andrewmccall

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How bad data happens(andrewmccall.com)
2 points by andrewmccall 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrewmccall 10y ago
Do you embed the schema with every Kafka message? Otherwise you need to use some out of band method to distribute schema updates with avro
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by andrewmccall 13y ago
EU data protection regulations are in force. There will no doubt be some scrutiny as to what data safe harbour companies have transfered outside the EU and what steps were taken to protect it. Far from giving up the EU is engaged in strengt
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by andrewmccall 13y ago
Don't worry, they will.
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by andrewmccall 13y ago
I had the same question and it leads me to believe the companies saying they had no idea. Someone at Google/MS/Facebook would almost surely notice those extra servers over there, all that extra network traffic going somewhere, or
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by andrewmccall 14y ago
This isn't true. Many people bike on footpaths and surfaces that are completely unsuitable for motorised vehicles. Almost anywhere you can walk you could ride a bike and cross the terrain faster. If walking turns into scrambling or climbing
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by andrewmccall 14y ago
I'm not saying the tesla couldn't be better or that they couldn't learn something from Sony. But part of the author's complain was that he had one reading in the evening and when the temperature dropped overnight his reading the next mornin
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by andrewmccall 14y ago
I thought that, then I installed nexus and let it proxy the remote repositories and really haven't looked back. Takes some time to setup (few hours). But makes life so much easier that it's well worth the effort, especially that with Java y
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Big Data about to bottom out, says Gartner(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by andrewmccall 14y ago|0 comments
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by andrewmccall 14y ago
I think it's the sheer size of the surge in demand that's unique. It's 1.5-1.75 million kettles going on at almost exactly the same time. With 25 million homes in the UK that's 6% of them suddenly wanting another 1000w of electricity.
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by andrewmccall 14y ago
The same thing that happens now. Malicious user can recover/reset their password. I'd assume that if you used the email to login and since the article talks about also using cookies with expiry dates in the future the codes in emails would
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by andrewmccall 15y ago
A lot of the time it's because the implementations haven't even been agreed between the different browsers. I can't remember any specific examples off the top of my head but I do remember that some of the -webkit and -moz prefixes were ever
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by andrewmccall 15y ago
For raw storage Hadoop beats an RDBMS, sure I'll buy that argument. It's not the same thing though and it doesn't do the same job. Hadoop excels at data processing, trawling vast quantities of unstructured or semi structured data and extrac
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by andrewmccall 15y ago
Are they allowed to do this as a public company? Would their growth be attractive enough for someone to take them up on the offer?
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by andrewmccall 15y ago
This is likely the reason, and probably not just as a cheap work around, in most day to day situations it's probably the desired effect since both sticks are independent and don't move in reaction to the other.
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by andrewmccall 15y ago
GPS can only tell you how fast you're moving over the ground. It can't tell you how fast you're moving through an airmass that might be moving with or against you, this is far more important to keeping a plane in the air than how fast you'
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by andrewmccall 15y ago
Except the client id has to be generated so that you know which client was authorised with it - in the case of something like Facebook or twitter, so you can revoke their access. That means you have to agree on a way of exchanging that clie
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by andrewmccall 15y ago
The problem with OAuth1 was that the complicated crypto dancing around was exactly that, complicated. Making sure you're using HTTPS is hardly a big ask for developers on either the client or the server and frankly is probably a much better
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by andrewmccall 15y ago
OAuth2 isn't just about bearer tokens and while the OAuth2 spec doesn't mandate using TLS the bearer token sub-spec does.
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by andrewmccall 15y ago
The reason is OAuth1 is painful, the double encoded and signature requirements are strict and so easy to get wrong that everyone has jumped on OAuth2. Unfortunately they've all jumped on different versions of the spec which keeps changing ,
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by andrewmccall 15y ago
That's the big win I think this architecture has, it's already an API and already ready to create platform specific implementations. It also makes a developer program something that's quick and easy to support, again the API is ready and wa
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by andrewmccall 15y ago
I think they're only really harder to develop in so much as it's more like developing two applications. One backend that throws out JSON/XML or whatever and a frontend in HTML/Javascript. I actually find that bit easier, because I can separ
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by andrewmccall 15y ago
Look at the label on the fridge in the video. "Shit Burger"
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by andrewmccall 15y ago
I don't think they'd have the power to drag the users to a new service without them wanting to join - but they could highlight a new one quite prominently within TweetDeck. A new service that has 20-30 percent of tweets from the start and m
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by andrewmccall 16y ago
I think not having to drive is a pretty good reason to use this. I'd love to be able to join a convoy and use my laptop, read a book or just nap. On a 200 mile journey if you're doing the 60 trucks do instead of the 70 cars do you'd be 30 m
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by andrewmccall 16y ago
I wouldn't want to have to rendezvous at a time and place. That would kill this idea. You'd also have to take into account people with small kids. I wouldn't use this if I had to stay in the convoy for the whole trip. I like to stop fairly
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by andrewmccall 16y ago
The OAuth 2 spec addresses some of these points by providing the user-agent flow. The only place where it falls down some is when it comes to actually creating users. It's fine with one of the other flows because you can authenticate as an
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by andrewmccall 16y ago
I made similar comments in previous posts about the TCK and why it's actually much worse than it seems. The end result is that the only open source Java will be the 'Open' JDK - anything else gets any traction and it's open to being shut do
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by andrewmccall 16y ago
What separates this from continuous integration. As I understand it the article proposes testing the same build over and over again, well the same commit rebuilt and retested over and over again. Where do you benefit from this? I could see
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by andrewmccall 16y ago
Java for most startups won't be Java EE. My best experience with Java recently has been with Jetty as an application server. It's fast and it's lightweight. I usually run Jetty behind nginx and don't generally need to configure Jetty to do

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