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BrianHammond

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    Comment #1386256

    .node files are "addons". See the following: http://github.com/stevedekorte/vertex.js/blob/master/lib/Ver... http://github.com/stevedekorte/vertex.js/tree/master/lib/Ver... http://…

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    Comment #1363228

    _ry: fictorial: eventually, not for 0.2 http://nodejs.debuggable.com/2010-05-07.txt

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    Comment #1358515

    For those using Node.js, the same is var len = Buffer.byteLength(a_string, 'utf8')

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    Comment #1314901

    I enjoy TheSansMonoCd by LucasFonts. It costs money though. http://imgur.com/kBpMI.png

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    Comment #1314830

    http://steveblock.com/r/sgiscreen-ttf.tar.gz Looks pretty good at 14pt in Terminal.app. Thanks.

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    Comment #1309652

    WebGL is mentioned on that page. I'm not sure if it was updated since you looked. "Conclusion: Not ready*. Waiting for Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.6, Chrome 4, Opera 10.5 to exp…

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    Comment #1306817

    "This can get sloppy." Indeed it can. I am a fan of flow-js however. It has really helped me to avoid getting sloppy in Node.js. http://github.com/willconant/flow-js

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    Comment #1303223

    The big question is if Heroku will suddenly support a fairly large number of long-lived connections to a Node.js hosted app, and how pricing would work. Developing real-time apps a…

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    Comment #1303213

    Thanks for the shout-out in the slides about the Redis client for Node.js. http://github.com/fictorial/redis-node-client

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    Comment #1303165

    I'm curious about the "fanout" name which immediately made me think of a message broker like RabbitMQ on the backend somewhere. I guess "fanout" here means 1 client to fanout.js to…

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    Comment #1294338

    Redis has native pubsub for a few weeks. A client can subscribe to channels by name or pattern, and publishers can publish messages to channels. The ruby, python, and node.js clien…

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    Comment #1292913

    I am working on something similar for Node.js called NodeRed: http://github.com/fictorial/nodered

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    Comment #1292151

    menu > settings > songbook no-fail mode: on menu > songbook > flight of the bumblebee tap, tap, tap, tap...

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    Comment #1290098

    I fully admit to having no idea what this refers to, but I'm scared anyway.

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    Comment #1288724

    Wow! That was really neat! As someone who witnessed the events of 9/11 in NY from across the river in Hoboken, NJ this was fairly terrifying too. I was not expecting to have that a…

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    Comment #1282336

    mootools made javascript a better language? Javascript is a wonderful language regardless of the availability of good tools and libraries.

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    Comment #1275387

    ODE has been around for years. Did something big happen? Why is this here?

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    Comment #1267722

    Somewhere Jodie Foster just threw off her headphones, jumped off the hood of her car, and frantically went to investigate. She won't find much. (hint: 3-D, not 2-D).

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    Comment #1267068

    I just uploaded the first version of NodeRed: http://github.com/fictorial/nodered

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    Comment #1266713

    Nice, good to see more people coming to Node.js. These things are like the modern "Hello, World!". Here's one I hacked up in 10 minutes. It's 40 LOC. http://gist.github.com/366590 …

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    Comment #1266591

    I am doing something similar with my redis-node-client as a base.

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    Comment #1265049

    Rejected: location-aware weather can be obtained by looking out the window.

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    Comment #1256252

    Ask tocomment: try it and let us know!