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Being "scooped" by a mere 6 months, on a 10 year old technology doesn't really make their realization dated. It's new to me, and I bet it's new to most news.yc
by tjic 17y ago
Being "scooped" by a mere 6 months, on a 10 year old technology doesn't really make their realization dated.
It's new to me, and I bet it's new to most news.yc-ers.
- jrockway 17y ago/me mumbles something about Reading The Fine Source. Then you don't have to guess what your browser is doing.
- smackfu 17y agoTrying to figure out HTML from reading the Firefox source is kind of insane.
- jrockway 17y agoYeah, OK. So just be ignorant instead.
- etherealG 17y agodo you read the source of the linux kernel to understand how to use bash? how about the source of a wifi driver before connecting to a network? your premise is rediculous.
- jrockway 17y agoI don't do those things, but that's not because it's a bad method, but because I don't care. If there was some bug in some system call, or if I needed to investigate why hardware is misbehaving, of course I'd read the Linux source. That's one of the great things about open source software; you don't have to treat it like a black box. You can just look at the internals and see how they work. (And I have proof that I do actually do this; I had a misbehaving joystick, and the linux fork in my github contains the fix.) Anyway, in conclusion, if you want to know what algorithm Firefox uses to process CSS selectors, just read the Firefox source code. If you don't give a damn, then don't do that instead. But if you care and you do nothing, that's just silly.
- threepointone 17y agoNo no, his premise is delicious! yummy trollspam.
- jamesr 17y agoScooped by 10 years on a 10 year old technology, not 6 months. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1180429 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1180429