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botverseon CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals

Douglas Crockford should learn from you and use the term cross-pollination instead of promiscuity. That would have saved him a lot of trouble

botverseon Tanium is facing employee unrest and an executive exodus

Last company I left I did working till the last minute, on my own unpaid time. I've been treated so well and we shared such a strong spirit of unity in the good and bad times that I can't regret it. No body was ever bullied. Main difference with other tech companies I worked for before:

CEO is a woman.

botverseon Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous to Continue

That sounds reasonable but is naive and does not take into account how corrupt people are. John Ehrlichman, White House counsel to President Nixon said:

"The Nixon campaign in 1968 and the Nixon White House after that had two enemies: the antiwar Left and black people... We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily"[1]

So taking into account things like cultural prejudice. Those things are unlikely to be fixed just with good will and altruism.

[1] http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/9659888

botverseon Keep the Internet Open

This is eye opening and a perfectly plausible future for new startups in the us and europe.

botverseon A command line script to remind you to drink water

For people who work remote this is more common than it looks like. Talking to other fellow programmers I've learned that I'm not the only one who forget to eat sometimes.

botverseon Don't remove the $(nop) command below

Reminds me of the story of The Magic Switch:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181045

botverseon Why Did Medieval Artists Give Elephants Trunks That Look Like Trumpets?

Same in Spanish: "trompa"

botverseon Basecamp is hiring a Rails Programmer

I find surprising that Basecamp doesn't have an endless stream of Rails fans from where to pick one up.

botverseon Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API

101 mentions of Vulkan so far

botverseon Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API

Expect some friction :)

botverseon Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API

IMHO you are underestimating the leverage that Apple has given that macs are the tool of choice for most web developers. Apple is probably aware of this and this move looks like an anticipation.

botverseon Interactive command-line tool for HTTP inspection

Easing authentication and cookies is a must. I find myself a lot inspecting HTTP when trying to understand services that are on the other side of the wall.

botverseon Virtual Reality Poses the Same Riddles as the Cosmic Multiverse

Wachowski Brothers really made an impact.

Jokes appart that nautil.us page messed around my ios safari browser history pushing state with each scroll event :/

botverseon Million requests per second with Python

You use it in Python. OP writes the C code for you.

botverseon Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust

Like 58% faster than iTerm2 in my Late 2013 MBP retina.

  find ~
  iTerm2    1m20s
  alacritty 47s

where the find command itself uses between 40% and 50% of a core, the TERM emulator process uses is 5x in iTerm2

  iTerm    130% (peak up to 140%)
  alacritty 25% (peak up to 29%)

I'm very excited with this and I'm going to follow the development of alacritty :)

botverseon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

401 Authentication Required on http://www.zombiesrungame.com

botverseon Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

> learn how to cook

The key is to learn to eat.

botverseon Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

No need to be a leader. Just to be comfortable with yourself, being able to enjoy things that can be enjoyed socially is enough to attract other people. Salsa lessons are good advice. Also a wine tasting course! There you can follow others and be happy too.

botverseon A curated list of open source applications built with Node.js

I think Node.js and Javascript have democratised development like any other tool to date. Along with web technologies. Node.js is not usable for systems architecture, Javascript is not a systems language, not a scientific/maths tool, etc. But it is excellent for highly available architectures or for application development.

botverseon Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'

Ecuador embassy confirms it is to avoid US elections interference.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/19/wikileaks-ecua...

botverseon It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android

> As far as I can see (I may be wrong, this is my estimate) Google tries hard to devote best talents to 1) ads and Search and it's maintaining 2) Chrome team 3) Google apps and services online and on iPhones.

I don't know where you would insert WebApps in this list but it looks like that they are taking bigger portions of the Google Keynotes lately. Seems that Google is pursuing to arrive quick to the point where WebApps can substitute native apps. You can skip app stores (manifest), run apps in the background, synchronize and receive push notifications (service workers). They have dedicated talented people to design the specs (like Jake Archivald) and they are early adopters of them (Chrome and Android).

WebApps are probably the greater threat to native apps. Apple resists hard to them (imagine the profit loss if anyone can bypass the App Store and it's commission e.g. Amazon).

Webapps can't be used for high performance applications like games, music or VR. But definitely can make that talent or atention to be taken from the native ones.