Pacabel

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by Pacabel 12y ago
Yes, voting down a legitimate comment here so that it's greyed out, thus making it more difficult to read, is a form of censorship. As for Firefox's reputation, I think it still has a reputation for poor performance because, contr
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Can you please address why we haven't seen much progress, even after so many years? You and others involved with Firefox may choose to deny it, but a lot of people still find recent versions of Firefox to be slow and/or to suffer
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I don't think that there is a good place to do that, unfortunately. You could file a bug, but it'll be pretty much lost among the thousands upon thousands of other ones that already exist and haven't been dealt with. You coul
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Unfortunately not.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
There's no "seems" about it. Useful functionality has been obscured or removed from Firefox time and time and time and time again since Firefox 4 and their rush to imitate Chrome. It isn't a new problem at this point; it
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Maybe you and others in the Firefox community don't realize this, but this isn't about counting "anecdotes" or anything like that. This is about users having bad experiences when using Firefox. Your positive experience i
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Your response is the kind that has given the Firefox community a rather bad reputation when it comes to addressing problems reported by users. Instead of accepting that Firefox may indeed have performance problem, you immediately discount t
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I think the exodus from Slashdot has been beneficial. It has shown that the various problems there are in fact severe enough to drive a large number of users away. It may not be an ideal situation, of course, but it's better than the p
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I merely pointed out one recent example that I could demonstrate quickly, because it happened to involve some of my comments and those of somebody else who happened to express similar ideas. It isn't the only instance, of course. Mis-m
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I think this is partially due to the informality that many GitHub users tend to have with respect to managing their projects. It's rare to see a GitHub-hosted project that offers proper releases, proper planning for those releases, pro
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Ruby on Rails is somewhat of a special case, though. Early web technologies like CGI, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, ASP and ASP.NET arose due to real-world needs. Ruby on Rails, on the other hand, arose mainly due to hype. From a technological pers
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Reversing a bad moderation or operational decision when it's widely pointed out as having been a bad decision isn't what I consider giving the community any control or influence. That's merely fixing mistakes that probably sh
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by Pacabel 12y ago
It's a problem when there is discussion about a submission, then the URL is changed to a somewhat different article, and the existing discussion no longer makes as much sense. Ripping away the original context unexpectedly is the probl
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I wonder why the parent comment was voted down. I don't see anything wrong with it. In fact, it has some perfectly reasonable ideas and suggestions. I find it odd that people within the discussion here can suggest that bad flagging or
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Here's one example of systematic downvoting that I can think of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7836937 So sum it up, me and somebody named jsmthrowaway happened to point out some painful realities regarding the
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I don't think that we can really consider Perl 6 and Parrot to be anything but abysmal failures at this point. The people developing and advocating for them have had many years now to product something that's even minimally usable
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by Pacabel 12y ago
This is very true. Many of the subreddits that are very specific to a given technology or programming language or something like that are often the worst. The audience is comparatively small to begin with, and mostly made up of people who h
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I think the problem extends beyond submission flagging. There have been enough times where I've witnessed completely factual and legitimate comments here that happened to criticize or even just question Mozilla, Rust, Ruby on Rails, No
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Just because a situation isn't as bad as it once was doesn't mean that it's somehow "good" now, though.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Let's be honest, this website isn't a democracy or a republic or anything like that, even if there is "voting" on submissions and comments. Average users really have no say while they're here. There's no real a
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by Pacabel 12y ago
The modified/edited/curated title and/or URL could always be shown underneath or beside the original title and URL, which remain unchanged.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I ignored the JVM because it really isn't that special at all, and its supposed benefits haven't been proven to exist in reality. Various types of VMs predated it by decades, including ones that used various forms of GC and JIT co
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Has there really been that much actual progress made lately, though? I'd say that C++, Erlang and perhaps Haskell are the most recent languages to bring anything new to the table in a way that's at least somewhat usable in practic
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Isn't listening to users the least that we should be able to expect from any open source project? Some projects (like GNOME and Firefox) have not done this very well lately, but it used to be pretty standard. The BSDs and their affilia
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by Pacabel 12y ago
There's a difference between the creator of a software system and who actually adopts it and advocates it in practice. Yes, git did originally come from Linus and the Linux kernel development community. But since then, their original u
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by Pacabel 12y ago
In addition, correctness and security should always be prioritized ahead of portability. It does no good for software to be portable if that just means it's incorrect and insecure on more platforms.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
It's not the state of the software itself that's being questioned here. It's how security wasn't put first and foremost in this case. Putting an extraordinarily high degree of emphasis on security is something a lot of u
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Menus aren't merely about hiding functionality. They're about organizing oft-used functionality in a way that's easily and consistently accessible, while at the same time not consuming too much screen space. The traditional h
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I don't want to deal with numerous bookmarks to internal pages, or site maps, or any crap like that. I want to be able to type "haskell.org" into any browser, and from there be able to quickly get to the standard library docu
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by Pacabel 12y ago
This "your UI shouldn’t mimick [sic] the native style of the platform" advice reminds me of what we used to hear when using Java and Swing a decade ago. It resulted in a bad user experience then, and I think that still holds true

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