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How Flickr optimized for the new Yahoo homepage(code.flickr.net)
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by defeated 14y ago
We used this to automate UI tests on an iOS app a couple of years ago (before they added the UI automation stuff). Seemed to work pretty well, though it was a fair bit of work to get it set up.
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Managing Global Locks with Redis and Node.js(code.flickr.net)
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by defeated 14y ago
I've been using it since the first alpha release back in December or whenever it was released and I can say that alpha absolutely fixes the one character at a time undo (and has since the first release).
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by defeated 14y ago
I think that someone might've gotten clever and done something like, while (true) { Colors.insert(...); } On a related note, they took it down now.
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by defeated 14y ago
The live demo is here: http://colors.meteor.com/ Seems to have a minor glitch with unicode characters? When you do Colors.remove() everything goes away, but the entries with unicode all come back? Somewhat strange... Interesting tech, but
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by defeated 15y ago
Yep, sorry about that, it was the MK line, stopped at Bletchley :).
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by defeated 15y ago
I just did this about a month ago, and it couldn't be easier to get from London to Bletchley Park, it's literally right up the road from the Milton Keynes train station, maybe a two minute walk. Getting to Down House (Darwin's House) from L
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by defeated 15y ago
That's great to hear!
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by defeated 15y ago
I just visited Bletchley Park last week. It was great to see, especially the Colossus MK2 reconstruction and the working rebuild of Turing's Bombe. The only thing that made me sad was the lack of discussion of the way the government treated
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by defeated 16y ago
Yeah, I assumed there had to be libraries to do this already, but didn't come across anything that did what I wanted. I'll check out async though, thanks for the heads up.
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by defeated 16y ago
I've written a library for internal use (that I'm waiting for work to agree to open source) that basically lets you bundle a group of asynchronous calls into a single callback. I prefer this method because it doesn't try and hide the asynch
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by defeated 16y ago
Related from a technology standpoint: CASH Music ( http://cashmusic.org/ ) is a non profit dedicated to providing technology to enable a more direct musician to patron relationship. Lots of artists are going this route, which is really muc
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by defeated 16y ago
I love these 826 stores. I've got a set of time-travel travel posters from Echo Park and some cans of immortality and omnipotence from the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company as well :).
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by defeated 16y ago
Actually, I think best practice is to not put the version number in the URI at all. Instead versioning should be handled via content negotiation. That is to say, a client specifies the type of resource they want back via the Accepts: head
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by defeated 16y ago
There's JSON Schema which is serviceable, but unfortunately lacking a bit in the tooling department: http://json-schema.org/