tonyg

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   I reckon your message broker might be a bad idea(programmingisterrible.com)

   63 points by tonyg 13y ago|32 comments
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   by tonyg 13y ago

   The browser.
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   by tonyg 13y ago

   What about the text chat messages?
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   by tonyg 13y ago

   Thanks for the pointer to the bug report! I've just checked, and the (Linux Firefox) camera/mic permissions menu fails to appear on the other WebRTC conferencing sites linked in this thread, too. So it's definitely not just a
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   by tonyg 13y ago

   Using firefox (26.0) on OS X works just fine. I get prompted to share my camera and microphone. Firefox 26 on Debian Linux, however, never shows the prompt. The appear.in page just asks me to use the menu that should have (but didn't)
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   by tonyg 13y ago

   Make sure you're using the amd64 image, not the i386 one. Either the netinst or regular CD1 should work fine from a USB stick, if it's amd64. I tried both i386 and amd64 about a week ago on my 2011 Macbook Air, and only the amd64
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   Project Oberon: Design of an OS, Compiler, and Computer – 2013 edition [pdf](inf.ethz.ch)

   20 points by tonyg 13y ago|5 comments
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   by tonyg 13y ago

   I was speaking narrowly to your point claiming that banks don't need loyalty like spy agencies do because they're not trying to hide billion-dollar programs. I'm suggesting they are in fact trying to hide billion-dollar progr
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   by tonyg 13y ago

   Perhaps that's a matter of perspective: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal
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    by tonyg 13y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
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    New benchmarks of NaCl (crypto lib) and scrypt in the browser(eighty-twenty.org)

    3 points by tonyg 13y ago|0 comments
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    by tonyg 13y ago

    I wish they had! I wonder why they didn't? JSON is already a subset; limiting it to non-duplicated keys would just tighten it a little.
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    The Internet: Missing the Light(circleid.com)

    1 points by tonyg 13y ago|0 comments
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    The reason for gigapipes(listbox.com)

    2 points by tonyg 13y ago|0 comments
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    Js-nacl: Pure-Javascript Emscripten-compiled crypto routines (browser+node.js)(github.com)

    6 points by tonyg 14y ago|0 comments
16. 556.▲
    by tonyg 15y ago

    So C, C++, and Java don't have good support for arithmetic. What else is new?
17. 557.▲
    by tonyg 15y ago

    Sigh. The server should be back now. That'll teach me a lesson about TSTTCPW.
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    by tonyg 15y ago

    "Be... sure.... to drink.... your Ovaltine?"
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    How acks and flow control emerge from Meijer's iterator/observer duality(eighty-twenty.org)

    1 points by tonyg 15y ago|0 comments
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    by tonyg 16y ago

    I see, and quite agree. As this is about to get off-topic, I'll follow this up with you separately :-)
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    by tonyg 16y ago

    Erm, your irony is a touch opaque. What do you really think?
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    by tonyg 16y ago

    You mean a spec, and an implementation , right? ;-) ( http://github.com/tonyg/reversehttp ) While I can't speak to its popularity, I'll note that it works with plain ol' HTTP, no reliance on SSH in sight, meaning building a client for the
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    by tonyg 17y ago

    > how long would it take you to whip up a near-trivial but feature-equivalent protocol from scratch? Oh, about five years, I'd say.
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    by tonyg 18y ago

    Perhaps more accurately, polling for updates in an event-based network is suboptimal -- especially since we have all this lovely packet-switching machinery available for use! -- but it's not completely wrong. Polling an RSS feed is equiva
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    by tonyg 18y ago

    The generalized protocol/URL idea is a nice one. I'm not sure it'd be simpler, but it'd certainly be useful. It's interesting you mention AMQP; this work I'm doing actually came out of some of the work I did as part of my work on RabbitMQ.
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    by tonyg 18y ago

    "This is largely for people that want to use HTTP as a message-passing protocol, but use it in a bi-directional manner between possibly NAT'd hosts." That is exactly it. You've got it. HTTP makes an almost ideal message passing protocol:
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    by tonyg 18y ago

    Check out http://www.orbited.org/ for TCP-sockets in the browser (though I don't think it lets you act as a server yet). As you point out, nothing yet handles public namespace allocation, and this is key; for the specific case of TCP serv
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    by tonyg 18y ago

    Well, the intent is to design a systematic way of setting up a relay for HTTP requests from a public internet through a gateway to an application that otherwise wouldn't be publicly addressable. Without a protocol like the one I've drafted,
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    by tonyg 18y ago

    Thanks for the pointer re: Safari. I'll fix that. What this is doing is twofold: letting HTTP push be used consistently, with long-polling pushed out to the edges of the network, where it belongs; and making it less of a burden to spin up a
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    by tonyg 18y ago

    It's very similar to Lentzcner & Preston's I-D, yes. We both seem to have independently invented the same general idea and chosen the same obvious name. The differences are the use of a ReSTful protocol, and more elaboration of the regi