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by kethinov 9y ago
Sometimes. If it's dual citizenship between two NATO countries you're probably okay. But I'm not the expert on this so YMMV.
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by kethinov 9y ago
CACI International Inc. - Rome, NY CACI's Rome, NY office supports the Air Force Research Laboratory. We develop data visualization software and productivity tools supporting the United States military using a wide range of tech stacks
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by kethinov 9y ago
In my case, I became "that guy" and aggressively pressured people I know to switch to it, even if it's just to communicate with me. The way to get people to switch is one person at a time. I know it's annoying, and I do
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by kethinov 9y ago
Is it valid for a game author to claim a copyright on something like the game's music in a playthrough though? Or is that fair use?
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by kethinov 9y ago
CACI International Inc. - Rome, NY CACI's Rome, NY office supports the Air Force Research Laboratory. We develop data visualization software and productivity tools supporting the United States military using a wide range of tech stacks
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by kethinov 9y ago
No, that isn't the case. The Node.js APIs bundled with Electron expose considerably more functionality to JavaScript than the HTML5 APIs that Chromium exposes. And the Electron framework exposes even more native OS APIs that Chromium a
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by kethinov 9y ago
All the options you listed require two or more programming languages. Electron apps can be written entirely in JavaScript, requiring zero context switching between multiple programming languages, as well as sharing code on the backend and f
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by kethinov 9y ago
Web widgets require a hybrid codebase. It's not "web developers not getting native," it's web developers preferring the Node.js APIs to writing C++ code to read and write files to the filesystem.
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by kethinov 9y ago
Yes, and that would be the case with Electron too, but in the case where n apps share the same version of the runtime, I assume it saves a lot of resources?
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by kethinov 9y ago
I don't think that is correct. The extent to which Electron uses resources today is as if you install five copies of Node.js and five copies of Chrome and launch them all. A common runtime would be as if you ran five Node.js apps using
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by kethinov 9y ago
The web browser for UI drawing is only part of what Electron does. It also bundles Node.js and all its APIs, which web browsers don't ship. And Electron also provides APIs for native OS integration, e.g. native macOS menus and whatnot.
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by kethinov 9y ago
Another Electron app, another thread full of people complaining about Electron. The solution is to build a common Electron runtime that all Electron apps can use. But it seems nobody is working on it despite all the complaints.[1] I really
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by kethinov 9y ago
CACI International Inc. - Rome, NY CACI's Rome, NY office supports the Air Force Research Laboratory. We develop data visualization software and productivity tools supporting the United States military using a wide range of tech stacks
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by kethinov 9y ago
I watched it live during the last ten or so. Each question was solved within about fifteen minutes. I tried to contribute to the process, but every time I found a clue, someone beat me to posting about it by a minute or so. The power of col
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by kethinov 9y ago
Hypercanes are thought to have played a role in the biggest mass extinction ever, the end-Permian.[1] Back then all the continents had converged into the massive Pangea supercontinent, which was surrounded by an equally massive global ocean
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by kethinov 9y ago
CACI International Inc. - Rome, NY CACI's Rome, NY office supports the Air Force Research Laboratory. We develop data visualization software and productivity tools supporting the United States military using a wide range of tech stacks
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by kethinov 9y ago
CACI International Inc. - Rome, NY CACI's Rome, NY office supports the Air Force Research Laboratory. We develop data visualization software and productivity tools supporting the United States military using a wide range of tech stacks
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by kethinov 9y ago
I recall when I was at PayPal, which owned x.com at the time, there were a few people who had x.com email addresses internally. It was considered a prestigious novelty. I also recall pitching to various folks to use the domain as a URL shor
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by kethinov 10y ago
Slack doesn't replace email. That's a silly marketing slogan. Imagine for a moment if it really did. What if Slack became so popular that everyone stopped using email? That would be horrifying. You wouldn't be able to communi
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by kethinov 10y ago
Those are IM services.
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by kethinov 10y ago
Launch a terrific, convenient new email service that doesn't federate and watch how quickly users will choose federation over convenience.
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by kethinov 10y ago
I don't see anyone repeating this fallacy w/regards to email. The only difference between email and federated IM is email started out (mostly) federated and IM systems started out (mostly) not. Only inertia is what drives this ske
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by kethinov 10y ago
See the tweet from Roger Wang. He implied that Ignition and Turbofan will dramatically improve the source code protection feature already present in NW.js by removing the need for many of the painful compromises that make it work today. My
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by kethinov 10y ago
My understanding is that the proposals being bandied about to do source code protection involve compiling the JS code into binary, so it's analogous to the protection offered by writing native code rather than mere minification/ob
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by kethinov 10y ago
I am curious about the possibility of this leading to source code protection in Electron. The Electron team declined to support source code protection, judging it too difficult to implement. [0] NW.js supports the feature but with severe li
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by kethinov 10y ago
If you google for stats on the average size of webpages these days, you can see a bunch of studies people have done which show the average file size of website page loads is increasing. Images are the biggest offender, but JS bloat is a sig
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by kethinov 10y ago
Yep. And to play devil's advocate for a moment, I've really been impressed with fastboot too. I think it's a great idea. Overall things are certainly heading in the right direction, but I just wish we hand't sunk so low
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by kethinov 10y ago
Well I have observed it. I've worked on many projects that used one of the big frameworks (including Ember.js projects) that would've been better off with vanilla JS and a collection of small JS libraries instead. I'm not goi
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by kethinov 10y ago
That I completely agree with. And to be clear, while I disagree with some of what Tom Dale says sometimes, he's a very talented guy. LinkedIn is lucky to get him and I think it's entirely a good thing to see another prominent open
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by kethinov 10y ago
The bandwagoning is disproportionately on the side of those leaning towards big frameworks. Look, I've been on the inside of large companies making framework choices and rarely is the decision rational. Often it's based on what&#x

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