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I'm hoping we turn that Firebase fork into a pluggable interface for TogetherJS to exchange messages via other systems. Once that is in place I'm guessing Meteor would be simple to…

Speaking as the principal developer for TogetherJS: In the past we have opted not to work on IE support because we had limited resources, and because we wanted to focus on what we …

One way a country could get to this would also be revenue-neutral taxes. A revenue-neutral carbon tax, for instance – a lot of taxes would be collected, on the theory of limiting o…

I'd be curious if a strongly phonetic alphabet/writing leads to less changes in the sounds in the language...?

I am disappointed when I hear the term "socio-economic factors" in discussions of education. First, as if "economic" wasn't enough you add in "socio" to create a term that means "f…

Which means older people, who have generally been much less able to participate in startups at an early stage, can now have affordable insurance as individuals. Before not only cou…

Oh yeah... we use WebRTC when it's available, but don't require it.

WebRTC makes it possible, but not easy, nor abstracted. You still have very long connection strings to establish the connection, and those strings change as you move around, so it'…

[Team member here] We haven't been very focused on the hosting story, in part because lots of people have their own requirements, and we can't predict what they are. And maybe beca…

Both people are accessing the website as themselves. If one person doesn't have permission to see a page, for instance, then they won't see it. And yeah, whoever hits save is the s…

On principle we keep the server simple, echoing messages back and forth between clients. In practice it's quite hard for two browsers to connect directly to each other, and while w…

[Author here] The big way TogetherJS differs from many of the other realtime products out there, like Firebase or (to a lesser degree) ShareJS, is that it doesn't do any storage. I…

IE10 has WebSockets: http://caniuse.com/websockets – but TogetherJS doesn't support IE10 either (simply haven't been able to keep up testing with IE in addition to other browsers).…

If you sat down with her and did letter flashcards, she'd probably love that too. Probably love it more! Kids do not dislike the attention of adults. Schools often manage to both i…

The kids in my life are young at the moment, so I'm biased towards the experiences at those younger ages – and certainly more poisonous structures lurk as they get older. On the ot…

Coincidentally I just came upon the term "Concerted Cultivation" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerted_cultivation ) which describes the modern middle class typical parenting, t…

Interesting about the Master's Degree. In the U.S. teacher education seems unrelated to performance, including Master's Degrees. Which isn't how it should be. It makes me wonder if…

I work at Mozilla, but not with Firefox OS. The BrowserAPI is certainly not complete, but it's something. Some stuff might be harder than others. Intercepting networking is not ver…

Same idea from a different direction: Firefox OS currently includes a browser built in HTML: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia/Browser with an API: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/Brow…

If you are curious about a roll-your-own article similar to this, but for Python: http://docs.webob.org/en/latest/do-it-yourself.html

China seems set on a different path, but I guess you never know. Korea seems too small to benefit. And Japan perhaps too mountainous? Looking at California: http://bit.ly/1eFevxA A…

It would seem to make the stations a lot more complicated – they'd need to handle the car loading, the accompanying traffic, and the security would be really challenging.

I wish in one of these cases someone could also dig up the answers to the question. The questions are interesting, but the expectations are more implied than clear.

> Arguing to replace a well-defined single idiom (verbs) with some arbitrary combination of URI, custom headers, request body contents is exactly the opposite of what you want. It …

I take a fair number of casual action shots – mostly of the kids. To get something to come out I often take a handful of pictures in a row; even that's often not enough, or the "ri…