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by zwetan 10y ago
I love pandoc, thanks for this great tool :) to me it's the perfect tool to generate user docs and manuals for software and other cli tools, my best use case is markdown (github flavoured) to man, markdown to HTML and PDF, etc.
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by zwetan 10y ago
google analytics is supported inside Flash since 2008 gaforflash [1] since 2014 as3-universal-analytics [2] (measurement protocol) [1]: https://code.google.com/archive/p/gaforflash/ [2]: https://gi
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by zwetan 10y ago
Flash is definitively the perfect scapegoat whatever your problem: slow machine, battery, security, etc. it's all its fault seriously, if everyone have already moved to HTML5, how come we are still blaming Flash for those daily petty p
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by zwetan 10y ago
could? it did, see Adobe AIR, publishing to Windows / mac OS X / iOS / Android is imho cross-platform enough.
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by zwetan 10y ago
"The British also regarded umbrellas as too French" I guess it was a very bad thing at the time :D
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by zwetan 10y ago
I think you are both right :) even if I was talking about the host for tsc.js, the way the code is defined it should be able to run from wscript exe under Windows, although I never tried it.
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by zwetan 10y ago
I experienced different results. One of the main problem with JS engines is that they load external code on demand, even with something like JSDB (see [1] based on SpiderMonkey engine) where you can bundle all of your JS inside a zip that y
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by zwetan 10y ago
Having different engine is good, even "non-obvious" ones If you look at the sources of TypeScript you can see it supports: Node.js, Windows Script Host and ChakraHost (see [1]) I made a little experiment to support another engine:
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by zwetan 10y ago
thank you :) you got almost the answer here "It's not quite the same as AS3" Haxe focus on transpilation/cross-compilation with its own language 'Haxe' and its own compiler, libraries, VM, etc. The closest to R
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by zwetan 10y ago
I can propose another one: ActionScript 3 see: https://github.com/Corsaair/redtamarin So yeah I'm the author of this project and while when I started it, it was mainly for fun "let's run AS3 on the comma
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by zwetan 10y ago
Not as Bash script but some time ago I documented complete environment setup for Windows / Mac OS X / Linux https://github.com/Corsaair/redtamarin/wiki/DeveloperEnviron... The Windows part have a Ba
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by zwetan 11y ago
When an API "default" can ruin the life of people, it's really sad that such "IP intelligence" was not thought right from the beginning to answer "can not be found". Similar story [0] to a lesser degree is
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by zwetan 11y ago
I did a similar little prototype[0] long time ago, learned couple of interesting things from it, then moved to other protos [0] http://www.burrrn.com/
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by zwetan 11y ago
how enforceable is the TOS ? once something is published on the internet then it is assumed it can be viewed / copied / downloaded / etc. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping , the legal issues
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Apple is bad news for the future of the Web(medium.com)
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by zwetan 11y ago
"Chill with Tay on Kik" LOL maybe we can talk about npmgate then ?
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by zwetan 11y ago
funny thing, but assuming that kik is related to kik.com if you look here http://dev.kik.com/build/ , they promote their own server eg. "Our open source web server Zerver can help serve your cache manifest properly
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by zwetan 11y ago
OK, remember you asked for it "If you know otherwise, then please cite the specific CVEs. Otherwise, you're just spreading false information" man, you are so full of it want proof ? no problemo 1. CVE are organised by vendors
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by zwetan 11y ago
"Or you could have ad networks that only circulate carefully vetted/curated ads." No, you make it simpler than that you simply forbid ads to be interactive or to contain any code eg. you do only static ads like text, image, v
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by zwetan 11y ago
and again Flash is the scapegoat "By converting unsafe flash-based ads to safe HTML5 ads, they lower the risk of infection from a hostile ad." is laughable at best An Ad Network is one of the fastest way to deliver a payload to a
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by zwetan 11y ago
and worst, the sale pitch have more value, than the code written to build the app
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by zwetan 11y ago
I see hackathon as a scam or how to teach early to young new passionate developers that the "norm" is to work long hours for next to no pay, pizza? yeah good enough. It also vehiculate the idea that code is a just commodity, that
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by zwetan 11y ago
personally I use a local wiki to keep notes, links, research etc. https://github.com/gollum/gollum
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by zwetan 11y ago
I have no problems with powershell wanting to pipe "objects" but I still want a POSIX environment under Windows. And about why POSIX deserve to win ? For me it's about cross-platform command-line, I need to be able to run com
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by zwetan 11y ago
doing about the same here but using only cygwin and cygrunsrv to run sshd it work quite well, and yeah ssh to a windows box with a real shell is definitively something you want :)
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by zwetan 11y ago
well you are just replacing your dependency from cygwin to node.js think of it, what is the utility to implement shell commands in a cross-platform way ? only for Windows You don't need an ES6 implementation of `ls` on Linux and Mac OS
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by zwetan 11y ago
look nice couple of questions - do you plan to make it work with something like Paypal API ? - maybe other language than English ? look promising anyway
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by zwetan 11y ago
no problem, it's like the honey moon period for a type 1 patient I was saying "maybe", in general I see type 2 ppl who are just on pills and have no need to take insulin, but yeah the diabetes can progress in different way, n
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by zwetan 11y ago
did you read the article about the patent and how insulin been discovered ? here some quotes "Insulin's Canadian discoverers sold the patent to their university for $1, stating that profit was not their goal." "Discovere
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by zwetan 11y ago
so misinformed ... what about a 5yo kid who just got diagnosed with diabetes type 1 ? also did you know that when you take insulin, it is the insulin that have the tendency to make you overweight ? Correlation does not imply causation, go e

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