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by denniskane 11y ago
At this moment, you are probably right... but in 5 years, who the hell knows? In 10 years, I would be surprised if it weren't starting to happen like crazy. I was mainly just projecting a little into the future.
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by denniskane 11y ago
If you really just took the time and effort to make that graphic in reply to my post... I just feel... honored... thank you :)
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by denniskane 11y ago
Maybe. But at least the information on the Screen page is the god's honest truth... This site, however, is a load of pure propaganda. > With Guile you can create applications and games for the desktop, the Web, the command-line, and
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by denniskane 11y ago
...and he probably wasn't all that "passionate about" it either.
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by denniskane 11y ago
HN is like a realtime electronic marketplace -- or information exchange -- for young tech companies in that an issue can arise and be resolved, for better or worse, all in the space of 24 hours. I think the recent case of LiveCoding.tv is a
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by denniskane 11y ago
If you want to throw around oughts and shoulds , I would confine those to the rational/empirical side of the spectrum because that is the very foundation upon which a society may be constructed. Now, once that society is constructed
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by denniskane 11y ago
So by this logic, MIT, Caltech, GaTech, Carnegie Mellon, as well as every community college that focuses on real world training is doing a fundamental disservice to our civil society. I disagree, to say the least. If everyone were an engine
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by denniskane 11y ago
Well, if JavaScript were meant to be used as an actual programming language, then it would make sense to develop an SDK for it. I'm only half joking there :) In all seriousness, though, it did make my brain tilt about 15 degrees to s
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by denniskane 11y ago
I have a concern that is somewhat related to this issue. I've been wanting to play around with doing NLP in the client using the SpeechRecognition API available in Chrome. It typically gives pretty good results for simple recognition p
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by denniskane 11y ago
On the somewhat related note of system-level things that can be done in web browsers... here is a project that I've been working on for several years now that is meant to be an entire desktop userland: https://yc-prototype.a
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by denniskane 11y ago
For the purpose of solving serious general programming problems like these on the server, most developers would probably rather want to use something like google app engine because it hosts code as well as static files for free, up to certa
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by denniskane 11y ago
I simply can't grok the use case for this, sorry. When I hear the terms "Unix" and "Cross Platform" uttered in the same sentence, I reflexively think about cygwin.
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by denniskane 11y ago
"Might" is quite a stretch here. A search for "livecoding" now ranks this thread in the #2 spot, just after the site in question. The damage has already been done, I think.
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by denniskane 11y ago
Well anyways, I don't think the question of "cheap" vs. "expensive" is really appropriate when talking about market dynamics. Many market participants think explicitly in terms of how much momentum they think is lef
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by denniskane 11y ago
Wow, okay... the first sentence reads so straightforwardly and the following one is like some kind of reverse judo takedown maneuver. The essential point is to correctly interpret who exactly the "no one" in question is referring
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by denniskane 11y ago
"No one seems to fervently believe tech valuations are cheap , so it’d be somewhat surprising if we were in a bubble." Is this a typo? s/cheap/expensive/ would make more sense, no?
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by denniskane 11y ago
Ah, okay. So, there are possible scenarios that are going on in his life that we should be considering before laying certain gleefully harsh judgments on him. Gotcha.
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by denniskane 11y ago
> Commenters here should be considering scenarios in which glee would not be a humane response. Maybe I'm just having a brainfart, but I simply don't understand this sentence at all, and I really would like to. I'm really
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by denniskane 11y ago
I might not be completely justified, and I don't feel all that great about making such a claim. But at this point, I think that pretty much anything is fair game with this dude. He dug his own grave by accepting funding, and then doin
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by denniskane 11y ago
I dunno, a google search for "underscore pete" yielded this page as the top hit: http://underscorepete.xyz/post/article/dick-stream The page is something about "The dick based streaming platform you
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by denniskane 11y ago
To be fair, self-editing your own wikipedia entry with exaggerated terminology as an early stage startup is highly understandable in the grand scheme of things. Self-editing your own PhD credentials seems to be a step or two beyond that kin
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by denniskane 11y ago
But in reality, Hacker News doesn't merely represent a large potential user base... there is almost a hardcoded, "#include <HackerNews.h>" kind of dependency for anything that claims to be a platform for sharing the de
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by denniskane 11y ago
I beat you on that one... see below :)!
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by denniskane 11y ago
>Python, Django, Sencha Touch : >platform architecture feedback >code review >solving technical issues >preparation for exams >help on homework >fixing bugs in code Hmm... I don't find it particularly weird for the
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by denniskane 11y ago
Okay, seriously. The only possible benefit that this technology could have for the planet is to give Brendan Eich a reason to run yet another one of those video-game-inside-of-a-video-game demos at another one of those JS conferences that
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by denniskane 11y ago
If someone is trying to turn this into a moral discussion about the positive value of the so-called "open web" to humanity, then the question of whether the actual codebase is open-source, and runs on every platform is of primary
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by denniskane 11y ago
Portable Native Client is a really huge project that takes a lot of PhD-level talent to implement correctly, and it requires a very specific type of organization that has the requisite "will" and "way" to make it happen.
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by denniskane 11y ago
Okay, so let's examine the remaining browsers, shall we? Safari and IE/Edge automatically don't matter because they are exclusive to their respective [proprietary] host operating systems. That leaves Firefox. Does anyone real
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by denniskane 11y ago
False. From the Native Client wikipedia page: As of 13 May 2010, Google's open source browser, Chromium, was the only web browser to utilize the new browser plug-in model.[28] Mozilla has announced that they are "not interested i
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by denniskane 11y ago
PNaCl allows me to run vim and python natively in my browser. Thanks. (Shout out to my boys, Sam Clegg, Brad Nelson and company!)

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