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   by bergie 14y ago

   The traditional wisdom is that carrying a gun for safety doesn't help in such sudden events, as the "bad guys" are generally more prepared, have the initiative, etc. This is obviously different for instance in a war, where both parties are
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   by bergie 14y ago

   I thought that was exactly what I said in my comment.
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   by bergie 14y ago

   Yep, this is a major part of GNOME3 that most people haven't yet noticed. Thanks to it being done in JavaScript, you can hack your desktop like a web app: https://cannonerd.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/hack-gnome3-like-... This includes stuff
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   by bergie 14y ago

   You can see some decrease in the number of contributors: https://www.ohloh.net/p/gnome/contributors/summary However, note that the current slide in the numbers is something that only happened after February-March 2012, which was when the
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   by bergie 14y ago

   This seems to be a common reaction to new major versions. After KDE4 came out people also started their own KDE3 fork: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/about.php
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   by bergie 14y ago

   With Midgard we've been using some GNOME libraries like D-Bus and libgda on servers for years. And this will bring the whole set of GNOME libraries to Node.js: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/node-gir/
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   by bergie 14y ago

   HN discussion about the piece this is responding to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4300472
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   The future of GNOME(blogs.gnome.org)

   118 points by bergie 14y ago|105 comments
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   by bergie 14y ago

   This is the same problem with The Economist's digital subscription. Really annoying full-screen click through ads between a lot of pages. And generally these seem to be just one or two different ads in one issue, so they're not interesting
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    by bergie 14y ago

    I suppose Android is not Linux in their view. But agreed that the current generation of desktop Linux isn't much of a threat.
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    GObject Introspection (GNOME libraries) for Node.js(bergie.iki.fi)

    3 points by bergie 14y ago|0 comments
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    by bergie 14y ago

    One additional possibility is making packaged NodeXT extensions that can be plugged into any website and configured. Here is an example: http://search.npmjs.org/#/nodext-create
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    by bergie 14y ago

    He is retired, but seems happy to help us "youngsters" understand his concepts.
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    by bergie 14y ago

    Thanks! Your contributions have been very helpful. And it is interesting to hear what you're actually using it for :-)
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    by bergie 14y ago

    The README should be a good start: https://github.com/bergie/noflo#readme I probably should migrate this stuff to the website...
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    by bergie 14y ago

    FBP seems to be getting more attention. Here is a recent thread where there was discussion about real-world implementations: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/flow-based-programming/j7U...
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    by bergie 14y ago

    Slight update to this old blog post is that now dnode-php runs with ReactPHP ( http://nodephp.org/ ), and so PHP-as-server should perform a lot better even with multiple clients.
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    DNode: Make PHP and Node.js talk to each other(bergie.iki.fi)

    2 points by bergie 14y ago|1 comments
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    by bergie 14y ago

    Well, when you bring back a programming concept invented in the 70s, there can hardly be much new about it. But at least I'm being quite honest about this on the NoFlo website: FBP itself is not a new idea: it comes from a term IBM used in
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    by bergie 14y ago

    Here is the NoFlo graph I used to migrate my blog from a JSON-LD dump into Jekyll: https://gist.github.com/3105838
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    by bergie 14y ago

    I've been using a quite different approach at structuring my Node.js applications: http://bergie.iki.fi/nodext/ With NodeXT you build the application out of multiple modules (extensions), which you then "mount" into the URL structure you
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    by bergie 14y ago

    Unfortunately most of the real-life NoFlo stuff we've done is handling business logic in client projects, and so is quite sensitive. One older example that is open source is http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/business_analytics_with_couchdb_an...
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    by bergie 14y ago

    Hi! Author of NoFlo here. This has been sort of a longtime hobby project for me, since I read J. Paul Morrison's FBP book: http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/fbp/#book The UI side of things is still in very early stages, but the engine itself i
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    Two Thirds of New Mobile Buyers Now Opting For Smartphones(blog.nielsen.com)

    2 points by bergie 14y ago|0 comments
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    by bergie 14y ago

    I guess the disappointment will hit if it turns out new WP8 apps won't run on WP7 devices.
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    by bergie 14y ago

    As for updating the phones, the ARM embedded platform has a bewildering array of SOCs I thought only Qualcomm SoCs (or just a particular SoC?) was certified for running WP7? That doesn't sound like a bewildering array. From http://www.mo
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    by bergie 14y ago

    I admit, I probably used a bit stronger words than warranted, but this is entirely due to the frustration on the constant state of public IT procurement failure in the country. Anyway, I'm quite well aware how the RFQ process works. The pro
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    by bergie 14y ago

    Everybody in the Finnish software business knows that much of the public procurement happens over various "old boys club" arrangements, and "surprisingly" usually ends in the hands of the same two or three big IT providers. Finland used to
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    by bergie 14y ago

    We started with Aloha as well, but some of the project partners needed an editor option with more permissive licensing (Aloha is AGPL, Hallo is MIT). And of course getting rid of the huge ExtJS dependency was a plus. Here is an old video in
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    by bergie 14y ago

    Yep, I like the term Live Web .