Timeline for Is this "anti-pattern" and should I stop using it or is this clever design?
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| Apr 17, 2013 at 7:40 | vote | accept | beginner_ | ||
| Jan 11, 2013 at 13:50 | comment | added | Maja Piechotka | @Kaz: Last time I checked people sold their services 'how to get content replicated by search engine more often (a.k.a. positioning)'. My guess is that if anyone is targeting your site specifically it would not be any problem. If it is for mass data to say get your position in search engine or check how often word 'index' appears on webpages - why bother? Also - you have better techniques (in case db query was expensive) like blocking by robots.txt (for good agents) or by robot UA (there are at least several list of bad robots around the web). | |
| Jan 11, 2013 at 9:58 | answer | added | Keith Pincombe | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 11, 2013 at 0:22 | comment | added | Kaz | Not being able to use it easily from web-scraping programs can be a plus, if this is embedded in a public website, and if the database has content that you don't want to be replicated in search engine indexes and web scraping sites. | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 23:22 | comment | added | Bryan Oakley | How do you use this service from clients such as scripts, or from curl? Those things don't have javascript interpreters. Is this for a browser-only service? | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 23:04 | answer | added | user131 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 15:49 | comment | added | user16764 | The reason this is done is often to improve performance, where fetching data can be done with multiple simultaneous requests to what may well be different servers. It doesn't seem like this applies in your case. | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 15:23 | answer | added | parsifal | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 8:52 | answer | added | Broncha | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 6, 2013 at 20:16 | comment | added | Tulains Córdova | @begginer_ Every software begin small. What you describe rseembles a Rube Goldberg Machine: hammer hits man, man drops biscuit, parrot grab biscuits and tilts vase, etc. | |
| Jan 6, 2013 at 8:39 | comment | added | beginner_ | Can you specifically elaborate whats you think is bad? Context: This isn't a 10 Mio LOC beast which is business critical. It's more like < 5000 LOC and doesn't matter if it doesn't work for a couple of days. Yes, that doesn't been i should do crappy stuff, hence elaborte what you think is so bad. | |
| Jan 4, 2013 at 23:06 | comment | added | Tulains Córdova | If you want to spend more time with your loved ones, and you desire to have free time to enjoy hobbies, or pursue personal goals, then for God's sake: Don't program applications like that! But if you like staying late at night and weekends in the office maintaining tons of "clever" code then suit yourself. | |
| Jan 4, 2013 at 12:08 | answer | added | Ross Patterson | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 4, 2013 at 8:13 | history | edited | superM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 4, 2013 at 8:02 | answer | added | Jan Hudec | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jan 4, 2013 at 6:46 | answer | added | Steven Schlansker | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 4, 2013 at 6:21 | history | asked | beginner_ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |