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by aufreak3 14y ago
Am really surprised (and pleased) to see web audio API on the list. But a part of me wonders if it is true. It hasn't yet come to ship in Safari on the desktop and is only available via nightlies afaik.
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by aufreak3 14y ago
Interesting. RandallBrown's was easy to read, but you're wasn't. I read "are the future throughout history" and cracked up :)
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by aufreak3 14y ago
I guess the author forgot to add "... and oh yeah, blogs too" to the title.
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by aufreak3 14y ago
I guess the post got upvoted as a proxy for the admiration HNers have for Elon Musk :)
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by aufreak3 14y ago
Language is a powerful way to interact with systems. With the mouse, we got first a single primitive - point and click. That vocabulary expanded to drag, but still that's about it. With touch interfaces, we got swipe and pinch thrown in. Th
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by aufreak3 14y ago
The concept of a "descriptor" as an object for memory accesses that helps with bounds checking and preventing memory overruns was borrowed lock stock and barrel (including the terminology) into the Symbian OS's C++ API - classes TDesC, TDes
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by aufreak3 14y ago
This is interesting, but doing it all at the compiler and language level seems like overkill. ObjC is a dynamic language, so the important thing is to have namespacing support in the runtime . If the user of a framework or bundle can spe
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Rulequest Research: data mining tools(rulequest.com)
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by aufreak3 14y ago
Having read Dan Ariely's post about "a note to Zuckerberg..." ( http://danariely.com/2012/05/16/the-facebook-ipo-a-note-to-m... ), I think the title better rephrased as "facebook IPO succeeds in not 'popping'..." instead! Edit: I would summ
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by aufreak3 14y ago
I believe there are a considerable number of these "older people" who'd appreciate support for multiple identities. I think Posterous's "spaces" idea is better aligned with the "multiple identities" concept than Google+ "circles" anyway. "S
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by aufreak3 14y ago
It's not funny that languages such as Joy, AppleScript and Hypercard don't even autocomplete but haXe and xpath do. I was going to suggest putting in all names from " http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/ - "An interactive roster of programming lang
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The Joyful Frog Digital Incubator(jfdi.asia)
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by aufreak3 14y ago
And then there is the powerful and ancient weapon - the arrow. When was the last time arrows had heads like this ->? What would we substitute them with in our flow charts and graphs (the nodes/edges kind)? What would we use instead to p
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by aufreak3 14y ago
This is from the "Brain Pickings weekly" curated newsletter - http://www.brainpickings.org/ (see the "hat tip" in that post). The topics featured in that newsletter would appeal to HNers I think and I recommend it.
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by aufreak3 14y ago
I was first exposed to HTMs through Jeff Hawkins' book "On Intelligence". I found the explanatory power behind HTMs comparable to what the theory of evolution could do. That got me both excited and cautious ... or perhaps "cautiously optimi
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Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 3 - Water Night(ericwhitacre.com)
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by aufreak3 14y ago
One relatively speedy route to getting solid numerics scriptability in JS is to do the heavy lifting in NaCl. An NaCl plugin for node would then let you use the same binaries on both the server and client.
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Music-mixing technology could assist with music production(theengineer.co.uk)
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A New Breed of Heterogeneous Computing(hpcwire.com)
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by aufreak3 15y ago
It seems to me that NaCl stands the best chance of reviving "code to the metal" programming in a web environment. 1. It is more cross platform than most native code today - the same assembly runs on win-mac-linux without recompilation. 2. H
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by aufreak3 15y ago
With the full disclosure that I used to work for muvee Technologies (muvee.com), I'd like to point out that muvee Reveal's "styles" are authored in a scheme dialect. Yes, that's a commercial consumer level fun product featuring scheme. In
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by aufreak3 15y ago
"So the one-sentence summary of how to change the world… work on something that is uncomfortably exciting!"
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by aufreak3 15y ago
hmmm ... I upvoted and all, but I'm starting to think this post is just karma bait.
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Typing "google is" brought up "google is evil", "google is watching you" and "google is racist" ... among "google is awesome" and "google Israel".
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Not sure whether what you saw was an artifact of your long exposure to callbacks. The Go/Erlang kinds of approaches need you to think at a slightly higher level than callbacks. A small step is the concept of a "promise" .. which, in Go, can
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Given how much callback based stuff exists in the Javascript world -- GUIs, Node.js and some recent W3C specs like the FileSystem API -- I thought it ought to be possible to write a simple sequencing function that can take care of this in t
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Disclaimer: the only iMag I read is Nat Geo. The original post and your response triggered some thoughts. 1. What if magazines abandoned their traditional chunked delivery and instead delivered article by article? That brings them closer to
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by aufreak3 15y ago
I started using AeroFS for something like this, but it is about "syncing", while all the time I keep thinking it ought to be possible for these guys to do file sending as well. Anyone AeroFS fans here?
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A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto(youtube.com)
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Totally agree. I liked posterous. I've also wondered out loud whether a similar thing will happen to workflowy as well, which I also love. Nothing against the guys, they're just optimizing, but it sucks to be on the receiving end. Is web 4.

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