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by ollysb 15y ago
Restlet is a good attempt at writing an api that matches the http spec well. You can find docs for a client at http://wiki.restlet.org/docs_2.1/13-restlet/21-restlet/318-r... . It's still more verbose than it might be, would be a good star
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by ollysb 15y ago
From http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/aug/11/uk-riots-day-f... ...Godwin and his team came very close to issuing the order for firearms teams to use plastic bullets. At that point the Met's officers were "stretched to an extent neve
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by ollysb 15y ago
This is what triggered it off, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/05/man-shot-police-... and here's a little background context http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/08/context-...
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by ollysb 15y ago
Great to see but it didn't work that great for the couple of searches I tried. For London Bridge to Marylebone it confused London Bridge with Tower Bridge, much like Robert McCulloch ;)
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by ollysb 15y ago
Rails is comfortable beyond the 80% because it's abstractions are deliberately 'leaky'. In practical terms this means it's very easy to work with raw SQL/HTML where required.
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by ollysb 15y ago
This feels like an engineers vision of the web. The two benefits of this over apis are: 1) The user gets to choose how to perform a particular activity. 2) Services can be found either automatically or by the user searching for services and
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by ollysb 15y ago
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by ollysb 15y ago
I found http://gitready.com really useful when I was starting out with git.
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by ollysb 15y ago
I probably need to do some code examples to illustrate the pain points I was experiencing for 1). When I migrated back to ActiveRecord I kept the same model initially and found that I was able to significantly simplify the tests. My main di
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by ollysb 15y ago
Having taken a ruby app through mysql => mongodb => mysql there were several reasons that I wouldn't recommend mongodb as a goto solution for persistence. 1) Your tests have to be document aware. Models that are embedded within a do
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by ollysb 15y ago
In the UK there are very few cycle lanes, generally you're sharing the road with other traffic. The city roads are small here so there isn't space for parking let alone dedicated cycle paths. I can think of numerous "squeezes" that I've bee
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by ollysb 15y ago
The ultimate car service would allow me to find a car a short walk from where I am and then do a one way trip, without a booking. I've always felt that the only barrier to providing this service was a critical mass of drivers and zipcars. M
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by ollysb 15y ago
I've been using showoff to develop against the github service hook. I've got a paid account so I have a static url which means I only had to set it up once in github. I use a lot of cloud services and don't bother with a VPS. For $5 a month
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by ollysb 15y ago
Would love to see the duostack environment vars management added across the board on dotcloud.
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by ollysb 15y ago
Regardless of how you define what a "gene" is, the "unit of selection" is a fragment of an organism's dna, not the organism itself. In this context Dawkin's explores an ESS(evolutionary stable strategy) that exhibits altruistic behaviour. I
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by ollysb 15y ago
Did Richard dawkin's "selfish gene" not move us beyond this point in the debate? With the focus on survival of the fittest _genes_ rather than the fittest organisms altruism seems far more logical.
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by ollysb 15y ago
git reset --hard will only orphan commits, they're still there. git reflog will get you to them fast and I'm sure there's many other more exotic ways to find them. Admittedly garbage collection will remove them at some point but that's gene
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by ollysb 15y ago
If I was the PR company for google I'd be pretty pleased with the 12 stories they have on the HN front page at the moment.
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by ollysb 16y ago
A few years back I worked on a project that had switched to autonomy from lucene. They'd had problems getting good enough results from automony so decided to plough some money into the problem and go for what was considered the best solutio
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by ollysb 16y ago
This weeks outage asks an interesting question regarding hosting providers such as heroku with their "rock-solid ruby platform". I've always taken part of their offering to be that I don't have to think about infrastructure beyond the abstr
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by ollysb 16y ago
I'm presuming this only includes downtime since the latest outage began?
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by ollysb 16y ago
Looks very interesting. Having now seen how beautiful coffeescript is, are you considering making this an option? Being able to build a whole app in coffeescript seems very appealing.
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by ollysb 16y ago
I've realised that lately I don't really code in the zone anymore. My workflow is completely tied to testing. Spec, red, code, green and the code just grows and adapts. All consuming flow is now very hard to achieve, there's simply too much
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by ollysb 16y ago
I'm british and just turned 30, i consider it normal to kiss someone when meeting them. The only potential point of awkwardness is knowing how many kisses you're meant to give. Depending on the person it can be between 1 and 3 kisses, 2 is
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by ollysb 16y ago
"Multimedia" seems like such a quaint term now.
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by ollysb 16y ago
Perhaps the solution would be personalised weightings for search results. You could then build a weighting graph based on blacklists, e.g. if I have a pro-abortion site on my list and it's found on someone else's blacklist then I would have
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by ollysb 16y ago
I use the standard mail client on my iphone, macbook and imac. They all have an "all accounts" inbox so you can view all your email at once.
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by ollysb 16y ago
You wonder how much sysadmin effort would be saved if they didn't have to deal with shared libraries between packages. Is it a case of the sysadmin practices not keeping up with the current abundance of disk space/ram or is there still a ca
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by ollysb 16y ago
I'd recommend not using centered alignment for the text. You might appreciate this article on alignment: http://www.vanseodesign.com/web-design/design-basics-alignme...
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by ollysb 16y ago
For me at least "programming" refers to coding whilst "development" refers to the process of adding value _using_ "programming".

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