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This could be unbelievably useful for some areas you might not have considered much:

- Academic stuff, like distributing applications that do advanced modeling or heavy math.

- Beta testing to select groups of beta users

- GUI rapid iteration with customers! (Big OMG here!)

Great points, thanks for the counsel!

The academic math niche was one of the only areas Java applets got traction.

- not having to deal with HTML quirks;

- not having to deal with CSS quirks;

- not having to deal with JS quirks;

How?

In a nutshell, Toothless is a daemon that downloads, installs, and launches Docker containers when it is queried over http.

so can XSS start/stop/install/uninstall toothless apps?

is .rocks the new .io ?

I want .sucks

.rocks doesn't really sound that great. To say "look, I rock!" is a bit .. I don't know.

(that said, not to be OT, this app looks interesting though)

Anything goes in a war against squatters.

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