[zeromq-dev] An interesting use-case for EdgeNet : Asynchronous IRC?

crocket crockabiscuit at gmail.com
Thu Jan 2 03:02:38 CET 2014


"Sent from my iPhone" tells you have an iPhone.
Do you need to buy an android device? I already have nexus 7 and just
ordered a nexus 5 yesterday.
I can test your programs if you give .apk to me or upload your app to play
store.


On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Lindley French <lindleyf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe. I have some practical experience but I don't have an Android device
> right now, and the emulators don't behave exactly like the devices in all
> cases.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jan 1, 2014, at 4:37 PM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:
> >
> > Lindley, would you be able to help get Zyre et all working on Android?
> >
> >> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Lindley French <lindleyf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Oh---and some network functionality shuts down on Android when the
> device is
> >> inactive if you don't take the appropriate lock. This is a critical
> >> consideration when designing edge networking services.
> >>
> >> On Jan 1, 2014, at 1:17 PM, Lindley French <lindleyf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Android at least, if you have any trouble with UDP broadcast or
> >> multicast, you should trying using the IPv6 all-hosts address. Android's
> >> built-in filtering doesn't seem to affect IPv6 the same way as IPv4.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Sean Robertson <sprobertson at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I have something like this in the works, in the form of an iOS
> application
> >>> that I hope to soon port to Android. It doesn't properly use Zyre but
> rather
> >>> my own haphazard  reimplementation, due to some silliness with Apple's
> UDP
> >>> broadcast (https://github.com/zeromq/czmq/issues/297). The UI works
> decently
> >>> though. I'll send the code to this list later this week.
> >>>
> >>>> On Dec 31, 2013 6:38 PM, "Lindley French" <lindleyf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Asych twitter is a good idea and will work well. I've seen it done.
> >>>> Another fun application is async push to talk.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Dec 31, 2013, at 9:32 PM, crocket <crockabiscuit at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> May asynchronous twitter be more appropriate for my idea?
> >>>> Asynchronous twitter, asynchronous IRC, whatever.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:19 AM, crocket <crockabiscuit at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> With asynchronous IRC software, you can choose your nickname and a
> >>>>> topic.
> >>>>> You send messages that belong to a topic.
> >>>>> People who subscribed to that topic receive your message.
> >>>>> Or they might choose to receive messages from every topic.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This becomes very interesting when population density goes up very
> high
> >>>>> in a small area.
> >>>>> Imagine that you went to comiket. Wikipedia says "Comiket (コミケット
> >>>>> Komiketto?), otherwise known as the Comic Market (コミックマーケット Komikku
> >>>>> Māketto?), is the world's largest dōjinshi fair, held twice a year
> in Tokyo,
> >>>>> Japan."
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ~590,000 people attended comiket last summer. It basically looks like
> >>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comiket77.jpg
> >>>>>
> >>>>> With hundreds of thousands of people in a small area, asynchronous
> IRC
> >>>>> becomes fun.
> >>>>> Not as fun as the near-synchronous one we have now, but still.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I think asynchronous IRC may entice people to adopt EdgeNet starting
> >>>>> from big meetups.
> >>>>
> >>>>
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