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bpierre··on Show HN: Drawingboard.js
I think the tool you are looking for is http://scri.ch/
bpierre··on Ask HN: What email client do you use?
Airmail on OS X.
bpierre··on How is Docker.io different from a normal virtual machine?
Not sure if you are talking about production or only development environments, but Vagrant seems to provide a good solution for that: http://www.vagrantup.com/
bpierre··on Your name is way too long for your ID
There is an interesting article on w3.org about names and websites assumptions: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names
bpierre··on What Does it Really Mean to be Non-Profit?
Despite the communication around the project [1], Ghost is still waiting to be open sourced: https://github.com/tryghost

[1] “Six months ago Ghost was barely an idea, today it's a thing. A living, breathing, evolving thing. And it's public.” http://blog.tryghost.org/

bpierre··on Games That Teach Programming: A Brief Overview
I am building modul.io [1], a “multiplayer sandbox” which allows to setup AI-controlled entities in JavaScript.

[1] https://github.com/lisezmoi/modul.io

bpierre··on Progressive enhancement is faster
About #3, DerbyJS [1] seems to precisely address this, while keeping concepts used by Angular / Ember / etc., like declarative events.

It seems like a huge step for me, I don’t understand why it’s not more popular on HN.

[1] http://derbyjs.com/#introduction

bpierre··on Vim 7.4 is released
It’s not syntax highlighting, but it needs a recent version of Vim: http://valloric.github.io/YouCompleteMe/ ?
bpierre··on Voodoo has been open sourced
Related discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6012730
bpierre··on VoodooJS – Mix 2D and 3D content on the same page
Thank you!
bpierre··on VoodooJS – Mix 2D and 3D content on the same page
Yes, especially coming from a library built on top of three.js [1], which is a gigantic and awesome piece of work licensed under MIT, using Twitter Bootstrap (Apache License), and a logo free for non commercial use only [2]. But everyone can do what he wants with his work, as long as licenses are respected.

A question for the author: this is a really cool demo, but I can’t see where is the innovation which needs protection here? A parallax effect when the user scrolls? 3D on a Web page? The “Next Generation Internet” concept?

[1] http://threejs.org/

[2] http://findicons.com/icon/33154/mask_02?id=33154

bpierre··on Tangle: a JavaScript library for reactive documents
The GitHub repo https://github.com/worrydream/Tangle
bpierre··on HTML5 webcam2gif
Sure :-) https://github.com/bpierre/gif.gg
bpierre··on HTML5 webcam2gif
I made a similar web app a few weeks ago: http://gif.gg/

It allows to do stop motion animations: http://gif.gg/0HV7by http://gif.gg/tp7j5Sq

bpierre··on Space Invaders 404
Thanks! Feel free to submit an issue [1], everything can be discussed, but the absence of an erasing tool (or any other tool) is a strong feature for us and our users.

[1] https://github.com/lisezmoi/scri.ch/issues

bpierre··on Space Invaders 404
The 404 page on scri.ch (drawing tool I made with a friend) is a drawing like any other on the website (you can draw on it, save it again, etc.), except the HTTP status: http://scri.ch/-
bpierre··on Polymer, a Web Components library built by Google
This is an interesting question. I submitted this link yesterday, and it did not make it to the HN homepage. Still, I was almost certain that it could start an interesting HN discussion to read. Today I chose to repost it with a clear ?repost rather than a less visible trick, and it was still upvoted (better timing I suppose): the fact that it is a repost did not seem to bother the upvoters.

I have no solution to propose, but the timing seems to be the most important factor for HN submissions, as we already know [1][2][3], and I think these small hacks are acceptable to work around the problem: reposts are not a big source of pollution, and users can report abusive behaviors with the flag button.

[1] http://hnpickup.appspot.com/

[2] http://hnbuffer.com/

[3] http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+to+make+the+Hacker+News+homep...

bpierre··on JS1K 2013 winning entry explained
Part 2, tunnel generation: http://ehouais.net/2013/04/js1k-2013-part-2-tunnel-generatio...

Part 3, rendering: http://ehouais.net/2013/04/js1k-2013-part-3-rendering/

Entry demo: http://js1k.com/2013-spring/demo/1555

Source: https://github.com/ehouais/js1k

bpierre··on Please help get rid of normalize.css
The post title comes from the @necolas’s tweet: https://twitter.com/necolas/status/329007362612555777
bpierre··on Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5
Browser developers care about being “WhatWG compliant”, because the WhatWG HTML group is composed by browser editors, they work with the W3C HTML5 group, and the HTML5 specification is based on the WhatWG’s HTML document.

Read this if you need more clarifications:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/20...

http://blog.whatwg.org/html-is-the-new-html5

bpierre··on Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5
Yeah, nothing is simple, but it’s still true most of the time. Feel free to explain better :-)
bpierre··on Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5
Yes, I didn’t know how to be more precise while being concise. I replaced the word “added” with “whitelisted”, thanks.
bpierre··on Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5
Yes, all of them! :-)

WhatWG HTML is the living standard, and the HTML5 (W3C) spec. is like a snapshot.

http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#What_is_HTML5.3F

bpierre··on Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5
bitcoin is not the first whitelisted scheme [1], we already have irc, geo, mailto, magnet, mms, news, nntp, sip, sms, smsto, ssh, tel, urn, webcal, xmpp.

[1] http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps/index#whitelisted-scheme

bpierre··on Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5
In the commit-watchers mailing list: http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/commit-watchers-whatwg.org...
bpierre··on Ƀ — Universal Bitcoin Logo Alternative
Except ฿ is already the sign of the Thai baht (currency of Thailand), which is pretty confusing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_baht
bpierre··on Fixing the Turn-based Strategy genre
Yeah, I found interesting to discuss this 8 years later.

I think a good example could be Frozen Synapse. Not the first [1], but he has fixed some of the listed flaws [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turns,_rounds_and_time-keeping_...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Synapse#Gameplay

bpierre··on What’s new in Node v0.10?
<integer>.<integer>
bpierre··on Who designed the WikiLeaks logo?
Part 2: http://mthvn.tumblr.com/post/44775649723/wikileaksintervieww...
bpierre··on How I Get My Logos Designed - For some reason very controversial...
The reason is called “ethics”.
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