emielm

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   by emielm 3y ago

   This brings back memories of when I created a webbased version of spotify[1], using their (custom) encrypted protocol over TCP[2]. Notably: back then I used flash to speak TCP, with a memory-leaky and bug-ridden mechanism to transfer byte b
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   by emielm 4y ago

   This sounds very American :). In my (European) country this is not a weird thing to discuss informally among colleagues. Of course you do learn to avoid the topic quickly with certain people, but that goes for more things: vaccinations, cho
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   by emielm 11y ago

   Co-founder here. Happening is a group messenger that allows third-parties to create seamless plugins using CoffeeScript and HTML5. As our platform does most of the work (accounts, groups, data sync, notifications, distribution, etc), plugin
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   by emielm 11y ago

   0rtt is going to make a huge perceived difference on high latency (mobile) links. Don't forget however that the syn/ack tcp connection setup also still has an additional 1rtt overhead. For this reason, I'm still rooting for G