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The images of a cheering crowd with hands in the air has become annoyingly cliche for social apps. Nearly as cliche as About pages with circular images of the employees.

October 2 2012 is a long time ago.

has anything changed other than the site design?

Once you've had some time to look this over, I think we'd all appreciate a blog post that explains the differences between cap'n proto and flatbuffers

I assume it's called this because a cockroach can supposedly survive a nuclear attack. But it's a bad name. It does not invoke good feelings.

Can you give some numbers of your past experience?

the flip book animation/interaction is top notch. good job!

Am I the only one who was totally onboard until I saw it was written in lisp? Can't trust non-pragmatic people.

Cool project! It'd be nice if the build system was converted to GYP, so that it integrated well with libuv.

awesome! what technology do you use?

this is essentially what PNaCl is http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/portable-native-client-pinn...

That's an unfair characterization of NYTimes behavior. They sit on stories when the editors agree that releasing the information would do more harm than good.

For example in the Levinson case, NYTimes withheld information for 6 years: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/world/middleeast/a-disappe...

> The New York Times has known about the former agent’s C.I.A. ties since late 2007, when a lawyer for the family gave a reporter access to Mr. Levinson’s files and emails. The Times withheld that information to avoid jeopardizing his safety or the efforts to free him. On Thursday, The Associated Press disclosed Mr. Levinson’s role with the intelligence agency. In a statement, the White House said it had urged the wire service not to publish its article “out of concern for Mr. Levinson’s life.” After Thursday’s disclosure, the Levinson family said it had no objection to The Times’s publishing this article.

hey it looks cool. i'm looking forward to the blog post. would love to see examples of killer techniques this enables. the readme is rather dense.

interesting blog post but could have just been titled: "my thoughts on moving to a big city"

It's bizarre to read how right-wing view things. "Fire the city workers, shrink the government, then the homeless will get the care they deserve!"

The poor conditions have to do with the budget constraints, which the GOP is actively pushing for.

It compiles to JavaScript. The VM and dart2js are MIT licensed. It's not the same situation.

If you restrict yourself to 64 bit systems, you can essentially go back to using OS threads with blocking I/O because the address space is so large. You can fit thousands of 2MB call stacks into the processes address space and rely on the OS and MMU to manage the memory.

The problem that created the whole non-blocking, async domain was the memory needed for the thread's call stacks. You don't have enough address space to place a bunch of 2MB call stacks for each thread, if you're handling tens of thousands of connections.

It seems to me the NYT editorial doesn't specifically endorse anything... it just says what elements would make up an acceptable treaty:

> A good agreement would lower duties and trade barriers on most products and services, strengthen labor and environmental protections, limit the ability of governments to tilt the playing field in favor of state-owned firms and balance the interests of consumers and creators of intellectual property. Such a deal will not only help individual countries but set an example for global trade talks.

What part of the editorial is endorsing a specific secret text or giving blanket approval to any deal?

Looks interesting - nice landing page. What are the differences between Backbeam and Parse?

Wow - this is exciting. It sounds similar to the SSH protocol but with forward error correction and fine-tuned for quick handshakes. Is the the beginning of the end for TCP and SSL? I hope so!