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by nathcd 10y ago
That's not quite correct. From https://github.com/feross/webtorrent-hybrid : > In node.js, the webtorrent package only connects to normal TCP/UDP peers, not WebRTC peers. That's why there's this w
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by nathcd 10y ago
> What makes you think that they would allow p2p on 5g? That's a good point. The answer that comes to mind (again, just pulling this out of my rear end) is that Google would benefit from more people having more ubiquitous and cheap
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by nathcd 10y ago
I've been guilty lately about getting a little overhyped about 5g, mainly because of the possibility of p2p connectivity. Device-to-device would obviously be really useful for IoT applications, which it seems like a lot of industry res
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by nathcd 10y ago
If you're a terminal person, definitely check out Termux[1], it's really, really good (Android 5+ only, however). For a text editor, I really enjoy Quickedit[2]. But I'm not aware of any decent quality IDEs, either. Personall
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by nathcd 10y ago
>This proceeding also opens up the door for much higher speed Wi-Fi. Although that, likewise, will require technical advancements before it can be put to use. Can anyone expand on where this is coming from? It's tacked on at the end
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by nathcd 10y ago
Searx is pretty cool: > A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine [0] https://searx.me/ [1] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances [2] https://github.com&#x2
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by nathcd 11y ago
> I never understood why Google tried to create a "closed social network inside the web", when Google (almost) is the web. Agreed. I really wish Google would make all G+ feeds into RSS feeds, and add the ability to subscribe to
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by nathcd 11y ago
You can make any website a webwrapper "desktop app" using Chrome/Chromium's "Create application shortcuts..." in its More Tools menu. It just opens the website without any browser chrome, and prompts you to cre
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by nathcd 11y ago
Looks cool. My one gripe: it looks like there's a footer when I switch between time intervals, but it's impossible to get to since the stories continue loading as I scroll down.
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by nathcd 12y ago
This is cool - I like reading about these sorts of open platforms having success. It always reminds me of a thought I've had bopping around in the back of my head for awhile: do we really need to develop new technology to emulate what
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by nathcd 13y ago
According to Wikipedia, he "extrapolated the performance of chess software to predict that computers would beat the best human players "by the year 2000". In May 1997 chess World Champion Garry Kasparov was defeated by IBM&#x
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by nathcd 13y ago
I really wish a payment processor other than Amazon could offer a separate microtransaction rate[0]. For anything under $10, Amazon reduces their regular rate of 2.9% + $.30 to 5% + $.05. [0] https://payments.amazon.com/help
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by nathcd 13y ago
Their free tier is uploading your own 20,000 songs and being able to access that from any device with your Google account. The only way to have access to their "All Access" catalog is to be a paid subscriber. Unfortunately there&#
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by nathcd 13y ago
I really wish Deezer were available in the US. From what I can tell, it seems to be a great service. Blackberry support is cool, too.
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by nathcd 13y ago
Could email be considered an "interoperable" instant messaging service? All it would take would be an email client's layout to be presented a bit more like a standard instant messaging layout and it might as well be considere