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by mckoss 16y ago
Perf will suck. Like running a CGI process for each request if using this for python web app.
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by mckoss 16y ago
Anyone want to tackle a bookmarklet version to inject ReMarkdown into any page? Even better, a Chrome extension that Mardownifies thebwhole Internet for you...
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by mckoss 16y ago
if you missed it, you might be interested in http://wiki.pageforest.com - posted to HN last week. It does live preview of markdown text in the browser.
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by mckoss 16y ago
From my understanding, Collossus was not used against Enigma, but rather, Tuny (an teletype based 5 bit XOR stream cipher).
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by mckoss 16y ago
Note that selling a product below its cost is required to break the law (aka "dumping"). I would assume this means below its "marginal" cost; which, for digital goods, is nearly zero.
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by mckoss 16y ago
Update: now supports multiple (sub) pages per "Wiki".
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by mckoss 16y ago
Why haven't more people migrated to WebFinger for identity? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_enables_webfinge... It uses your email address, and seems to offer a good way to get access to an OpenID-like sign in (maybe this is u
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by mckoss 16y ago
How does this relate to Visual Studio products?
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by mckoss 16y ago
Thanks! I really like this model too.
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by mckoss 16y ago
I should add that since your application's assets are publicly viewable, there is no way for your app to store a secret key. Also, all your source code is visible to anyone wanting to look at it. This may preclude those that want to keep
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by mckoss 16y ago
Good catch - the app is one page for now ... but you can embed links from one wiki page to another. I'm planning to extend this app (no longer just 80 lines), so it supports multiple pages PER WIKI. This will use the "Blob" storage feature
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by mckoss 16y ago
As the author, I can tell you how we've designed it (I'd welcome any other critique - it's all open source too, so you can look under the covers). (1) Users sign in on the www.pageforest.com domain only. Applications are not given access t
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by mckoss 16y ago
etherpad was awesome! Difference here is that the app lives client-side - and uses a "generic" server implementation for user authentication, storage, and push notifications.
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by mckoss 16y ago
Point taken. Some of the libraries are like the air we breath (e.g., jQuery) - I even forgot to mention it on the link page. My point was with 80 lines of "purpose built" code - you can create a functioning wiki. But we do stand on the sh
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by mckoss 16y ago
One benefit of having this based on AppEngine is that Google auto-scales the servers. While I normally have just one server active, Google has stood up 7 front-ends now to handle the Hacker News traffic. http://www.aviary.com/viewfull?fgu
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by mckoss 16y ago
Pageforest is a pretty thin wrapper on top of a AppEngine's BigTable implementation. It does have to add things like a user accounts, user permissions, and caching layer. The client library (JavaScript) is also design to make it very easy
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by mckoss 16y ago
I must admit that I'm not very familiar with CouchDB. From what I have read think there are a lot of similarities - and with the same goal of building complete web apps using only client-side JavaScript. Pageforest has a focus on building
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by mckoss 16y ago
The point of this share was to show how Pageforest (my project) can be used to create a full web-app with very little code. Pageforest is still a work in progress, but I'd love to get more feedback on it if you'd like to try building your o
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Show HN: A Wiki written in 80 lines of JavaScript(wiki.pageforest.com)
79 points by mckoss 16y ago|41 comments
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by mckoss 16y ago
this page spontaneously redirects to flattr.com - seems spammy.
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by mckoss 18y ago
I'm used to getting cursed for Outlook - not so much for SharePoint (in my defense, I left SharePoint after V1 - there's lots I'd change - especially cross-browser support and build a real framework architecture). When people swear at me fo