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Seems like this kind of resolves the issue for the border property but is not suitable for others?

Not to diminish substack's huge achievements, but we used dnode on a project and finally went back to just using socket.io as it worked way better.

The latest socket.io releases have added a lot of features (node client, rooms, ...) that make libraries like dnode less useful imho.

It's nice to see the ESA working to help the Russians, I guess they do it mostly for science's sake!

Regarding the rendering technologies it was exactly the same, a big pile of JS that you need to render actual content.

The main point of the author seems to be that G+ doesn't use progressive enhancement.

That sounded very wrong to me too. Rightfuly or not, I immediately got the image of Basho using their "secret" bugs to demo a MongoDB fail to a big potential customer.

Sugata and Sal being two TEDsters, I'm sure they know each other.

depends if it's pretty printed or not (like the example above)

If somebody could explain why storing fuel in space is more efficient than just packing what's needed for each mission? :)

He didn't recruit him but he got him out of the closet where he was hidden and put him in charge of the design team

As Matt Ridley puts it in his TED talk ( http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.htm... ) :

Nobody on earth knows how to build a computer mouse (all by himself).

What are your plans for build.phonegap.com, regarding pricing, feature scope and API?

as I wrote in the article, I also think Flash will have some valid use cases for the next few years. Games, like you mentioned, are definitely one of these.

I agree with you on GIMP vs. Photoshop. It's not even close. But Flash vs. HTML5/JS is quite different. The iPad has forced all the biggest websites to have Flash-free versions and, well, no one seems to have been lobotomized yet :)

I think "High-Resolution" is a bit misleading when talking about a fractal :)

This is indeed the coolest thing:

The first English word in pi is... wait for it... PI, coming in at position 18. Now isn't that cute?

awesome story ;-) Can't wait to see you there!

Someone blogged about the first meetup here: http://blog.medusis.com/first-paris-hackers-meetup

There are no hard limits but I guess [1...4] is reasonable. Looking forward to seeing you there, feel free to ask more!

Second the need for an API. I could see so many plugins for this (github being the first)

So there will be an "official" JS VM but there will be no actual compilation. Title should be updated IMHO.

I can't stop being amazed at how powerful those lobbies are.

Hi,

Please keep in mind it was hacked together in 48h, so yes it's supposed to be unprofessionally done ;-) However we'll now calmly fix all the issues and continue improving it: https://github.com/joshfire/chessathome/issues

Feel free to report more bugs, we love feedback :)

Thanks for the pointer! We'll definitely look into it.

Well JS can make GET and POST requests to arbitrary URLs, that is often enough for a DDoS.

Fair point. Though I'll have to get burned trying before being convinced it's that complicated :) However webGL is not in the critical path of the Guinness Record thing, so I'll happily trust you for now!

The worker implementation could be made generic with a little work. These people made a map reduce implementation with a similar design: http://maprejuice.com/

Yes, most chess programs do this, although it is forbidden in some chess computer tournaments with stricter rules (but we'd never qualify in those anyway :)

As for asking people to open multiple tabs, that may be an additional instruction for D-Day if they want to max out their CPUs. But we figured 1 CPU maxed out while browsing a website would already be enough :)

Chrome's NaCl is definitely an interesting direction, but we'll investigate webGL first which seems to be more promising (see Folding@home).

Thanks for the feedback!

It is indeed unlikely. But if we can actually get to the point that 2^10 web clients (1024) are as strong as Houdini or Rybka on one high-end hardware, it won't be that hard to double the size of the web grid a couple more times.

As you pointed out, the main challenge is scaling efficiently, and not getting a poor speedup even with that many workers (I think we can aim for 60% speedup with YBWC). We hope to have an edge here with Node.js' I/O performance, but it's still a big challenge (and that's what keeps it interesting ;-)

I think selling time can definitely be considered as unethical. However what scares me most is people using this to do DDoS or other network-related attacks. Because of JS' performance, from a pure performance point of view, it is currently much more economical to spin off a couple EC2 instances, but that may indeed change in the future.

Yes, it's astounding (if true) that Pocket Fritz only searches 20k nodes per second, compared to Deep Blue's 200M. There must be some serious positional intelligence involved there!