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Re: Show HN: Givemeguid.com – CLI/curl friendly GUIDs

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Post by ubanholzer »

MrGilbert wrote: post #5
tkfu wrote: post #3

I'm having trouble imagining who would want to use this. What's the environment where you would have curl and a need for generating UUIDs, but wouldn't have access to uuidgen or similar?

Maybe a JS App which is made completely out of third party APIs, without anything self-hosted? Not discussing wether this is a good idea or not, though... I was surprised to see that there is no "built-in" mechanism in JS to generate a GUID. As a C# dev, I'm used to Guid.NewGuid()

If a programmer isn't able to code a GUID generator and uses a HTTP request instead, he really shouldn't code.

Re: Show HN: Givemeguid.com – CLI/curl friendly GUIDs

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Post by trashburger »

MrGilbert wrote: post #5
tkfu wrote: post #3

I'm having trouble imagining who would want to use this. What's the environment where you would have curl and a need for generating UUIDs, but wouldn't have access to uuidgen or similar?

Maybe a JS App which is made completely out of third party APIs, without anything self-hosted? Not discussing wether this is a good idea or not, though... I was surprised to see that there is no "built-in" mechanism in JS to generate a GUID. As a C# dev, I'm used to Guid.NewGuid()

In what world is it safe to rely on an external service to provide GUIDs for you? Where's the guarantee that the service won't one day start manipulating GUIDs? Now you have a major attack vector.

Re: Show HN: Givemeguid.com – CLI/curl friendly GUIDs

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Post by kelnos »

tkfu wrote: post #3

I'm having trouble imagining who would want to use this. What's the environment where you would have curl and a need for generating UUIDs, but wouldn't have access to uuidgen or similar?

Yeah, I'm just really confused. If you're at a CLI, you probably have uuidgen. And I'd assume there's something similar on Windows.

If you're writing some kind of application, pretty much every language/framework can generate UUIDs, and even if yours doesn't, just generate a 128-bit number, stamp the v4 UUID bits into it, reformat it, and you're done. Calling out to a 3rd-party service is insane for that use case anyway.

Re: Show HN: Givemeguid.com – CLI/curl friendly GUIDs

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Post by huhtenberg »

pricechild wrote: post #13
huhtenberg wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And why would you do that?

It looks very relevant and has more features?

Well, yeah, of course. The link itself is fine, it's the remark next to it that I find to be in poor taste and uncalled for.
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