Arelius

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by Arelius 14y ago
While it may be true, we haven't actually seen a new layout engine written, so it's pretty difficult to estimate how long it'd take. Webkit was mostly functional as KHTML many years and tens to hundreds of developers ago.
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by Arelius 14y ago
I find this a very good question!
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by Arelius 14y ago
> I do wonder if they considered Mozilla's Gecko engine. Gecko has a lot of legacy, and to be fair, even Mozilla has tentative plans to transition off of gecko, to be replaced by servo: https://github.com/mozilla/servo
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by Arelius 14y ago
I'd generally agree. But my impression is that Opera had small enough market share that people overwhelmingly ignored it anyways.
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by Arelius 14y ago
Besides the fact that I think Firefox is now actually a really great piece of software, this is a primary reason why I continue to use Firefox while everyone else in the office uses chrome.
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by Arelius 14y ago
Considering they are switching to an open source rendering engine, I think there is likelihood they would have open-sourced presto already if that was possible. I suspect that like much proprietary software, there are too many licensed depe
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by Arelius 14y ago
It breaks my heart to know that Presto is going to most likely be left to bitrot in some SCM somewhere. But on the same note, I understand that using webkit will be better for Opera as a browser.
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by Arelius 14y ago
> but the "big picture" is 100% based on real physics. Having implemented motion blur numerous times, this is actually super interesting to me. However I was reading through your source-code and was having a hard time following along. A
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by Arelius 14y ago
> worry not HNers who are against software patents Well I guess those HNers among us who are against all patents will continue to worry then. ;)
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by Arelius 14y ago
Yeah, actually even in that case, I'd prefer no pronouns. "Fetching email" is much better IMO, and possibly more accurate (Imagine my girlfriend logged into my email for instance).
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by Arelius 14y ago
It turns out, however that when you're talking about transportation, energy density is much more important than efficiency generally speaking.
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by Arelius 14y ago
Really? Because if I want a quick response, I normally get better luck with a messenger.
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by Arelius 14y ago
> If the kid is this smart he can do way better than running some VPS hosting company in the long run. What's actually super interesting about the kid's comment is that while clearly written by a clever kid, he specifically never states
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by Arelius 14y ago
I've not used it, but generally an advantage with these sort of things is an easy and simple way to have persistent connections, and history without having to setup a crappy bouncer and deal with it's set of problems.
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by Arelius 14y ago
And also keep in mind, if you are a GPL supporter, without copyright suddenly the license looses it's teeth. And can now be included in proprietary products. It may not be ultimately bad. But I feel it's a fair bit less obvious than patents
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by Arelius 14y ago
Also, the problem with copyrights disappearing regarding software, is that it may not help innovation much. Without copyright we still don't get source, and things that were protected by copyright are just now protected by secrecy. I imagin
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by Arelius 14y ago
I don't disagree, but I'm ok with taking this one step at a time, and I feel patents, being monopolies on general ideas, not specific realizations of such, are the more obviously worse of the two. My main point is that some aspects of your
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by Arelius 14y ago
You say copyrights, but it seems very much that you mean patents. Could you clarify?
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by Arelius 14y ago
This is cool... What data sources do you use? Something I've always wanted is to be able to say, I'm looking for a flight from x to y, email me if it ever gets X cheap.
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by Arelius 14y ago
I disagree. Consistency is only valuable so long as it helps clarity and understanding. While that is most often the case, there are exceptions.
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by Arelius 14y ago
FirefoxOS does indeed run on Gecko, the Firefox rendering engine. I'm my experience, most crashes seem to be related to plugins and/or extensions, with that aside, I seem to get pretty comparable crash frequency from Firefox and chrome whil
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by Arelius 14y ago
I think generally speaking, reading the spec is useful when trying to figure out the details of more complex topics, I think this holds true for most languages. I used to pull out the C spec regularly, and even the c++ draft spec on occasio
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by Arelius 14y ago
Why does doing things in screen space muck with stereoscopic 3d? That makes little to no sense IMO
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by Arelius 14y ago
I think that while that may have originally been the case, I feel that we've long since passed the point of particularly efficient layout engines with as few pathological cases as possible. Particularly computational costs, since I think yo
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by Arelius 14y ago
Does ruby even have a proper spec?
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by Arelius 14y ago
> what shape is it, oh, it's a circle, so now check what I am colliding with While this is true, consider that the huge library of built-up optimizations in a well used collision library like Havok very likely makes up for these checks.
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by Arelius 14y ago
Do keep in mind that a floating point buffer is 4 times the size of a normal buffer. And an alpha mask can be gray scale, or even one-bit color. Not that this couldn't be a good use of floating point textures for other reasons (A full HDR p
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by Arelius 14y ago
> you might not be able to work at what _could_ otherwise be your top picks or best options Subtle but significant difference.
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by Arelius 14y ago
That's a fine reason.
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by Arelius 14y ago
So, for a very long time, I had an XBMC box setup on my projector, got a AppleTV, pretty quickly stopped using the XBMC machine, and now I've since repurposed the machine as a Steam Big Picture box, (Which sadly won't run on an XBMC Apple T

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