Readit Newslucianp commented on Poll: What Programming Language Do You Use for Server Side Web Development? · Posted by u/bokenator
Groovy
Despite the apparent lack of popularity, Groovy with the Grails framework is certainly better suited for web development than many (I would dare to say, most) of the programming languages listed above.
Of course, it also matters what kind of web development we are talking about. Is it web services or web applications? I think the requirements are quite different between the two.
lucianp commented on The Fastest Blog in the World jacquesmattheij.com/the-f... · Posted by u/eugenparaschiv
> Take the Google homepage. It’s a one liner text field and two buttons. It weighs in at a whopping 1170 kilobytes! That’s more than a megabyte for what technically should not take more than a few hundred bytes.
The Google homepage does a lot more than that. Since it is one of the most important pages for Google, I think that the engineers over there know what they are doing. I don't think it is a good example of bloat.
lucianp commented on Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default support.mozilla.org/en-US... · Posted by u/cft
This is great. Let's continue: add Tree Style Tab natively
I second this! Tree Style Tab is one of the few addons that I cannot live without. Heck, it is one of the reasons why Firefox is my primary browser.
This feature should be made native and the original developer should be rewarded somehow for his efforts.
lucianp commented on LHCb experiment reports observation of exotic pentaquark particles press.web.cern.ch/press-r... · Posted by u/suprgeek
I think the submission should link to the actual press release: http://press.web.cern.ch/press-releases/2015/07/cerns-lhcb-e...
lucianp commented on Show HN: Ambient soundscape generator for productivity stampede.it... · Posted by u/razbo
lucianp commented on Show HN: Ambient soundscape generator for productivity stampede.it... · Posted by u/razbo
Superb! I like it a lot!
A timer for going to sleep would be awesome. Towards the end, the volumne should decrease slowly.
I think an alarm function for waking up would be a nice feature as well. You could set the sounds that you like and when the time comes it would slowly increase the volume over a perioad of 10-15 minutes. This way you could wake up slowly and naturally (forest + rain + thunder would work well as an alarm, for me at least).