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by Solar19 8y ago
Mapquest is surprisingly still going, and it seems better than Google Maps in my limited experience with it. When visiting Orlando, FL a couple of years ago, the Mapquest app generated optimal and correct directions while Google Maps was ge
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by Solar19 8y ago
I've wanted to learn F#. I'm particularly curious about parsing and text processing, and wonder whether the pattern matching feature would work well for that. It would be great to see an HTML minifier in F#. I've thought abou
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by Solar19 8y ago
Why ARM though? The article touts how this is a homegrown chip, and Amazon obviously has the resources to build a truly homegrown, optimized CPU. Why use ARM instead and import all of its idiosyncrasies? I guess I could ask the question mor
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by Solar19 8y ago
Agreed. I've always thought, however, that D would be the perfect language for a new Python implementation.
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by Solar19 8y ago
The author says you can do these things anyway without AMP, but what he doesn't get is that web developers were not doing them. It took the nudge of AMP to get decent performance on the mobile web. He also failed to mention a key AMP r
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by Solar19 8y ago
This reminds me that I think there's a real market opportunity for a clean-sheet proprietary browser . Everyone just assumes open source (except for Safari and Edge until now). I think it's possible to build a significantly bette
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by Solar19 8y ago
I don't like unnecessary layers. Interpreted languages waste silicon and energy. I've heard startups justify using Ruby or PHP by saying "servers are cheap", which is just a bad engineering mindset. Instead of building P
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by Solar19 8y ago
I assume this won't ever hit the market at the promised performance and cost. In the past decade or so we've been inundated with hundreds of stories, maybe thousands, about new solar breakthroughs and they never come to pass. The
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by Solar19 8y ago
The notice about affiliate links may not have anything to do with Delta. The Points Guy has an affiliate-driven revenue model, so that notice might appear before all of his posts.
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by Solar19 8y ago
Why is being an hour behind Arizona a negative? Pacific Time is already an hour behind AZ/Mountain Time during the winter, when you're off DST. California has always been in a different time zone than AZ. As an Arizonan, I like th
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by Solar19 8y ago
Also, there should be a warning in case you're running tab heavy on a lower end machine, or just out of courtesy. The web page is 37 MB (saved as an MHTML in Chrome -- see your About:Chrome flags). It's yuge. MathJax alone is usua
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by Solar19 8y ago
This looks very good. Ironic aside: Notice the "Processing math" message on the lower left when you first open the page? That's MathJax, a huge JS library, chugging away because Chrome doesn't support MathML. Try going t
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by Solar19 8y ago
This looks like it could be better than LastPass. Bitwarden is the only password manager that I've seen that officially supports Opera, Vivaldi, and Brave. I wonder what the browser support on Android is like. LastPass seems to work on
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by Solar19 8y ago
They started a bank? What is it called? What country? I thought they were having trouble in Hong Kong or Taiwan.
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by Solar19 8y ago
The CertSimple article completely ignores CPU and memory usage. That is where Brotli can become completely unacceptable for dynamic compression – it uses vastly more CPU and RAM than gzip. Brotli is fine if you can precompress static files
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by Solar19 8y ago
What is this? Is xiphmont a Google or Mozilla employee who works on AV1? He's wildly unprofessional, especially all the profanity and the advice to smoke a bag of weed.
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by Solar19 9y ago
AV1 is better than HEVC? I've never heard this claim. Does AV1 even exist in final form yet? Is it going to use more battery than HEVC? VP9 uses much more battery than H.264. Even when both have hardware decoders, VP9 uses a bit more j
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by Solar19 9y ago
That second link is remarkably hard to read. I hate this hipster web design trend of using faint text that barely contrasts with the background. That's so the opposite of what a reading experience should be. Anyway, on VP9... its disad
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by Solar19 9y ago
We can deduce from the math that drug companies would not spend nearly as much money on R&D without being able to earn it back. Without patents, they would need a new business model that involved much less cost upfront. We could choose
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by Solar19 9y ago
Very good points, AnthonyMouse.
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by Solar19 9y ago
I agree with some of this, and I think most software patents are garbage and should not be legally permitted. But I'm stuck on codecs. Codecs are real, as real as a bag of apples. And they're complicated, extremely specific (and n
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by Solar19 9y ago
Why should patent holders have to show "progress"? Isn't the invention enough? Would they have to invent more or advance it further? Or do you mean commercial progress, making money, building it, etc.? The latter is called &q
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by Solar19 10y ago
Why does it make someone a bad internet citizen to implement internet protocols? Is there something official about the Linux kernel (the insecure, buggy, and written-in-C Linux kernel). I would start clean-sheet for a lot of reasons, mostly
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by Solar19 10y ago
Totally! I think people need to get their heads around the fact that Google...sucks at search. It really does. Try searching for a Grammarly review – you'll get nothing but affiliates / content farms who are making a commission on