago
You wouldn't. Redis doesn't support implementing an LRU cache. Redis does function well as a cache, and is far better than memcached for any data you don't want randomly disappearing, but it just doesn't do an LRU cache. Redis will only e
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by mfenniak 16y ago
But they're the first version of a new design.

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