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tonyle··on Cross-Site Request Forgery [CSRF] – Visually Explained
It looks like valid content, but if you don't scroll down far enough, it does look a bit like a typical aggregator site "content". A few short paragraphs and a link to view the full visualization. I guess most people who are use to click bait article and fluff would have stopped right there.
tonyle··on Modeled After Ants, Teams of Tiny Robots Can Move 2-Ton Car
There are too many feats of strengths that pull a car, truck, airplane, heavy thing on wheels,etc. Stay tuned after this commercial as these robots prepare to do the impossible! It makes me kinda tune out the video.

It be cool to see if they had some ant like behaviour, like robots recruiting more robots.

tonyle··on Google DeepMind could play StarCraft
I have a feeling that it would just have one main strategy and micro it's way out of any situation. Imagine a computer version of polt or marineking.
tonyle··on State of the Art JavaScript in 2016
Mainly used angular and node. Someone was telling me about ember.js, I wondered why I would use broccoli over browserify. 6 months later. Was comparing browserify vs webpack. 1 month later.

Go to terminal

ember new app

ember server

start writing code.

tonyle··on Ask HN: Any coding workflow for using the repl?
This is very cool. It does a lot of what I want, it kinda reminds me of wakari/anaconda but for javascript.

It be cool if you added the ability to upload a file rather than having to download it to test something.

tonyle··on Did I reinvent the wheel? (JS plugin to link to page selection)
Not many javascript stuff comes to mind, but you might find more implementations if you search for a specific problem you were trying to solve. The closing javascript thing that comes to mind is the letmegooglethatforyou site, an extreme way to point out the search button.....

From a personal point of view, Sometimes I would just email myself a link to a webpage if I wanted to view it later on mobile or vice versa.

In technical support over email, I used to send customers a link to a kb article or a pdf and a page number. I never had to go beyond something along the lines of, here is a link, you forgot to do step 4 or follow the instructions under the known resolution section.

From a bug reporting point of view, Most people would send a picture and send the dropbox link over slack/email. Dropbox has a little popup with the link to the image after taking a screenshot so it is very easy and fast.

It reminds me of Onenote and Evernote feature to copy snippets from a webpage, though I never tried to share the content.

While not directly similar, The code for searching for specific parts of a webpage seems similar to some web scraping solutions. Ie, here is a webpage, I want to scrape this selection for all similar pages,etc.

tonyle··on Ask HN: Does robots.txt serve a real purpose?
My opinion is to view it as an optional thing to help other crawlers( and bored humans) index your content. You can't really use it to block crawlers since bad crawlers will just ignore it.

For example, if I wanted to download every single one of Microsoft knowledge base article, I could go to https://support.microsoft.com/robots.txt and download every url in the sitemap.

Compare that with other sites that don't provide a sitemap so I would have to hit every single page and try to find out all the links manually by downloading, parsing for links, etc.

Less work for me and less load for the site.

While I"m not sure if it has a direct impact on seo, Making your site more accessible is only a good thing imho.

tonyle··on Show HN: Super Markup World
Nice concept, reminds me of vim adventures. One thing that would be nice is if you can disable moving the arrow keys while typing. It's a bit annoying to have your character jump and run off to his doom when you start editing the text.
tonyle··on React.js Conf live stream [video]
First thing I see, Content editable, the good parts. I'm expecting a Spreadsheets, the good parts coming next year or two base on the way people keep talking about state.
tonyle··on The Daily Mail Stole My Visualization Twice
This reminds me of the days of flash. There use to be a ton of sites stealing other people's flash games. You could buy flash obfuscater and de-obfuscate programs. People would steal your game code and re-skin the game,etc. Then the new strategy was to put the ads inside the video game.
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