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Re:Apply HN: Hillside.fm - listen to music with other people in rooms on Saturday April 09, 2016 @09:56PM (#11464478)

Yes, listening to the same music simultaneously. The users control what music plays in the rooms, as opposed to simply a shared stream. And there are public rooms in addition to private ones.

Think turntable.fm/plug.dj for the closest analogy.

Re:Regarding JavaScript trailing commas on Friday April 08, 2016 @11:17PM (#11459717)

Fair enough. Maybe CoffeeScript specifically isn't the answer. But the general idea of compiling neater languages into JavaScript strikes me as a better long-term solution than settling for its current syntactical warts, which are entirely historical accidents.

I do like ES6!

Re:Regarding JavaScript trailing commas on Friday April 08, 2016 @11:08PM (#11459688)

Controversies like the "trailing comma" strike me as evidence that JavaScript has superfluous syntax. The reason it even uses commas the way it does is that it started life as a lisp with (manager-mandated) Java-like syntax.

I happen to agree with the position that syntax that can be made implicit should be. CoffeeScript has done a good job of this. LiveScript has done an even better one. What are the arguments against using a syntactically cleaner language that compiles down to the exact same features?

Apply HN: Hillside.fm - listen to music with other people in rooms

Posted by hillsidefm on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:02PM
from the self-post dept.

Hillside.fm lets you listen to music with other people in rooms. You can open private rooms to listen with friends, or join public rooms to discover new songs together with a reddit-like community. Whereas existing services have focused on the party/club/dj aspect of shared music, Hillside is quiet listening rooms for introverts. We're not a video game.The shared music market is confirmed to...

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