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by tttp 2y ago
we encoded the id with a base that removes most vowels (to avoid generating words, potentially offensive ones, and added a checksum to prevent copy paste mistakes it worked quite well so far https://dxid.tttp.eu/
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by tttp 2y ago
based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41889498
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Is this the future you wanted?(abonder.com)
1 points by tttp 2y ago|1 comments
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by tttp 2y ago
"This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind."
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by tttp 2y ago
We need to separate the storage format (Postgres and MySQL both have a bigint serial for primary key and it should stay that way) for display, you have various ways to encode that number into something easier for humans, what I prefer: - sh
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by tttp 3y ago
OP is protesting against Amazon providing infrastructure for selecting targets for the IDF to bomb. I'm not aware of Amazon providing services to Hamas, so that the OP is not protesting there isn't that surprising, nor does it imp
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by tttp 3y ago
I tried something similar with a fixed alphabet that guarantees no profanity and a checksum (luhn) https://github.com/tttp/dxid
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by tttp 3y ago
you might want to consider an alternative with a base32 encoding with a luhn checksum https://github.com/tttp/dxid
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by tttp 3y ago
thanks for the feedback, you're right, the "url safe" isn't the main focus (well, shouldn't, it's just that it's the last issue I had ;) For further context, we are working on online campaigns (petitions,
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by tttp 3y ago
Hi, It's solving a tiny problem that annoyed me for many years: find a way to have unique keys for entities that don't have an obvious one without displaying their primary key as a number. base 10 is not the best representation he
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Show HN: Display primary keys the way humans and developers prefer(github.com)
3 points by tttp 3y ago|3 comments
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by tttp 4y ago
"I have spent my own personal money to pay for the curl server and I've spent my own (spare) time on its maintanence now for over twenty years" So some of the hosting is paid by him directly
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by tttp 5y ago
If you live in Europe, you might want to sign the European citizen initiative banning biometrics Reclaimyourface.eu
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by tttp 5y ago
A patent is granted to something new, here the goal was to show that the patent is void, because it was already existing before the patent was (wrongly) granted. It doesn't matter if it was invented less or more than 20 years ago, or e
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by tttp 5y ago
You are comparing relatively empty trains with hypothetically 100% full planes It's the same with the wsj, they are comparing a 100% occupancy rate of the plane with a 20% for the car (a single passenger) Assuming the consumption of a
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Prime+Probe 1, JavaScript 0: Overcoming Browser-Based Side-Channel Defenses(orenlab.sise.bgu.ac.il)
2 points by tttp 6y ago|0 comments
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by tttp 6y ago
I'd argue that you have other countries that have a better functioning direct democracy (Switzerland has lots of initiatives each year) Isn't the main problem in ça that there are few limitations on how much can be spent to promot
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by tttp 6y ago
We built our online campaigning tool with a graphql phoenix backend For our use case (burst of visitors staying for a minute) it served us well and we were quickly productive with it. I ran/coded similar petition tools in rails and php
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by tttp 6y ago
Really nice! "After completing our curriculum, you will gain access to our internal code repository that powers c0d3.com" Out of curiosity, why aren't you opensourcing the code? That would make it easier for your students to
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by tttp 6y ago
Please don't drag the rest of the world in it, this student loan construction is certainly the current state of the USA
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by tttp 6y ago
We are working on a petition tool (more broadly an online action tool, think emailing or calling your representatives before a vote) Https://proca.foundation It's as well a pretext to learn react, graphql and elixir, all open
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UK unlawfully copying data from EU police system(euobserver.com)
1 points by tttp 7y ago|0 comments
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EU bank ready to ditch fossil fuels(350.org)
1 points by tttp 7y ago|0 comments
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European data supervisor investigates Microsoft software used by EU(reuters.com)
26 points by tttp 7y ago|0 comments
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by tttp 13y ago
1) No you can't gerneralise. Immigrants from France and Germany in CH are less criminal (well, technically less arrested ;) than swiss citizen. 2) CH immigration has always been selective, like most countries. The difference was that a
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by tttp 13y ago
I'm not sure you have enough facts to support your arguments 1) most probably if you take into account other factors (social economics ones), the nationality it's not a major one 2) as you said, the wealth created by migrants can
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by tttp 13y ago
It doesn't matter, each of them would do, no matter how niche if you can become really good at it. ...but if you can learn only 1 programming language, you won't.
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by tttp 13y ago
Wwhat makes you say the guardian is UK-specific? they had two domain names that they seem to put together under a single one. That seems to be a logical move. http://www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-office/guardian-us-grow
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by tttp 13y ago
Not to be pedantic, but I suppose you mean license as "you have to pay to use it". Both Apache and nginx have a (free software) licence.
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by tttp 13y ago
In quite a few languages, you need to know the gender to write personalised emails, eg. Cher Joe vs. Chère Jane.

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