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Drops in framerate happen. Why not make a best effort for accuracy? Also, it's interesting and insightful.

lalcon Why White Tigers Should Go Extinct

Cats, I recall reading, "domesticated themselves" a long time ago. As a direct result, they are absurdly successful. Surely that's a valid adaptation.

lalcon Apple really needs two passwords, not one for everything

It might be for fairness between free and paid apps. If it were so much easier to install a free app, everyone would do free apps with ads and IAPs. Apple likely prefers having apps show their price up front, for good store UX.

lalcon The Universe Project [video]

What if you had unlimited budget, programming talent, art assets, scalability, and an infinite supply of fun/novelty/etc without even needing NPCs.

Wouldn't that be awesome?

lalcon ICANN reveals objections to proposed top level domains

Seeing a common theme in the LLC applicants whose generic choices of profession-related words Australia has objected to...

  Delta Mill, LLC
  Snow Sky, LLC
  Koko Moon, LLC
  Atomic Pipe, LLC
  Corn Sunset, LLC
  Dog Bloom, LLC
  Hidden Way, LLC
  Knob Town, LLC
  Spring Frostbite, LLC
  Victor North, LLC
  Blinky Sky, LLC

and so on. Did someone actually get a random name generator and then register all those shell companies?

lalcon McAfee’s Third World Travel Guide

Duolingo.

lalcon Hacking my Vagina

Oh, I know. But good luck with this particular sea change.

And yes, certain demographics turn the equation on its head. As expected of economics.

lalcon Hacking my Vagina

Seriously. I'm thinking of finally going and getting a 3D printer based on her blog. Lots of cool hacks and prints in there.

lalcon Hacking my Vagina

Pandering a bit too hard to @shit_hn_says ;)

lalcon Hacking my Vagina

Females are generally supply side, males demand side in traditional sex economics. Rejection of same through toys is therefore empowering to women and degrading to men. Thus labelled "weird."

lalcon Hacking my Vagina

This is just neat. Now, "Hacking my Fleshlight" would be weird.

lalcon On Being Not Dead

Compelling piece about simple, ephemeral beauty.

Only one thing sticks out. Beethoven's Great Fugue is not a miracle of the universe.

lalcon A Node.js speed dilemma: AJAX or Socket.IO?

Yes, please. I switched from socket.io to SockJS a long time ago. I bought into it when I was first writing my app, but it is so unbelievably flaky and the design priorities are all wrong.

lalcon The Realtime Engine

Nice that they're going to write the connection part properly. I had to switch from socket.io to sockjs a long time ago because socket.io was just too flaky. The code was pretty ad-hoc with its state (mishmash of .reconnecting, .reconnected, .disconnected, etc. predicates), and clients would randomly get stuck in in-between states if they were on 3G etc.

lalcon OSX For Hackers

They're largely harmless. Some of them seem pointless or purely resisting-change, like disabling menu bar transparency. Subpixel font rendering could look pretty bad on the wrong screen.

A lot of those Finder options are just going to increase noise on the screen. It's rare that I ever need to know the full path of something in OS X. Either I'm already on the command line, or I just use Spotlight.

Disabling the “Are you sure you want to open this application?” dialog seems just wrong. Confirming once per program downloaded from the net seems like a sane default.

Anyway these are pretty subjective things. Good thing they're so easy to pick and choose from and revert.

lalcon Codename: Svbtle by Dustin Curtis

Needs a session cookie now.

https://gist.github.com/2169730

lalcon Codename: Svbtle by Dustin Curtis

On closer inspection, the site doesn't check for duplicate kudos. Why don't we give him all the kudos he wants?

Here's a quick python script I whipped up to dole them out. Customize to the blog post of your choosing, if you like.

https://gist.github.com/2167738

lalcon StratifiedJS: Javascript + structured concurrency

It's not too too hard to do the appropriate transformations--the literature is vast and there are practical implementations today. The hard part is producing readable, debuggable output.

I've whipped up a tiny project with the priorities inverted: readable output at the expense of completeness: https://github.com/lalcmellkmal/nestless

It only does the minimum desugaring to prevent nesting in the common case, no more.

lalcon Programming Styles in the Node Community

Was hoping for something less bikeshed-y. What about, say, adherence to all-streaming APIs? What granularity of stream fragment? At what complexity do they switch from callbacks to EventEmitters? Keeping view partials ordered?

lalcon Mozilla's Narcissus meta-circular JavaScript interpreter

Funny enough, I just started using this the other day to write a little async callback JS pre-processor. I wanted to just tokenize but then I found out that JS's regexp literals make JS ambiguous to parse. This project turned out to be a huge boon--really easy to patch to find particular token boundaries.

lalcon The Node Ahead: JavaScript leaps from browser into future

Oh, I agree. Every time someone advocates Erlang they mention how it was used to build super-reliable telecoms and they start mentioning three-letter acronyms and immediately everyone's eyes glaze over. It just isn't sexy like node (yet?).

lalcon The Node Ahead: JavaScript leaps from browser into future

http://www.boctaoe.com/

(Man, I just learned about this site five minutes ago and it's already useful!)

lalcon The Node Ahead: JavaScript leaps from browser into future

This is going to provoke massive eyerolling over at the Erlang industry.

lalcon R.I.P. Ruby Hash Rocket Syntax 1993-2010

[NSArray arrayWithObject:notToMentionObjectiveC];

lalcon Top 3 Code Editors For the iPad

FTP is a relevant feature while SSH and source control support aren't?

lalcon CONFIDENTIAL Looks Like Someone Just Accidentally Revealed “Google +1″ (Pic)

Poor headline style.

lalcon Ask HN: real time forum software?

Yep: http://pixplz.com/

lalcon Check out this concept for a chatroom I cloned.

Looks like everyone's ignoring it, probably because it looks too similar to the one that's actually on the front page :)

lalcon Mass Mirror Wikileaks

Seems like this would have major integrity and trust issues. Do they cryptographically sign all content so you know the ad-hoc mirror hasn't been "curated?"