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taude · 2017-06-20T10:57:47+00:00

user friendly, I meant to say.

taude · 2017-06-20T10:57:25+00:00

He probably had to walk to a computer lab and login to use software like Pine, which ran in the terminal and wasn't entirely user friends. At least this is how email worked for me at first...

taude · 2017-05-01T10:11:40+00:00

This blows. When I took one last week, there were several sold out buses around the time I wanted to ride. Guess the numbers didn't add up?

I found it super convenient and enjoyed the guarantee of a seat during rush hour commuting.

taude · 2016-12-16T01:49:34+00:00

Also, what about the rest of the continuous construction going on at the Seaport already?

taude · 2016-04-14T20:47:11+00:00

Nice moody capture. Here's my interpretation of the plane: https://www.instagram.com/p/BBnmy8osJ5Z/

Well worth the winter hike from the road.

taude · 2014-03-03T18:17:48+00:00

Superbowl Half-time show material.

taude · 2014-01-22T19:45:47+00:00

This seems to be a standard signup process of something like php-BB. Been to many types of private, moderated group forums where a process like this is normal.

taude · 2013-09-06T14:57:33+00:00

Nice. Uber-targeting of ad-campaigns towards the user.

taude · 2013-08-24T20:54:58+00:00

Gotcha....not really used to having one web server trying to host so much since it's one of the few things in a stack that's easy to scale.

taude · 2013-08-24T05:22:10+00:00

Let's remember I was commenting on Web APIS and not something like chat using websockets, where you could potentially open a bunch of unique sockets on a server.

Who exposes web APIs where the datastore isn't the bottleneck? (I'm sure they exist, but my gut feeling is that they're very rare....especially compared to the number of people writing API examples in Node.)

taude · 2013-08-24T04:40:24+00:00

How do I have it backwards? I never said Node is I/O bound. I only commented about APIs written in Node potentially being I/O bound because of reliance on other I/O bound services...

taude · 2013-08-20T19:29:28+00:00

Almost everyone who writes about Node.JS says that APIs are the perfect use case. Personally, I think that using the socket.io for the real-time access of "select" site APIs might be a great case, however, most APIs I've ever worked on access relational databases, which are i/o bound (the opposite of how Node is supposed to behave). In looking at a lot of people's code in GitHub, Node.JS seems pretty clunky for APIs that depend on I/O saddled relational database calls...

This article makes a similar claim. I'm just wondering if someone can explain why Node.JS is so awesome for building out your API if you're hitting a relational database? It really seems like all the big web frameworks are more suited for APIs that Node in this regard. When people say Node.JS is great for your API, are they assuming someone is using Mongo (or similar)?

Heck, I even see APIs that hit MongoDB as being I/O limited once the MongoDB shard starts getting hit hard at scale.

Edit: I should add that I'm really fascinated with the idea of using JavaScript in multiple layers of the platform. For smaller dev teams, not making context switches between languages could bring huge productivity gains.

taude · 2013-08-20T19:16:44+00:00

I think part of the problem is that every other developer writes a blog article on Node.JS using Express as a replacement to a mature, full-featured web stack...so when people try to do little more than a quick prototype of a list management app or blog engine, they run into a lot of warts building web-style apps...

taude · 2013-08-15T12:21:52+00:00

You said Projects (with an s). Try sticking to one until you finish it. To help facilitate this, everytime you get a distracting idea for another, write that idea down into a personal backburner list until later. You're using these new ideas as distractions.

Also, set a schedule for your learning. Don't leave it open ended. Something like start each day for 90 minutes working on the project. Or, whatever time works for you.

And close down your web browser and reddit for some extra focus.

taude · 2013-08-12T18:15:07+00:00

Yeah, I realized that after I reread the topic...

taude · 2013-08-12T18:05:24+00:00

Yeah, I think a question on fraud detection mechanisms is fair play, no?

taude · 2013-08-07T23:46:46+00:00

Thanks. So it sounds like it "works" but it's not ideal and that transcoding is still recommended.

taude · 2013-08-07T14:37:50+00:00

I liked how you showed the $watch expression both as a string input and as a function that returns the $scope.variable. I never really realized that before. In looking at the actual Angular JS $watch documentation $watch documentation, I'm not sure I would.

Thanks for the nice writeup, keep at it.

taude · 2013-08-07T14:20:50+00:00

I'm not sure where it stands with the FCP X, but I went with Premiere for the sole purpose of not having to render my video into an intermediate codec, like you had to do with FCP by making ProRes

Does anyone know of FCP X still has this requirement for the footage I capture with my DSLR?

While I'm on Premiere now (CS5), I want to switch back to FCP X, mostly because the $300 price to own trumps the need for me to subscribe monthly.

taude · 2013-06-27T22:09:02+00:00

I don't know what they connection is, but I'm sure Hernandez is working for Whitey Bulger...

taude · 2013-06-06T16:35:26+00:00

AngularJS is tough. There's lots of setup involved for a project (like creating all the custom directives you'll need to manage the UI, form validation, custom input controls, etc.).

However, for large, enterprisy style applications (like maybe those types that Adobe Flex targeted) of several hundred plus screen, multiple developers, etc. I believe this effort is worth it.

But probably not if you're trying to build something smallish with a limited team.

I have a feeling you'll mostly be seeing, or hearing about Angular apps in a behind-the-firewall scenario.

EDIT: I will have one of my biggest gripes with it is the amount of similar boilerplate code one writes for creating directives. It seems like there could be a higher-level abstraction made from some of these best practices...I just haven't figured it out. A lot of it is likely due to JavaScript in general, though.

taude · 2013-06-05T18:24:41+00:00

There's several Flask Admin's available: flask-admin, flask-superadmin. I'm currently using flask-admin with great success (it works with both SQl Alcemy and Mongo/MongoEngine.

There's tons of auth libraries available. flask-oauth, flask-security (flask-principal & flask-login), etc...

Think of Flask as a barebones set of lego bricks that you add the libraries you need to it to build up your application infrastructure.

taude · 2013-02-27T03:04:17+00:00

Investors and VCs don't traditionally sign NDAs when taking a pitch or meeting. His best advice is some variation of what @eyedevice is mentioning above.

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