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clyfeon Make A Game (maga) is a node.js framework for multiplayer games

Can the latency be improved ?

Reminds me of http://holiday2010.ogilvy.com

    The game-engine, collision and logic run on 
    the server in JavaScript running on Node.js. 
    The clients are simply rendering information 
    sent from the server, and sending off keyboard input.

https://github.com/hyperandroid/CAAT/

https://github.com/BonsaiDen/BiSON.js

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_N...

clyfeon Poll on the title for an O'Reilly JavaScript book.

Relevant: http://python.mirocommunity.org/video/1186/djangocon-2009-dj...

(Avi's pioneering talk about the trend of moving logic to the client.)

clyfeon Ask HN: What do you dislike most about HackerNews?

How everyone hides the true knowledge. That's why people worship "the bingo guy" he's one of the few that disclose.

clyfeon Ask HN: Favorite Ruby and Ruby on Rails resources

http://twitter.com/#!/ruby_news

http://ruby-toolbox.com/

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

http://railsforzombies.org/

http://teachmetocode.com/

clyfeon Ask HN: JavaScript is cool again, but the learning resources suck...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/a_re-introduction_to_javasc...

clyfeon Ask HN: What's the best way to do COMET in PHP?

PHP is probably not a good choice for COMET because the required open connection will block your server:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/603201/using-comet-with-p...

I guess this is the corner case one would use services like pusherapp.com

PS. Don't you like services that deliberately try to hide information from you?

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Doing something from nothing is worth respect. I wouldn't say worship but anyway ...

clyfeon Ask HN: What's the best website to learn Ruby on Rails

I learned rails a long time ago from http://pragprog.com/titles/rails4/agile-web-development-with... (I learned from the 1st edition)

These days there are also:

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

http://railscasts.com/

clyfeon Ask HN: Caching in Ruby?

As the ruby application loads in memory at startup and then is executed from there (in production) there is no need of bytecode caching, in contrast with PHP where the code is read, parsed and interpreted on each request, and in this (second) case, caching the bytecode to save parsing execution makes sense.

That is the case of bytecode caching. In regards to other forms of caching (etag, memoization etc) frameworks implement different strategies.

clyfeon Ask HN: What's the big deal about Ruby and/or Rails?

Ruby is probably the most zen thought interpreted OO programming language.

    Example: http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=IpkcxQEdui

Rails is probably the most zen thought web framework.

    Compare Rails#has_many with Django#foreign_key , which feels more natural?

The sum renders the benefit of cognitive discharge that lets you focus on important stuff and not tinker on details.

The rest is huge community, huge documentation, large mature ecosystem (mostly web stuff, python's SciPy pretty much way-ahead, all tough ruby can do science too), lots of best practices from the start, github-lead, mature implementations etc

clyfeon Brunch - lightweight html5 framework using backbone, eco, stylus, coffeescript

Similar project: Capt - https://github.com/bnolan/capt by Ben Nolan ( Anyone remembers behaviors.js for Prototype way way before jQuery ? )

Also see: Faux - https://github.com/unspace/faux

clyfeon Ask HN: Linear algebra and web software?

Making sense of large corpus of text via machine learning, say .. SVM which stands on top of linear algebra (computing inner products in an isomorphic space of bigger dimension via kernel functions) (Hillary Mason working at bit.ly gives talks about this stuff http://www.hilarymason.com/ )

Data mining, a lot of which boils down to multidimensional exploratory statistics needs linear algebra.

clyfeon Ask HN: A modern web development workflow?

If Heroku taught us something, it's developing apps inside the browser is not lucrative. Learn from them and provide git push deploy. Bonus points: better Web DB interface, DB import-export.

PS. It's nice to see such Romanian projects.

clyfeon Ask HN: I don't like Rails. Am I missing something?

I am an experienced Rails developer and evangelist. I much (NB: opinion) prefer Rails over everything else. If you would be so kind to share details or code (if possible) I might point out what you are doing wrong, and why Rails seems not to work for you.

clyfeon Rubinius Announces Plans for GIL Elimination, JIT Improvements, Targetable VM

Does any python implementation have non-GIL threading?

clyfeon Ask HN: What startups have you witnessed from its inception to going big?

Heroku. I was member no. 601

clyfeon Free university lectures on computer science

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCourseWare

clyfeon The Path Forward: Ruby 1.9.2

How about a 1.9.2 compatible heroku gem ? Do I still have to run heroku commands on a 1.8.7 ruby ? Last time I checked it was still binary-tied to 1.8.7.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4764509/ruby-1-9-2-heroku...

clyfeon Maze-generation algorithms, with JS demos

This should be called the weekly link, every week it gets to the first page.

clyfeon Ask HN: Which service should I use to design a logo for my new startup?

+1 http://www.crowdspring.com/ they matched the designer for the Sencha logo http://www.crowdspring.com/project/2285240_sencha-logo-desig...

clyfeon Pharen: A lisp that compiles to PHP

List of languages that compile to PHP

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2076631

clyfeon Pixelmator Grosses $1 Million on the Mac App Store

Anyone knows where I can find a clean version of the picture that is on their front page ?

clyfeon An Intro to Backbone.js: Part 1 - Models and Collections

It's meant to "bake your own" like so:

* expose your data via REST

* configure your models tot the urls where to sync data /users , /posts/1 etc.

clyfeon 37Signals to retire OpenID for logins on May 1

I think Zed Shaw is on this for some time.

http://autho.me/

clyfeon Horizons - What Is Reality? The Best 60 Minutes of TV I've ever Watched

I swear one day to make a startup and display "Not available to your area" to the whole US.

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6110859/BBC_Horizon_2011_Wha...

clyfeon Facebook Billionaire Eduardo Saverin Leads Qwiki’s $8 Million Round

Search with voice, pictures and interaction.

"a drastically improved information experience provided via interactive video"

clyfeon Sproutcore vs jQuery +backbone.js

In terms of tableview, I find slickgrid a powertool.

https://github.com/mleibman/SlickGrid

clyfeon Sproutcore vs jQuery +backbone.js

javascriptmvc has a command-line-able testing:

http://www.javascriptmvc.com/docs.html#&who=FuncUnit

This video explains it in the second half:

http://cdn.javascriptmvc.com/videos/2_0/2_0_demo.htm

clyfeon Hacking side projects: Napkin to $1000 per day

linkbait, buzz intro, not really useful info, beginner php code and timewaste, and seo honeypot on "Bldng a sstnbl side proj"

clyfeon Show HN: Chalkboard, a better way to plan/spec software projects

I think 37 inspiration is a good thing it ultimately leeds to a good product with familiar feel. There is no trademark on layout or "less is more" is it? That is like saying we can't do gui apps based on the window metaphor because MS.

PS.

I was struck by the same feeling. The layout, the -hq suffix, the big sign-up button, the scroll, the minimalism, the friendly phrase, and not to mention "the product" (collaboration), AND THE PRICING (149$) :) worth building on other's market study.