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Oscar resells MagnaCare insurance, and they're not even the only ones on the NY exchange to do it. I wish they'd actually do something different in the insurance market, but Oscar …

It's also worth checking out The Silver Searcher: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

Another useful tool for working with spreadsheets in Javascript is SheetJS: https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx

For a hackable, open source collaborative framework, check out Mozilla's TogetherJS: https://togetherjs.com/

Judging by the chart on the site, it looks like each client polls the original model on the server, and infers changes by diffing it against the client's current copy.

The readme says it works with any "persistent backend such as a REST API or socket connection". It looks like it tries to be backend-agnostic, and do the sync work on the client si…

I've talked with the Scratch team and I believe they went with Flash to serve the many schools with low-end machines and older browsers.

Yup, I've actually read all those papers, and then some. I think OT is often misunderstood and poorly documented, and really needs a solid go-to library. (Along with clear, accessi…

Yes, and Wave is probably the most accurate open source picture of what Google is using for Docs: http://incubator.apache.org/wave/ OT works naturally with linear data structures, …