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by spb 10y ago
For apps written against the "native" Chrome API, Google Drive is presented as a filesystem the same way as the local filesystem - any service can expose itself similarly via the [chrome.fileSystemProvider API][1]. [1]: https:&#x
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by spb 10y ago
Not to mention Chromebooks essentially are open products. The entire source tree for the OS (minus a few proprietary twigs like the Widevine Encryption Module for DRM on Netflix) is a publically-accessible Git repository, and all Chromebo
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by spb 10y ago
Moreover, Chromebooks, when paired with a good cloud IDE like https://c9.io , are excellent for writing code - more so than any "traditional" OS, since the local system is only dedicating resources toward keeping th
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by spb 10y ago
MIT: https://github.com/rethinkdb/horizon/commit/79304a56fbcd57a6...
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by spb 10y ago
I think you're confusing this comment with the one ranked above it.
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by spb 10y ago
It's guaranteed to return as soon as the thread of execution finishes prior immediately-pending callbacks (since it's basically a synchronous function call with an awaited return value). It's "finished" as soon as i
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by spb 10y ago
Related - this is one of the most-posted links on HN: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by spb 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wWUc8BZgWE
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by spb 10y ago
blab.im is starting to get popular.
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by spb 10y ago
Considering that anything more complex than a primitive in JS is implemented as a prototype chain attached to a first-class-function constructor, I'd say that, in JS, types are absolutely values.
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by spb 11y ago
I can't help but feel like life is easier without sabertoothed tigers roaming the streets
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OLO, a Smartphone-Based Daylight Resin Printer(kickstarter.com)
1 points by spb 11y ago|1 comments
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by spb 11y ago
The Steam Controller isn't for VR. You're thinking of the Vive controllers.
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by spb 11y ago
More importantly, if we want to make "view source" more palatable in a WebAssembly age, we need to have it support source maps from day 1.
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by spb 11y ago
This appears to be a blatant ripoff of https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cc.openframewo... - they didn't even change the app ID to refer to something other than the original developer's domai
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I love VR but hundreds of thousands of people think I hate it(medium.com)
6 points by spb 11y ago|0 comments
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by spb 11y ago
This appears to be an ARG promoting / recruiting for (probably recruiting for) Nona Creative: https://twitter.com/sasquatchsaskia/status/69774709349511578...
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by spb 11y ago
Right now I'm stuck at the part that asks for the first 5 digits of the square root of 2 but rejects 14142, 41421, 1.4142, and 1.41421. I'm just brute-forcing it to find the number they THOUGHT they were asking for.
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by spb 11y ago
This is basically exactly how my function "cre" works (except you can omit the empty attribute object): https://github.com/stuartpb/cre
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by spb 11y ago
Really? I know you can buy Rosewill on Amazon.
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by spb 11y ago
> clever remarks about how Git is distributed but we're all depending on GitHub for so much that we defeat the purpose Yeah, but they'd be wrong about that purpose. Distributed systems used by people (eg. email, BitTorrent) alw
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by spb 11y ago
How would performance stack up versus the consumer routers if you just used a Raspberry Pi B+ / Zero, with additional network interfaces added via USB?
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by spb 11y ago
They finally added a package manager?
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by spb 11y ago
Encoding speed is very relevant for real-time feeds like WebRTC and Twitch.
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by spb 11y ago
Some programmer on a project sees a lot of code that's calling out to various Windows functions and thinks, "You know, it'd be a clean refactor if I just merge all these into a single abstract route on the server that could c
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by spb 11y ago
Why is a conf file mentioning NCSA so surprising? Mosaic has a lineage that can be traced to modern browsers like Edge, so it'd make sense to have conf items geared toward the NCSA family of browsers.
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by spb 11y ago
OpenStreetMaps' content is virtually 100% objective (with only political borders and names being potentially contentious).
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by spb 11y ago
It's back up.
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by spb 11y ago
My best guess would be a botched/inadvertent rollback of the content DB in response to incoming traffic. (It's back up now.)
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by spb 11y ago
The problem with digging/speculation when emotions are high in general: Person A makes a speculation. Person B interprets Person A's speculation as the most likely explanation of the situation. Persons C, D, and E overhear Person

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