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Re:100M games played on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @10:14AM (#10346106)
The website exists for more than 3 years, today we are the 7th of October and the donations are already at 100% for the whole month. It's arguably sustainable enough.
Re:Scala.js no longer experimental on Thursday February 05, 2015 @09:04AM (#9003252)
Traceur (ES6 compiler) itself has a runtime of several hundreds kb. Nothing you can't avoid at some point. There is an overhead for sure. But in most cases, execution time is spent in native calls (Dom rendering especially).
Re:Reactive Manifesto on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @10:41AM (#6888126)
Hm, the reactive manifesto doesn't say that it's new. It tries to convert people from bloated ol' Java/CSharp to better practices that fits new common needs. Of course Reactive is not new... Nor realtime... But an ecommerce website for instance never had to wonder about this kind of things before: new needs.
Re:Berlin Startup Map on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @03:16PM (#6600988)
This was done in Paris 1 or 2 years ago. Some folks found the map and broke in those places to steal computers and stuffs.
Highly available?
3 years... this is definitely French. By the time, a dozen of bigger projects can show up in the world.
Re:How a Car Engine Works on Thursday September 05, 2013 @05:34AM (#6333046)
Water boil at exactly 100 degrees Celsius... not the conversion of 212 degrees Fahrenheit. Americans. ;-)

Nice job still.

Re:Flutter: $20 Wireless Arduino with 1 km range on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @06:00PM (#6286568)
First thing that crossed my mind too. It's definitely forbidden in Europe.
"I don't want to be black listed"

Not everybody is Edward Snowden...

You forgot the JVM.
Well... It seems that hisghscalability doesn't scale... Error from squarespace on that page.
Java has more than 100k packages in 16years... more than 6k per year as well.
Re:Web Framework Benchmarks on Thursday March 28, 2013 @06:51PM (#5458186)
The Play app uses MySql in a blocking way, while Nodejs uses mongo. It's not comparable.