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redmaron Wac: Minimal WebAssembly interpreter written in C

link gives a 404 because the repo is renamed minutes ago to https://github.com/grassel/wac-esp

redmaron HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh

or https://github.com/datawire/ambassador (which wraps envoy with a couple of extra (usability?) features)

redmaron Docker Compose Wrapper

we need to go deeper

redmaron Mastering Emacs

I found a full listing here: https://github.com/railwaycat/emacs-mac-port/blob/master/REA...

redmaron Docker Containers at Scale: Our Take on Docker Swarm

etcd support for Mesos is almost there. see: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-1806 the code is already reviewable so it won't take long before this gets released.

AFAIK it allows you to replace ZK for etcd making it a lot easier to run this on top of coreos as a working etcd cluster is a fact in a working coreos cluster.

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redmaron Say hello to Appsterdam: developers aim to move the Valley to Amsterdam

a lot of people seem to connect through twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/appsterdamrs

redmaron Say hello to Appsterdam: developers aim to move the Valley to Amsterdam

OTOH: the same article also states: "... the Dutch parliament made a bit of history by passing the first net neutrality legislation in the EU. ...". Also i've heard the cookie law isn't as strict as everybody thinks it is, but i'm still searching for a good source explicitly stating what the cookie law includes.

redmaron Ask HN: How do I *easily* edit and sign PDFs in *nix?

maybe this can help you out (it also integrates with openoffice): http://jsignpdf.sourceforge.net/en_US/pdf_signatures.html

redmaron New Multi-Touch Gestures on iPad iOS 4.3

On 4.3, this would be a four finger swipe up to reveal the multitasking bar and a swipe from left to right on the bar to reveal the sound controls in any device orientation. Works pretty smooth, i'm running it now.

redmaron Ask HN: How can a programmer learn graphic design from the ground up?

I found this (free) book really useful: http://designingfortheweb.co.uk/book/index.php

redmaron Apple Discontinues Xserve, Only Available Until January 31st

you prayers are answered: http://mk1manufacturing.com/www.mk1manufacturing.com/Compute...

redmaron Interest: Senior engineer confirms Apple working on MacRuby for iOS

offtopic: you can also use 'git shortlog -s -n --no-merges'

redmaron Ask HN: Where to learn about real-time collaborative systems

For some hands-on experience you could try this book: "Professional XMPP Programming with JavaScript and jQuery" ISBN: 978-0-470-54071-8 Highly recommended!

redmaron Ask HN: Could you please help me appreciate OS X more?

If you really compare and read both specs/offers you'll see the following;

0. with the apple price you also buy esthetics. Not a real point for most anti apple guys. But i care if i use the device daily and talk to customers.

1. Please add $139.99 to the price for the upgrade from windows 7 home to ultimate. (Ultimate is the closest to the variant free Mac OS X) You could also add some $ for the iLife packages you get with the $1999 price.

2. dell screen should be (reading their own spec) 1280×720 versus MBP 1440x900 resolution.

3. dell CPU = 2.26 GHz vs MBP CPU = 2.53GHz

4. wireless-G on the dell vs wireless-N on the apple.

5. gigabit NIC for the apple vs 100mbit nic on the dell.

6. FW800 on the apple, AFAIK not on the dell.

7. shouldn't you add shipping costs for the dell?

As others already said:

8. aluminium casing vs plastic is a real difference if you compare them in reality. But not everybody cares the same way about this fact.

9. size between devices.

10. backlit keyboard and multitouch trackpad on the apple and not on the dell. I know that this is not important for a lot of people so that's why it's stated last.

But the dell wins on video card memory!

There's your answer.