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Re:Hazelcast 3.8.3 on Saturday October 07, 2017 @04:20AM (#15422879)
Because (B-tree) indexes on sequentiel IDs are more efficient.
Re:Ask HN: LDAP as a service on Thursday August 28, 2014 @12:29PM (#8238099)
I digged some docs, I think I'll do LDAP+web for user self-servicing+SAML with Shibboleth+maybe OpenID. That will complicate the automated customer setup, but it'll cover many use cases.

Thanks for the help!

Re:Ask HN: LDAP as a service on Thursday August 28, 2014 @10:53AM (#8237459)
I looked at SAML, it's a possible addition to the service. It may be touchy to integrate (opensaml-java), but definitely doable.
Re:Ask HN: LDAP as a service on Thursday August 28, 2014 @10:24AM (#8237320)
Classic use case: org want facilitate+centralize users management on owncloud+apache webdav+other oss app on external server (internet). I only saw AD used in intranets, if orgs would expose it on external servers (with/without VPN), then I'd better find an another idea.
Re:Ask HN: LDAP as a service on Thursday August 28, 2014 @10:01AM (#8237206)
Orgs do really expose their Active Directory server on the internet, to integrate with external servers ?

Ask HN: LDAP as a service

Hi. I'm contemplating the idea of a Saas business, a LDAP as a service : a LDAP server and a web interface for account admin and users self servicing (password update/reset with tfa, account editing, org chart viewing, directory index..)The idea it to help medium sized orgs to centralize credentials for third party solutions (like every oss project with LDAP integration) and reap the benefits :...

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Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2013) on Sunday December 01, 2013 @04:07PM (#6829336)
SEEKING WORK - Remote

If you need reliable, high-throughput REST-style APIs in Java, I'm your guy. After 7+ years of experience in server-side Java (JEE 5&6, Spring, Wicket...), I'm specializing in lightweight stacks. I love Dropwizard, JEE6, PostgreSQL, Lucene... Please email me at username at gmail.com for more infos.

I now work from home, in the south of France, enjoying a fullfilling life with my SO and my 3 weeks old daughter : I won't relocate .

Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite coding atmosphere? on Friday May 31, 2013 @03:14AM (#5797330)
My favorite coding atmosphere is like 70% N2, 20% O2 and 1% Ar.

Big desk, two large monitors, Aeron chair (I miss it :/), Logitech illuminated keyboard, G500 mouse, 21°C temp, 11 PM, nobody, no noise, just the keyboard clicks rythming the night.

It also depends of who's the target audience. I did two Show HN for a medical literature search engine and got a total of two comments. On a medical-related reddit, I got much much more comments, thanks, suggestions, etc etc.
Re:Java Developers: Need to know vs Nice to know? on Monday April 08, 2013 @02:44AM (#5510301)
Lot's of Java dev greatly misunderstand ORMs and the underlying SQL stuff. You can differentiate on that.
Re:Java Developers: Need to know vs Nice to know? on Friday April 05, 2013 @11:03AM (#5498825)
Need: Spring, EJB, JPA (so Hibernate), JSP

Nice: SQL mastering, good ORM trade-offs and inner-working understanding, good general database understanding and usage (let PostgreSQL be your friend)

But you'd also better master few pieces of software like Hadoop, Solr, Talend, Cassandra... to differentiate/specialize (try and pick what you love doing, contribute to open-source with these technologies)

I have no plans to expand to all scientific literature, unless I find a good source of structured data to work on. If there is a Pubmed equivalent for other scientific fields, please drop me a link :)
Release date and journal will soon be added in the results view under the authors.

Show HN: MedicLib - A better medical litterature search engine

MedicLib ( http://www.mediclib.com ) is medical literature search engine that rank and categorize articles from Pubmed/Medline ( http://www.mediclib.com/about ). The goal is to be helpful to physicians by filtering noise and boosting landmark papers in the results (still in progress).I plan to add fuzzy search, enhanced filters and also a new datasource, the FDA drugs descriptions.Any comment,...

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Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2013) on Monday April 01, 2013 @01:01PM (#5474325)
SEEKING WORK - Remote, south of France

Full-stack Java/JEE engineer, at ease with open-source ecosystems (Jetty, Tomcat, JBoss, Glassfish, Dropwizard, PostgreSQL, ...). I worked on big soul-crushing projects with heavyweight solutions (Oracle, Weblogic and co) as well as lean solutions in a fast-peaced environment (I've been the lead developer and architect for two startups).

Re:Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @12:14PM (#5444247)
Thanks. I'll try it soon.
Re:Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @11:25AM (#5443883)
Do you mind citing a stable open source ActiveSync solutions ?
Other advice: automate backups, and manually check backups.
I understand, you focus more on the startup kind of customers for now.
So it won't be official and it may break on any server update or lag in features depending on the maintainer boredom. Too bad, your db seems really nice :)
Still no official Java drivers ?
Re:Ask HN: What project are you currently working on? on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @07:45AM (#5367837)
Medrill ( http://www.medrill.com ), a (re)search engine about the medical research
Re:Ask HN: What phone do you use? on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @06:49PM (#5365517)
Nexus S. New Nexus screens are too big for me.

Show HN: (Re)Search the medical research with Medrill

Medrill ( http://www.medrill.com ) is a medical search engine that indexes and ranks medical research paper abstracts based on a subtle blend of known metrics (citations count, journal and authors impact factor..)This is still work in progress (like any search engine...), I plan to integrate medical ontologies to get better results, and I'll also integrate soon some specific filters aimed at...

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I'm also working on a (specialized) search engine. We should create the dumb fuck club :)
Re:RuntimeExceptions – To try-catch or not to catch? on Saturday March 09, 2013 @04:54PM (#5349759)
Reliability on prod is imho a big win for the less-sexy checked exceptions.
Re:RuntimeExceptions – To try-catch or not to catch? on Saturday March 09, 2013 @04:37PM (#5349710)
And that's just one example amongst thousands of others :(

javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException is also quite commonly annoying.

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