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by arcatek 9y ago
We've also published a more detailed documentation here: https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/workspaces !
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by arcatek 9y ago
I unfortunately don't remember - possibly a combo of Babel + Webpack and their plugins, tho, they're usually my go-to choices to test install perfs. Now that I think about it, it's quite possible that the process was apparent
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by arcatek 9y ago
I've made some early work on using constraints when I started working on Yarn, but it ended up unpractical because of the sheer execution time it required. A huge number of constraints were required to satisfy the requirements, which w
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by arcatek 9y ago
Author here! Our goal in this article wasn't to build another package manager (we've got our hands already full with Yarn :), but rather to give JavaScript developers some insight as to what's going on under the hood every ti
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by arcatek 9y ago
Yup! Languages and frameworks: Angular (1.2.X) for the client-side code, Node with a custom framework for the server-side code, and C/C++ for the emulators (then compiled to asm.js). The initial emulators were handmade in Javascript, b
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by arcatek 9y ago
I'm sure there is! Sega announced last month that it would be releasing its catalogue online[1], and let's not forget the success of the SNES Mini, released last year. I was just on the market too soon, and especially without any
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by arcatek 9y ago
There was three issues that prevented monetization: - The userbase cannot grow enough without publisher, because the requirement of asking people to upload their rom is too much complex for most people. - With no publisher by my side, I fea
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by arcatek 9y ago
I was mainly looking for a business cofounder that could contact the older development studio owners to suggest them a deal so that we could start offering a kind of "All-Access" plan (à-la Google Music, Spotify, etc) to be able t
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by arcatek 9y ago
I built http://start9.io three years ago - the idea was to somehow manage to show video game publishers that a 'professional' vintage gaming platform was something that could attract users. I wanted it to be the Netfli
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by arcatek 10y ago
No, I didn't pass the Google hiring process. Things went much better with Facebook, tho :)
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by arcatek 10y ago
The two times I applied at Google after being recommended by friends already in charge went quite badly. The recrutor asked for my CV thrice the first time (rejecting my application between each request, until I stopped answering), and the
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by arcatek 10y ago
Doesn't the birthday paradox make it much more likely to eventually occur ?
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by arcatek 10y ago
Gen 17 had its last bird run forever
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by arcatek 10y ago
http://start9.io doesn't require Flash, but requires you to upload your roms. It currently support GB, GBC & GBA games.
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by arcatek 10y ago
He only use it in the "custom logo" section where he showcases his works. Since he's one of its designers, according to https://bower.io/docs/about/ , I believe it's fine.
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by arcatek 10y ago
English not being my native language, reading your comment just made me realize the ":mrgreen:" pun (the smiley code that was shipped with standard phpBB installations).
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by arcatek 10y ago
And two days later, their phpmyadmin is still publicly available ...
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by arcatek 10y ago
There's more and more features every month. Add that to the various performance improvements (that can take a hit on the ram, dependending on how they're implemented), and it becomes a bit more understandable why you would see suc
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by arcatek 10y ago
Not sure why you think it doesn't happen in other fields. Every time I spoke with a software developer, they were constantly cursing the architecture of the code they had to dealt with.
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by arcatek 10y ago
It might be a silly question, but have you checked if this module affects performances and, if so, by how much?
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by arcatek 10y ago
I kinda agree, but one has to concede that XHTML has failed for a reason.
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by arcatek 10y ago
People usually judge others based on what they can see ("you are what you eat", but not only). Why not based on what tool they use? It contributes to establish a persona.
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by arcatek 10y ago
A & B are mapped on respectively A/Q and W/Z/B, space and backspace are Select, and enter is Start.
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by arcatek 10y ago
I made an emulation platform called Start9 ( http://start9.io ), but it didn't got a lot of traction, my "cofounder" lost motivation, and I haven't yet found how to actually make money with it (I only have a ha
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by arcatek 10y ago
It's probably not so much a minifier than an obfuscator.
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Ask HN: Where do you store your backups?
5 points by arcatek 10y ago|3 comments
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by arcatek 10y ago
N different implementations can also mean that any single implementation vulnerability will only affect 1/N of the total user base. Using a single implementation isn't always the best way to achieve security (cf OpenSSL).
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by arcatek 10y ago
> jQuery.Deferred is now Promises/A+ compatible Finally. Our old codebase is using quite a lot of jQuery deferreds and, well, Promises/A+ clearly improved a lot of things API-wise.
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by arcatek 10y ago
They purchased Sun in 2010, and sued Google right after.
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by arcatek 11y ago
It wouldn't work. Most browsers have a limit of about 2000 characters. Assuming a base64 encoding, it means you have about 1K of available data (since most saves have a power-of-2 size), far from being enough for any real game (especia

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