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Ask HN: What is the difference between famo.us and cocoon.js?

Posted by dsinha on Friday September 05, 2014 @01:48PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm trying to understand the difference between these 2 technologies. I understand what famo.us is trying to do with its own rendering, but am new to cocoon.js. From what I read they started out as a game platform rendering on canvas, and were mainly geared towards the web, but have since announced support for HTML5 apps...hence trying to understand the difference.

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Re:Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book on Saturday July 12, 2014 @04:12AM (#8024002)
Agree, one of the best business books I have read!
Re:Show HN: lrnmo.com: Use industry standard tools and IDEs for learning on Friday March 07, 2014 @05:59PM (#7363291)
Glad you like it! Yes, that would be a great use case for this. It especially shines is more advanced CS classes, like Coursera's Intro to Recommendation Systems, the Scala course, where something like Eclipse/Intellij would be very useful. And then we're thinking there are other skills like debugging, schema optimization etc. which can also be taught more efficiently on this platform.
Re:A Look Inside Our 210TB 2012 Web Corpus on Thursday August 15, 2013 @09:35PM (#6221722)
Isn't there also the additional factor that webservers sometimes allow only the major search engines to crawl? If so, with something like this, should it gain popularity, and as more apps start using it, you'd hope more webservers allow the common crawler to crawl their websites which they might not if everyone were doing it individually...thinking aloud...

Ask HN: Would a NATO like pact against software patents work?

Posted by dsinha on Friday May 10, 2013 @03:58PM
from the ask-hn dept.

One of the reasons given for filing patents is that they are filed for defensive purposes. Wondering some kind of a NATO like collective defense pact has not emerged amongst startups/large software companies, where if a single company gets sued for a software patent infringement, then all other companies in the pact agree to sue the plaintiff. While this probably wouldn't work against patent...

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