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Do you have any resources for this? I was thinking of looking into that but don't know where to start.

alexanderblomon Narrowing the notion of a runtime in Rust

Link to the PR: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/19654

It is not actually Google Cast but hooks into the same UI for Youtube. Casting Youtube is pretty robust.

One way of doing it is having an out-of-bands way of refreshing tokens in responses. So if the token is about to expire you can return an updated one on the side-channel.

alexanderblomon How is a binary executable organized? Let’s explore it

Wiki [1] and OSDev [2] both have pretty solid articles if you want to know how to load an ELF into memory.

I used both when implementing ELF for my hobby kernel [3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format

[2] http://wiki.osdev.org/ELF_Tutorial

[3] https://github.com/lexs/rust-os/blob/master/rost/exec/elf.rs

alexanderblomon Kernel 101 – Let’s write a Kernel

Go doesn't really work because it needs a runtime (as far as I know). Rust however is quite useable. There's a couple of kernels, including one by me: https://github.com/lexs/rust-os

alexanderblomon Airbnb’s Android app creators discuss reworking iOS apps for other platforms

And the app doesn't look native to Android either. Some things are inherently non-Android, such as bottom tab-bars. All images are also low-res on my Galaxy Nexus and scrolling is laggy.

There are some great bugs as well: * It loads the wrong images and the flickers in the correct image later * Everything says "0 listings" * Clicking the map button crashes the app * It's very hard to sidescroll their custom ViewPager

alexanderblomon Typing Practice for Programmers

Same here in Sweden. ; is mapped to ö here :(

alexanderblomon A Primer on Hybrid Apps for iOS

The timeline/feed is not a WebView from what I can see. The news part/tab is though (which is displayed in the screenshot).