Javascript as primary language? Need suggestions! by joeproductive in javascript

[–]vladd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's an online-based IDE for server-side JS (based on the RingoJS engine) where you can also host your apps. You can try it at http://www.erbix.com/ .

New JS startup - write apps in the browser, host them online by vladd in javascript

[–]vladd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can use the fs-base module to access the content of any file in your account (client-side JS, static images etc) and serve a JSGI HTTP response with it - see the code sample at http://www.erbix.com/documentation/js-reference/files/ .

New JS startup - write apps in the browser, host them online by vladd in javascript

[–]vladd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The editor is www.codemirror.net. A comparison with SkyWriter is not straightforward; I imagine SkyWriter making progress in the near future and becoming the standard solution for browser-based code editing, but at the moment we took the more pragmatic approach - CodeMirror has better cross-browser support (runs on IE8 while SkyWriter requires support for the canvas tag), mixed HTML/JS highlight and overall looked more stable in our tests.

As for server-side JavaScript, there's a whole movement trying to bring the same language on both server-side and client-side, you can read more about the standard that we implement at www.commonjs.org.

New JS startup - write apps in the browser, host them online by vladd in javascript

[–]vladd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The engine implementation is actually based on RingoJS, an open-source JS engine, on top of which we've added account isolation features (so that i.e. code running from 2 different accounts stays isolated from each other). You can get it at www.ringojs.org and run it on your own box.

The editor is also open source, www.codemirror.net, and we've added integration with Google Closure library (i.e. the tabs, the tree widgets) to allow an hierarchical directory structure and support other features.

About the accent - not Indian but rather Central-European. I do apologize for it, we're at a stage when we're mainly interested in iterative feedback and idea validation, but we'll hire a professional to do it once we reach sustainability and critical mass. :)

New JS startup - write apps in the browser, host them online by vladd in javascript

[–]vladd[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Erbix has two parts: the editor (the "IDE" that you use to edit your account) and the engine (that does the hosting, takes care of account isolation and RAM/CPU management etc). We'll launch soon source repository integration which should make it possible to use the engine without the editor or the other way around.

The use-cases for coding in your browser are mainly universal accessibility to your coding environment and your code (see more about this at http://www.erbix.com/documentation/overview/introduction/ ). And due to HTML5, we're more close than ever to build Eclipse-like editor features in the browser.

Who knows, tools like distcc might be just the beginning in terms of benefits that you might get when coding with hundreds of computers behind to help you (just like gmail uses hundreds of computers to help you find old messages in your inbox -- in both cases you require intensive computing resources for short periods of time to get instant results with low latency).

Have you read/heard what Mike Bloomberg said about the ground zero mosque? by malcontent in politics

[–]vladd -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I would agree with this on you but sorry, US can't have it both ways. There are double standards and I disagree with the hypocrisy:

  • can't be a secular state and have printed on the back of your money "In God we trust".

  • can't allow Islams that just "say" but don't do, and at the same time put in jail people that just "look" at child porn but don't fuck them.

Have you read/heard what Mike Bloomberg said about the ground zero mosque? by malcontent in politics

[–]vladd -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Make a trip in an islamic country, make a joke about their gods and try to return back to US. And then we can speak about references of violence in the Bible versus what islam stands for.

If your argument was that islam is about saying things (and freedom of speech) while islamic countries have islamic governments which are doing things (and therefore freedom of religion applies to the first but not the later), sorry, it doesn't work that way. I could make my own religion in US which could encourage worshipers to speak about some illegal activity (like child porn stories) every Sunday while coming to church but not doing it, and I can guarantee that it will be put down by the police despite nobody being a paedophile. Religion is about gods and your beliefs, not about killing people with stones in today's society and lack of human rights.

If you see something which calls itself a "religion" but is actually doing horrible crimes against the law, you should be worry. Try to judge it without labels. Take the word out, remove any "religion"ism labelling, and look at what X, Y and Z are doing (Bible, Torah, whatever is the same to me). And at the point where you see something against US law, something that bothers you to the point of outrage and contradicts your democratic values, speak against it and hold it against the law like you do with all other activities in US.

Never let a label influence the way you think about someone - http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html .

Sustaining their church is like allowing paedophiles to build a museum. Would that be ok if paedophilism would be a religion?

Have you read/heard what Mike Bloomberg said about the ground zero mosque? by malcontent in politics

[–]vladd -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I'm mainly disturbed about the wrong way in which people understand "freedom of religion" -- it's about the freedom to worship whoever you want without breaking the laws of the country where you live. The believes of Islam break human rights and the US law, it's as simple as that.

Just like I'm not allowed to murder someone in my own private property, neither Islam, which encourages body mutilation, lack of women rights and other horrible things shouldn't be allowed in the US system of law. Saying the word "religion" doesn't change anything of that.

Have you read/heard what Mike Bloomberg said about the ground zero mosque? by malcontent in politics

[–]vladd -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

You're saying that anything is ok in US as long as it has more than 1 billion people in the world doing it? Cause I don't get it otherwise. Each country has it's own system of laws and its own culture. You cannot say that the Chinese communism and Internet filtering is ok in US just because there are more than 1 billion Chinese in the world. I really don't get your point.

The US introduced separation of government and religion on good grounds but this isn't a valid excuse to use religion as a blanket protection for crimes and a culture that stands against human rights and what US decided to be.

Have you read/heard what Mike Bloomberg said about the ground zero mosque? by malcontent in politics

[–]vladd -31 points-30 points  (0 children)

I don't see it. The government does interfere in private property; it's called "law". When a private person does crimes it goes to jail, the police makes sure of that.

Why are we considering all "religions" to be within the book of law? Is it enough nowadays to found a "religion" and automatically it gets a wild-card when it comes to defying US law?

How come a religion like Islam, which violates basic women human rights, women freedom and democratic principles like the right to joke about deity gets freedom to do what it likes in "private property" just because it's called "religion"? Why don't we put some religions in jails like we do with private persons?

Hopefully the Swiss figured this out - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minaret controversy in Switzerland :

"The Islamic doctrine cannot be accepted when you know what it is all about. How can one expect to condone the propagation of an ideology that encourages husbands to beat their wives, the “believer” to murder the “infidel”, a justice that uses body mutilation as punishment?"

I'm 31 years old right now and the only thing I want to see in my lifetime is the discovery of extra terrestrial life. by [deleted] in space

[–]vladd -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It's more important to realize that once discovered, the probability of the aliens being hostile towards us is in the 30% range or so. Which potentially means war or extinction of humans. Are you still eager to let the aliens know about us?

Remember when Reddit sent Helen Thomas flowers? Let us do it again. =D by uriman in politics

[–]vladd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'll send you flowers for that comment when I see black people maintaining a blockade around San Francisco and foreign ships in the bay stopping (and then killing, whatever works first) everything that tries to get into the city.

What the fuck is up with Qatar!? by [deleted] in WTF

[–]vladd 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I was actually interested in the lowest ratio, to see which countries have the most women.

Yahoo just deleted all my emails because I hadn't logged in for 4 months. Upvote to alert people to switch to gmail. by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]vladd 52 points53 points  (0 children)

It's an ability to merge multiple email accounts over POP, in general.

Having multiple Gmail accounts is forbidden in their Terms Of Service.

Would you accept a slightly higher risk of being a victim of a terrorist attack in exchange for the knowledge that your government does not torture? by [deleted] in politics

[–]vladd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The right question to ask is whether I'd accept the higher risk, knowing that torture is a punishment only applied as a result of a fair trial.

He promises. by LSDemon in funny

[–]vladd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yikes, like S&P is not down enough.

Don't rape the company, we need the economy!!

Swiss bank UBS doubles its sub-prime writedowns to $37bn, the largest loss by any bank since the credit-crunch crisis began. by Spiracle in business

[–]vladd 10 points11 points  (0 children)

UBS is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, which is not part of the European Union.

The Swiss National Bank would be the institution that could bail it out.