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by revetkn 14y ago
Vendor identifier is user-resettable. Storing UUIDs fails on reinstalls. MAC is persistent, as are other tricks like keychain storage
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by revetkn 14y ago
I can't find any info on browser support (maybe I'm looking in the wrong place). Anyone know?
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by revetkn 14y ago
Probably the /sigh because it looks like a great framework if the problem you're trying to solve is to build the simplest possible TODO-list app.
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by revetkn 14y ago
Who cares how fast you can iterate if your product is unusably and unfixably bad?
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by revetkn 14y ago
> A better solution would be to have a way to indicate "this parameter needs to be this type". If only there were some kind of concept of typing, perhaps enforced by the language and statically applied, which would eliminate this class
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by revetkn 14y ago
Objective-C literals! http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ObjectiveCLiterals.html http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/398-objective-c-literals-part...
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by revetkn 15y ago
Dumb question: wouldn't it be more secure to use languages that are immune to C issues like buffer overflows?
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by revetkn 15y ago
The other part of this is throwing out the ORM in places where performance matters and replacing it with a simple utility, Dapper, that maps SQL to objects: http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/03/30/How+I+learned+to+st...
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by revetkn 15y ago
I don't agree with all of the items listed, but I think JSONKit is a really nice piece of work. What would you use instead? I know there is native support for JSON handling in iOS 5, but 1) I don't know how that stacks up against JSONKit pe
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by revetkn 15y ago
...am I reading correctly that his argument for using C++/D (!) is that it's hard to remember to say this: try { mightFail(); } finally { doCleanup(); } instead of this: mightFail(); doCleanup();
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by revetkn 15y ago
If you've got all the data stored off up-front, the search should be near-instant. As-is, it's nearly unusably slow. However, if the delay is caused by hitting the network for each search result on the backend (or something along those lin
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by revetkn 15y ago
After considering Lucene, I built my in house search engine. Yeah, totally makes sense to write your own search engine instead. Or you could use Lucene and have a tiny bit of code in front of it that tacks on "~" to query terms first and
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by revetkn 16y ago
This is my problem with GC. I like simplicity. Simplicity tends to perform well, and being simple also means it has little space for problems If your use case is teaching how to implement a garbage collector vs. a refcounting system, it i
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by revetkn 16y ago
Like quanticle said, social networking. You can't say, "fuck this, I'll just integrate with myspace instead" without getting laughed out of the room. Like it or not, Facebook's the only game in town.
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by revetkn 16y ago
Facebook API client author here ( http://restfb.com ). In my experience, you've got to be extremely careful/defensive when relying on anything from FB. Undocumented breaking changes are commonplace and no one on the FB side seems to care
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by revetkn 16y ago
AFAIK, Mobile Safari does not support file uploads, so this (or any similar plugin) will not work.
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by revetkn 16y ago
"So, instead of an image-gallery app, why not make a survey software specifically targeted at, say, event attendees." Shameless plug: check out our startup, http://yorn.com , which does exactly this.
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by revetkn 16y ago
I'm not sure considerations like this have occurred to the dev team when they don't do even very basic webapp security correctly...
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by revetkn 16y ago
Thank you!
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by revetkn 16y ago
Does anyone have a link to some numbers supporting this? The article says "Top aligned labels have proven to be faster and easier to fill out than left or right aligned labels" without a citation.
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by revetkn 16y ago
Wonder if the blog is running Rails 3 ;) "Status: 500 Internal Server Error"
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by revetkn 16y ago
It's certainly relative :) Everyone has their preferred toolsets and frameworks and of course they should use what they feel is most effective. Case in point: my shop uses very little GWT - my coworkers prefer different tools (and often so
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by revetkn 16y ago
I mentioned GWT because the linked blog post discusses some of the first baby steps toward the idea of building a real single-page client-side app, whereas GWT has been doing some real heavy lifting in that space for a long time...I'm a lit
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by revetkn 16y ago
GWT's been around for years now - I wish more people were aware of it and just how powerful it is :(
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by revetkn 16y ago
RE: point 2, The Facebook Graph API (which will at some point deprecate the Old REST API) does not operate in this fashion. You receive an OAuth access token and pass it back to FB over HTTPS. Unlike the Old REST API, no MD5ing/secret key
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by revetkn 16y ago
Back button support appears to be broken in Chrome 5.0.375.99 on Linux :(
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by revetkn 16y ago
It seems that many people who are "outraged" in reality stay on Facebook anyway because they really don't want to quit. Witness Facebook's ever-climbing popularity and the failure of all the "Quit Facebook Day" protests etc. to be a succes
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by revetkn 16y ago
Unlike iPhone/iTouch, iPad runs iOS 3.2, which I'm assuming includes some or all of the bugfixes that are part of 4.0. Of course this is pure speculation like the original article, though - if anyone has a detailed 3.2 and 4.0 changelist,
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by revetkn 16y ago
I've been using 4.0 on my 3G since the initial betas were released. I was hoping the GM version would address the performance issues, but no luck - I've had it installed on my phone since it was released around WWDC, so I don't think this
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Ask HN: Review my Facebook Graph API Client, RestFB (Java)(restfb.com)
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