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by wanderr 14y ago
The main site actually used to be 100% Flash (Flex). We've ported nearly everything out now but there are some algorithms that are still in there for no other reason than never getting around to porting them, but the other thing we rely pre
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by wanderr 14y ago
Press doesn't seem to have mentioned, this is a US-only launch for now, for business reasons. It will be coming to the rest of the world in a month or so, I believe.
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by wanderr 14y ago
Time. We are a very small team. It will happen eventually, but at least now everyone has an option.
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by wanderr 14y ago
That's a bit of a false dichotomy though. SOAP is a giant turd, but it's not the only alternative out there. JSON-RPC is just as easy to understand as REST, without all the pedantry.
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by wanderr 14y ago
Have a membership system. Membership is free, but must be applied for and can be revoked. That combined with before/after pictures should prevent most abuse.
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by wanderr 14y ago
Frankly, I'd be perfectly fine with that if the costs were scaled down to reflect the limited use. As it is I feel ebooks are largely overpriced given how much less you can do with them than a dead tree book.
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by wanderr 14y ago
The only thing worse than uncommented code, is wrongly-commented code. In my experience, code is almost always wrongly-commented, either because the programmer wrote the comment wrong in the first place, or because they wrote the code wrong
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by wanderr 14y ago
It remembers for me, but their pull request emails always send the https link, which is annoying as shit. I emailed them about it, and their response was that they are trying to get everyone to use https, so no, they won't switch it or make
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by wanderr 14y ago
This is certainly a great idea in theory, but I wonder if it has caused them to build things to be a little too fault tolerant, by assuming there are faults when maybe things are just slow. On Xbox, my recently watched fails to appear about
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by wanderr 14y ago
On the other hand, I've noticed, and others have observed as well, that generally more expensive items are more likely to have poor reviews on Amazon, for example. The most likely explanation is that higher prices lead to higher expectation
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by wanderr 14y ago
It would be nice if there were a better, more reliable way to do this, but it's consistent with how the rest of the web works. We use heuristics to try to detect rogue/fake clients, and hellban them.
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by wanderr 14y ago
The great thing about this model is that closing the tabs kills the processes and therefore frees up memory. Last time I used FFx extensively (6 months-1year ago) I could not say the same thing, even after they announced having a pretty maj
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by wanderr 14y ago
Me too! Lightning fast. I actually run it still in XP Mode in Windows 7 (couldn't get it working natively) for my personal email (Thunderbird for work, like to have a clean separation), even with that layer of emulation it's the fastest thi
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by wanderr 14y ago
Ah, to be clear I was asking for MP3 support or flash support, not both (flash support would indirectly mean MP3 support). Essentially to be on par with mobile Safari on the audio front is all I'm really asking. :)
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by wanderr 14y ago
Awesome, that's exciting news!
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by wanderr 14y ago
I wish you guys would reconsider your position on mp3 support. We'd love to support mobile Firefox, but without html5 mp3 support, or flash support, that'll be a non-starter until Firefox OS has massive traction, enough to justify the cost
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by wanderr 14y ago
Apparently still no MP3 support for html5 audio. :(
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by wanderr 14y ago
I have to agree with the bug submitter in concept, if not in attitude. PHP is a dynamically typed language. As such, methods should expect surprises about the types of data received. Seriously, I've had PHP treat the same input as a string
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by wanderr 14y ago
I'd be interested in seeing an argument explaining why these API calls smother puppies when the premise of the original article is that you can in fact offer them as an interface to the shiny new better way of doing things, without accident
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by wanderr 14y ago
Makepizzahappen.com - one click pizza ordering system. Set it up once with your CC info, topping preferences, optionally rank local pizza places by preference, then next time you're drunk, want pizza and don't know who's open, just click th
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by wanderr 14y ago
I didn't end up filling out the survey because all of the questions are oriented towards how we currently use redis, to which the answer is "barely, almost not at all" even though there is huge potential for us to use it in the future. Sinc
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by wanderr 14y ago
Remember, git's major strength is its distributed nature. Forking and branching are the easiest thing in the world to do. What we do here is, developers work in a fork and/or a topic branch, when they think it is complete the code goes thro
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by wanderr 14y ago
Having a clean, easy to read commit history in upstream is, in my opinion, worth the few downsides of this approach. I care a lot less about when a commit was made, I'm much more interested in when it made it in to upstream, so having a lin
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by wanderr 14y ago
Why would they use ZFS on a CDN? IIRC, ZFS has some performance characteristics that would make it a poor choice for something like caching data on a network edge when it's really designed for ensuring data integrity.
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by wanderr 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. One of our other developers created http://groovebackup.com/ to make exporting playlists easier. It's not officially supported, but it should get the job done. :) Another dev was working on playlist importing as a
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by wanderr 14y ago
Hey ricardobeat, Grooveshark developer here. Thanks for the support! It just so happens that we're currently making an effort to reach out to users who haven't been back in a while to find out why and see if there is anything we could do to
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by wanderr 14y ago
As has been mentioned, using CGI for php is quite outdated so it probably doesn't impact that many sites, that said this sort of vulnerability is exactly why you should put all but the minimum front controller PHP in a folder that's outside
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by wanderr 14y ago
Here's the problem with using a not-Google search engine: any time I have trouble finding something, I feel compelled to switch back to Google to make absolutely sure that it really is that hard to find. So while I've tried to use other sea
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by wanderr 15y ago
We try to prevent malicious redirects by interrupting navigation away from the site with a JavaScript "are you sure?" prompt, but in an effort to not be too annoying to users who really do want to leave we only pop it up if music is playing
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by wanderr 15y ago
Hm, they stated that the gaps in the graphs were due to failures collecting the data for that release. To me that implied that they weren't rerunning the test on each version every time.

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