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by paraboul 7y ago
Much less visual than yours though, I also made a tool to highlight the exponential effect of social distancing. Exponential growth is often counter-intuitive and lot of people don't seem to get it. https://www.spreadsim.com
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by paraboul 7y ago
> @paraboul is on point: JS is often used only because the developer knows nothing else. I never said that.
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by paraboul 7y ago
Can I invoke my @pcwalton card here? :-)
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by paraboul 7y ago
I'd expect server-side JS code running on popular VM (v8, spidermonkey) to be safer than custom C++ (sandboxed vs running on the bare os). And BTW, this is why WebAssembly runtime on the server is a big deal. Being able to painlessly r
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by paraboul 8y ago
Did you actually read the blog post? Also, i'm pretty sure that such "special dvd drive" you're mentioning didn't exist back in 1999 as I remember using my Dreamcast as a reading device connected to my PC. Seems 100
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by paraboul 8y ago
Fun fact, the creator of pawn / sourcemod was one of the guy working on the JIT compiler of spidermonkey (js engine) @ Mozilla : https://www.bailopan.net
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WebAssembly doesn’t make unsafe languages safe(00f.net)
161 points by paraboul 8y ago|83 comments
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by paraboul 8y ago
Reminds me the old days of mIRC (popular IRC client back then) where you could (and still probably can) run similar scenario using mSL language ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRC_scripting_language ) directly from the
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by paraboul 8y ago
I'm saying that, I don't see how JavaScript could crush the performance of few native API calls. It's like saying "I don't see why WebGL exists because JavaScript is slow"
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by paraboul 8y ago
The future is WebGPU. If you're interested on why a Vulkan binding for the web is not a good idea, I found this doc (from two engineers working at Google) quite interesting : https://docs.google.com/document/d&#x2F
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by paraboul 8y ago
The point of using APIs like WebGL or Vulkan is precisely to move work from the CPU (JavaScript) to the GPU. The call from JavaScript to native (the binding from v8 to C++), has itself a very low overhead
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by paraboul 8y ago
And it seems they are working on a more generic library : https://github.com/google/nxt-standalone
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by paraboul 9y ago
Really nice write up. I wish more microbenchmarks go that deep into IR/codegen analysis (somewhat related : https://mrale.ph/blog/2014/02/23/the-black-cat-of-microbench... ).
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by paraboul 9y ago
This is a shader, there is absolutely no JS code involved. The code runs directly on the GPU
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by paraboul 9y ago
> But I cannot help but sigh when the brush tool lags more than Paint lagged on a 233 MHz Celeron. Probably just a vsync "issue" with either the window manager (trade-off between screen tearing and latency) or the browser. Yo
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by paraboul 9y ago
And this is the case
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by paraboul 9y ago
Not exactly. The only things you need to handle are : - An old enough glibc (glibc is backward compatible) - static link as much as you can (I know this is against the unix way, but the only way to workaround most of the compatiblity issues
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by paraboul 10y ago
Definitely! My email is my HN handle at gmail
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by paraboul 10y ago
nidium has a markup language (XML based), a layout engine and will soon support Yoga https://facebook.github.io/yoga/ in order to bring flexbox. Also nidium focus on mobile devices.
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by paraboul 10y ago
It's not meant to support the Web. It's meant to bring app development to web developers. nidium will never be able to render regular web page.
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by paraboul 10y ago
nidium is an open source tech project not a local product.
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by paraboul 10y ago
Hey, We're French and it's indeed hard for us to get this perfectly right and focusing on the project itself at the same time. We're planning to move this to github in order to let the community help us on this.
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by paraboul 10y ago
Well, it has a lot of dependencies to build : - mozilla spidermonkey - Google Skia - ffmpeg - portaudio - leveldb - OpenSSL And various other stuff.
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by paraboul 10y ago
FWIW, we're working on https://github.com/nidium/Nidium presicely to fix this. A new kind of browser engine, not based on any existing engine, allowing developers to use a subset of the web (webgl, 2d, layout) wit
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by paraboul 10y ago
Monism: Not exactly. Everything is made of the same substance. Can eat the wall, yourself, or the apple, it's all the same thing.
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Show HN: Between – Block-Based Animation Library Using ES6-Proxy(github.com)
6 points by paraboul 10y ago|0 comments
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by paraboul 10y ago
I'm actually a French who lived 5 years in Berlin. I can tell you that not speaking german was really a burden (again in the long term). Everyone below 40 speaks english, but as soon as you have to deal with the administration, or just
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by paraboul 10y ago
Like not speaking the local language of any country : won't work in the long term.
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by paraboul 10y ago
From France (free) : Freenom: ~60ms Google: ~3ms Local ISP: ~1ms
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by paraboul 11y ago
Xamarin is the whole mobile environment (including framework), Mono is "just" an open source .NET implementation and a C# compiler.

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