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by ianb 13y ago
I'm hoping we turn that Firebase fork into a pluggable interface for TogetherJS to exchange messages via other systems. Once that is in place I'm guessing Meteor would be simple too. Most of the Firebase support is in this one c
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by ianb 13y ago
Speaking as the principal developer for TogetherJS: In the past we have opted not to work on IE support because we had limited resources, and because we wanted to focus on what we thought were the hard problems: how should the tool act, how
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by ianb 13y ago
One way a country could get to this would also be revenue-neutral taxes. A revenue-neutral carbon tax, for instance – a lot of taxes would be collected, on the theory of limiting output, or maybe you could use the theory that you were char
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by ianb 13y ago
I'd be curious if a strongly phonetic alphabet/writing leads to less changes in the sounds in the language...?
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by ianb 13y ago
I am disappointed when I hear the term "socio-economic factors" in discussions of education. First, as if "economic" wasn't enough you add in "socio" to create a term that means "factors coming from
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by ianb 13y ago
Which means older people, who have generally been much less able to participate in startups at an early stage, can now have affordable insurance as individuals. Before not only could someone older (though not necessarily very old) be burde
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by ianb 13y ago
Oh yeah... we use WebRTC when it's available, but don't require it.
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by ianb 13y ago
WebRTC makes it possible, but not easy, nor abstracted. You still have very long connection strings to establish the connection, and those strings change as you move around, so it's not something we'd want to ask users to send to
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by ianb 13y ago
[Team member here] We haven't been very focused on the hosting story, in part because lots of people have their own requirements, and we can't predict what they are. And maybe because predicting what they are is boring. I know
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by ianb 13y ago
Both people are accessing the website as themselves. If one person doesn't have permission to see a page, for instance, then they won't see it. And yeah, whoever hits save is the saver ;) Doing something richer than that requir
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by ianb 13y ago
On principle we keep the server simple, echoing messages back and forth between clients. In practice it's quite hard for two browsers to connect directly to each other, and while we want to support that kind of architecture in order t
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by ianb 13y ago
[Author here] The big way TogetherJS differs from many of the other realtime products out there, like Firebase or (to a lesser degree) ShareJS, is that it doesn't do any storage. It coordinates real-time sessions, but it's not th
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by ianb 13y ago
IE10 has WebSockets: http://caniuse.com/websockets – but TogetherJS doesn't support IE10 either (simply haven't been able to keep up testing with IE in addition to other browsers).
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by ianb 13y ago
If you sat down with her and did letter flashcards, she'd probably love that too. Probably love it more! Kids do not dislike the attention of adults. Schools often manage to both ignore and constrain the child. This is what rules a
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by ianb 13y ago
The kids in my life are young at the moment, so I'm biased towards the experiences at those younger ages – and certainly more poisonous structures lurk as they get older. On the other hand, I'm not sure why you think I'm tal
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by ianb 13y ago
Coincidentally I just came upon the term "Concerted Cultivation" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerted_cultivation ) which describes the modern middle class typical parenting, the very thing that leaves kids
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by ianb 13y ago
Interesting about the Master's Degree. In the U.S. teacher education seems unrelated to performance, including Master's Degrees. Which isn't how it should be. It makes me wonder if one of our great flaws here is in how we
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by ianb 13y ago
I work at Mozilla, but not with Firefox OS. The BrowserAPI is certainly not complete, but it's something. Some stuff might be harder than others. Intercepting networking is not very easy in Firefox – you can spy on networking, but th
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by ianb 13y ago
Same idea from a different direction: Firefox OS currently includes a browser built in HTML: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia/Browser with an API: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/BrowserAPI Of course
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by ianb 13y ago
If you are curious about a roll-your-own article similar to this, but for Python: http://docs.webob.org/en/latest/do-it-yourself.html
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by ianb 13y ago
China seems set on a different path, but I guess you never know. Korea seems too small to benefit. And Japan perhaps too mountainous? Looking at California: http://bit.ly/1eFevxA And Japan: http://bit.ly/1
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by ianb 13y ago
It would seem to make the stations a lot more complicated – they'd need to handle the car loading, the accompanying traffic, and the security would be really challenging.
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by ianb 13y ago
I wish in one of these cases someone could also dig up the answers to the question. The questions are interesting, but the expectations are more implied than clear.
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by ianb 13y ago
> Arguing to replace a well-defined single idiom (verbs) with some arbitrary combination of URI, custom headers, request body contents is exactly the opposite of what you want. It may not be what you want, but it is what you'll get.
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by ianb 13y ago
I take a fair number of casual action shots – mostly of the kids. To get something to come out I often take a handful of pictures in a row; even that's often not enough, or the "right" scene happens in between these slowish
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by ianb 13y ago
To preface, this might sound snarky or sarcastic, but ignore that, this is not intended to be a rhetorical question: What about the interpretation of sports data would qualify as "incredible things"?
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by ianb 13y ago
I'm curious if anyone's had experience negotiating a severance package up front? The kind we all bitch about executives having. I've never relocated for a job, or made a particularly sacrifice to start a job, but I always t
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by ianb 13y ago
No one has a total over 500k – the default sort is by total pay and the first on the list is Dorothy Dugger (General Mgr, Deputy General Manager), $419,661. What's the person's name? (Note that "Other" includes bonuses
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by ianb 13y ago
> If you would like functional elevators that aren't biohazard zones, I'd suggest becoming involved locally and solving the problem at its root. "If you want clean elevators, just solve homelessness!" Reminds me of &
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by ianb 13y ago
The top of the list is mostly police, not executives. Go a little further down and it's police and maintenance.

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