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I've been thoroughly enjoying "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann. It primarily deals with the current state of storing data (databases, etc) starting with …

The High Performance Browser Networking book that was recently featured here has a good section about this. https://hpbn.co/primer-on-latency-and-bandwidth/#speed-of-li...

Sure, teachers could reset the password. My point is that there is no reason to. It is one extra step for teachers and gets rid of the benefit of having a consistent password for t…

I think there are some cases when storing passwords in clear text is valid. One example: A website has educational content. Teachers can sign up students in their classrooms. The t…

It is not IE only. CreateJS works well in the major browsers. The games work in new versions of all browsers. The games are only ad-free in IE and should work well especially in IE…

"Our initial logging implementation accidentally included a synchronous call to write to disc." You really want to avoid synchronous calls all of the time in node.js unless you are…

"It’s worth noting that the prototype Carmack is demoing wasn’t made by him, but by another Texan builder of VR headsets. It’s using the same tech and principles as Carmack’s own v…

I would remove the Mastering Node link from the resources. It is pretty far out of date and a lot has changed in the 9 months since it has been updated. Specifically it does not me…

You could write your own way of doing it or use an existing flow control library. There are lots. :) https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules#wiki-async-flow For a specific exam…

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer... It is a part of tasks for iGoogle.

Bouncing Pixel - Houston, TX We are looking for developers (PHP, node.js, Actionscript, CSS, Javascript, or able to learn those), working remotely is not currently a possibility. W…

I enjoyed reading it. It is nice to read about what the startups in Y Combinator go through. Minor typos I noticed (since you seem like you want the feedback): missing 'the': "to g…

My guess is that not very many people are talking about it because with Flash 10.1 Adobe added support for multi-touch. Once Flash becomes available on a lot of devices that suppor…

The problem I am referring to in my post is the overall population problem of the world. There are a finite number of resources to sustain the population on this planet and we curr…

I recently started thinking about this after reading Garrett Hardin's The Tragedy of the Commons essay from 1968 about the "population problem". After reading the essay I started o…

It is possible to read it for free through a google search of the title, or other methods. Some other methods: http://www.labnol.org/internet/read-wall-street-journal-arti...

The SVG animation looks much nicer. It works well in Chrome 3.0.193.0 in Windows XP.

Things might be slowly getting better for Windows. Omaha http://code.google.com/p/omaha/ was released under an open source license recently. It will be interesting to see if other …

I enjoyed the article. I also enjoyed looking through their blog (which is mentioned at the bottom of the article pages). It seems like a good place to get an easy to understand an…

That link (the comment this was referring to is now deleted) is to the second launch of the Falcon 1 which made it further than the launch today, which was the third launch. Today'…

I can try. I'll send you an email.