The only thing he missed is that javascript as a compilation target makes less sense than a byte code format designed for such a thing, which is what WASM is. WASM is more similar to JVM bytecode than it is to Javascript. It seems we have a few implementations of WASM that for historical reasons share a code base with a javascript interpreter. But technically that interpreter is not really needed.
You can actually use WASM to run your own javascript interpreter and people are already doing that to not be dependent on the interpreter that comes with the browser or wasm runtime (outside the browser). If you are going to run node.js in a wasm runtime, that's what you might want to do. Likewise, if you want to offer a browser IDE for a node.js project, you might want to run node.js in a browser and this is probably what you'd be doing rather than passing through the javascript to the browser javascript interpreter, which lacks most of the node.js API. Just easier that way.
Likewise if you want to run some old internet explorer 10 javascript, packaging up on old version of that as wasm might allow you to do that. The hard part of course would be getting your hands on the source code. But MS might help us out here or somebody might implement something compatible. Very much like is being done with flash.
I submitted a PR for configurable volume ~2015 [0]. For as often as I see this complaint in threads about the project, it's a shame that the author isn't interested in implementing it.
Oh but you don't understand! They had to take their earbuds out. Clearly this is a malicious site and should be treated as such! The volume, after all. Yhoiseth, the volume.
Like the featured article, HN threads - then and now - are pretty low-key in regards to participant introductions. Usernames are just text, no flair or qualifiers so the focus is on the speaker's content itself. `libria` is free to converse with `cperciva` as an equal peer which is nice, because most other IRL forums I'd be acutely aware that's not the case ;)
I like the part where someone calls cperciva's idea bad, he says what's bad about it then the founder of Dropbox replies saying they're just starting and it sounds like they're in the same space.
I don't agree with that phrasing. A lot of people on that thread seemed sure cperciva was some arrogant dickhead bound for failure, but tarsnap is going a lot stronger than many of them are. Also people in the thread were amazingly rude to him, while he seemed pretty polite to me.
Didn't see this mentioned, but Wordpress and Drupal have had a huge impact on my early career.
Wouldn't count them as developer tools per se, but as a software provider, I could serve a lot more customers with ease and confidence thanks to hundreds of thousands of man hours put in by the Wordpress and Drupal developers.
Yep, that is the long term agenda of the project. Most (all?) amendments have certain socio-economic/political context which gets lost over time. Amendments (and laws in-general) are better understood when the context is well laid-out.
I'll add all such contexts to all these amendments, including who tabled the bill, how did the debates go, were there any following judicial reviews: all that data.
- The terminology referred to as "socially and educationally backward classes" is to provide certain underprivileged sections of the society better living standards
- PART-3 (https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/b...) guarantees the Fundamental Right to Equality
14. Equality before law.—The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India.
Yeah, now that you pointed out, it does look ugly. I created an issue: https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/i... to track this one.
I anyway plan to rewrite all commits with corrected time and author info; will be a good time to rename files as well.
