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What do you mean by “primarily”? Do you mean “specifically”? “Succesful” how?

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

cristiantincuon WYSIHTML5: A better approach to rich text editing

“(…) It uses a sophisticated security concept (…)” —Does anybody know what does this mean? Does this concept have a name, a description or anything?

cristiantincuon LESS Prefixer

Opera-specific prefixes to WebKit? No. WebKit-specific prefixes to Opera? Maybe yes.

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-mobile-emulator-exp...

cristiantincuon Ubuntu Releases 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin

This must be it. Thanks.

cristiantincuon Ubuntu Releases 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin

Please excuse my ignorance, but what exactly does “final beta” mean?

cristiantincuon The 501 Developer Manifesto

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.” —L.P. Jack.

Via Frank Chimero: http://blog.frankchimero.com/post/17609912323

cristiantincuon Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework

I agree. I didn’t say it would be easy, though. ☺ In fact, understanding “magic” is bloody difficult. It it weren’t so, then it wouldn’t be “magic”.

It’s also worth observing that Meteor is not presented as a “framework”. The comparison with Rails was introduced here, on HN. They say it’s “a set of new technologies”. I guess this implies loose coupling, which is a healthy paradigm when applied to components/modules/objects of a development ecosystem.

If only Meteor were nothing more than a proof of concept, it would still be mind-blowing.

cristiantincuon Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” —Arthur C. Clarke.

For an user of a product/service, this is bliss. For a hacker, it might get tricky. Now, considering the fact that this is all open source, the huge wall you’re talking about is just a matter of perception. You’re free to debug and go with it as low level as you need.

cristiantincuon Poll: How long have you been programming?

1988–1989: first Logo encounter; 1992 or so: first Pascal encounter; 1994: got my first PC; started spending long hours with BP 7.0 and BC 3.1; 1996: first real applications (several thousands LOCs, proper GUIs etc.); 2002: first job as a programmer (with the LAMP stack).

I guess 10+ is an honest vote.