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zzzaim··on You can now send replies from your Duck Addresses
Yes, was just going to comment this...

Worth mentioning that its back-end app[1] is also open source, not just their Android[2] and iOS[3] apps. So basically open source + custom domain = no lock in. But I'm not so sure how easy it is to set up your own back-end server (I imagine it's like setting up your own email server, which isn't trivial)

[1]: https://github.com/simple-login/app

[2]: https://github.com/simple-login/Simple-Login-Android

[3]: https://github.com/simple-login/Simple-Login-iOS

zzzaim··on ROT8000
I'm in the midst of learning Go. So I "ported" this in Go lang as an exercise [1], including some tests and benchmark :)

[1] https://github.com/241m/rot8000

zzzaim··on Neurocracy
Anybody remember / still play [Nomics]? I thought this was something like that, but I guess it's different.

Which got me thinking, what if it was like a Nomic?

Imagine cloning an exact copy of Wikipedia on another server. Then have 2 player teams: bad guys and good guys. The bad guys edit/write articles to cover their tracks. The good guys scour articles and article histories trying to uncover the truth. Maybe there needs to be a "game master" team that does some type of moderation? I don't know, just spit balling here. Too crazy?

[Nomics]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic

zzzaim··on React is mostly hype
If the point of this post is the site arguman.org, not react, then one small issue (I'm on chrome mobile):

- No quick submit + signup/in button

Which is why I guess people rather argue here than on the site (says something if the whole point of the site is to make arguing easier)

zzzaim··on C.H.I.P. – Raspberry Pi competitor
FYI, its Kickstarter page has lots more information than "CHIP does computer things" :)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-wor...

zzzaim··on Show HN: An opinionated approach to have type safety in native JavaScript
Interesting take on runtime type checking. Have you seen tcomb (http://gcanti.github.io/tcomb/)? I've been using it myself and I like this idea of using it for domain driven design. Check it out if you haven't, maybe you can find something to differentiate as avocado is still in its early stages.
zzzaim··on Flux over the Wire using Websockets and Immutable JS
Alas, I've been working on something like this for the last few weeks on and off, especially the "patching" of immutable data, my solution was to use jiff[1], which generates JSON Patch operations[2], which is then applied to the Immutable object using immpatch[3] (a lib I wrote).

A cursory look at Remutable seems it to be the better and faster option :)

[1] https://github.com/cujojs/jiff

[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6902

[3] https://github.com/zaim/immpatch

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zzzaim··on Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
Lots of green boxes in my GitHub contributions/activity table (compared to the entire last year). But honestly, most of those activity is on my own projects, I would like to contribute more to other open source projects :)
zzzaim··on Flux Application Architecture
From what I understand from your description, it seems that data access, server requests, etc. fall under the responsibility of Actions? Why not offload it to the Store?

e.g: ArticleActions.favorite fires off an ARTICLE_UPDATE action, the ArticleStore receives this and does the appropriate ArticleDAO asynchronous call and when done emits a change event to update any Views.

zzzaim··on ExpressJS 4.0 has been released
And here are the new features in Express 4.x: https://github.com/visionmedia/express/wiki/New-features-in-...
zzzaim··on Docker 0.7.3 is out
Cool, thanks. Nothing yet from their official blog/docs, hmm?

Here's the actual link, not the `t.co` shortened one:

http://test.docker.io/builds/Darwin/x86_64/docker-0.7.3.tgz

Using the "get.docker.io" domain also works.

zzzaim··on Docker 0.7.3 is out
> Add an official Docker client binary for Darwin (Mac OS X)

Where to get it? Please update the documentation include instructions for this. Also, hopefully `brew install docker` will be available soon :)

zzzaim··on RethinkDB raises an $8M Series A
I think I stumbled upon it before, looks rough around the edges and very early preview/beta so I kinda passed on it. Will revisit it soon.
zzzaim··on RethinkDB raises an $8M Series A
Been trying RethinkDB on and off and really like the query language. Does anybody know if there are any RethinkDB hosting/DBaaS services out there? Sysadmin/devops is not my forte, and with LTS coming, I hope companies like MongoHQ/MongoLab/IrisCouch for RethinkDB start to prop up.
zzzaim··on Our first data centers in Asia are up and running
Good news. Hope this also mean Google Compute Engine / App Engine will soon have regions/zones in Asia.
zzzaim··on DigitalOcean Sucks. Use DigitalOcean
Me too. Curious, have you tried using the US data centers from Asia? If so, how is the speed like?
zzzaim··on Dear Clueless About Marketing Programmer: Yes it’s hard, but not impossible.
As another developer preparing to "launch" a product, this is rather encouraging.

Would be nice if you could share what suggestions you gave Basil regarding his site (with his permission). Might be enlightening to many, even if it's only relevant to his product.