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McElroyon From Asm.js to WebAssembly

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#wil... makes me happy as that was the first concern I had when reading these news :)

McElroyon From Asm.js to WebAssembly

This page makes Firefox on Android crash.

McElroyon Microscopic footage of a needle moving across the grooves of a record

I've inspected such a machine thoroughly on one occasion and was able to determine that the machine switched the penny for a dummy before performing the flatten and stamp operation.

McElroyon KeePass – questionable security

Password Safe seems interesting. Too bad it's hosted on Source Forge.

McElroyon Microscopic footage of a needle moving across the grooves of a record

>His channel is a lot of fun.

Checked it out and I agree. I have to wonder, though, if his money shrinking experiment is such a good idea. Isn't that sort of treatment of currency prohibited by law?

McElroyon Mathematicians Are Hoarding a Type of Japanese Chalk

TIL it'l not so hard to make your own blackboard. http://thedecorologist.com/dont-use-chalkboard-and-magnetic-...

McElroyon How We Designed for Performance and Scale

I did as they said at the bottom and gave them my e-mail and other personal details so I could download the eBook that they were giving free preview copies of - "Building Microservices". Unfortunately, they sent link to PDF only so it's not usable to me. Just a heads up to others so you save yourself the time of discovering that. (I'll just wait for when the book is finished and then I'll buy it so I get ePub. I like O'Reilly and have bought many books there before.)

McElroyon Add Amazon root certificates

I'm not sure I agree with you but still I found it a bit funny how many of the URLs in the ticket were http instead of https.

McElroyon What's new in Xcode 7

While try/catch is what is exposed to us as developers, the underlying implementation could very well be advanced.

McElroyon “Swift will be open source later this year”

I think they have two primary reasons for open sourcing it:

1. Being able to upstream more into LLVM means less maintenance of their internal forks.

2. The recent open sourcing of Microsoft .NET core parts.

McElroyon Unix is not an acceptable Unix

>I am not sure how many of the commands have been converted

There's a page [1] on the FreeBSD wiki with a list of converted and ongoing conversion. I don't know if the list is complete but the page was last modified 2015-05-22, so it should be fairly up to date i guess.

[1]: https://wiki.freebsd.org/LibXo

McElroyon How Plex is doing https for all it's users

Great write-up. Sorry to see the post didn't draw many readers. If I was benevolent dictator of the HN front page, I'd put you there.

McElroyon Visual Studio Online Supports Cross-Platform Development

Also https://github.com/gogits/gogs which I run on my VPS and though I still rely on GitHub first and foremost (because GitHub is way better), it's good to have.

McElroyon Visual Studio Online Supports Cross-Platform Development

I bought a MacBook Pro once because I believed comments like this. Had lots of hardware trouble, boot problems, had to have it serviced multiple times. Never again. I'm just fortunate that I live in a country where consumer rights are strong and where if you bought a computer and have the same problem three times or so with the service people unable to fix it, you can return it for a refund. Still was a huge time waster each time the machine broke down, though.

McElroyon Computer Scientists Are Astir After Baidu Team Is Barred from A.I. Competition

Is training of the Google AI the reason that reCAPTCHA is now showing pictures and asking users to select all images of a certain kind?