Julian Gruber

build merkle tree

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When two or more nodes start replicating (i.e. mirroring, syncing) they need to figure out how their files differ, so they can exchange only what they really have to. The...

relays

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Relays are nodes that only forward your data or store it encrypted, so they don't actually _have_ your data but can help with the network tasks, e.g. to ship around...

environments

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Does it make sense to make backer environment agnostic, so it can work in mostly any environment javascript works in? Initially this would just be a node.js thing. So, would...

collaborative editing

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Using the file system as base abstraction can make it rather hard to incorporate features like collaborative realtime editing. I think the way this works with Dropbox is when A...

idea

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@dominictarr @hij1nx Hey, so I got frustrated about dropbox being a centralized service and bittorrent sync being closed source and not working on SmartOS. => Since dominic talked about this...

consider integrating fix-ev

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https://github.com/juliangruber/fix-ev for older browsers

ETOOMANYBUTTS

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I did juliangruber/events as a node api-compatible wrapper around component/emitter already. The only thing missing from mine is that maxListeners stuff which could be implemented. We should try to avoid...

use tcp module only

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why even use `require('http')` for this?

atom requirements

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- [ ] if the user is on a specific release channel, like `beta`, they want to stay there. This is in contrast to other use cases, where if you're...