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mrmrbenon Xiaomi unveils concept phone with near bezel-less display

Once we went to slabs with the original iPhone all our phones have generally looked the same. Thus this already happened.

mrmrbenon Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript

What does this mean for NPM Inc the company?

Is a replacement / mirror / rethink of the NPM infrastructure coming next?

If I was NPM Inc I would think about adopting yarn if possible.

mrmrbenon HP outrages printer owners after it blocks the use of cheap ink cartridges

I just use Brother Laser printers -- Ink Jet is just a brutally bad way of printing. The multi-function printers are ultra reliable and cheap to operate.

mrmrbenon Pixar Universal Scene Description

Alembic is a baking format. Slightly different use cases.

Usd has support for Alembic baked nodes: https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/USD/tree/2eb01f5cd4...

mrmrbenon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

JavaScript or C++ interested in WebGL/WebVR/3D.

Company: Exocortex / Clara.io / ThreeKit

Location: Ottawa

We are the makers of http://clara.io and http://threekit.com.

We do WebGL, WebVR, CUDA, JavaScript and Node.js and lots of advanced stuff. We service dozens of service-based clients, and 250,000 individual users. We are rapidly growing.

We also contribute to lots of open source libraries including Three.JS.

Drop me a line at: ben@exocortex.com

mrmrbenon Cesium – An open-source JavaScript library for 3D globes and maps

http://webglstats.com/ is great.

mrmrbenon Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard

Just about anything is better than brotli.

mrmrbenon Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard

Really nice work compared to what I consider to be the quite bad Brotli -- an incredibly slow compression standard that only ended up in browsers because it was created by Google.