thom_nic

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   by thom_nic 12y ago

   I've been watching this open feature request[0] to add SPDY support for AWS ELB. Been open since 2012 and hasn't seen any real response from Amazon. Very disappointing. ELB is pretty much a given for any publicly-facing web ser
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   by thom_nic 12y ago

   In my experience, go with RoR unless you're already in a deeply-committed Java shop. Rails has much more momentum & community support (even if Node is slowly chipping away at it.) With Grails by comparison you're more likely
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   by thom_nic 12y ago

   Curious to hear what you've chosen as an alternative? It seem to me that all java web frameworks follow this same "behemoth of a framwork/ plugin system" where "behemoth" is really just an indicator of how muc
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   by thom_nic 12y ago

   I seem to remember something similar that was an erlang VM running (I think) directly on Xen. The underlying idea in that case was each request causes a new VM to boot, service that request, then terminate.
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   by thom_nic 12y ago

   I thought both Tornado and Twisted had decent websocket implementations?
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   by thom_nic 12y ago

   Funny, my experience has been that large/ complex python code is actually easier to follow than JavaScript because of the line noise that JS requires. Side by side, the same code will usually be easier to read in Python (or Ruby.) S
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   by thom_nic 12y ago

   I'll agree there aren't many ways this could be solved without breaking compatibility with JSON. Certainly something like {"created": Date("2013-12-1T12:00:00Z")} a la BSON seems elegant but is incompatible wi
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   by thom_nic 12y ago

   Yes, conformance to a single string representation of a datetime is nice. Unfortunately that still doesn't help the issue when deserializing, you're just going to get a string that needs to be manually converted to a Date object.
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   by thom_nic 12y ago

   Lack of a native date/time format in JSON has been the biggest pain point for me. Most (all?) serializers convert Dates to an ISO string but that almost always requires manual conversion back to a Date during deserialization before do
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    by thom_nic 12y ago

    Is it just me or does the author ignore that his approach is vulnerable to SQL injection unless the parameters are sanitized/ escaped? Most SQL libraries in other languages that have interpolation seem to offer a named param option whe
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    by thom_nic 12y ago

    I just got a kick out of the fact that Business Insider cited a Reddit user named "master_poop" as a news source.
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    by thom_nic 12y ago

    Second most downloaded: brainfuck_macros
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    by thom_nic 12y ago

    Comments are nice when your JSON is at-rest (e.g. in a file) but more often than not it's in-flight and my code is probably not adding comments when building a message. Come to think of it, what would an API look like that writes HJS
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    by thom_nic 12y ago

    So this had nothing to do with Shellshock then?
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    by thom_nic 12y ago

    Yup that's what I'm doing now as well. The only downside to that strategy is you can't e.g. show a single y-axis with values for each chart when you hover over one the way cubism can. This is really handy for comparing values
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    by thom_nic 12y ago

    Does anyone know of a chart lib has the ability to make a "stacked" area chart where each series gets its own Y-axis, similar to cubism.js? I like how cubism visualizes streams of data where each needs its own Y-axis but they are
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    by thom_nic 12y ago

    Reminds me of the auto-reset Android bug that utilized a tel: URI that auto-dialed: http://gizmodo.com/5946334/samsung-security-bug-can-wipe-out...
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    by thom_nic 12y ago

    For everyone here who says "Backbone is great except..." I'd encourage you to try Apmersand.js from the great folks at &yet. It's nearly idential to Backbone, fixes some of the oddities (like wrapping divs and needi
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    by thom_nic 12y ago

    Re: SQLi, it looks good to me. OP is passing parameters to execute(), not directly concatenating values into the query. See: https://docs.python.org/2/library/sqlite3.html#sqlite3.Curso...
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    by thom_nic 12y ago

    I would think crime rate should factor into this as well. It's at least as important as weather.
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    by thom_nic 13y ago

    Yes this was completely ignored by the article. This along with a 'where' clause can guarantee the operation will only succeed iff there is sufficient funds. I don't know if other NoSQL DBs offer these sort of atomic operat
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    by thom_nic 13y ago

    I believe there is a coffeelint plugin that will warn you if you reassign a variable from an outer scope
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    by thom_nic 13y ago

    I had a different take on this - it's somewhat inspired by collections.namedtuple but mutable and has some other convenient features for data classes: https://gist.github.com/tomstrummer/8240282 (see the examples
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    by thom_nic 13y ago

    Don't they mean "armbidextrous?"
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    Show HN: Worried about HTTPS? Use TLS v1.2 in Python(gist.github.com)

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