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by mixedbit 14y ago
Any domain can authenticate its users, Mozilla acts as a fallback if a domain does not do this. At this moment most domains do not directly support Persona authentication, so almost always the fallback is used, but the system is decentraliz
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by mixedbit 14y ago
If the experiment was real it proved only that the majority of students of the class were not personally interested in the subject and studied only for grades. Such students should think about finding something they actually like to learn e
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by mixedbit 14y ago
Great, add to this 'minus centralized' and I'm all in. Or wait, Mozilla Persona already does this.
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by mixedbit 14y ago
I agree and I think it is impossible to create an interface that is optimal for both inexperienced and power users. For users that are using a piece of software frequently, say few hours a day, intuitiveness of an interface should not matte
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by mixedbit 14y ago
But I suspect the join must have been over an indexed column, so it did not touched 4bln rows, otherwise 2-3 seconds would be hard to believe. The group by query in the article must access all 3bln rows, which makes a huge difference.
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by mixedbit 14y ago
Which off-the-shell RDBMS can handle queries over 3 billion rows?
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by mixedbit 14y ago
Can anyone explain or share a link explaining what was a high level purpose of the RedHat patch? (besides winning the contest, because I understand there was no such thing)
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by mixedbit 14y ago
You are right, TV viewed as just a display is IMO not bound to die. But TV as a platform for delivering content very likely is (and this is large part of the business). Companies creating smart TVs are definitely not agreeing that TV should
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by mixedbit 14y ago
Yes, people for sure will still want to watch stuff on good quality displays. But I think dump TVs: large displays that you can easily connect to a standard computer or a mobile device and stream content to are much more compelling than 'sm
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by mixedbit 14y ago
I wonder if any attempt at reinventing TV will achieve a mainstream success (I mean a legacy TV scale success). Up until today all such attempts attracted a relatively small group of customers and a popular opinion is that TV is bound to di
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by mixedbit 14y ago
It of course depends on the problem, no architecture is good for everything. REST has its cost, it usually requires more work and careful design then going RPC way, but for some kind of problems it can be really beneficial when done right.
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by mixedbit 14y ago
REST architecture was introduced by this paper https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm 'Semantics are a by-product of the act of assigning resource identifiers and populating those resources with representations. At no
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by mixedbit 14y ago
This article is not at all about REST, it is about RPC and its shortcomings. These shortcoming were fixed by REST, and the author of the article rediscovers these fixes. A key features of a REST API is that is self describable, in a sense,
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by mixedbit 14y ago
You mean they can't do it from Terms of Service point of view? Because from a technical perspective there is nothing that could prevent an app or any other piece of software to login as you once you've passed your credentials (in this case
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by mixedbit 14y ago
@baking description was more accurate. While scrolling, the browser jumped back up. But it works now, so it must have been caused by a bug in their redirect loop that is described in this thread, not by the blogging platform bug.
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by mixedbit 14y ago
Yes, in Firefox it is impossible to scroll down.
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by mixedbit 14y ago
Maybe what they meant is that power users can install some real OS on this model?
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by mixedbit 14y ago
I think the main problem with this business model is that it is not really beneficial for large number of advertisers. I heard so many times about local businesses that were screwed by Groupon, because they offered too many deals at too low
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by mixedbit 14y ago
Should we also write: "Someone who works for Sony created PS3"?
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by mixedbit 14y ago
I don't fully get the point of this benchmark. Connection handling is operating system business, so you should get similar numbers with any framework that runs on the same OS and correctly uses epoll (or an equivalent system call).
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by mixedbit 14y ago
> (1) Shard/tier the Bamboo routing nodes... This would work, but would require another layer before routers to do the sharding. I'm not sure if Heroku currently has such layer, or is it beyond their control (provided by AWS). But this
562.
by mixedbit 14y ago
Until 2020 Duke Nukem 5 will not be released.
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by mixedbit 14y ago
Unlocking door is idempotent, but it is not safe (has side effect), and thus, according to the HTTP standard, GET should not be used for it.
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by mixedbit 14y ago
Agree, there is a long way from HTTP API to REST API and this one is definitely missing key REST features.
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by mixedbit 14y ago
Hope this is secured against cross car request forgery.
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by mixedbit 14y ago
Thanks, I suspected Scandinavians will like Tesla cars, it is great they are already available and selling well.
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by mixedbit 14y ago
And updating things that generate content dynamically each time a security vulnerability is discovered (which for most popular frameworks means often) is such a PITA.
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by mixedbit 14y ago
Static sites are cool! I generate my blog with Tinkerer http://www.tinkerer.me which is also Python and ReStructuredText based. Although Pelican seems to be more generic, while Tinkerer is mainly for blogs.
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by mixedbit 14y ago
Can NY Times have an agenda to support traditional car business? Not possible, this might have only been an incompetence of a reporter that NY Times can not effectively prevent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AnB8MuQ6DU
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by mixedbit 14y ago
Thanks for this explanation, my understanding was indeed flawed.

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