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by spb 11y ago
I'm super excited about all this, and if anybody can deliver a game, it's these people, but I can't think of a single Kickstarter that's listed an endless number of stretch goals (including cross-platform support, especi
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by spb 11y ago
Right, let me just go ahead and file an issue with the WHATWG to deprecate `width`
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by spb 11y ago
The former.
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by spb 11y ago
I think they give "long term sustainable growth" a lot of lip service, but what they're actually focused on is "as much outwardly-seeming growth as can be manufactured via whatever means possible". This is why they&
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by spb 11y ago
/s is inspired by CP/M or DOS command switches. If it were Unix, it would be -s or --sarcasm.
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by spb 11y ago
I imagine HBO knows every reviewer they gave a watermarked copy to.
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by spb 11y ago
If dependencies don't count as code, then I can implement the entire Linux kernel in one line.
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by spb 11y ago
This isn't material to the actual content of the post, but: > Uber for cats Isn't Uber the Uber for cats? http://blog.uber.com/KITTENS
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The Document Liberation Project(documentliberation.org)
3 points by spb 11y ago|1 comments
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by spb 12y ago
ffmpeg and libav - maybe not "before" the GitHub era, but outside it.
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by spb 12y ago
I still don't get why you wouldn't just check large binaries into a submodule and host that everywhere you would an annex/LFS.
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by spb 12y ago
This is something I've wanted in browsers since I was about 15 - I've written a proposal on Specifiction for discussion around putting this in the Web Platform: http://discourse.specifiction.org/t/html-server-
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by spb 12y ago
> I don't think this is a revelation to anyone who has been paying attention? Maybe so, but for casual observers, this lays out the argument very concisely, in a way that might not have been apparent before. (To the average American
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by spb 12y ago
Unless you exclusively deal with remainders divisible by powers of 2, any digits to the right of the decimal point should be seen as an approximation. Don't confuse the way it's displayed with the way it's considered - your c
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by spb 12y ago
That is one thirsty fucking site. Something popping up every five seconds saying "Subscribe! Retweet! Look at meeeeee!!"
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by spb 12y ago
So like the AD&D Monster Manual then?
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by spb 12y ago
Since LKML seems to be overloaded right now: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=142784405100723&w=2
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by spb 12y ago
I disagree. If you're not doing hardware-level hacking, a cloud IDE like Cloud9 ( https://c9.io ) beats any fragile client-side workspace I've ever used.
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by spb 12y ago
I use an Acer C720P as well, for everything including programming, via Cloud9 ( https://c9.io/ ). Cloud9 has been almost exclusively the platform for all my development since 2013. Having my entire workspace state synchroni
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by spb 12y ago
> I especially get mad at absurdly small (<200 chars) maximum lengths You realize even the well-regarded bcrypt algorithm only hashes 72 characters, right?
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by spb 12y ago
What about content push? Will CloudFlare only do passthrough of pushes from HTTP/2 servers, will it support extended HTTP/1.1 headers as described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9296526 , or will it add co
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Show HN: ach – simple Express middleware to enable Cross-Origin Resource Sharing(github.com)
1 points by spb 12y ago|0 comments
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by spb 12y ago
> This to me is a key component of the new bubble: the idea that your startup can fail without there being consequences or even be rewarded for failure. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.
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Show HN: Envigor, a config-from-environment generator for 12-factor Node apps(github.com)
1 points by spb 12y ago|0 comments
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by spb 12y ago
> Never mind merging. It's not an SCM, it's a distribution and archival mechanism. I bet you could make a reasonable SCM on top of it, though. Linus Torvalds really has a gift for under-promising: > I’m doing a (free) operat
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by spb 12y ago
This is in part due to feedback from the community: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=162757#c...
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by spb 12y ago
Indeed. I'd also add Code (by Charles Petzold) and D is for Digital (which I desperately want to read but haven't yet).
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Ask HN: Can a tutorial be “Show HN” content?
3 points by spb 12y ago|2 comments
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by spb 12y ago
Unencrypted HTTP/2 is for host-internal communication, ie. between app servers and public endpoints. Firefox and Chrome are both only going to support HTTPS for HTTP/2.
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by spb 12y ago
Exactly. HTTPS is for the public-facing Nginx proxy. No reason to require a cert to encrypt traffic on the internal bridge to the app.

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