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I was more impressed that it lasted an entire 24 hours. They're exposing it to the festering cesspool of Twitter, and it holds out for an entire day? That speaks to the quality of their anti-abuse measures more than anything else.
Based on the rest of the post, I think that hope might be unrealistic.
C++ to JS is a pretty huge jump. C++ -> Java -> JS might work better.
Absolutely. I can't speak for anyone else, but I'd happily switch to a GiTS-style full-body prosthetic if they were available.
If you can't blind them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.
RealCalc is my favorite. It supports RPN and doesn't require any permissions other than storage.
If you use Livestreamer and an IRC client, you can run Twitch streams outside your browser. That's what I've been doing - I haven't had flash installed since that cross-platform RCE bug late last year.
I managed to find a PDF copy a while back, and if I can ever find a physical copy that's not incredibly expensive I'd certainly buy it.
I'm pretty sure that example is actually fine - if there's a concurrent writer, the modified value will be loaded into oldValue. Repeating shared.load is unnecessary since that operation occurs as part of compare_exchange_weak.