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by saikat 16y ago
People get offended by things whether you like it or not. It's extreme to make death threats, but it's also extreme and fairly despicable to go out of your way to offend an entire group of people simply because a subset of those people are
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by saikat 16y ago
"It was like doing a startup, but less stressful." How was it like a startup?
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by saikat 16y ago
The thing about not constantly being able to send patches - I'll need to think about it again, but I thought I came up with a reason for why it didn't work in a general case. And I didn't just mean saving a copy of the document on the serve
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by saikat 16y ago
How is your approach different from http://neil.fraser.name/writing/sync/ ? You said you aren't doing any diffs - so are you just creating a patch per user action (like typing the character "a" is actually represented as a patch for inse
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by saikat 16y ago
For people interested in the approaches to real-time collab, I made a summary writeup of what I researched a while back - http://techblog.gomockingbird.com/using-real-time-collaborat... . Still hoping to actually dive into all the algori
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by saikat 16y ago
I remember reading a comment a while back (I think on HN) about some running joke in one of his books about a cat (or maybe it was a dog?) and how _why had actually created this whole blog to keep the joke running outside of his book. It w
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by saikat 16y ago
I assure you though, the beta release in this case is quite functional (and saves me a ton of time writing my web app).
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by saikat 16y ago
And speaking of which - I just tried to opt out of their instant personalization "feature" for Yelp. I missed the blue banner initially, so now I'm trying to change things the very hard way. I get the message on top of yelp that says "Yel
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by saikat 16y ago
I agree - I never post private data to Facebook. But now it doesn't matter if I post private data to Facebook or not. They can start hoarding data from my visits to yelp or pandora or whatever else in the future if I merely forgot to log
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by saikat 16y ago
I feel like I JUST finished updating my privacy settings, only to have to do it again. I don't even use Facebook that much, and it's annoying to have to think about/waste time figuring out about my privacy settings when I don't really care
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by saikat 16y ago
I've been using Beanstalk to handle the export queue for Mockingbird for the past few months now. It was super easy to setup and has been very stable. I'm a huge fan of these easy to setup/lightweight tools - people who design software fo
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by saikat 16y ago
I didn't know about sync.js - this seems like exactly what I want.
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by saikat 16y ago
If anyone else is curious, the Wave protocol is also open source, as is Google Mobwrite (which uses differential synchronization instead of operational transformations (which is what Wave and I think Etherpad uses)). My "drawings" are repre
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by saikat 16y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. Did using chat-based backends help much though? It seems like the hard part is in merging user actions when doing a collaborative drawing-like app (like Mockingbird). Chat servers, AFAIK, can just push messages
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by saikat 16y ago
I'm waiting for an account at http://prgmr.com/ so I can start putting up live demos of my stuff. In the meantime, if anyone has suggestions for a cheap VPS to put something like this up on, that'd be awesome (the cheapest I know is Lino
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by saikat 16y ago
Awesome, I hadn't heard of that. Thanks!
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by saikat 16y ago
Sure it wouldn't be trivial to be made into a framework, but from what I understand, a framework for "collaboration" seems at least possible since I think this is one of Google Wave's goals.
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Ask HN: Frameworks for real-time collaboration in a web application?
33 points by saikat 16y ago|12 comments
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by saikat 16y ago
Just saw this on Sachin's blog - http://sachinlet.posterous.com/the-leaked-next-generation-ip... .
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by saikat 17y ago
And we should be getting collaboration soon - I'm going to start working on it tomorrow.
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Amazon Simple Notification Service(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by saikat 17y ago|1 comments
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by saikat 17y ago
>> Rather, I think we're permanently jaded against the IE browser not because of its technical merits or flaws, but because they let it go stagnant. Partly - I think we are jaded because of technical flaws as well, even in their lat
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by saikat 17y ago
PG's assertions based on anecdotal or no evidence used to be one of my main complaints about his older essays. Though I often still agreed with his overall points, I didn't like how he would reach them. Having said that, it's definitely h
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by saikat 17y ago
> It's normal for a romantic partner to encourage and refine their partner's style of dress and aesthetics, and it's usually done willingly by flexible people. Yes, that's why you stated it as basically "you can always change the girl t
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by saikat 17y ago
>>"You can always teach a girl how to dress and make herself up to your tastes" You can't always. Sometimes they might not agree to your tastes. For example, they might have their own tastes. Some people even like girls that have
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by saikat 17y ago
Fair point about raising money in New York with a startup, but I feel like he just glosses over trying to bootstrap. Seems like there are a fair number of startups already there for a support group (plus, plenty of support channels online)
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by saikat 17y ago
Some already exist. Check out Cappuccino (which I use and has been amazing) or Sproutcore (which Apple now owns, I think). There are others as well.
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Justice Scalia and Orthogonality in an Oral Argument(volokh.com)
4 points by saikat 17y ago|0 comments
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Penalty Clauses and the Nexus One(concurringopinions.com)
3 points by saikat 17y ago|0 comments
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by saikat 17y ago
I highly doubt this will cause any decline. The people who will hear about this news or care about it have mostly already switched (or can't because of an external reason or have some educated reason for sticking with IE). The rest will h

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