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by arturadib 14y ago
As he says it's indeed a matter of style/preference. I've personally spent 10 years in academia deeply understanding many things that more often than not were good for nothing. Now I'm OK with just getting things to work quickly and not loo
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by arturadib 14y ago
"What would Linus do?"
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by arturadib 14y ago
That's fair. I personally wrote Strapdown since I couldn't find a really simple Markdown framework that generated beautiful docs and Just Worked(TM) :)
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by arturadib 14y ago
That's correct. Although the tag is deprecated, I've tried it with all modern browsers (IE and mobile Safari included), and it seems to work just fine. I'd think it would take a long time to phase this tag out as it was apparently popular a
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by arturadib 14y ago
Good question. I used <textarea> since I have the unusual circumstance of having to write down "</xmp>" in my Markdown, which would close the opening <xmp> if I had one :) Most users won't have to do this. Google doe
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Show HN: Strapdown.js - Instant and elegant Markdown documents(strapdownjs.com)
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by arturadib 14y ago
The title might be a little too ambitious, but it is partially justified as the HTTP handler in the client (browser) has a Node-like API, see: https://github.com/jed/browserver-client#example
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by arturadib 14y ago
TL;DR: This is a proxy server that routes HTTP requests from a unique subdomain (e.g. http://m7rp3u2ntr9t3xr.browserver.org ) to a browser that's visiting browserver.org. The JavaScript in the browser then handles the HTTP response. This i
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by arturadib 14y ago
In cased you missed this released by NASA in July, it's also amazing: HD panoramic view of Mars by the Opportunity rover: http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html
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by arturadib 14y ago
Neat idea. A couple of thoughts: 1- They better have a very large pool of unused numbers - otherwise it's likely my phone will be randomly ringing due to the many past users of the number I just bought... who knows where and how many times
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by arturadib 14y ago
> Now, tell me how that is any different or less insulting than telling a women the opposite: "Sure, you're a good mother, but you're not cut out to be a CEO." This is disingenuous. The answer is because modern men don't aspire to bec
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by arturadib 14y ago
According to the FAQ they're still working on a built-in user authentication. If you have to implement a separate, server-side CRUD security check by hand, then I don't see why I would choose Meteor over say Rails or Express plus Backbone.
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by arturadib 14y ago
I've tried to rationalize my own jump out of academia a while ago, which I did after passing my mid-term tenure review (I'm currently with Mozilla, happily pushing the boundaries of the web). In doing so I came up with a (super-scientific!)
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by arturadib 14y ago
This was the main reason I wrote Agility.js - I too thought Backbone was too verbose (although these days CoffeeScript makes it more succinct, but still not as compact as Agility, as Backbone doesn't have any built-in model-view bindings).
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by arturadib 14y ago
> We built an animal No they didn't. They built a sheet of biological material that pulsates when placed in an electrical field. Animals reproduce, and hence adapt and evolve. It's a neat gadget, but let's not get too carried away.
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by arturadib 14y ago
One more data source to support your point (the US accounts for 10 of the 20 worst rampages in Western democratic countries): http://www.statista.com/statistics/1871/number-of-victims-of...
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by arturadib 14y ago
Think outside the box. I've lived in the US for 10 years, and I follow plenty of world news. It is clear that Columbine-like shootings are (mostly) an American phenomenon. [1] So what is it so special about the US that makes this a recurrin
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by arturadib 14y ago
I'm curious: How's Simperium different from Parse.com?
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by arturadib 14y ago
I'm disappointed that the discussion has (yet again) turned into debating the merits of Node rather than the much more important topic of where to place the MVC logic (client vs server), regardless of the language/framework chosen. Node was
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by arturadib 14y ago
> I have abandoned Ruby and Rails in its entirety So I thought he was talking about both. (As I once considered doing, too). Also very frequently the distinction is rather blurry: Is Twitter an app or a site?
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by arturadib 14y ago
I think the author emphasized performance . Sinatra might be Express's precedent, but it doesn't have Node's runtime behind it to deliver performance (async I/O, low-memory footprint, etc).
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by arturadib 14y ago
> I see a picture emerge where the back-end will become purely an API component Not so fast. That makes sense for highly interactive apps with private content (Trello, Gmail, etc), not so much for public-facing and content-driven site
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by arturadib 14y ago
As already pointed out, they use ultrasound to beam the energy, and they claim to have filed some patents applications. Alas, there's a ton of prior art in this space, and I wonder how they're going to navigate them. For example, ultrasound
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by arturadib 14y ago
The "green" movement seems to be making some progress.
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by arturadib 14y ago
I am getting on a plane and won't have internet access for days, but can someone please start a site like IAmATroll.com or whatever and compile a list - hopefully with profile pictures - of patent trollers, and who they're suing. I'd be hap
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by arturadib 14y ago
And, this case is singular in that not only do they depend on the API, they are also in direct competition with the provider of the API. It's risk^2.
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by arturadib 14y ago
Interesting bet. While most are betting on having all your data and apps in the cloud so you can live device-agnostic (eg iCloud, GDrive, Chrome OS, etc), these folks are basically proposing a mobile-centered world. The only advantage I see
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by arturadib 14y ago
As much as I think FB's valuation was high, they have the advantage of having a Product That People Really Want. This means that they have a lot of room to adjust their business model (so long as they don't screw up the UX/product while at
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by arturadib 14y ago
Quick feedback: Would be great if the front page included some demos already built so we could have a better idea of what the final code looks like.
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by arturadib 14y ago
Hats off. Parse is the first of all these backend-as-a-service startups to face and solve the biggest problem in the web context: user authentication and data security. By offering a full signup service with email verification and user-leve

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