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Do we really think Javascript is exotic? Hasn't it proved itself over many years now?

That doesn't mean it can't have issues like anything else. And because of the massive scale of the language you'll see a lot of shit. It's a language and ecosystem like anything else - it's what you do with it that matters.

I think Alex Jones is way more about the ad revenue than his message.

Who said they were not?

Your comment led me to figuring out if Second Life is still really a thing. And I can't really figure it out. Apparently Linden Lab has over 200 employees so there must be some revenue on it. But is the user base growing, and how big is it?

1-2 weeks ago I saw someone checking in on Foursquare. Must have been years since I saw that.

This seem like a valid question :) "What would you say you do here?"

We created this actually. It's called Playback.

https://github.com/mafintosh/playback

We wanted to see how easy it was to build "native" apps with html/css/javascript today using atom-shell. And it turns out that it's actually quite easy.

A feature we missed from VLC was that you could send video to Chromecast. That feature is now in Playback.

I wouldn't want something like this to be closed source. It's very important that the security of the decentralization can be validated.

And in these NSA times it's even more important.

Closed source?

The idea is to showcase how a large dataset is pretty good at being shared without having central servers. Here using bittorrent.

mafintosh showed how wikipedia could be shared without a central server(s), and instead rely on a network of peers.

subtack did something similar, peermaps, which is a showcase on how you can share geo data over bittorrent. Imagine a google maps without a google servers. https://github.com/substack/peermaps

Of course there's many unsolved questions, like "how do you update?", "how do you manage the data?", etc. But the examples are pretty solid.

I would think that looking at patterns on the CPU level is almost impossible. The overhead would be enormous.

For instance if you look for a magic number. Instead of putting two numbers on the stack, and perform an addition you now have to have a conditional jump before the addition.

Maybe I'm wrong, but at least I think it would be virtually impossible.

Agreed. But the discussion here on Github is pretty good and tells us that it's happened to quite a lot of people. So the headline might be a bit sensational, but it's a real problem.

I don't think people will be upset to get an "WARNING: You might have committed a secret" if it's a negative.

You might be right if it really is a ton, but then you work on your algorithm. I think the problem is so big that there really do need to be warnings for these kind of issues.

Interesting. Maybe it's actually around May 2012 and thus is when they public?

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

Good job. Would be interesting to try browserify some of the more fs-heavy modules from npm.

As a Danish person I was also confused about that when I first read it. I think it's a misuse of the word "warrant", and more has to do with whether or not they've charged him (I think).

We wrote a blog post explaining how it works (it's actually hard work to give good results), http://www.reddit.com/r/node_modules/comments/1msian/a_cleve...

One of the more clever things is that you can log in with github and then we use your github stars/follows to give you customized search results.

Haha, did you just reference the "smells like updawg in here" joke?

Ahh, ok. With the Ge.tt API you receive a token which is stored in local storage. So the pass is never stored locally.

The extension requires login to Ge.tt (it's free). And the Gmail login goes through the normal Google login.

What the extension does is to add a button to the page and when you click that files are uploaded to Ge.tt and a link is added to your email body. There's no exchange of any Google login needed.

Questions about the technology is more than welcome as well :)

Sort of explained already, but "bad" bots would never go look for that file. And a good bot probably already identifies itself the the request, so no need to look through robots.txt.

But why would you go through all that to click on ads? If I click on an ad for "Some Record Company" how does that make me money?

Only one missing... Those were the users complaining.

I agree.

Actually, a few days ago I presented Ge.tt for an event called Demoday. With a small demo, which wasn't more than a screencast, they all seemed to get it (pun intended) very fast. And the feedback was extremely good. So, for a starter we'll probably do just that - a screencast.

Then we can always figure out something fancy :)

Ahh, hehe, never thought about it like that :) I see what you mean.

We'll update the front page in a not so long time, and then we'll think more about it. To be honest we think that we need to work on being more to the point. Which is what we're doing now.

You mean that people don't associate the "live longer, live sta..." with creating an account or how do you mean?

We actually have that already :)

At one we had it announced on the page, but then people complained that they couldn't do it in their browser - because they used one that didn't support it. We'll probably put it back in somehow. We'll think about it.

The security is being reworked and rethought and https would most likely be implemented soon. We've looked into it already so it's not entirely new to us.

We've been working a lot with the scaling technique, and even though we are doing ok for now, we're reworking a lot of the backend. Not sure when, but it'll be rolled out.