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gmmeyer

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I'm Greg!

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gmmeyer··on “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”
Flash on Linux was discontinued in 2012: http://www.pcworld.com/article/250784/for_flash_on_linux_the...

Even back then you had to do hacks to get it to work. But after that it became very hard to get anything to work. Eventually someone came out with a service called pipelight that I used to use that would allow you to use windows only plugins in Firefox: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pipelight. It worked great until I didn't need it anymore.

gmmeyer··on Ask HN: Who's the DHH for Node.js?
Ryan Dahl created it at Joyent, and Joyent controlled it at the time. But he left it to other maintainers when he left Joyent.

https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-Ryan-Dahl https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Ryan-Dahl

gmmeyer··on Wallaroo: High-performance stream processing
Is Wallaroo open source? How can I go about using it?
gmmeyer··on [dead]
There can be a debate about how much global warming would happen or even, potentially, whether or not there are highly complex forces at work that could potentially cause it to be null. And, there's also the potential question of how much the climate would change given a certain amount of increased energy in the system (global warming just means that there's increased energy in the system). However, it seems like, from the measurements we have seen, there is quite a bit of warming from this and that the climate change is likely to be severe. We're already seeing quite a lot of it and we'll almost certainly see a lot more.

So, sure, there are questions about how bad it'll be. But those questions are just: will this be bad or really bad. They're not: is global warming occurring or not?

gmmeyer··on Ask HN: What is your best advice for a developer to write better code?
Whenever people talk about typing I just think about how C prevents none of the magical solutions they talk about.
gmmeyer··on Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
The best part of this: The native for loop is what lodash uses. It's the fastest way to do it.
gmmeyer··on Now: realtime Node.js deployments
Is the now cli not open sourced?
gmmeyer··on Lwan, a high-performance web server with Lua support
Yea, I'm not sure why that's a benefit, either. It's like they're trying to sell stuffed animals on Etsy, "hand sewed."
gmmeyer··on Building Large Flask Apps in the Real World
What do you mean by linear degradation?
gmmeyer··on Be proactive, not reactive – Faster DOM updates via change propagation
Rendering the initial list takes much, much longer with the change propagation implementation than with the virtual dom one. I'd say, without benchmarking it, I see about 2 seconds or more difference. Even if the virtual dom is slightly slower at reacting to change, the time to render the latter implementation is more than enough to make me not want to choose it.
gmmeyer··on Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?
I've tried the other ones, but rcm is by far the most user friendly. I maintain a public and a private repo, and link them both into rcm. It works wonderfully.
gmmeyer··on Dell Edge Gateway 5000 to support natively flashing UEFI firmware under Linux
We have like 5 of these in the office. They have like 20 ports on them. I have no idea what the majority of them do. I assume most of them are some specialized binary data transport that I've never used or seen, though I have some weird half memory of similar ports on an early 90s IBM PC.
gmmeyer··on Show HN: I'm a professor who has developed an interactive Powerpoint alternative
There are some things that can be done better. There are some things that can be improved. This isn't a perfect product. But it's one that I want! Good job!

Other people covered most of the issues well enough, I think. One key thing that I think you should do is make the cursor change in the appropriate ways when hovering over certain things. It's not a terribly hard css change and I think it would make the app look a lot more polished.

gmmeyer··on Status of Sails.js
Keystone, too: https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone
gmmeyer··on Show HN: Mongo DB management and GUI, built using Electron
OSX doesn't even let me open it.
gmmeyer··on Is Sails.js dying?
There's a few big MVCish frameworks out there, like keystonejs: https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone. But, yea, it's so easy in Node to make a small server that works without one of these frameworks that it's not always worthwhile.
gmmeyer··on Bullshit Startup Experiences
I've also gotten on Angel's List:

Me: "So, the salary range for this position starts at 130K?" Founder: "Yes, that's the salary you'll recieve..." Me: "..." Founder: "once I get funding." click

gmmeyer··on Oreilly tarsier blinks at you on home page
That's fucking creepy.
gmmeyer··on Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers
Yea, this is like what tivo did, it's allowable under the GPLv2
gmmeyer··on Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges
Faculty grade on totally arbitrary metrics, what is a "curve" and what grade does it mean you get. And then are mystified when students are upset that their grades were arbitrary. How do they know how much to curve it? Who knows, it's basically just a whim. Yes they say they grade on a standard distribution, but that could be equally meaningless--depending on how the exam is scored in the first place.
gmmeyer··on Go Will Dominate the Next Decade
I realized he had no idea what he was talking about when the author called Node a framework. It's a runtime. That's more than just a pedantic difference.
gmmeyer··on Could this usher the end for Ruby on Rails?
Probably not.
gmmeyer··on Predictive Optimizing Code Loading
This is cool, but it would be a lot cooler if I could see how it's done.
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