It connected me with the developer but somehow I was not able to type anything. It kept displaying connecting..
I used Chrome.
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm fascinated by the use of random word combinations instead of a random alphanumeric sequence for passing a unique URL. What was the reasoning behind this decision? On one hand, it sort of acts like a phonetic alphabet if you want to read out the URL over skype. But on the other hand - is OberonNostalgicCeciliaVoltage really that easy to spell if you aren't a native English speaker?
I forget which site it is off the top of my head but there's a pretty prominent gif sharing site that does it I often get linked to. I think it's basically just as you say, for English speakers anyway, a bit of an easier way to read out URLs when talking in person or voice chatting. With non-English speakers it doesn't do much, and you're forced to say letter for letter as you would with a lot of other URLs.
its gfycat.com
Re: Show HN: Start a pair programming session over WebRTC by just sharing a link
#13It connected me with the developer but somehow I was not able to type anything. It kept displaying connecting.. I used Chrome.
The same for me on Chrome and Firefox.
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#14I like how simplistic this is. Btw, I am one of the makers of: https://codepad.remoteinterview.io We used Firepad[1] (which is based on Firebase) to sync data. [1] https://github.com/firebase/firepad
I stumbled upon your site a few days back. It's very neat and nicely done, but I had to close it because it treated C and C++ together. I wanted to quickly check how a code will behave in C89 vs C99 (or was it even compliant with C89 standards). Is there any chance your site will differentiate C89, C99 and C++ in near future? Thanks!
Re: Show HN: Start a pair programming session over WebRTC by just sharing a link
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm fascinated by the use of random word combinations instead of a random alphanumeric sequence for passing a unique URL. What was the reasoning behind this decision? On one hand, it sort of acts like a phonetic alphabet if you want to read out the URL over skype. But on the other hand - is OberonNostalgicCeciliaVoltage really that easy to spell if you aren't a native English speaker?
I forget which site it is off the top of my head but there's a pretty prominent gif sharing site that does it I often get linked to. I think it's basically just as you say, for English speakers anyway, a bit of an easier way to read out URLs when talking in person or voice chatting. With non-English speakers it doesn't do much, and you're forced to say letter for letter as you would with a lot of other URLs.
One twist on this would be to somehow limit the wordlist to words that have relatively unambiguous pronunciation, and maybe limit those to the 100 000 most commonly used ones.
Of course then you'll have to use more words for a similar number of links.
Re: Show HN: Start a pair programming session over WebRTC by just sharing a link
#16Nicely done. I'm myself toying with webrtc and remote pair programming, so I think this is really cool. One question: before beginning the session I got a "popup" claiming that the session is encrypted, does it just mean it's https or are you doing any other encryption?
They are referring to the video stream that is encrypted using RTPS (RTP + SSL), as is standard when using WebRTC.
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#18I like it. Only complaint is it seems to hijack the back button making it hard to get back to this page.
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#19I like how simplistic this is. Btw, I am one of the makers of: https://codepad.remoteinterview.io We used Firepad[1] (which is based on Firebase) to sync data. [1] https://github.com/firebase/firepad
I'm fascinated by the use of random word combinations instead of a random alphanumeric sequence for passing a unique URL. What was the reasoning behind this decision? On one hand, it sort of acts like a phonetic alphabet if you want to read out the URL over skype. But on the other hand - is OberonNostalgicCeciliaVoltage really that easy to spell if you aren't a native English speaker?
Hello. As other comments mentioned, it is easier to communicate these URLs over the phone. These words were chosen very specifically to be short, phonetically different from one another, easy to understand over the phone, and also recognizable internationally. Here is the list:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090918202746/http://tothink.com...
Re: Show HN: Start a pair programming session over WebRTC by just sharing a link
#20For pair programming I can highly recommend tmux combined with any video chat (Skype, Hangout, etc.).
What we really need is a protocol so people can use their favourite editor without being forced to choose just one.