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by KuraFire 16y ago
"However, I sincerely doubt that's a very common case, and, as above, you don't have to switch to WebM if you don't want to. H.264 decoders still work." And thus, your entire argument in favor of WebM falls flat on its face. H.264 decoder
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by KuraFire 16y ago
Re: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/googles-h264-decision-its-a... This is a mostly idiotic article. First of all, for an Infrastructure Architect the guy has his storage knowledge all backwards: “ With YouTube, we’re talking about exaby
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by KuraFire 16y ago
> "I'd not go as far as calling this ridiculous. True, this feels wrong, but it's a fairly weighted decision - average users would tolerate "old" Flash-based fallback instead of native HTML5 <video> (most users won't understand
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by KuraFire 16y ago
I think you should re-read it and read more carefully, this time. All mentions of ideological are w.r.t. what your considerations are for choosing which video codec to use, and have nothing to do with whether or not you agree with the piece
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by KuraFire 16y ago
There is a separate statement somewhere released by MPEG LA that extended that particular policy to “forever”, explicitly stating it would thus exceed the previous deadline of December 31, 2015. That applies only the two conditions outlined
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Google, H.264 and Video on the Web(farukat.es)
17 points by KuraFire 16y ago|26 comments
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by KuraFire 16y ago
Oh for sure, the teams I worked with at MMe were all super talented and fun, and I still miss them. The problems were largely with the infrastructure and lack of vision for (or understanding of, perhaps) the product itself. Mostly details I
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by KuraFire 16y ago
As I said below, it's about the secrecy of the products & plans they're working on. Keeping those secrets is worth anywhere between $200 and $300 million of free advertisement a year (a conservative estimate, these days), so it shouldn’
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by KuraFire 16y ago
Imagine interviewing for a job position as baseband engineer in 2006. Apple had no iPhone in the market, why would they have needed a baseband engineer? Even a simple interview can sometimes reveal a lot about their product plans, hence the
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by KuraFire 16y ago
Not at all. It was just difficult to find the same kind of satisfaction in your work when other parts of the product fail so spectacularly. The MobileMe launch was a widely known failure, and the effects of that (and the problems) went on f
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by KuraFire 16y ago
For the people working there, talking about it on a public forum is cause enough to get fired, and hiding behind an online alias is not going to give you enough protection. Apple is full of really smart people, who like their jobs well enou
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Design Thinking vs. Data Thinking(farukat.es)
17 points by KuraFire 16y ago|6 comments
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by KuraFire 16y ago
“Seconds still matter.” Yes — for Google to make money a lot more than for you as end user.
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by KuraFire 16y ago
"If Jonathan Ives submitted a design for Google Instant, and his design was better than the "obvious solutions", then it would test well. If a better solution tests badly then, by definition of the word "test", you're not testing it properl
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by KuraFire 16y ago
"How do you know that Apple's designers aren't also testing their designs with real world users?" Having worked there, I can vouch for this. Apple employees (and, most notably, Steve himself) are the real world users they test with. Every i
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by KuraFire 16y ago
"I don't think IE 9's standards support means "the web wins" in the long run, since IE is still tied to Windows for strategic reasons." So what? How is the Web threatened or at risk or even _impacted at all_ by IE9 being Windows-only? With
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by KuraFire 16y ago
“but until they demonstrate they've changed their ways,” Which is exactly what they’ve been doing the past two releases. IE7 was a sincere attempt at catching up in the CSS department and get with the program on web standards adherence/comp
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by KuraFire 16y ago
More likely from seeing my tweet: http://twitter.com/KuraFire/status/15401140612