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thealphanerd··on The cost of transpiling ES2015 in 2016
Careful checking in you build folder. If there are any native modules, and you are not on the same architecture, everything will explode.

This can be avoided by adding "npm rebuild" to your deployment.

thealphanerd··on Don Knuth – Constraint Based Music Composition
This was held at the ccrma stage! So many great talks and concerts have been held there. I have used that room to stream phish shows and watch cabin in the woods in 5.1 :D

If you are in the bay area you should definitely go check out one of the events, they are all free and open to the public.

--> https://ccrma.stanford.edu/

thealphanerd··on Npm Private Modules
You can easily refer to a version by specifying it via hash

some-user/some-module#1.0.0

Now this is not very robust, as it does not manually incriment semver. That being said a module it not a git repo. There are pre-publish hooks that can be used to execute scripts before publishing. Further, tracking off of git introduces an entirely new set of problems from tracking tar balls. I can see why the team would not be particularly interested in investing time in it.

thealphanerd··on React and Angular Meeting
I've been stuck in file watching hell before... CHOKIDAR!!!!!

I actually had a really interesting conversation with Bert Belder about some of the lower level problem with file watching. It came up that perhaps there could be a working group around fixing this issue.

thealphanerd··on BitHound Announces Support for Bitbucket
An amazing product! Super excited to see support for more vendors.
thealphanerd··on LastPass command-line interface tool
I really appreciate your service. Having it in the command line will save me a ton of time
thealphanerd··on LastPass command-line interface tool
Someone beat me to it too

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/33486

LOL

thealphanerd··on LastPass command-line interface tool
I just made a homebrew formula for this and sent in a PR

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/33487

thealphanerd··on Revisit.link – simple glitch services
3.14 / 2.718

App sux too little pixels

thealphanerd··on Gulp.js: The streaming build system
Fancy seeing you in a webpack thread :P
thealphanerd··on iOS8 to support WebGL – is this the end for matrix3d frameworks like famo.us?
Keep your eyes peeled for the stuff we are going to announce next Wednesday :D
thealphanerd··on iOS8 to support WebGL – is this the end for matrix3d frameworks like famo.us?
Hey t-plane. Famo.us offers a bit more than just matrix 3d transforms, in fact one of the best ways to think about how famo.us handles dom is more of a transport layer. There is no reason that famo.us could not use the same entity pattern and tree to render to webgl, we just have not been focusing on it (yet).

Disclaimer I work at Famo.us

thealphanerd··on Famo.us: do we really need another Javascript framework?
Good thing you stopped... as that is entirely inaccurate :D

fwiw I am a famo.us employee

thealphanerd··on JavaScript Modules
I think this is due to the fact that not every has ability / desire to live in the console. Having a development process that can work without a compile step is important.
thealphanerd··on ChucK: Strongly-timed, Concurrent, and On-the-fly Music Programming Language
This language was written by a professor of mine Ge Wang, also the founder of Smule.

He likes to refer to it as "strongly timed", and I think it is a really accurate description. While the language does have limitations, it can also be beautifully expressive for certain things.

If anyone has any question for the author please let me know and I'll either get him to come in here or be a surrogate and answer directly

thealphanerd··on Digital Ocean vs. Linode
The authors post reminded me that I had not upgrade my linode from 24GB to 48GB and I went ahead and did it. Then I realized that I had originally been in the ssd beta. I messaged support to find out the beta had recently closed, but the support agent did say this.

http://imgur.com/HBLQVZ4

thealphanerd··on Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon
I love the pikachu-like curve
thealphanerd··on Avoid those pesky same-origin policy errors with Corsproxy
Totally not ideal... but if you are looking to hack together a simple client side webapp that uses api's that do not support cors or jsonp you are not left with much of a choice without having a server side solution
thealphanerd··on Yeoman 1.0 Released
For development we use grunt-connect-rewrite. It is a middleware for connect (which yeoman uses) that allows you to write custom rules similarly to how you would implement them in Apache.

You can see our connect setup in this gist

https://gist.github.com/TheAlphaNerd/6322927

thealphanerd··on Show HN: Faust2WebAudio, Digital Signal Processing in the Browser
The examples will only work in a webkit based browser as it relies on WebAudio API
thealphanerd··on Meteor 0.6.0: brand new distribution system, app packages, NPM integration
Rats... I'll be busy prepping for a concert in sf this weekend https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/modulations/

Are you Stanford Student? Will you be giving other talks on campus? Any links to the hackerspace?

thealphanerd··on Symbolic Math - A Workflow
Thanks for the heads up. I'm taking a signal processing class at the moment (https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/420/) and the professor is an old school unix guy. He still lives in emacs. That being said I am totally open to various different languages / environments to do symbolic mathematics. I don't have a background in mathematics, so I feel my time might be better spent learning higher level concepts then trudging in the algebra trenches
thealphanerd··on Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (2003)
Well this was also after a year of working on a fork in seclusion. The project by then had diverged quite a bit, and had quite a differing philosophy from the original.
thealphanerd··on Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (2003)
There were quite a few links in that article. I found this email of particular interest and importance.
thealphanerd··on Super Mario in HTML5
A really interesting tech-demo but why oh why did you make jump up... kills it for me

http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=2630&tab=controls

thealphanerd··on Show HN: Jnana – Generative musical plugin for Ableton Live, in JavaScript
Great work... glad to see how well documented it is!
thealphanerd··on The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X
chc is right... I got to the link through facebook and then shared in through a browser plugin... wasn't paying attention to the extra fluff that got added to the end of the url.

Will pay better attention to that in the future.

Thanks for pointing that out!

thealphanerd··on The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X
oops
thealphanerd··on Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it
Stripe is a decent alternative

https://stripe.com/

thealphanerd··on Seafood Raised on Pig Feces Approved for U.S. Consumers
Definitely not kosher
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