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Comment #20840332
I filed a bug that this was not spoken about in the announcement. It would seems like it will cause a lot of drama as this actually rolls out. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/3…
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Comment #20207464
https://github.com/atomontage/xterm-color That looked like the way to do it but I haven't tried yet.
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Comment #17248688
You know I'd rather see some of these chrome books with 8g and still in the $300 range. But thanks, that's actually a nice little machine.
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Comment #17240874
Yes and the 8g models of chromebook (there are 2 right?) are $750+
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Comment #17238261
I'd be interested but ... 4gig ram. Nice screens, reasonable processing power but they throttle the ram to make you want to spend the $500-750 for the "power" of.... 8 gigs of ram.…
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Comment #17049147
Of note Bloom is an ancestor of Eve. Bloom is a descendant of Datalog via Dedalus. "Dedalus: Datalog in Time and Space" http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/datalog2011-dedalus.pdf Her…
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Comment #16885823
Also universally supported across time. People have no sense that they might want to look at something in 10-20 years in that web service that was so handy at the time...
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Comment #16834684
I agree that the incidentals like tracking and form will matter a lot. I think however there is no "proof of existence" of any software or capability that would compel even early a…
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Comment #16834472
That is a pretty bad article about VR that might have been excusable in 2013 but is not on firm ground in 2017 much less 2018. Broadly, almost everything in it has been either not …
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Comment #16833921
I suggest you spend some time reading his pretty extensive set of high quality articles on many companies and aspects of AR. This is an industry where outsiders have a very limited…
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Comment #16832215
Yes this article seems to be redefining "web brutalism" to be a simple recoloring of the same wretched over designed unusable webpages that "web brutalism" was a reaction to.
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Comment #16818252
Thank you for writing this it was just what I wanted :) What is your sense of the latency guarantees/scheduling to user space graphics and input? This is an area that everything el…
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Comment #16794956
I'd really like this to evolve into a standard thing in our linux distros. By which I mean apt-get'able, which it looks very close to. I have no interest in the play store but I wo…
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Comment #16768875
Tags are great BUT It's pretty important to realize that a files position is merely it's default tag (and you can tag it further with many different types of systems like extended …
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Comment #16631783
I'm sorry you didn't move forward with the state machine integrations. I think some core primitives and conventions exposed at the language level would have developed it into a uni…
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Comment #16559509
Weird... it's as if text was really important in computing and having a tool at the center that excelled at processing text put you in more fluid control of your computing environm…
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Comment #16556591
"""We will continue to experiment with things like DOM to texture. It is still difficult to allow web content to be part of a 3D scene.""" This is the most important missing piece,…
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Comment #16320778
I understand that viewpoint but I think the WebVR will be isolating(the normal web doesn't work) and lack uptake until, for example, github.com can be used directly within VR. I do…
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Comment #16319148
I couldn't find a reference for Reliability? Is there source? -I don't know how the FF reader mode is coded- Edit-- https://github.com/mozilla/readability
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Comment #16318995
Given the state of text tools do you think it would it be viable to pipe a Readability Redux scrape into Aframe?
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Comment #16318809
So in looking forward to a time when people actually want a VR focused browsing experience and just for WebVR/WebGL there is this HUGE gap missing. Where is the "HTMLTexture" suppo…
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Comment #15995998
I've never been attracted to the idea of partial application. Without it a function is either in state 0 or 1. It's not called or it has been called. With partial application in th…
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Comment #15899952
If this were designed to seamlessly interoperate with Calibre (a filesystem and sqlite3 iirc) this would be potentially useful to me. I could more confidently selfhost a web versio…