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by avaer 9y ago
Have you tried the simulator? It's no hardware, but they seem to have done a solid job at a passable emulation of the real world that you can dev against. It has room emulation, a fake renderer, and fake hands to pose among other thing
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by avaer 9y ago
Awesome, thanks for the clarification. Here's what I'm trying to reconcile: if the idea is to break off the awesome subset of multimedia web tech, because it would be easier to implement than a full browser -- I 100% agree! -- the
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by avaer 9y ago
I've gotten pretty far doing exactly this (only-those-apis browser in Node): https://github.com/modulesio/exokit Not released yet, but there's basic Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS support. Contributio
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by avaer 9y ago
I just call it an ad. It is after all the core competency of the prominent stewards of open source. The software is the ad, the tangential service is the product; keeping up is the infinite sales call that requires no calls. This is the pri
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by avaer 9y ago
If you don't know what area you want to work in, you should go find the communities that interest you and engage with them. This is regardless of whether you're looking to collaborate, or to solve someone's problems professio
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by avaer 9y ago
I'll do you another. If 2D screens ever cease being the main way of interacting with computers, something like a DOM-less WASM will take over consumer computing, and the DOM will get washed away in the process.
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by avaer 9y ago
Wonder how long until this is co-opted by the porn industry and what the law will have to say about it. Is it illegal to own a digital brain that can think up illegal porn?
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by avaer 9y ago
I sympathize with the sentiment, but the web app only sucks if you're using the stuff that sucks. Like any technology with decades of evolution it has a thick sediment of peat. Half of Javascript, half of Windows, even half of *nix is
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by avaer 9y ago
> I've always loved assembly, since it gives you the bare minimum of concepts and tooling from which you can build everything. Well... modern assembly is monstrously complex. Probably more so than your favorite high level programmin
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by avaer 9y ago
With all of the processing wizardry that goes into phone cameras these days, gets me thinking: will we reach a point where cameras are digital paintbrushes that construct a human-pleasing image out of hints from the real world, rather than
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by avaer 9y ago
It's only insane if you subscribe to the idea that the 5 kibibytes of content is the purpose of a news or other site. Maybe as a user that's what you came for, but from a business perspective the purpose of the piece is to sneak 2
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by avaer 9y ago
It's only admirable in retrospect. What if Mt. Gox shot to the moon and decided to pay dividends, but your friend threatened you not to buy in? I've been threatened by inlaws for subscribing to practices that will end in my damnat
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by avaer 9y ago
I think if a friend drove two hours to my house and threatened physical violence because they disapproved of my financial and technology decisions, I would have one less friend.
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by avaer 9y ago
Users don't need to be sold on the idea. They already bought. This is like buying something with your credit card, happily using it, and then getting upset by the charge on the corporate card at the end of the month. As a competent sof
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by avaer 9y ago
I prefer to think of Black Mirror as having serious reality vibes.
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by avaer 9y ago
The reason you're unlikely to see that in the node binary is presumably the same reason copyFile has taken so long: node aims to have a small core that enables a rich userspace. There's gotta be a very good reason to bog down the
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by avaer 9y ago
Which long running issues? All common issues are quickly resolved, almost by definition, in a long-running successful project like node. Lots of people depend on that being the case. It's just not always resolved in core (which is why
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by avaer 9y ago
I agree. But it's merely the consequence of them being a tech giant whose product is not their user's privacy.
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by avaer 9y ago
You know what both a Hash and Array are, as would ~100% of the people who care about Bloom filters.
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by avaer 9y ago
I never needed a picture to understand a hash table once I knew what a hash function was. If it were called a McCready table, that's one more trip to Wikipedia, plus one more every time I forget. Re: naming: It's a table of hash f
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by avaer 9y ago
I think CS education would be improved if these concepts didn't have mysterious names. Respect to Bloom, but the programming median might be raised if Bloom filters were called something stupid obvious like Hash Array Filler-upper Tabl
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by avaer 9y ago
Three.js can be as performant as WebGL, since it's not hard to drop down to buffers and shaders and sidestep any per-frame overheads. There are tons of gotchas though, especially for VR render loops. If you naively add even a medium am
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by avaer 9y ago
Isn't this the fundamental working of social media and advertising? Most people are not aware of, or can't afford to think about, the rights they're tossing out. So they're sold to bidders, creating billion dollar enterp
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by avaer 9y ago
Amusingly, this does answer the parent question.
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by avaer 9y ago
I'd like to be able to tell my browser what it should tell the pages it's loading, especially if pages are leveraging it to do things against my will. That applies to blocking Google ads, as well as fixing Youtube malfeatures. Of
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by avaer 9y ago
Only if you are provably, mathematically good at Mario. Not just you seem to do well over the course of a measly billion games of.
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by avaer 9y ago
The thing is people are voting with their dollars, but it's on credit. People don't want to pay for "free" content, and "free" software. So instead they pay with malware, insane data charges, markups to pay f
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by avaer 9y ago
I'm really liking the HN discussion, but this article has the smell of PR submarines. No investigation or new info, just waxing poetic whether the suit is back or dead. Is there any party that would benefit if people believed they shou
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by avaer 9y ago
You can't fix this with tech. No amount of decentralized web will help if ID is legally required to post things. Torrenting, encryption, and similar will simply be made illegal, since that's required for enforcement. Many of the e
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by avaer 9y ago
If anyone gets it, I hope it's Valve.

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