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by maxogden 14y ago
they are pure js, though streams in node emit Buffer objects which can be mostly emulated using html5 Int32Arrays
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by maxogden 15y ago
In practice (for developers that write javascript well) it takes about 10 seconds of glancing through node package code on github to determine quality.
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International Open Data Day is this weekend Find one near you from their wiki(opendataday.org)
6 points by maxogden 15y ago|0 comments
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by maxogden 15y ago
In the last couple of weeks Dyn started forcing people to give them credit card information before being able to use the 10+ year old dyndns.org dynamic IP update service. Seems like a bait and switch monetization scheme to me. Millions of
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by maxogden 15y ago
tmpvar (jsdom author) has worked really hard on jsdom. turns out implementing DOM levels 1, 2 and 3 in pure JS is a hard problem. patches welcome, buddy!
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by maxogden 15y ago
i see waffle did there
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by maxogden 15y ago
i'd recommend opening an issue over here https://github.com/flatiron/plates/issues so that the authors can respond to you more efficiently
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by maxogden 15y ago
minimalist testing FTW! (e.g. node-tap style). cant wait for a way for this to automatically run for me every time i update my githubz and then send me robot pictures representing my test status (sad robots for failing tests, happy robots f
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by maxogden 15y ago
I've heard from many people that with Couch you get "all of your disappointment up front"
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by maxogden 15y ago
one of couch's strong points is that it is great at giving away your data. most startup bros find that antithetical to their business model
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by maxogden 15y ago
the module wiki page is being removed soon (hopefully)
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by maxogden 15y ago
I strongly disagree, and find the hand illustrated approach incredibly refreshing amongst the sea of cookie cutter web apps.
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by maxogden 15y ago
timelines suggest that requests was inspired by https://github.com/mikeal/request from the land of node
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by maxogden 15y ago
theres this great thing called npmjs.org that is a place for stuff like this if I am not mistaken
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by maxogden 15y ago
http://calendaraboutnothing.com/ is a neat tool for staying motivated
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by maxogden 15y ago
... in which the Radar rises to face the Factor
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by maxogden 15y ago
nice FUD headline
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by maxogden 15y ago
At NodeConf Summercamp this week Ryan Dahl remarked that the V8 team is very responsive and happy to fix to reports such as "this part of V8 is slow and shouldn't be, can you please make it faster". He also acknowledged that Google is obvio
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by maxogden 15y ago
cool. I noticed you didn't have an API for videos so made one for you: http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/lanyrd_videos/
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by maxogden 15y ago
you should donate p2pu.com to p2pu.org since they are doing amazing work for a great cause
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by maxogden 15y ago
equivalent in node: http://github.com/mikeal/request equivalent in jquery: https://github.com/iriscouch/request_jquery
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by maxogden 15y ago
if you go into chrome's about:flags you can enable leveldb now :D the tools are slowly getting there!
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by maxogden 15y ago
to implement a couch you need a key/value store with transactions so you can atomically update the by-sequence index and the key/value storage simultaneously. pouch is neat because it does this in your browser (or on top of any leveldb) so
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by maxogden 15y ago
For the record: ScraperWiki is about %95 open source: https://bitbucket.org/ScraperWiki/scraperwiki/src and Github has an incredible open source presence: https://github.com/github . Meanwhile... https://github.com/buzzdata I'm not tro
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by maxogden 15y ago
lots of overlap with http://scraperwiki.com but lacking open source or APIs. I dig their emphasis on social but I hope they improve the data portion and focus less on the buzz
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by maxogden 15y ago
also see the related http://iconathon.org initiative which is a series of icon brainstorming hackathons in a bunch of cities
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by maxogden 15y ago
demo: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/resources/ferriswhee...
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by maxogden 15y ago
You aren't skilled in the art of using Github
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by maxogden 15y ago
-10 points to Engadget for inaccuracy. This is a side project of a guy who uses Mozilla stuff, and not an official Mozilla project. It is, however, based on Mozilla Chromeless. "The Webian project is a not-for-profit venture founded by Ben
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by maxogden 15y ago
Refine rules! I've built some stuff that ya'll might find useful for hooking it up to the web (specifically CouchDB): https://github.com/maxogden/refine-uploader https://github.com/maxogden/refine-processor https://github.com/maxogden/

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