Detrus

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by Detrus 16y ago
Interesting how much programmers care about the nuances of a language and don't bother to mention capabilities. GWT's main purpose is not to convert JS to a proper language, but to provide a huge set of tools, like code generation for each
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by Detrus 16y ago
It's typical of older teams or companies to fall behind and new people to outdo them. Firefox, inspired by idealism and being open source is no exception. Their code and mindset is solving old problems. Firefox didn't need standards bodies'
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by Detrus 16y ago
Amazing how groupthink works. Even people that don't work at Adobe now refuse to see the issue from the other side's perspective. This guy says that Flash performs consistently across platforms, when it doesn't. That's the main reason for t
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by Detrus 16y ago
NativeClient doesn't get access to the desktop file system just because it runs apps at desktop speeds. The sandboxing setup forces it to go through the browser to get to the filesystem. Currently interfacing with JS is the only way for NaC
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by Detrus 16y ago
I agree about the larger point that limiting the web to one language is a bad idea. There is a serious effort by Google http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1341340 to alleviate this issue. With NPAPI that allows plenty of access to the br
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by Detrus 16y ago
You can compile your binary for multiple architectures, check the type of processor and give it the appropriate binary. They also have the LLVM option so that old binaries keep working on new architectures without recompiling and rewriting
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by Detrus 16y ago
Here is a fix that could have been done long ago to reduce CPU usage http://www.kaourantin.net/2010/03/timing-it-right.html It took a lot of whining for them to get started on it, but there was and is plenty of room for improvement. The a
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by Detrus 16y ago
Since the Flash 9 release in 2006 that came with AS3 there were only minor improvements. So the rapid development of the previous years did not last. The past did not predict the future. The new 3D API is maybe a 30% improvement in performa
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by Detrus 16y ago
It's a complicated word, Apple should know better. Using Apple should be easy.
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by Detrus 16y ago
Flash as a CPU hog is a user complaint. Users do not care how it compares to other similar technologies and this narrow metric won’t convince any of them. This was a fixable problem that wasn’t fixed. Flash is no longer the king of easy to
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by Detrus 16y ago
Aesthetics is a silly metric. We evolved color combination reactions to find food, like fruits in a forest, or to find healthy mates. Every situation is different. A color palette like on kuler or colorlovers doesn't represent the real envi
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by Detrus 16y ago
To compete with Facebook and have a desirable product in this decade you have to go at it from another angle. It should not look and feel like a social network, friending, following should be a part of the service, not the focus. Perhaps so
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by Detrus 16y ago
You mean desktop linux vs the web? Or even Linux vs iPhone OS?
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by Detrus 16y ago
Yes Ubuntu isn't going anywhere. App developers want one and only one OS and Ubuntu doesn't make life easier by being free. As far as new technologies, I imagine internet protocols and bandwidth in 2018 will make it possible to share massiv
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by Detrus 16y ago
Yea let's get an open alternative, a few years of coding, a few years of Facebook screwing up, a massive hatefest, and it will have 30% penetration in 2018. By then there will be new technologies that will make the issue irrelevant. Same as
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by Detrus 16y ago
NativeClient will support other languages and through a new plugin API, they'll be able to link up with HTML, CSS just like JS can. Only the other browsers have to agree to implement it. Minor little problem.
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by Detrus 16y ago
I thought they'd use O3D together with NativeClient which is open source. I doubt Google would bother with some proprietary plugin, their entire OS is open source. NativeClient would make plugins second nature to the web. They could be down
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by Detrus 16y ago
This guy is typing and talking a bit too fast for a tutorial
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by Detrus 16y ago
The flying spaghetti monster said "let there be light," and there was light. Then light instantly reached all the corners of the singularity. And he said "whoopsiee, gonna have to edit that out." So he moved a slider on his touch screen to
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by Detrus 16y ago
It's probably the media that changed the way it covers things. Einstein became a celebrity because his theories challenged that of another famous name, Newton. Famous scientists almost didn't exist, so Einstein's celebrity was a noticeable
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by Detrus 16y ago
Yea, there's a big trend in programming to make it simpler, frameworks and languages that let you get more done while thinking about less. It's suddenly important to understand the underlying principles? I don't think that message will get
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by Detrus 16y ago
- IE9 adopting HTML5, including Canvas - Chrome with NativeClient ready - NPAPI released so NativeClient can integrate with browsers - Serious consideration of NativeClient as a standard - Start replacement of plugins and browsers with NaCl
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by Detrus 16y ago
Ray didn't expect his predictions to be as accurate as they were. When he made them they weren't obvious to everyone, now they are. They have plenty of substance and are accurate enough to be useful. GPS or genius playlists as intelligent a
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by Detrus 16y ago
You're picking out silly details in the predictions. The predictions about desktops to laptops is about computers getting smaller in general, the detail about laptops was just an example, computers fitting inside jewelry is another example.
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by Detrus 16y ago
Probably not. I had gum disease and cavities when I was 20 after brushing everyday and using Listerine. Maybe I sucked at brushing and didn't know it, either way my brain got screwed.
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by Detrus 16y ago
The technology roadmap for the next five decades is predictable. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Raymond_Kur... are spot on so far. What ideas do you have that aren't there? No big ideas that's for sure. Start
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by Detrus 16y ago
Of all the blogs about how to run a startup from the discomfort of your own home, this one stands out. It's well written, has some research and it's obvious that the writers spent time on the posts. But perhaps too analytical, too long for
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by Detrus 17y ago
Poor digg, that was supposed to be their trick
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by Detrus 17y ago
I think you guys are missing the big picture here. This is a brilliant PR move. The hilarity contained in this thing is on par with encyclopedia dramatica. It will become part of the 4chan, lolcats web culture and what can be better than th