tedchs

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   by tedchs 12y ago

   Why is it always the articles that tell you how to do things in production that take multiple seconds to load and/or throw database errors?
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   by tedchs 12y ago

   Looks pretty cool. I think DNS, and particularly SRV records, unfortunately get overlooked as a simple tool for internal service discovery.
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   by tedchs 12y ago

   I have asked the question in tech interviews "what do you do to stay on top of things?" and you'd be disappointed to know how many people say "well, nothing really". What you do to stay informed is the #1 thing tha
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   by tedchs 12y ago

   Interesting...point about using pointers to get nullable JSON values. Especially important for booleans, where false is the default value, and would not show up if "omitempty" is specified on that JSON field. Demo here: http:&#
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   by tedchs 12y ago

   Thanks for the feedback. I would encourage you to note that those blog posts are from 2010 and 2009, and my understanding is the platform has improved dramatically in the ensuing 4-5 years. I'm a Linux systems engineer, but for an ap
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   by tedchs 12y ago

   It also depends on MongoDB as your sole backend database. I played with Meteor when it came out and I concur maybe Meteor is OK for prototypes but for something production ready I'd rather just use Angular + Google App Engine + Google
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   by tedchs 12y ago

   Yes, FTTH itself is common for greenfield developments built in the last several years. Unfortunately, as you have found, they are often operated in a way that does not capture their bandwidth potential. I suspect that in the case of Cent
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   by tedchs 12y ago

   Ask any teacher, and they'll tell you that any given school is only capable of properly serving the middle 90%, or, at best, 95%, of its students.
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   by tedchs 12y ago

   There is a nice "gigabit community" being built in Sout Carolina near Charleston: http://www.nextonsc.com/gigafi/
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    Google just launched Helpouts which is a great platform for this, even if you find your customers elsewhere: https://helpouts.google.com/
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    What's up with downvotes on my and TOGoS's comment? Critical comments are just as valuable as affirming comments.
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    Man, I wish this had a different name... it's going to be a hard sell saying "we should use this thing I found that sounds like 'larval' which is a word that means juvenile/immature".
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    Like I said for the last one of these, your own VPS or server plus 2 lines of Nginx config plus ssh -R gets you the same thing with no additional dependency. And you control the domain name.
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    xip.io doesn't tunnel anything, it just creates convenient DNS records.
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    If your telco has broken voicemail, I suggest using Google Voice and doing the dance to forward your no-answer/busy calls there.
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    Yes, you can use 2FA with Facebook... via Google Authenticator. :) They also support SMS but you should really use Authenticator or equivalent.
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    Sounds like if you use Github Pages with a zone apex URL, you're losing out on their CDN.
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    It benefits the merchant if you have to sign because that's also the place where you can choose to leave a tip. It sounds much nicer to hear "here is my iPad, please sign" than "here is my iPad, please click the button
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    This is run by 37signals, so should be pretty legit.
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    I have never had this need, but if I did I would just create a wildcard under my own domain: ; localhost * .local.example.com A 127.0.0.1 ; e.g. if dev server is 10.0.0.1 *.dev.example.com A 10.0.0.1 Hence, no 3rd party depende
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    Looks like the web crawlers for Bing and Yahoo are not sending SNI, according to this reporting. Can anybody corroborate?
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    Just FYI, Congress does not appoint anyone. They confirm the President's appointments.
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    Webdriver Torso clone in pure JavaScript and HTML5(googledrive.com)

    1 points by tedchs 12y ago|0 comments
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    A clone with HTML5 dynamic SVG and Web Audio API: https://googledrive.com/host/0Bwx2OOXEfCSgejJnZnpnei02QWs/re...
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    I recommend you check out the book Search Inside Yourself, based on the course at Google: http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=search+inside+your...
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    Here is the official project site, which answers many of the questions here: http://www.google.com/loon/
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    R is for stats and data analysis in general. Should be able to do the same numeric computation that Excel can do. If there is not a hard requirement for the data to be on-site, have you seen Google BigQuery and Fusion Tables? https:/
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    This project really needs a different name... "web hook" already means something, e.g. https://help.github.com/articles/creating-webhooks
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    Got it. You mind find that wipes would be more similar to other tools that read from STDIN (cat, tail, etc.) if it implements "back pressure" by not reading from STDIN until it has an output to write to. To the user it would app
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    by tedchs 12y ago

    Have you suggested R?