tofflos

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   by tofflos 10y ago

   Thank you for your write-up on API design. It's well-written, concise and to the point. I spent quite some time reading it while learning best practices about REST API design last year.
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   by tofflos 10y ago

   Hello! Unsolicited armchair expert here! I initially came here to say that I also prefer the new design but would appreciate something non-fixed. I realize there's a setting for it but that means I have to login just to get rid of it.
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   by tofflos 10y ago

   I guess it depends on the implementation. At my store you bring a scanner and some bags along, and scan and pack each item as you go. At the checkout you simply return the scanner and swipe your card.
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   by tofflos 10y ago

   To the author of the article: I'm jealous you found such a great friend to play the game with. ;-) I found the game interesting but without social interaction it wasn't able to keep me engaged... So I uninstalled it after a day or
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   by tofflos 10y ago

   I don't really have an answer to your question but here is an observation I've made over the years: A lot of people want to be able to play, and want to get there as quickly as possible. But the people who succeed are the ones who
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   by tofflos 10y ago

   Does anyone have a list of smaller gems that are not on that list? For example JDK 9 contains an implementation of the CRC32C-algorithm which can be used by web developers to create compact entity tags. I read somewhere that there is even h
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   by tofflos 10y ago

   The user interfaces are poor because the quality of the underlying data is poor. The GDS I worked with simply did not offer any useful queries so it was impossible to get good results. A GDS usually charges per request so it quickly gets ex
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   by tofflos 10y ago

   Not what I was epecting. Awesome. :)
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   by tofflos 10y ago

   Axon Framework http://www.axonframework.org is a great place to start if you're into Java and want to get a feeling for how event sourcing works. There's also a great presentation by the developer, Allard Buijze, at h
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    by tofflos 10y ago

    I'd use it a bit more if I could style it with CSS without inlining the SVG source code within my HTML.
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    by tofflos 10y ago

    You're in good shape. I'm at 337 tabs. ;-)
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    by tofflos 10y ago

    I believe there should be a stronger distinction between decent performance and high performance. Most frameworks coupled with idiomatic code will give you decent performance. I find controlled experiments / microbenchmarks to be a use
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    by tofflos 10y ago

    In the end I did what you are suggesting but implemented it using the PostgreSQL ARRAY datatype. It was easy support with Hibernate and the data was usable for analytical queries. Disk usage dropped down to roughly 1 GB.
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    by tofflos 10y ago

    Some months ago I played with BRIN to determine whether we could use Postgres as a time series store. I started writing a letter to the Postgres mailinglist but never got around to sending it. I'll post it here in case anyone is intere
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    by tofflos 10y ago

    6. I'd love to see unquoted keys added to that list. Quotes could be used for cases when a key is not a valid identifier.
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    by tofflos 10y ago

    API keys are not always (rarely?) intended to be public. Some (most?) solutions are based on always using TLS. In that scenario the API key alone is sufficient to identify and authorize the user, so the user must prevent the API key from be
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    by tofflos 11y ago

    It's also becoming more and more common with stores and restaurants that don't accept cash as payment.
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    by tofflos 11y ago

    Neat. The release notes contain a reference to a statement I wasn't aware of - DROP OWNED BY. Usually I place a DROP TABLE IF EXISTS at the top when trying new things out, but that requires a list of all tables which is somewhat tediou
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    by tofflos 11y ago

    "Fiacre compared the challenges of running the Windows 3.1-supported DECOR to the issues faced by NASA with its Voyager program, which was launched in 1977." Except that Voyager 1 is 20 billion kilometers away while this system is
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    by tofflos 11y ago

    I've always liked http://www.jasypt.org as a wrapper for low level cryptographic operations. But I don't know how it compares to Keyczar.
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    by tofflos 12y ago

    I liked the article, and I know this is nitpicking, but I disagree that creating an index is the best solution for eliminating the sequential scan. Hopefully the next article mentions it. Just drop sort clause. Returning the user with the l
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    by tofflos 12y ago

    Did anyone else read that as Windows 95's new Start menu?
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    by tofflos 12y ago

    I liked the puzzles. I've mostly been looking at the date category. Could you mention that a slot is 30 minutes somewhere in the question at http://pgexercises.com/questions/date/endtimes.html ?
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    What SteamMachine will you be building?

    1 points by tofflos 13y ago|1 comments
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    by tofflos 13y ago

    Hi Chris! Thanks for the new release. Is it possible to reopen the open files from the previous session on startup? I find myself frustrated with having to look at the welcome screen instead of getting what I was working on in my previous s
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    by tofflos 13y ago

    I don't know much about PHP but I happened to rewrite some old forms a couple of years ago. The original author had relied on a technique called "magic quotes" ( http://php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.php ) which automatically saniti