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by petersmagnusson 3y ago
if you read the blog, the main point of OP’s project was to get at the diagrams, so hardly “splitting hairs”.
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by petersmagnusson 3y ago
I wrote this as background research to writing yet another base62 encoder. Couldn’t find a good summary of the history of _decision points_ in going from early computer history to modern entrenched issues like base64 vs base64url. I think t
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A Short History of Encoding and Base64(github.com)
2 points by petersmagnusson 3y ago|1 comments
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by petersmagnusson 13y ago
Correct, heavily used internally. In fact I'll be talking about that at Cloud Connect in Chicago soon.
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by petersmagnusson 13y ago
honestly, i thought HN crowd was above continued "omg reader shut down google can pull the plug on anything". (a) App Engine specifically (and Google Cloud Platform in general) is being sold to enterprise as well, with SLA and dep
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by petersmagnusson 13y ago
The "they will hike prices 10x when it's popular" meme is pretty tiresome. I tried to address it back at the time, I invite you to read my thoughts again: https://plus.sandbox.google.com/110401818717224273095/posts/... and happy to debate
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by petersmagnusson 13y ago
We get requests for PHP all the time. In Urs' presentation today, the audience response at I/O was the strongest for three things specifically - open signups for GCE, sub-hour GCE billing, and GAE support for PHP. Slamming PHP is akin to
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by petersmagnusson 14y ago
stay tuned
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by petersmagnusson 14y ago
Hi folks. We are fully aware of this issue. We've added it to external issue tracker ( https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8... ), please follow up there. Response from us was initially muted because it looked like