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danseagrave··on Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere
Has anyone tried Tabulator[1]?

[1] http://www.tabulator.info/

danseagrave··on 3D scanning like a pro
And it not just a demonstration.

At GeoSLAM (joint venture with CSIRO) we sell scanners and software based on the Zebedee (ZEB1) and a mechanically rotating version (the ZEB-REVO [1]).

The rotating version is easier to use (don't have to worry about nodding the head too fast or too little) while still having the same cost/speed advantages over terrestrial scanners.

[1] http://www.geoslam.com/hardware-products/zeb-revo/

(disclaimer, GeoSLAM employee)

danseagrave··on Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity
Talk of tag/DB based file systems always reminds me of WinFS[1]. Microsoft were trying to build a tag (well relational database) backed file system since 1990... eventually abandoned - presumably due to back-compat issues.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS

danseagrave··on Nuon, the gaming chip that nearly changed the world but didn’t
Sounds a lot like Philip's CD-i [1] but a decade later to the party. In was in the living room with games, video (VCD) and internet access...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_CD-i

danseagrave··on StackOverflow (stack exchange) outage?
Ah, looks like it's the cloudflare DNS issue:

https://twitter.com/StackStatus/status/609296474015444992

http://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/br8t7ds3mhh6

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9704843

(Nothing to see here)

danseagrave··on The Net Is a Waste of Time (1996)
I think Gibson meant the future www would be "less fun" relative to the procrasination friendly "unsorted Global Ham Television" 1996 version