iLoch

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by iLoch 10y ago
Snap's data has real value, like Facebook's. For most of their users, they have a large portion of their phone's contacts (whether you opt in or not is irrelevant due to your contacts opting into this + a network effect.) The
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by iLoch 10y ago
Why Cloudbleed and not Cloudburst? Seems like a missed opportunity (though I understand it's a reference to Heartbleed.)
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by iLoch 10y ago
You must be familiar with the pizza story? http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2013/12/23/the-bitcoin-...
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by iLoch 10y ago
> More generally, the vast bulk of the problem is not human readability or interactivity over http, but more a matter of insane amounts of unnecessary gunk being included in web pages because of faulty assumptions about the width of pipe
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by iLoch 10y ago
So a couple sites go down on a single day of the year because they were unprepared and suddenly it's a bad idea to depend on CSS? Seems like costly optimization with almost no benefit to me.
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by iLoch 10y ago
As soon as WebAssembly is stable and available I'm predicting we'll see a dramatic shift away HTML + JS as the target for most web apps . I don't mean blogs, I mean people who are trying to build websites that work like apps
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by iLoch 10y ago
Absolutely, but those are secondary markets for most American businesses because there are an abundance of issues with delivering any application to those areas. Whether its political, cultural, financial, etc. Priority for most businesses
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by iLoch 10y ago
The concept behind Twitter? No. Twitter? Maybe..? They have a user experience they want to deliver to 9X% of their users, so they optimize for that. For most of Twitter's users, their connection speeds aren't the limiting factor i
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by iLoch 10y ago
> Why shouldn’t the web work with dialup or a dialup-like connection? Because we have the capability to work beyond that capacity now in most cases. That's like asking "why shouldn't we allow horses on our highways?"
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by iLoch 10y ago
Security issues aside, why wouldn't we want "WebVulkan"? I suspect there would be some interest from various parties in making a WebAssembly compatible cross platform 3D library. Being able to create something with Unreal Eng
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by iLoch 10y ago
I think you might be confusing Facebook with Google. Ask any app developer that's used React Native or any web developer that's had to create a native app if it has a reason to exist. Facebook has hundreds or thousands of React de
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by iLoch 10y ago
I'm a web developer. We've picked up Microsoft Orleans for a large scale data analysis platform we're building. Realizing the power of an actor model on a mature platform like .NET has been a real treat. So many nasty problem
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by iLoch 10y ago
"Long time" React user, still use it on new projects, but I was looking at Vuejs in depth a little bit yesterday, and it augments JS and HTML in a much simpler way. That simplicity - to me - is reminiscent of jQuery to a certain e
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by iLoch 10y ago
1.) Over time, the number of new players playing a game decreases, to the point where most writes will be updates. That being said, in some cases we have access to totals via the APIs, so we just do a replace/upsert. 2.) We tend to do
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Ask HN: What database should we use for our “big data” problem?
3 points by iLoch 10y ago|3 comments
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by iLoch 10y ago
Avoid the problem: if you receive a flight delay notification, check the airline's flight status website. Flight logistics are complicated and in constant flux.
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by iLoch 10y ago
It'a not a big issue at all. I have moderate delamination issues in the top right of my screen (just on the black bezel) but it's not affecting my ability to use the computer so I've left it as is.
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by iLoch 10y ago
Great perspective, thanks!
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by iLoch 10y ago
Access to guns is extremely restricted. Canada is the second largest country by land mass, and thus police protection is not readily available at all times. In these cases, and others where protection of life is concerned, hand guns and oth
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by iLoch 10y ago
> I haven't seen where it is available in a scriptable API. They're provided at `window.getViewMatrix()` and `window.getCameraPositionVector()`. See here: https://github.com/Microsoft/HoloJS/blob/
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by iLoch 10y ago
Agreed, this would be the best way forward IMO. There is a benefit to shipping applications if you have a need to access other system level APIs. But for the general use case of rendering, well, it's a bit of a hassle to have to crea
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by iLoch 10y ago
Very similar to my work here: https://github.com/lwansbrough/HolographicJS that got no love on HN. :( But I'm really happy Microsoft has chosen to create something similar - I had hoped they would. Their implement
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by iLoch 10y ago
Yeah, it shouldn't. I found this odd too.
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by iLoch 10y ago
They're referring to Edge on HoloLens, and it's something I've thought a lot about to. Something like `canvas.getContext('webgl-holographic')` to harness holographic space rendering from the browser.
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by iLoch 10y ago
This uses the same engine, however that host doesn't provide any support for 3D. You wouldn't be able to write WebGL in it, for example. This library exposes a WebGL interface to the JS environment.
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by iLoch 10y ago
Similarly, I'd like to see a map of where the edits are coming from.
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by iLoch 10y ago
100kb * 100 tabs is 10MB. I'll take my chances.
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by iLoch 10y ago
I built this as an experiment to get acquainted with the Windows Holographic platform. I believe Javascript could be a great jumping off point for developers who are interested in hologram development on HoloLens. There's a lot to unde
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HolographicJS – Build Holograms with JavaScript and Microsoft HoloLens(github.com)
2 points by iLoch 10y ago|1 comments
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by iLoch 10y ago
"Web fundamentals", headlined by Web Push Notifications. Good to know where Google's head is at.

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