tmcneal

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by tmcneal 15y ago
If you're using SSL then form data in a POST request will be encrypted. HTTP headers are always encrypted using SSL. What wasn't clear to me from the documentation is whether the 'username' and 'password' are form data, or are actually cu
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by tmcneal 15y ago
I love seeing these posts every month. They're great inspiration for developers who might be thinking about going off on their own, and a reminder that Rome wasn't built in a day. Congratulations kreci on reaching your income goal!
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Co-founders lab: Matchmaking for entrepreneurs(cofounderslab.com)
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by tmcneal 15y ago
In regards to your first bullet, one of Parse's competitors, CloudMine, allows developers to write their own server-side JavaScript code that executes within a sandboxed environment: https://cloudmine.me/developer_zone#code/overview
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New Software System for Realistically Adding Objects Into Photos(laughingsquid.com)
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by tmcneal 15y ago
Along those same lines, I'd bet that the floating section was added to get more eyeballs looking on the right side of the screen where the ads are.
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by tmcneal 15y ago
And also: MUDs -> MMORPGs
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by tmcneal 15y ago
Do you mean there's a two-click version of the Facebook Like button? Do you have a link to more information about it?
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by tmcneal 15y ago
There's third-party vendors that provide an API to verify address information. QAS is one of that's used by some large retail sites: http://www.qas.com/
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by tmcneal 15y ago
This is really cool and super simple to install... Nice work!
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by tmcneal 15y ago
I can see the value in something like this, especially for more novice web developers who may not know the terms to search for in Google or StackOverflow to find what they need. I understand it's rough, but here are something of the things
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by tmcneal 15y ago
To be fair CouchDB is very explicit that to get any sort of performance, everything must be a view. "Ad-hoc queries" (i.e. queries that are written on the fly instead of uploaded as a view) are clearly stated as "for development only". Whe
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by tmcneal 15y ago
One trend that the author missed is that retailers are starting to use the Facebook Platform to enhance their own retail site. Companies like Amazon, Blue Nile, and Hallmark are using Facebook Connect to provide their customers with more p
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Starting a B2B Business as a Single Founder(getsnapline.com)
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by tmcneal 15y ago
Justin.tv's strategy of using their video-hosting infrastructure to aggressively pursue verticals within the video watching/sharing/hosting space is working out really well. They seem to have a knack for identifying how people use video an
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by tmcneal 15y ago
This paragraph is in dire need of citation: If your apps have some heavy logging to do, and you can't afford some more expensive setup, then you really should forget about syslog, because normally it doesn't scale well if used with high tr
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by tmcneal 15y ago
Hi everyone, I'm the (solo) founder of Snapline, which is a B2B startup that lets online retailers provide their customers with online recommendations via Facebook Connect. Customers who opt into Snapline will see personalized product reco
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Show HN: Snapline - social recommendations for online retailers via FB Connect(getsnapline.com)
13 points by tmcneal 15y ago|1 comments
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by tmcneal 15y ago
The site renders extremely slowly in Safari 5 on my MacBook Pro; especially the autoscroll.
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by tmcneal 15y ago
Just some constructive criticism but... everything looked like an ad to me. Each item looks very similar to an AdSense text advertisement, so at first glance the site appears to be a link farm. It was only after hovering over the links di
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by tmcneal 15y ago
The fact that CouchDB is written in Erlang is only part of the equation. You're not considering that CouchDB views are written in Javascript or that CouchDB uses HTTP as its connection protocol, which has more overhead than the typical bina
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by tmcneal 15y ago
Yes, but are these people friends/family/colleagues, or actual stakeholders or potential users? Obviously more weight should be given to the later.
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by tmcneal 15y ago
Having a de-normalized, document-based / column-based / whatever-based NoSQL database doesn't mean that every query or map-reduce function you write in it is going to be super-fast. I think we all could benefit from articles similar to this
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by tmcneal 15y ago
Yeah I had a column for comments too, I just didn't paste that column into the google spreadsheet.
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by tmcneal 15y ago
I created a list two years ago when I was promoting my mobile app. Here it is as a Google Spreadsheet: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqvAQlclIWYPdExaNll...
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by tmcneal 15y ago
I really enjoyed the writing style of this post.
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by tmcneal 16y ago
err.. other than perhaps jQuery, I don't see how any of your examples refute what the OP is stating. To stay current with modern web development (such as the technologies you listed), developers need to continually improve the breadth and
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by tmcneal 16y ago
Before viewing the article I thought this was referring to the iPhone App: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/epicwin/id372927221?mt=8
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by tmcneal 16y ago
Isn't the value of the API in the data you're retrieving, not the design or feature-functions of the API? I'd think that your choice of integration between Facebook or LinkedIn (or both) would be based on your intended audience.
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by tmcneal 16y ago
Interesting perspective, but I'm surprised that you're lumping in "controller level" tests (i.e. unit tests) with tests against the view. While I'm definitely on board that tests against the UI are brittle, I feel like unit testing individu

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