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coffeedoughnutson Theresa May says the internet must now be regulated after London terror attack

I think assertions of this kind either need to come with proof, of which I doubt you have any, or some form of credit to the writers of the latest season of House of Cards as you seem to be lifting your half baked conspiracy theories right from Netflix.

coffeedoughnutson Black Screen – Both a terminal emulator and an interactive shell

People are bemoaning the use of Electron on this thread quite a lot, for a lot of different reasons. Rather than just complaining that "Electron == Bad" does anyone have any thoughts on why Electron is so popular, and how to use that information to come to a compromise that keeps those benefits without the inherent negatives of memory usage & speeds issue?

My two pence; A consolidated push of a React Native for Desktop seems like it could really help here. You get a lot of the benefits of working in a web-like environment (the developer experience, the development speed, the ability to share code across runtimes) but you end up with Native Code (Swift, C#, Cpp, etc.) for each supported OS. RN for Mobile OSs has done wonders in my opinion. I think a real push for RN in the Desktop could be the next big thing for desktop apps.

coffeedoughnutson Facebook ads in the UK General Election 2017

Associated Guardian article on the tool: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/03/free-soft...

coffeedoughnutson NASA Unveils Searchable Video, Audio and Imagery Library

I also assumed that from first click; but this library is also very interesting :)

coffeedoughnutson Programmable Fax – API for sending and receiving faxes

I just assumed from first glance that this was an early April Fools (I guess it must be April 1st in Australia by now)

But after seeing full API docs... is this real? I'm so confused!

coffeedoughnutson LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft

Re: Credit Card Integration

Stripe doesn't really cost that much; you could support card payments and pass the stripe fees along to both parties (50/50 to the passenger and driver)

This is a really good idea if it can take off, but I think cash only is a non-starter, though I understand the restriction initially

coffeedoughnutson Unpleasant Design

i would suggest reading the article

coffeedoughnutson Meet: Fast way to schedule a one-to-one on the go

Hadn't heard of sunrise before seeing this; Tried it out and seems great! Shame there's no exchange calendars on web/os x though.

Sunrise devs, if you're out there, is there a roadmap for this?

coffeedoughnutson Show HN: Black-hole.js – Visualize black hole gravitational lensing in WebGL

May be of interest: Posts from Double Negative, the VFX company that did Interstellar: Blackhole: http://dneg.com/dneg_vfx/blackhole/ Wormhole: http://dneg.com/dneg_vfx/wormhole/