Disqus - Latest Comments for bgolub

Re: PrivateInternetAccess VPN on Synology NAS

Benjamin Golub — Sun, 22 Jan 2017 21:29:39 -0000

I've enabled port forwarding for UDP 1198 but still seeing 0 received bytes. Any tips?

Re: Scripting News: How to tame a Unix server?

Benjamin Golub — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:15:33 -0000

http://articles.slicehost.com/ has all the information you need.

Re: Ubuntu 10.04, EC2 micro instances, and ephemeral storage - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:50:12 -0000

I get email notifications in realtime :P. I haven't tried to use Tornado on
EC2 yet but at the most basic level it's as easy as opening up port 80 and
starting your process on that port.

In production what you really want is to put Tornado behind something like
nginx. Micro instances only have 1 core but other EC2 instances have
multiple cores that you can then capitalize on.

Re: I Forgot How Bad The iPhone Is

Benjamin Golub — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:59:02 -0000

Dropped calls on my iPhone 3GS are rare. It happens about once a month. And I'm not an infrequent caller either (I have a lot of conference calls because I work remotely and my work phone is also an iPhone 3GS).

AT&T rocks in Rochester, NY. Don't blame the phone.

Re: Should Social Profiles Live On When People Die?

Benjamin Golub — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:26:16 -0000

http://www.facebook.com/hel...

The family can report the account to get it memorialized. That (afaik) prevents it from appearing in your recommendations, removes the "Add as friend" button, etc.

Re: Recent travel photo albums (post created with help from the Graph API) - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:09:22 -0000

You can use the Graph API anywhere you can make HTTPS requests; so yes you can use this on App Engine. Here is an example: http://github.com/facebook/...

Re: Recent travel photo albums (post created with help from the Graph API) - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:00:42 -0000

Anyway; the real point of me sharing the code was to show that the Graph API is easy to use :)

Re: Recent travel photo albums (post created with help from the Graph API) - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:56:30 -0000

Now that you've edited it sure it would work (for all but one album). But the original version would have returned nothing.

Anyway I think the real solution is allowing an input that takes a regular expression and applies that as a filter. But I don't particularly like regular expressions so I took the easy route :)

If I were to take your route I'd actually use filter() and a lambda function to move the dirty logic out of the way.

Re: Recent travel photo albums (post created with help from the Graph API) - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:54:57 -0000

I could do something more complicated like split(), lower() each piece, and check if each piece is in the set ('poland', 'vienna'). But that's likely going to be more complicated and more loc.

Re: Recent travel photo albums (post created with help from the Graph API) - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:51:57 -0000

That definitely wouldn't work:

In [1]: "Poland 5/15/2010".lower() in ['poland', 'vienna']
Out[1]: False

Unfortunately this is a shortcoming of Python.

Re: Twitter Testing “OAuth Delegation” With Select Partners – Genius

Benjamin Golub — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:56:54 -0000

We do a few things to prevent issues:

1) Changing your password automatically revokes any tokens made through that process
2) When using that token your limits are keyed by the IP address. So it can't be used to easily get a bunch of tokens and get around rate limits. If you are really making calls from the client then this is no big deal since each user has their own IP address. If you are making calls from the web you will run into limit problems if you try to do anything large scale.

Other than that it's mostly developer responsibility. I trust you guys :)

Re: Twitter Testing “OAuth Delegation” With Select Partners – Genius

Benjamin Golub — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:53:50 -0000

Sounds like http://friendfeed.com/api/d.... Google does something similar: http://code.google.com/apis.... So does Foursquare: http://groups.google.com/gr....

Re: In which US Airways ruins a night of an otherwise awesome vacation - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:40:02 -0000

I wasn't Premier until Jan 1st this year. All last year I flew as a normal
customer. I wouldn't say they are a cut above the rest (JetBlue is my
favorite) but they fly where I need to go and haven't messed up yet.

Re: In which US Airways ruins a night of an otherwise awesome vacation - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:29:59 -0000

Funny how opposite we are. I fly United whenever possible because I have Premier status with them. United has never disappointed me.

Re: You Would Have to Be Insane to Get a New iPhone Now

Benjamin Golub — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:18:00 -0000

I bought one last month. Maybe I am insane :)

Re: Just in Time for the Holidays, FriendFeed Becomes First OAuth Wrap Provider

Benjamin Golub — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:59:59 -0000

No problem. But remember that this is just a prototype and things could change fast :)

Re: Just in Time for the Holidays, FriendFeed Becomes First OAuth Wrap Provider

Benjamin Golub — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:53:06 -0000

You can try it out yourself! Register an application at http://friendfeed.com/api/r... and then follow along with http://github.com/finiteloo...

Re: FriendFeed Launches Status Update Sync to Auto-update Facebook

Benjamin Golub — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:17:40 -0000

Also I should note that it's not just status updates that are pushed to Facebook. The application has always published everything and still publishes everything. It's just that now status updates become proper Facebook status updates.

Re: FriendFeed Launches Status Update Sync to Auto-update Facebook

Benjamin Golub — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:15:56 -0000

"FriendFeed also, very soon, needs to integrate Facebook Connect so that their Facebook integration (which is bound to happen) is much tighter and works better with the Facebook environment"

We already do...just not using the Javascript library. The Facebook button on the logged out FriendFeed page redirects you to Facebook where you login and TOS the FriendFeed application which then redirects you back to FriendFeed now logged in and with a completed profile (name, picture, and subscriptions). Likewise the Facebook button on http://friendfeed.com/frien... redirects you to Facebook and then back to FriendFeed. When I wrote those features I was just way more comfortable doing it all in redirects instead of using Connect.

"This is based on a Facebook app, which in my best guesses the FriendFeed team should be integrating into their existing FriendFeed app on Facebook – it’s inevitable at this point."

I'm not sure what that means. We only have one Facebook application.

Re: HI - Benjamin Golub's Blog

Benjamin Golub — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:50:13 -0000

You need to set this up with your own disqus system not mine. Go to settings.py and change "DISQUS" to your own.

Re: Very disappointed with Sprint - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:48:28 -0000

How do I check that the fee is gone on my account?

Re: Very disappointed with Sprint - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:44:35 -0000

The plan is great but the phones that it works on are very disappointing.
Sure I have unlimited data but it's difficult to use. I doubt my plan is the
reason Sprint is in trouble; it was only available for a small period of
time to people referred by a Sprint employee. If it were a problem they'd
have no issue with me dropping my contract (or they would have done it for
me already).

Re: test - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:19:00 -0000

I found it via a Google alert for my name :)

TagHandler probably doesn't work because you haven't made an index for filtering on tag. Here is my index.yaml:

indexes: - kind: Entry properties: - name: published direction: desc - kind: Entry properties: - name: tags - name: published direction: desc

Re: test - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:27:35 -0000

Thanks for grabbing my code and running this blog...but could you change it to not use my name? Towards the bottom of blog.py change "blog_author" and "blog_title" to your name/title.

You'll also want to change the Disqus code to not be running as mine and fix some links to not point to my Facebook/Flickr/FriendFeed.

Thanks!

Re: Western Digital launches revamped WD TV media player for TV

Benjamin Golub — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:11:27 -0000

I have mine wired to my router which is wired to my NAS but it also supports
USB wireless adapters if you need.