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ajxon Lua VM cross-compiled to JavaScript (1.4mb - takes a while to load)

another interpreted language running inside of an interpreted language... sweet. All we need now is to write a perl interpreter in Lua and then run it inside of the javascript Lua interpreter and we'll really see the scripts slow down to a crawl.

ajxon PDFed Hacker News Daily

This is nice, but the API requires your app to communicate back to some central web server in order to function...

ajxon Is OpenTable Worth it?

The question is not is opentable worth it, the question is this question worth it being posted on this site, or is it just completely irrelevent drivel? I'd say the latter is true.

ajxon Email from Steve Jobs re: Java and OS X

Oracle's lawsuit against google was the last nail in the coffin for Java. If I were you, and was forced to using java code, I would definately either use gcj to compile directly to native object code, or use an oracle supported JVM.

ajxon Please support Saeed - Web Dev facing death sentence in Iran

welcome to iran

ajxon Htty is a console application for interacting with HTTP servers.

sounds like a solution looking for a problem.