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There was another public thing on Facebook (Q&A town hall Berlin) where the German questioners had a) so-so questions b) some really, really bad English skills and c) just felt like backwoodsmen, all paired by Facebook's European head who is also German and must be in love with Zuck (he interviewed Zuck few times on the trip and asked odd questions—why does an FB employee interview Zuck??). Absolutely nothing against Germans, nice people, but especially this town hall speak was a bit embarrassing and gave a slightly wrong picture of Germans.

EDIT: Hey downvoters, please read my piece again, it's NOT against any nationality—it rather criticizes how the interviewers/questioners were chosen which might give a not representative picture.

Comment · 10 years ago

Someone who got it and starts the README right away with advantages over Cygwin.

The '1/15th of the size' sounds fantastic—I installed Cygwin on a cheaper Windows notebook yesterday and it took 45 minutes (I could have installed a VM + an Linux image in the same time).

Comment · 10 years ago

My dad had an IBM Selectric typewriter with a typeball head. I remember I was 9 or 10 and it was so satisfying how a soft key press let the typeball moving & rotating incredibly fast to the right letter and hammering the paper. Actually it was so fast you barely could see any movement. The printed letters were ultra crisp and clear (like a today's 2400dpi b/w laser printer) since it was kind of an one time ribbon. A total different experience to previous typewriters where you needed to hit the keys hard and the printed letters were of inconsistent quality.

Since then I was fascinated by devices with keyboards.

I found a commercial where you can see the typeball in action including slow motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNUEUth7qjc

Comment · 10 years ago

Sounds great and looking forward!

Comment · 10 years ago

Wrong question.

I don't care where I can find free WiFi. Nowadays, every damn coffee shop, hotel or mall has free Wifi—I care about fast and free WiFi with speedy up- & downloads and low latency. Well executed implementation though.

EDIT: Why the downvote?

Comment · 10 years ago

Thanks, first time I hear about a Mongoose web server.

Comment · 10 years ago

Why?

While Nxweb looks very promising, my first question would be 'Why should I use it over eg Nginx?' It would be helpful to have some direct comparison to other servers on the landing page.

EDIT: Ok, there is a link to some odd benchmarks and it includes performance comparisons to Nginx and others which are not understandable (Nginx 141 req/s and Nxweb 200 / 121 req/s while it's not clear when 200 and when 121); moreover they compare it to Mongoose which is an ORM/ODM