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 >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
