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I'm a backer of Star Citizen and I've gotten my value out of backing it just from the community and all of the content that keeps coming out on the game. It's been $50 for me for hundreds of hours of entertainment so far, much better value than two tickets to the movies.

I do believe that there has been a bunch of mismanagement, which is a shame, but I still look forward to playing it sometime within the next 5-10 years. No game has ever been as ambitious as the scope of what Star Citizen aims to do.

Fusion.js is a javascript framework meant to be run on Node. There's nothing stopping you from calling out to other backends and asp.net if you stand up a Fusion.js frontend Node server.

Correct about Fusion.js being based on koa. We find that this fits really nicely within the plugin system. The diagram is complex, but we inject the render phase into the middleware stack. Everything before `await next()` is pre-render, and everything after `await next()` is post-render. It makes it very easy to reason about the lifecycle of a plugin, as everything is in one place.

I've been working with the Fusion.js team for the last year now, and I think it's evolved into a really interesting and modern web framework. Internally we've started rolling this framework to a few dozen web applications, and soon we will have hundreds of web apps running it. I think it's a great choice to use as a base for high-performance and complex web applications.

I had the same issue. An Airbnb host cancelled our reservation the day before our booking was supposed to start and Airbnb didn't help us out at all. We ended up paying quite a bit more for a hotel, but after going through that I'm happy to pay more in the future for professionalism and a guaranteed bed.

Electric unicycle? I own several. Some will even go over 50 km/h, though I don't dare go that fast. It's just safe to have the extra power when needed.

It's great, but I can't stand the chaining syntax. I'm a bit biased, but I think that some suite with async/await will be the future. Here's something that I've been working on: https://github.com/KevinGrandon/ghostjs/

Love the idea behind the site! As an intermediate level Japanese speaker I think I could benefit a lot from it, but I had a few suggestions.

1 - Consider having one story from each difficulty available for free. The free intermediate article is a bit daunting for my current kanji level. I would be interested in signing up just for the beginner articles, but probably not without a preview.

2 - If time permits, consider having a button which can display a translation of the entire sentence. Satori reader has something similar and it's very useful when there's unknown grammar

Hope the site takes off, I would love to use and support it in the future.

Looks like some work to support this is happening in a branch: https://github.com/brave/libchromiumcontent/commit/ca3e356b0...

You're cutting out a lot of the people in the middle and can show better ads. These ads should pay more, and both the publisher and user should make more than what they make today. (It's not hard to beat current payments to publishers, and users get no part of the pie right now).

Targeting can be much better if Brave gives the user the option to anonymously share information with them.

Nice. I built something similar recently, though not as fleshed out. It does use webpack for hot reloading on save: https://github.com/KevinGrandon/electron-boilerplate

And here is another popular boilerplate: https://github.com/chentsulin/electron-react-boilerplate

Recently I've been finding myself writing an increasing amount of integration tests over unit tests. They are typically more difficult to write, though I enjoy the safety net of knowing I'm not breaking user-facing features. I haven't been a fan of most of the existing frameworks with nested callbacks, or huge function chains with inline assertions. As people become more familiar with standardized async functions, I feel that they + mocha can be used as a test library which is very easy to reason about.

These are not juicy "internal documents", these were freely circulated on public mailing lists. Mozilla is very open about product development and direction. I believe these were early concepts, but may actually see some additional prototyping since the change in direction.

I'm interested in seeing what the community will do with this. There's a few people working on various boilerplates for this, and I've made one in Jade: http://github.com/KevinGrandon/aframe-jade-boilerplate/blob/...

Typically I can't stand Jade, but I think it works nicely with declarative 3D scenes.

Mozilla is shifting to use their web platform for connected devices and IoT efforts. The IoT space is a mess right now and I think that Mozilla could do a lot of good there.

I think that Firefox OS as a phone operating system will always be available for hackers to port and install on their own devices.

I agree. Evolution is overrated, let's go back to BBS.

I just had black pull out an epic victory over white in truly random fashion: http://imgur.com/9CTukc5

I'm also curious how rare a victory is here, and if it can be modeled with math.

> It requires passengers to run a nonfree program (an app).

I'm not sure if I agree with this, unless you consider the web to be non-free. Uber also runs a really great mobile website[1], which is one of the few reasons I use Uber not owning an iPhone or Android device.

[1] https://m.uber.com/

We're currently working on the next generation reference device. Until that comes out, my recommendation is to try out the OS on a Nexus 4 or Nexus 5. I use FirefoxOS on a Nexus 5 and it's quite nice, except not all of the hardware features work yet, including the camera. These are being actively worked on though and should be finished within a few months.

The ZTE Open is probably the easiest route to go, and you can order it on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ZTE-Open-powered-by-Firefox-OS-3G-un...

But the ZTE Open C is should be just around the corner: http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/23/hands-on-zte-open-c/

Alternatively if you have a nexus 4 or 5 you can flash FirefoxOS on top of it.