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shritesh··on Elm 0.19.1
> did you actually try Elm for a real world project?

I'm actually writing Elm at work and we have two separate Elm apps in production.

YMMV but Elm with elm-graphql has been the most productive and confident I've ever been writing frontend code.

shritesh··on Elm 0.19.1
Elm already was the gold standard when it comes to helpful error messages and it's amazing to see that they're still working to make it even better. I hope other languages follow suit.
shritesh··on Apple Airplay on Raspberry Pi in 7 Easy Steps
I use shairport-sync on my iMac to stream Overcast from the iPhone. There is a huge latency and the connection drops out every once in a while. This should have been a built in feature.
shritesh··on HIP – Convert CUDA to Portable C++
It has been in the works for a long time but I don't believe that it is in a usable state yet.

https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/hiptensorflow

shritesh··on Asciinema 1.3 Switches from Go Back to Python
They can be self hosted as a JSON file and use the open source JS library to embed it
shritesh··on Ask HN: Googledrive.com showing up in my torrent's peer list?
Looks like a HTTP seed
shritesh··on Show HN: Randomly generated metal riffs using Web Audio API and React
Now we need to plug Compressorhead to this.

https://compressorhead.rocks

shritesh··on FAQ from Guccifer 2.0
This Twitter analysis on the FAQ is worth following: https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/74848214296815616...
shritesh··on Erlang/OTP 19.0 has been released
Phoenix is hinting that 1.2 might drop too https://twitter.com/elixirphoenix/status/745265003775823872
shritesh··on Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?
Sidekiq was recently ported over to crystal and the speedups and memory usage improvements are amazing. There's also an officially supported heroku-buildpack so it can be deployed easily.

But there's a lot of breaking changes in the language (0.18 was released a few days ago with a few breaking changes). I would not use it for a long term project (yet). But for some personal project or prototypes, for example which you'd quickly set using Ruby/Sinatra, I'd choose Crystal/Kemal.

shritesh··on Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?
Crystal: Syntax inspired by Ruby, static types and compiled by LLVM. The standard library is mostly similar to Ruby (I'd say it's better. For example it rack-like functionality and websockets built-in). It's getting a lot of traction in the community.
shritesh··on “Power pose” research is the latest example of scientific overreach
We were shown the TED talk on our first "Professional Communication" class this week. It sounded like placebo from the get-go (like the majority of the most-viewed TED talks). But hey, who am I to question a Harvard professor? Thankfully, someone else did.
shritesh··on Snap: A visual drag-and-drop programming language
SNAP! considers itself as Scheme disguised as Scratch and rightfully so.

We had our Intro to CS class with SNAP, which I hated at the beginning, but towards the end, the professor used it to explain fundamental CS topics (sorting, data structures, parallelism) that was approachable by all. For the class projects, people that had no prior exposure to programming made some amazing stuffs with it.

shritesh··on Tell HN: .guru domains don't work on iOS Safari. Is the TLD system broken?
Now this is the reason Mozilla built the Public Suffix List. https://publicsuffix.org/list/
shritesh··on Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul
There's a different nightly channel for Australis. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...
shritesh··on 3px of padding makes all the difference in the world
It's happening to me too. Every day something looks broken (read different). The Facebook logo was not centered before the graph search for a couple of days, the height of the chat box was changed and same goes for the padding. All I hope for them is to remove (or shift) the video chat button. I've had lots of accidental clicks on it.
shritesh··on A rant about some of the nice things in the NT kernel
This might be wrong, but from what I've heard, multiple GPU (nVidia Optimus) issue has more to do with GPL than the Kernel itself. I had saved this quote but I forgot the source.

> ...won't let closed source drivers use shared memory with open source code or somesuch out of their belief that it would violate the GPL.

shritesh··on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released
Here you go, http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/raring/relea...

This is the closest to any release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/ReleaseNotes#Ubuntu_G...

shritesh··on Google Reader shutting down
It's taking like forever to import from reader.
shritesh··on Firefox 18
Lifesaver: Ctrl+Shift+M
shritesh··on 64-bit Firefox discontinued on Windows
Yeah, that was the problem. Downloading from the servers, I tended to choose the x64 version and it was never good. The x86 always have been better.
shritesh··on 64-bit Firefox discontinued on Windows
I was really looking forward to the 64-bit version but it never looked as if Mozilla was ever serious about it.
shritesh··on Show HN: TTS-API - Text-to-speech API
Thank you :) Really needed something like this!
shritesh··on Free ebooks from Microsoft Press
Add these to the list:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2012/07/27/large-...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2012/07/30/anothe...

shritesh··on Lifehacker down?
All of the Gawker network sites (Gizmodo, Lifehacker, io9, and others) are down because of the hurricane.
shritesh··on The Next Twenty Years: What Windows 8's Closed Distribution Means for Developers
That is the exception provided to the 'default' web browser.