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by swartkrans 12y ago
The heart attack detector seems great, but I wonder about the cancer detector. It may lead to a high number of false positives resulting in unnecessary exposures to CT scans, which because it uses radiation can actually lead to cancer, and
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by swartkrans 12y ago
You can have SQL already, use ddp methods to query a database on the backend. It's not reactive, but it enables you to use SQL.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
For those of us who are Americans, isn't it amazing how the companies that provide us with access to the internet are pretty much among the most hated companies in our country? I feel like I'd rank them almost up there with Hallib
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by swartkrans 12y ago
It has the best developer tools. You just have to be careful to not use the es6 features that aren't in stable Chrome yet.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I'm using Opera instead of Chrome. I use Chrome Canary for web dev, but Opera is basically Chrome sans-Google. It's got all the same features as Chrome as it's based on Chromium. Just none of the Google account features. I&#x
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I'm not sure if linuxydave is joking, but for those not in on the joke, Hacker News is written in arc, a Lisp variant. Hacker News resembles early versions of reddit quite a bit and Reddit was a ycombinator funded startup. Early on the
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Was there one specific problem with web.py or multiple issues? Was there ever a write up about what you guys learned from trying web.py? Would be an interesting read.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Looks like it could have been OmniGraffle Pro.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
That detail is implementation dependent. The site that wants to push to your browser hits up a third party push service provider that the user uses to get push notifications. That will probably Apple for iOS and Safari, Google for Chrome an
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by swartkrans 12y ago
The push API is pretty awesome, the key difference between it and websockets in term of what it offers is this bit: > A push service allows a webapp server to send messages to a webapp, regardless of whether the webapp is currently acti
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by swartkrans 12y ago
The picture is from this year's keynote, as that's the blue shirt he was wearing this year. He wore a black shirt in 2013. It's just the slide in the background are of the older phones.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Corruption is illegal, but that isn't what you asked. I take back what I said about it being stupid though, I've given it more thought since then, and I was stupid for saying it was stupid. It's actually an interesting questi
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> Is it wrong to apply this to say, Microsoft stock? Stock is not a currency either.
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When iPhones Ring, the Economy Listens(nytimes.com)
6 points by swartkrans 12y ago|3 comments
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Crime is a function of law, an action is only a crime if it breaks the law. So no legislating the law by lawfully elected individuals is not a crime. This is true even if you disagree with the laws that were written. I will be candid and sh
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by swartkrans 12y ago
If you pay someone to commit a crime, doesn't that make you criminally liable as well? How are they going to reimburse someone for being caught breaking the law? That seems less than sane.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
You also have to know about how computers work, how they represent numbers, how and where they store memory, how computers process information, you have to know about interrupts low level os stuff, networking protocols, physical hardware li
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Once you get over what a mess the system is, once you lower expectations, instead of being depressing it can actually be interesting. Try to see it from a detached observer status, even though it affects you and people you love, because you
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I flagged this and didn't read it just because of the title.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> websockets connections aren't widely allowed on devices Like what devices don't allow websockets? Android chrome, Mobile Safari and Desktop Chrome and Firefox do and that's like almost everyone right there.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I give 0 fucks about browsers that don't support web sockets.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
It's totally possible to load balance websockets. You turn the web sockets into a dumb proxy that talks to your service. You could have a bunch of SockJS servers, with people connecting to different ones communicate with each other ove
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> It is pretty cool, but I was trying to implement a site where people could post stories and have an author badge appear on the page. Meteorpedia, the site in the OP accomplishes this without joins. It has authors for pages. You just ha
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Meteor is a totally different way to write web applications. Between the merging of the concept of front-end and back, the distributed data protocol it uses, the live templates, there's nothing really else out there like it and no, mig
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by swartkrans 12y ago
IE and Safari have self-interest motivated reasons for not supporting webrtc and for propagating their own technology, so no, I don't agree with this. I'm not going to avoid building apps that make use of technology that companies
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by swartkrans 12y ago
This is the reason I use adblock. I don't think blocking ads on websites is unethical because you should be able to decide what your computer does, but I think as long as the ads aren't horribly awful (in which case don't go
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> I believe the fee is there to prevent a malware propagation problem like we have on Android. Anecdotally, I have had zero problems with malware on Android and I have used Android since 2010, and I have never known anyone to have a prob
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Your comment comes across as bitter and sarcastic. It doesn't sound like you like being a programmer.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Actually I think graph theory is pretty important. For example many programming contexts have to deal with dependencies, and often dependencies form a directed acyclic graph. Understanding that will aid in writing better, more reliable code
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I wonder if he's actually qualified for any bug bounty given the public announcement, even with the dangerous parts blacked out.

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