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DanKlinton

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DanKlinton··on AWS S3 Outage
Feels like internet is not anymore distributed thing that if one website/node goes down others keep working...

Feels like in future... If cloud provider goes down... All internet will stop working :)

DanKlinton··on Name Age Calculator
For some reason in 2001, Osama named stopped being popular http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... Barak in 2008 became even more popular... Soon not so much :) http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
DanKlinton··on Why batteries both thrill and terrify the U.S. utility industry
This Elon Musk guy sounds more and more like Tony Stark from Iron Man :)
DanKlinton··on Global Weirding: Visualizing Climate Change
Sounds like my MacBook just contributed some heat to global warming because of this visualization
DanKlinton··on Gates Foundation to require immediate free access for journal articles
Looks like Bill really likes open source :)
DanKlinton··on Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform
You can do this few years already with Xamarin. Thousands of developers are doing this today. What this changes is better .Net framework compatibility(less bugs) because Microsoft .Net source code will be reused.
DanKlinton··on CERN turns 60
I hope ITER reaches CERN success
DanKlinton··on Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems
How does this help me from "Desktop app for tracking stars" or "Video game" application developer perspective that I want to build once, publish once and non-technical users will be able to install simply on(Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, NixOS.....) and not depend on distros packagers?

Like I can do for OSX or Windows?

DanKlinton··on MIT Invents a Shapeshifting Display You Can Reach Through and Touch
I always wanted something like this to generate terrain for FPS shooting game. So size of this would be lets say 2mx2m and it would be able to create walls on which I could lean to. And of course in combination with Oculus Rift. Of course when I walk in some direction this terrain would have to move in other way so I'm always in middle...