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Re:How did Einstein Think? on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @05:06PM (#8926099)
The end of the article laments Einstein's retreat to 'simple mathematics' instead of following Bohr and company toward the complexity of Quantum Mechanics -- but this recent wired article suggests that perhaps Einstein was right all along: http://www.wired.com/2014/06/the-new-quantum-reality/
Re:Meteor 0.8.0: Introducing the Blaze templating engine on Thursday March 27, 2014 @11:47PM (#7485247)
The last major hurdle for 1.0 (as I understand it) is final integration work with Atmosphere and updates to the package management system. While this is no small feat, it is far less of an engineering hurdle than either Blaze or the opLog tailing which was implemented in 0.7.0.
Re:Meteor 0.8.0: Introducing the Blaze templating engine on Thursday March 27, 2014 @11:44PM (#7485237)
They are trying to solve the same problem: gatekeepers to any mutable data that affects your DOM -- but they do it in pretty different ways: (1) under the hood, Blaze tracks the DOM changes and applies them directly whereas React diffs the resultant HTML and applies the difference. (2) Blaze uses declarative templates for injecting HTML; React requires HTML to be built using virtual DOM elements in javascript.

Here is one of the React core developers (Pete Hunt) on React integration with Meteor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqVbr_LaCIo (note this is before Blaze)

Regarding performance: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/meteor-core/-px_AGhj...

Ask HN: Will famo.us survive native browser optimizations?

Will the gap between famo.us' calculate-the-CSS-transform-and-apply-directly-to-the-element in order to circumvent the browser's native ability be a viable option once the browsers themselves optimize their engines? WILL they optimize their engines? Am I understanding the value of famo.us correctly?

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What about the pocket? Does the recording still come through okay?
Re:Chart.js is back online on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @08:21PM (#5404666)
Yay! Nick: glad your employer changed their tune. Long live open source :)

The article I wrote for infoq is up now: http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/03/chartjs-v.0.1-released