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Re:Trouble at the Koolaid Point on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @08:44PM (#8430227)
Related: Does anyone know of a good-quality place to go for discussion that doesn't center around news and links? Something akin to MetaFilter or HN in terms of standards, but not focused on aggregation. Are mailing lists/Usenet groups good for this?
Re:Stellar on Thursday July 31, 2014 @12:49PM (#8115220)
Ah, Disconnect was the issue. Thank you!
Re:Stellar on Thursday July 31, 2014 @12:43PM (#8115162)
The "Connect with Facebook" button on Stellar's dashboard appears to be broken, or at least for me, anyway. Clicking it results in a "Loading..." message that never seems to go away.
Re:Amazon/Hachette Business Interruption on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @12:36AM (#8106394)
Just yesterday I used http://epub2mobi.com/ to convert a public domain ePub file to MOBI, then sent that to my Kindle's email address. It was delivered wirelessly to my Kindle. Are you sure this hasn't changed? Or is epub2mobi doing something to circumvent this?
Re:GitHub kinda sucks on Saturday July 19, 2014 @04:22AM (#8056998)
Same for my Kindle. What's the point of this?
Re:Mayhem – A hidden threat for *nix web servers on Friday July 18, 2014 @09:31PM (#8056369)
Only as the dropper. Presumably the other parts of the malware (libworker.so, etc.) could be repurposed and coupled with a different infection system.
Re:Ceylon: Quick introduction on Saturday July 05, 2014 @03:53PM (#7992806)
Note that it's not just a "web" language. It runs on the JVM (as well as in the browser), and can be used as a more featureful Java replacement. To this end, it has very nice interop support with Java [1], helped by their similar syntax/structure.

[1] http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.0/reference/interoper...

Re:Ceylon: Quick introduction on Saturday July 05, 2014 @03:45PM (#7992782)
There's a bit about it on the linked page (look for the description of "dynamic" blocks), plus a tutorial on their blog: http://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2013/02/26/ceylon-in-the-browser...
Re:Ceylon: Quick introduction on Saturday July 05, 2014 @02:58PM (#7992677)
The first production-ready version was released in late 2013: http://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2013/11/12/ceylon-1/

The language is still relatively new, and under active development: https://github.com/ceylon