Dang, Peteris! You and James just keep cranking it out. Looking forward to Testling.
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#121. You win. This contribution make me think there needs to be an open source awards show. Your "best contribution to a web platform in 2011" nomination is in the bag.
2. PG should be calling you with an invitation to the next YC class, not for this, but for everything you guys have accomplished in the last year.
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#13What's sad with this is that most of these modules would work in a browser if only they used asynchronous module definition.
That would have been even more awesome.
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#14these guys competed in the Node Knockout! You can see (and vote) for the browserling guys here http://nodeknockout.com/teams/replicants#votes
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#15Great that these are individual modules instead of just making a single "browserling" package.
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#16I know I'm getting to be a broken record, but two different attempts at an SSH server, neither of which work? Every other thing on this list is a reimplementation of something in Python's standard library or Twisted.
I mean, yes, that's a lot of code to write, and I'm impressed, but this just feels like yet more reinvention of the wheel.
Re: We open-sourced 90 node.js modules at Browserling
#17What's sad with this is that most of these modules would work in a browser if only they used asynchronous module definition. That would have been even more awesome.
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#18James and Peteris are two of the most amazing devs I've seen in a long time. They ship and ship and ship and ship. The first version of StackVM (Browserling's underlying technology) was written in Haskell. They switched to Node close to two years ago if I'm not mistaken. I've gotten an early look at Testling, their cross browser testing web testing tools, and they're easily a year or two ahead of anyone else on the m…
They are amazing and Browserling is very handy, but they really need to hire a designer. A lot of their customers are going to be designers, there is no reason to have such a dated look.
I also agree. First time I came across their product it wasn't via HN and at first I just assumed they were one of the old-timers who were trying to be quirky with "cool" icons. Otherwise, good job on the product!
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#19I know I'm getting to be a broken record, but two different attempts at an SSH server, neither of which work? Every other thing on this list is a reimplementation of something in Python's standard library or Twisted. I mean, yes, that's a lot of code to write, and I'm impressed, but this just feels like yet more reinvention of the wheel.
I think that's the point. Nodejs is a new technology and people are re-inventing all the Twisted (and other technologies like it) wheels so that you can use them from nodejs.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are amazing and Browserling is very handy, but they really need to hire a designer. A lot of their customers are going to be designers, there is no reason to have such a dated look.
I also agree. First time I came across their product it wasn't via HN and at first I just assumed they were one of the old-timers who were trying to be quirky with "cool" icons. Otherwise, good job on the product!
What do you mean by 'old-timers'?