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camus··on Node.js and the new web front-end
NodeJS is async by default and RAD. Does it really scale at the corporate level ? depends on what is your product. If you are better off with the JVM or .net , there is no reason to use it. But in my opinion , it definetly has its place in startups.
camus··on Why Don’t More Men Pursue Female-Dominated Professions?
some independant nurses i know make very good money.but maybe you are making 6 figures...
camus··on NY Attorney General hits AirBnB with subpoena for user data
To all the people that think Airbnb is great , why should landlords have tenants so tenants can sublet ?

landlords will end up posting offers on Airbnb directly ,that's what will happen "en masse" in the future.

And You'll need to pay the Airbnb premium to rent anything.

After all , if i'm a landlord and ask for 2000$ a month for normal tenants , i can just go on Airbnb and ask for 200 or more an night , so i only need to rent it for 10 days a month for it to be profitable...

Landlords arent stupid we'll eventually end up in that situation on a large scale.

camus··on NY Attorney General hits AirBnB with subpoena for user data
You cant beat the system, unless you have good friends or a lot of money to lobby the government.

But dont make it about liberty and freedom , that's totally relative.There is no such thing as absolute "liberty" or "freedom" ,some places are just more free than others and trust me you are lucky enough to live where you live.

This is not subversion ,this is how the system works. And you'll go with the flow eventually.

camus··on What I Love about Mozilla
it's yet another plugin api , so yes it is DRM for HTML5 ,since that's its only purpose.
camus··on Russia to monitor 'all communications' at Winter Olympics in Sochi
Nazi germany got the Olympic Games , definetly not their concern.
camus··on Rubinius 2.0 released
In node all IO is async by design. So it is likely any lib you'll use will be async too.
camus··on Show HN: Upbeat, HN for music - Node + Redis + Angular + Soundcloud
Your are still liable for copyright infrigement, wherever your music comes from.

   - so its not really any different than a blog posting a song their site.
And that's totally illegal since the owner usually doesnt give you the permission to do so. Did Grant Lee Buffalo label or Placebo label gave you the permission to broadcast their music ? Your host can shut down your website directly without warning following a DMCA takedown notice,if it is a US business.
camus··on Everybody Let's Stop the TPP: Share These Videos and Spread the Word
USA and Europe will have the same kind of "agreement",it's called something like the trans atlantic partnership => bad for EU workers and bad for USA workers , especially since nobody asked us ( Europeans ) if we agreed on this or not. It will only be good for big corps and banks. And nobody's talking about it.
camus··on Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps
Please , in every languages there are a tons of libraries dealing with these stuffs, Starter projects with these functionalities ...

    At this point you are supposed to be working on the core
camus··on Defense Companies Warn Thousands Of Layoffs Imminent Due To Shutdown
Isnt that whole shutdown about spending ? well this is where money could be saved, by aborting all these expensive and useless weapon deals, instead of cutting food stamps for the poor. US society dont need new tanks, drones or missiles. Let's cut defense spending.
camus··on Microsoft Looking To Put Windows Phone On Android Devices, Starting With HTC
Microsoft wants your phone to be a PC , then the embrace - extend - extinguish walk will be on, with all the dirty tricks,racketeering and blackmailing MS can do like it did for over 2 decades with it's OEM 'partner'.

And MS wonders why it has such a bad reputation now.

camus··on Microsoft Looking To Put Windows Phone On Android Devices, Starting With HTC
they are doing so well they are going for the dual boot scheme, how does MS kool aid taste ? Windows Phones are a disaster, that cost Ballmer his job.
camus··on W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards
TCP/IP is an open standard, DRM are not.
camus··on W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards
makes no difference , you'll still need to install some 3rd party plugin or buy authorized hardware in order to run the media.

Doesnt change anything for the client.

The providers will swap an object tag for a video one ,that's what it is all about.

It's basically a Flash or Silverlight for video and sound only.

camus··on Installable home screen web apps in Chrome Beta for Android
It doesnt , it's basically a fullscreen browser tab.
camus··on Installable home screen web apps in Chrome Beta for Android

  - "this is terrific. i'm baffled as to why google, msft, amzn, samsung and other device makers are not pushing harder to advance html5 and web apps as a way to attract more devs and eventually loosen apple's stranglehold on the app economy."
Which is kind of a stupid thing to say since the Iphone does exactly that since its first version ,you can install webapps on your home screen and run them fullscreen, even before allowing developpers to build native apps.

Developpers ASKED for native apps on the iphone.

Anyway , do you really think that all the brands you cited dont want to be exactly where Apple is ? they are not interested in "sharing" the app economy. They want all of it and destroy the competition,just like Apple.

  - "yet minimizing barriers for devs to build, release, and test on a new platform would attract more devs and at least force apple's hand at maintaining web parity on ios devices."
It's like the TESSEL stuff all over again.

phone / embedded apps must have an higher engineering standard than desktop apps , because they run on limited hardware,with limited processing power and battery. if your iphone app takes to much memory the system will kill it , and rightfully so.

And mobile OS dont work the same way.

You want to program for the least common denominator ? that's what webapps are for, but I dont want a webapp to access my contacts.

camus··on Show HN: Native apps for the browser
"Native apps for the browser" = it's a lie since you basically need to download a third party software on your computer ( >60MB ) which runs as a daemon (sic),it's just yet another plugin. When that thing works without any 3rd party executable let me know.
camus··on An introduction to ES6 Part 3: Destructuring
Ecma Script is the official name, Javascript belongs to Oracle,but since they are not enforcing the trademark , I doubt anybody could get sued over this.
camus··on Meet the CuBox-I, a $45 PC that Runs Linux and Android
direct link to the product :

http://cubox-i.com/

camus··on U.S. Opposes Tech Companies’ Requests to Disclose Surveillance
or said another way , the government officialy wipes its a with the constitution.
camus··on Lavabit Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show
How does the feds kool aid taste dude ? " they tried to do it the "right" way "... there is no right way in tyrany.
camus··on Mobile web design: The reign of morons, indeed
upvoted,look who's talking...
camus··on FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner
TOR IS secure , humans just made mistakes. they are indeed humans.
camus··on Microsoft brings 18-year-old game 'Hover' to browser
Funny how all these MS HTML5 websites can be visited only with MS latest browser... latest chrome on Windows, it asks me to download IE11 , i'll pass... that's not how you promote open standards , you make them work on all browsers... unless you dont care ...
camus··on Google Web Designer
Using closed source tools is about trust. When the trust is broken, nothing can get it back. That's what happened with Adobe and Developpers , they totally lost that market.
camus··on Google Web Designer
You never used Dreamweaver in your life. It has a great template system which make it easy to generate static websites, live inspection with an embedded webkit engine , and a very good style manager. Dreamweaver is definetly productive when it comes to integration or prototyping.
camus··on Tessel: The end of web development as we know it
no it is not. half the people that are using it do so because it is shiped in browsers ,the other half are server side masochists that are not smart enough for Scala or Closure ...
camus··on Google Web Designer
That's why google wanted flash on Android at first place , ads+drm. Google always like flash unlike Apple and even ship with it's own Flash plugin.

But Adobe decided Flash was too expensive to maitain on mobile and fired 700 employees and outsourced the rest of the Flash team to india. The remaining employees are now working on Bracket (...). And Sencha is more profitable than Flash division at Adobe.What's left of Macromedia? nothing, They should have stuck with Livemotion and Golive ... lol

The result is that the last version of Flash (CC) has less features than the previous ones ( some drawing tools gone...)

camus··on Google Web Designer
Given Adobe track record on betrayal, and borderline extorsion schemes , I would not even touch their tools anymore. They had they chance with Flash,Dreamweaver and Fireworks...

Flash = almost dead

Dreamweaver = Zombie mod

Fireworks = Dead despite its powerfull features like jquerymobile skinning,project files as png files,games graphics, native app design, easily customizable through js.

Thank you Elop (who sold MM to Adobe ), thank you Adobe.

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