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  1. Re:You are a renegade. on JavaScript Servers Compared · · Score: 1

    http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/workers/basics/

    There's probably a lot of concurrency one could get away with using workers.

  2. Re:You are a renegade. on JavaScript Servers Compared · · Score: 1

    Yes- I agree with you on this. JS is simple but you should always be concerned with handling data asynchro- especially with JS where one frozen or busy thread will bring the whole thing to a halt. Callbacks, callbacks, callbacks

    And if anyone is up for some reading this series is pretty nice:
    http://howtonode.org/object-graphs

    As well as 'JavaScript: The Good Parts'- Douglass Crockford

  3. Re:You are a renegade. on JavaScript Servers Compared · · Score: 1

    Uhh, I quite like how the module and 'require' patterns work in JS. <-- read: I am extolling their virtues. I am a big fan of quick and dirty object decoration as well (as long as you keep it in the closure). Webworkers do processing in other threads. And V8 has a whole debugging API.

    Never have been entirely sure why people are so quick to pee all over JS. After having done Perl, Python, C# and Actionscript for corporate production as well as private there are benefits to all of them (less so Actionscript after learning how to deal with the wild nature of JS). I guess it'a all about knowing when to hold them, when to fold them and when to walk away.

  4. Re:Both good and bad news... on Zeus Crimeware Kit Source Code Leaked · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that you keep the product managers and marketing from feature bombing you 3 days from code complete by employing some magical force barrier? DO WANT!

  5. Re:Hydrogen is not a fuel on America's First Pipeline-Fed Hydrogen Fueling Station · · Score: 1

    Well, as there is no retooling to do on motor production (hydrogen can be used in existing conventional internal combustion engines with some slight modifications) and you have stuff like this:

    http://www.physorg.com/news183914624.html

    And there are no tons of terrifically toxic battery waste to deal with, I'd say it's cleaner than burning existing fuel (even biodiesel), generating new electric motor models and batteries and knocks off a whole set delivery and production supply chains.

  6. Re:Nuclear power arguments on Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    Except for them offering alternative solutions. (Conservation, global power grid/sharing, alternative fuels, improved capacitors, solar, wind, tidal...) and the relative nature of a term like 'bitch', I think you've got something there.

  7. Re:Interesting perspective, Google on Google Engineers Deny Hack Exploited Chrome · · Score: 1

    Get your mommy to stop playing with /you're/ "uncle" of the week, come down to the basement, and explain the harder words to you.

    FTFY.

  8. Re:flash is malware/adware on Google Engineers Deny Hack Exploited Chrome · · Score: 1

    Prepare to not be surprised.

  9. Re:Nuclear power arguments on Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    Look harder.

  10. Re:Alarmist? on Chain Reactions Reignited At Fukushima · · Score: 1

    I watched aghast heavy breathed explanation of why Fukushima should be the reason to belly up to her looooong time goal of eliminating nuclear power. I was left feeling all gross and gooey after her comments. She did bring facts to bear when speaking of how dangerous cesium is and other interesting bits. But she was careful, so deliberately careful, like Donald Rumsfeld careful, about saying that any of those factiods were true about Fukushima- which they weren't/aren't. Yet she did her very best to sell it.

    She is a dangerous woman.

  11. Re:PSN being down a result of... on Sony Rebuilding PlayStation Network Security After Attack · · Score: 1

    Yo, the sig man. Like, first, n' stuff.

    Sheesh

  12. Re:Carbon... on New Spin On Graphene Makes It Magnetic · · Score: 1

    Jackie Chan.

  13. Re:why NSA hate? on Google and NSA Teaming Up · · Score: 1

    They let people in the NSA look at /. Who knew?

    Aside from that quip- 'the good guys' would probably want to do things in the open like the Linux community does. Sharing data and methodology and so on. I do not see a lot of that coming from the NSA. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

  14. Re:Security is NOT an issue with The Cloud. on Google and NSA Teaming Up · · Score: 1

    Mod parent hilarious for stark realism. RSS Feeds- still laughing.

  15. Re:Before you get all excited... on Open-Source JavaScript Flash Player (HTML5/SVG) · · Score: 1

    Oh ffs, sorry.

    <video src='{path}' ></video>

  16. Re:Before you get all excited... on Open-Source JavaScript Flash Player (HTML5/SVG) · · Score: 1

    "for, say, internet video sites to work."

    And that is about it- no JS or SVG needed. The thing I think the demo is shooting for is the only thing people keep saying Flash does that HTML5 doesn't- the rendering of vectors in cutesy marketing pleasing animations. Evidently it does so pretty well.

    And with the notion of Workers, it looks like HTML5 might be firing towards the AIR market as well.

  17. Re:They should ditch comments entirely on YouTube Revamp Imminent? · · Score: 1

    Laying odds that one comment appearing on /. belonged to a Nobel Prize winner... 3 to 1.

  18. Re:All I Can Say ... on Duke Nukem Forever Not Dead? (Yes, This Again) · · Score: 1

    Typically you have to pay a little bit more for a happy ending.

    Oh come on. Someone had to.

  19. Re:It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum on Duke Nukem Forever Not Dead? (Yes, This Again) · · Score: 1

    That's one doomed space marine...

  20. API? on Adobe Security Chief Defends JavaScript Support · · Score: 1

    Why not just invent a new language exactly like javascript for Reader to use and then only expose the public API, which is similar to javascript. Make sure that main code base is securely sealed though so that when developer is trying to debug their script for some mystical, incomplete error message from the base classes it will be impossible. Call it something like actionPDFscript.

    I am sure it will be a big hit.

  21. Re:No, it doesn't! on Adobe Flash To Be Top Hacker Target In 2010 · · Score: 1

    WebKit seems to use them.

  22. Re:There is already a solution on Adobe Flash To Be Top Hacker Target In 2010 · · Score: 1

    "can't easily reproduce"
    [link] easily reproduced.

    Acceptance is a different story. That tetris makes a compelling model for a game designer. It should also be compelling for a project manager. Sure it's only Safari, Mozilla, Opera and Chrome at this point but there is hope.

  23. Re:There is already a solution on Adobe Flash To Be Top Hacker Target In 2010 · · Score: 1
  24. Re:There is already a solution on Adobe Flash To Be Top Hacker Target In 2010 · · Score: 1

    This uses the Quicktime libraries, for those what are interested.

  25. Re:I think it's funny on All GPLed Code Removed From MonoDevelop · · Score: 1

    And I promise I will check my comments for typos a bit more carefully. changed=changes, fist=first.