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marcusarmstrong··on New ways to foot the hefty bill for making old ships less polluting
IMO, the title should note that "oxides" does not include "Carbon Dioxide".
marcusarmstrong··on ECMAScript bind operator proposal
I've found using properties (which auto-bind) to be an easier solution.
marcusarmstrong··on Announcing September 2016 Updates for .NET Core 1.0
I've spent the two halves of my career thus far working on each stack, and I really can't see where those sorts of claims come from, honestly. C# as a language is a win over Java, but from an operational perspective, it's a disaster--IIS is an absolute nightmare. Beyond that, I tend to think that because of the niceties that C# has over Java, that has somewhat held back .NET community adoption of some better practices (specifically immutability).

All that said, .NET Core is a huge win on the operational side of things, so it's definitely moving in the right direction.

marcusarmstrong··on SSL considered bloated
The point he makes is valid... but the action item here should be "Make SSL better" not "Stop using SSL".
marcusarmstrong··on Show HN: A Multiplayer Geography Game Using WebSockets
Super fun. I'd add more locations, though... I quit playing once I got through the whole list.

Also, there were a handful of times when the timer would "jump" right at the end (before I'd gotten my pin placed)

EDIT: Also, just remembered... This also exists: https://www.tripadvisor.com/TIQGame

marcusarmstrong··on US National Park Service's Unigrid (1985)
My favorite thing from this (and the reason I shared it) was just seeing how evocative of modern grid based web design is of these design principles, even though they predate the WWW by many years and bootstrap etc. by two decades.
marcusarmstrong··on Servo Nightly Builds Available
If you git clone and compile from source [0], that should do the trick (In that it gets you an HTTPS download), I think.

[0] https://github.com/browserhtml/browserhtml#building-and-runn...

marcusarmstrong··on Servo Nightly Builds Available
First of all, congratulations on a huge milestone for the whole team.

As I understand it, this is shipping with WebRender enabled, right? How far out is WebRender 2 from making it into the nightly?

marcusarmstrong··on What media companies don’t want you to know about ad blockers
If they wanted me to pay, they should charge for access. Other people don't have a moral right to execute code on my machine as a result of an HTTP request--including my browser.
marcusarmstrong··on What media companies don’t want you to know about ad blockers
It's a stream of bytes sent to my computer. I have the right to look at as many or as few of them as I wish.
marcusarmstrong··on Small Asteroid Is Earth's Constant Companion
So does this mean the Earth has not yet cleaned its orbit? And thus needs to be classified as a dwarf planet?
marcusarmstrong··on Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance
I could see a world in which that changes due to a significant jump in reliability. If these chips are truly 1000x winners in write cycles, that changes the math significantly in terms of $/GB/hr, which is truly the important number for large scale data center storage.
marcusarmstrong··on Intel Gets Chip Order from Apple, Its First Major Mobile Win
Per http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/specs/ under "Cellular and Wireless", there are two models of the 6s and the 6s Plus, with the only difference being the presence of LTE Band 30. My understanding was that Band 30 (in the US) is exclusive to AT&T, but I don't know that.
marcusarmstrong··on Intel Gets Chip Order from Apple, Its First Major Mobile Win
They're currently split, ever so slightly, with the 6s. The AT&T model supports a couple extra bands vs. the Verizon.
marcusarmstrong··on Ask HN: Am I expecting too much?
No, this is not normal. You should quit.
marcusarmstrong··on Ask HN: What small websites do you frequently use/visit?
http://blistergearreview.com/ <- Detailed reviews of outdoor gear.
marcusarmstrong··on Chrome removes Backspace to go back
Finally! I can get rid of my third party extension to get rid of this insane behavior.
marcusarmstrong··on Relay Technical Preview
I'm not saying it's hard. But {?variable} isn't hard either.
marcusarmstrong··on Relay Technical Preview
Sure. But that's different than <div className="blah">.
marcusarmstrong··on Relay Technical Preview
it's only what I already know, Javascript and HTML

But it's not. "className", much?

marcusarmstrong··on Alan Kay – Normal Considered Harmful (2009) [video]
I clicked on this talk only to then realize, "Wait, that looks familiar". Yeah. I was at this talk when it was given. Whoops.
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