On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:

> That isn't a hack.  It is almost a copy of what couchdb offers.  I use it
> all the time.
>

One is an IETF (RFC) and the other isn't.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt


>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Ted Young <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the feedback, glad to know I found the defacto solution.  Tim,
>> that's funny, your hack is more or less what I started with, but I became
>> suspicious that it was too easy somehow.  Maybe I'll switch back to that if
>> file-size/performance becomes an issue (which it won't).
>>
>>   Ted
>>
>> On Aug 6, 2012, at 8:27 PM, Tim Caswell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Depending on how strict your requirements are, I often just use:
>>
>>  Date.now.toString(36) + "-" + (Math.random() * 0x10000000).toString(36)
>>
>> Date.now is unique every ms and Math.random has a keyspace of 2^32, so
>> collisions are statistically impossible in most practical
>> applications.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Rick Waldron <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Monday, August 6, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Martin Cooper wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Ted Young <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hey y'all,
>>
>> So, I have a need for global unique id's. Googling about, I've found the
>> following implementations that seem decent:
>>
>> https://github.com/broofa/node-uuid
>>
>>
>> FWIW, this is the package that npm uses.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> I've been using Robert Keiffer's impl in projects since before it was even
>> on npm—I consider it a "go to"
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>
>> --
>> Martin Cooper
>>
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/1308368
>>
>> Not really sure why I would pick one over the other (besides file size),
>> or
>> if there are any js-specific issues I should be aware of. Any advice?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ted
>>
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