gord

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by gord 15y ago
yes, and I do that often. My point is that Javascript + Node would make the basis for a nice bash replacement.
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by gord 15y ago
absolutely... Im imagining a 100% javascript shell. 'jash' ? node.js is great for all those perl-y 1 to 10 liners. It should be the shell.
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by gord 15y ago
Webkits share cookies = ouch.. so you really need a VM. New browser feature - open this site in a temp VM.
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by gord 15y ago
Theres no reason why Adobe [ or more likely, a startup ] cant write a superb (web based) animation editor for designers, which spits out HTML5/CSS or SVG + Javascript. Couple that with basic workflow and 'publish to site' and you have a pro
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by gord 15y ago
Why not just launch a startup and build a superb reader that solves the problem and looks nice? Wouldn't it be better to have the freedom to implement your own version of what the ultimate Reader is, especially in newer tech [ websockets, n
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by gord 15y ago
yeah I really want Lokenote to be realtime, but hit the practicality of shipping.. so its 'hit refresh' initially :[ My intuition is that 'Layers/Layars' are a good abstraction for developers.. but I think maybe simple tag / search might be
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by gord 15y ago
yes.. I didn't mean to say location information is time-static.. I want there to be better tools / web UI to supply current location information. So the person in the street can flag something, and other people can make use of that. By 'rea
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by gord 15y ago
Geo-data is effectively 'read-only', it seems to me.. There are things local people know about, which still diffuse by word of mouth - and I still see paper notices posted on lamp-posts and at supermarket boards. This is why I did an exper
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by gord 15y ago
I think hes right... I created Lokenote.com as I saw people posting adverts on lampposts, but I think that was too vague an idea, so maybe my first go at Lokenote was too generic [ pinning a note to the map ]. I did also build it for a guy
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by gord 15y ago
like the idea.. and Id really like to see a fully javascript unix shell. Using mongo, node.js for real work, I find this a really practical environment, and I often write little 'perl' {java}scripts for text/data wrangling. I wrote a little
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by gord 15y ago
powered by mongoDB + node.js under the hood. I actually wrote my own KeyVal over Postgres in js. It worked fairly well, but got better perf with MongoDB which I found quite sane and easy to use.
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Show HN : Lokenote.com test - make and share local notes(lokenote.com)
2 points by gord 15y ago|2 comments
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by gord 15y ago
+1 for absolute relative social local time!
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by gord 15y ago
sadness.. Steve Jobs built beautiful useful things. This solid alu keyboard with rounded corners tells a story of someone who cared.
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by gord 15y ago
It strikes me as somewhat 1984-ish / Orwellian This is a trade agreement! I assume it has no provisions for 'extraordinary rendition' of mp3 downloaders ?
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by gord 15y ago
I only know networking basics, so not sure about your other use cases, but I was pleasantly surprised how useful something like 'http-proxy' for node is. I use it to serve up several hosts on the same ip, or split sections of my url namespa
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by gord 15y ago
yes, I much enjoyed flipcode.com back in the day, particularly Alex Champandards series - http://www.flipcode.com/archives/The_Art_of_Demomaking-Issue... I played with Javascript sine animations as a way of introduce the idea of sine func
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Linode.com Fremont nodes are down
4 points by gord 15y ago|0 comments
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by gord 15y ago
Its a bandaid where a bazooka is needed... but its an epsilon of improvement in the right direction.
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by gord 15y ago
And.. Warm Hug to all the team for nice work on the site and congrats on the 3.4 release!
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by gord 15y ago
re my last point as I just noticed YUI App Framework - I like the idea of a framework.. but the Todo List app just seems overweight. I personally dont want to see a Rails style or heavy iOS/Cocoa style framework for web. What I like about J
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by gord 15y ago
Site looks better. +1 for [Download] button. I use YUI mainly for table/grid widget - I preferred API design in YUI3 but found various table UI bugs when I 'mixed in' sortable and resize columns etc... This meant I had to go back to YUI2.
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by gord 15y ago
Where would we be if Tim Berners Lee had patented http ? Google need to win the 'make patents irrelevant' battle not the 'my bullshit patent portfolio is larger than your bullshit patent portfolio' battle.
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by gord 15y ago
Note to Google - fix smartphones and insure against future patent abuse by advancing an even better alternative - a fully formed HTML5+Javascript mobile OS offering. Mobile and Web are the same thing, its just we have a legacy crud that nee
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by gord 15y ago
Heartbreaking to read this. Hang in there. It may help to think that a) these people are broken in some profound way, possibly from some early abuse b) this may not be directed at you personally, you did not deserve this, and this was not
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by gord 15y ago
Actually, there may be a moral responsibility on all of us developers/hackers to make it obvious to the general public how ridiculous most sw patents are. For example, we could apply machine learning / data mining to categorise patents so t
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by gord 15y ago
absolutely - they key point is that they actually took halting steps at 'implementing something specific' [ by implementing I dont mean writing code.. it could be cardboard flash cards of the workflow ] I'm endlessly surprised to see how ra
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by gord 15y ago
Would be nice if this ran in the browser, if only to avoid bitrot.
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by gord 15y ago
Open Source Node.js on Windows using IOCP = great M$ involved in any way with Joyent and/or Node.js = really bad idea
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by gord 15y ago
I also tend to use JSON as the main messaging format for Client/Server communications [ where I might have used sockets custom binary protocol previously ]. This means I can reuse the same REST style data 'provider' from within a Javascript

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