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Forrest O., working on https://meemoo.org/ browser-based data flow a/v hacking.
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meemoo··on How Betty, Who Is 89, Gets Her News
I do the selecting thing as well, and hate Wired for hijacking ⌘→ (sends you to next article).
meemoo··on An introduction to NoFlo and flow-based programming
> the UI is pretty good.

Thank you, that is encouraging. We're working to make it really good.

meemoo··on An introduction to NoFlo and flow-based programming
We are working with an SVG-based ZUI framework for noflo-ui/flowhub and have plans take the metaphor further: http://i.imgur.com/wQqvhlD.gifv

ZUI dataflow has been done in the past with Nuke. VFX people make some massively complex graphs with that tool.

meemoo··on The Physical Web
Jon Nordby demoed this idea with http://flowhub.io/ a couple of weeks ago: http://youtu.be/wCdKukf-dHI

1. Tap tablet to Raspberry Pi with NFC tag

2. Pi serves Flowhub IDE (noflo-ui) with the currently-running graph, ready for editing

This demo drops you directly into the source, but could easily have an interface layer first. It's just a link.

meemoo··on MathBox 2
I'd be interested in making a Flowhub [1] runtime for ShaderGraph 2 graphs. (Flowhub runtimes talk a protocol [2] to define what nodes are available, code new nodes, and build up graphs.)

1. http://flowhub.io/ 2. http://noflojs.org/documentation/protocol/

meemoo··on Flowhub is now in Public Beta
> also please don't force people to register and login to try the app, if I can't just get on the page and try it without giving away some private data, I don't really feel tempted to try it at all.

I meant to fix that before launch, but now you can launch examples from the home screen before logging in. https://github.com/noflo/noflo-ui/issues/220

meemoo··on Oculus CEO envisions billion-person MMO
The Metaverse should be built like the web: distributed, and every server / space / community can be built with different physics / rules / aesthetics. Iribe's lowest-common-denominator vision is uninspiring. A centralized, controlled, monetized space sounds like the mall.
meemoo··on Famo.us is now open source
Not a countdown. :-)
meemoo··on Famo.us is now open source
Half pixels; the dreaded "dubstep effect." They should be rounding the translation values before applying the matrix, at least on elements with text at screen depth.
meemoo··on Famo.us is now open source
Ricardo Cabello ported Famo.us' periodic table demo to ThreeJS to show that it might not be such a novel library: https://plus.google.com/+RicardoCabello/posts/QcFk5HrWran
meemoo··on Grid Style Sheets – CSS polyfills from the future
Better than the tweet that I saw a few weeks ago: "I don't understand this, and there is no use for it."
meemoo··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
Are there any link voting sites on the public web that have tried this?

I'd love it if YouTube comments worked like this. Why don't they?

meemoo··on Ask HN: Making a living selling software components, not SaaS?
Stackoverflow is close, but the only currency is karma. But you can offer it as bounty to answer your question.

Throwing money into that dynamic is opening all kinds of worm cans.

meemoo··on Why we revert to original titles
Why don't you just scrape the actual title, and force people to take a few steps to change it if they feel like it needs changing?
meemoo··on FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_County,_USA
meemoo··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)
I grew up around the Campbell Folk School... there is a great community of craftspeople that you should be reaching out to: http://folkschool.org/
meemoo··on Keypress: A Javascript library for capturing input
My biggest issue is wanting to bind ctrl/meta-x/c/v to do what you think they would do in my UI (a graph editor), but not do anything in input fields. I can stopPropagation, but it is a pain to keep track of.
meemoo··on World
Or... http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=501...
meemoo··on World
He gave this step by step presentation at JSConf.eu today. It was really well done... I could almost follow!

I hear there will be video in a couple weeks.

meemoo··on No more CSS and HTML, just JS
Sounds like the Custom Element standard that's coming soon. http://www.polymer-project.org/ makes polyfills to use it today.
meemoo··on Why The Sharing Economy Isn’t
Probably total number of people sleeping at Couchsurfer vs AirBNB places per night. In this sense, AirBNB is introducing more people to the concept.

I have used both, and AirBNB is much easier in cities, where Couchsurfing hosts probably get way too many requests.

meemoo··on Why The Sharing Economy Isn’t
"Live by disruption, die by disruption." - Bruce Sterling
meemoo··on Apngasm Wants To Promote Animated PNGs As An Alternative To GIFs
The alpha channel in PNG/APNG is nice.
meemoo··on How Flow-Based Programming Could Save The Sanity Of Web Developers
The NoFlo team is coders designing this for our own work first. We are free to put as much code in a black box as we like. We'll be running tests with ourselves and our early community to make some best practices, but there is no rule that keeps you from writing most of your logic in one block. Our theory is that the graph-based view will encourage encapsulation in different ways that make sense for the different domains that adopt the tool.

One of the big design differences (vs Quartz Composer, Lab View, Pure Data) is that it will be easy to dive in and edit component code and make new components when needed.

meemoo··on How Flow-Based Programming Could Save The Sanity Of Web Developers
I'm a JS hacker working on the NoFlo UI, and one of our primary design goals is to make it easy to code new modules on the fly (in the same environment, with tests) when that makes more sense.
meemoo··on How Flow-Based Programming Could Save The Sanity Of Web Developers
I have the same frustration with PD and QC.

NoFlo's UI design will make it easy to dive in and edit any module's source, as well as make a new module when code is easier than wiring. We are coders designing this tool for our own work.

meemoo··on How Flow-Based Programming Could Save The Sanity Of Web Developers
MIDI tools enabled more people to make new kinds of music.

Not everybody will be a programmer, but hopefully a slightly larger percentage of the population will be able to discover the power of algorithmic thinking, and hopefully they will work on some interesting problems.

meemoo··on How Flow-Based Programming Could Save The Sanity Of Web Developers
The base level of computer literacy should be deeper than "how to use Word" to some level of algorithmic literacy.
meemoo··on How Flow-Based Programming Could Save The Sanity Of Web Developers
Source control is fine in NoFlo's JSON graph format or DSL.
meemoo··on How Flow-Based Programming Could Save The Sanity Of Web Developers
Everyone can't be a doctor, but everyone should have a basic grasp of how their body works in order to live well.

Same with programming, if everybody had some base level of algorithmic literacy, they could at least have some idea if a mind-numbing repetitive task could be done with a simple script.

IFTTT does a great job of making it easy to glue web services together. NoFlo could be a powerful step up from that.

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