Tloewald

20 ms·

151.
by Tloewald 9y ago
I agree, but of the four major browsers, two are directly underwritten by advertising (Chrome and Mozilla) and Microsoft is moving that way. Only Apple has backed off advertising as a revenue source, so it basically comes down to Apple bein
152.
by Tloewald 9y ago
I'd say it's because of advertising mostly, but a lot of similar tech (that is usually ad supported) like Disqus. It's interesting that today cross-domain sandboxing applies to almost everything except JavaScript. If I load a
153.
by Tloewald 9y ago
I think we're so far from understanding consciousness that having a theory of what makes it work (or even that "if it works, it relies on thing X") is dodgy. E.g. let's suppose I make the claim that some people are consc
154.
by Tloewald 9y ago
My first Modula-2 program back in the late 80s compiled (on a Sparcstation) to 94kB. I thought that was outrageous.
155.
by Tloewald 9y ago
Indeed, although the article I found in Quora (from a carrier guy) actually used the term avgas and I didn't parse it :-)
156.
by Tloewald 9y ago
I think in effect you're saying that they're duals. I think I would argue that objects bundle data and functions in a useful way (when done right). Closures are more of an expressive convenience for constructing functions on-the-f
157.
by Tloewald 9y ago
An aircraft carrier needs resupply with avgas every three days when operating up-tempo. Warships use up resources like crazy, they're not going off on five year missions like Star Trek.
158.
by Tloewald 9y ago
Good. Why start at college? I am amazed that we don't have open source textbooks and materials created cooperatively across the entire education system.
159.
by Tloewald 9y ago
This was, iirc, the energy source used in Arthur C. Clarke's Earthlight et al.
160.
by Tloewald 9y ago
Wonderful explanation. Thank you!
161.
by Tloewald 9y ago
This is very exciting to me because it lets RPGs provide spoken dialog for everything (I'm waiting to see if they can do emotions at all convincingly). Even big budget games suffer from "you can call your character anything as lon
162.
by Tloewald 9y ago
Word processing was a huge market even if design was not.
163.
by Tloewald 9y ago
I had a maxed out Amiga 500 (with sidecar expansion) back in the day and it was awesome (for games and 2D graphics) in 1988, amazing in 1990, and then Commodore ate it owing to monumental incompetence. Even at the height of its technical su
164.
by Tloewald 9y ago
I believe the death rate for all human beings is 100%, so if they can reduce it to 60% that's a miracle. I was making a joke (and I am a cyclist), but appreciate your reply.
165.
by Tloewald 9y ago
"vast minority" threw me for a moment there.
166.
by Tloewald 9y ago
The increased probability of being killed by a motorist reduces your net probability of dying from anything else regardless. Joking! (Well, mostly.)
167.
by Tloewald 9y ago
Also, the "one life hack" is being deeply expert in many disparate fields and then seeing patterns in the interstices and figuring out how to capitalize on them. Right, that's a "life hack". This is like "one l
168.
by Tloewald 9y ago
Lynch in a nutshell: created on drugs; best consumed on drugs. The problem with Lynch's Dune is that it seems not to have been planned properly (at all?); i can only assume they started shooting with what they thought was a half-fini
169.
by Tloewald 9y ago
You presuppose governments just spend what they get, no-one benefits in any way, and tax rates have no impact at the margins. You're so completely off the mark I don't know where to start. It's fine to be cynical about rich p
170.
by Tloewald 9y ago
It's funny how using a bad language and bad platform I can put together a robust, networked, maintainable, cross-platforn application faster than I could with any prior set of tools. Weird. And, by the way, I'm not defending react
171.
by Tloewald 9y ago
Ah and so what good monoculture can you direct us to?
172.
by Tloewald 9y ago
"I don't believe the tax burden on the lower classes in the US has ever been lessened by increased rates at the top levels." Every dollar of extra tax paid by the wealthy is a dollar of tax that doesn't need to be paid b
173.
by Tloewald 9y ago
I'm an old geezer who grew up with text terminals and I agree with you wholeheartedly. Saving a scarce resource (mental real estate) to save a near free resource (bandwidth / processor cycles) is poor tradeoff.
174.
by Tloewald 10y ago
Several things strike me going down this memory lane: 1) How modern and responsive the UI behavior is. 2) How many subtle improvements there have been (e.g. the old Mac menu behavior that I liked I find annoying). No command-A for select al
175.
by Tloewald 10y ago
I've never seen anything performant built on top of Smalltalk, including the Xerox Star's built in apps which were developed by universally acknowledged geniuses. Flash's performance issues were legion. Chrome is widely consi
176.
by Tloewald 10y ago
Only if you think he has in any way been causal.
177.
by Tloewald 10y ago
It seems to me that Mike Judge doesn't actually need Trey Parker and Matt Stone to do this (having done it several times already).
178.
by Tloewald 10y ago
Internet access is considered a basic necessity in several countries too.
179.
by Tloewald 10y ago
Electron is like almost any other cross-platform VM, including Java (which is living under most of the "native" apps on the world's most popular platform), .NET, and so forth. It doesn't share resources between instances
180.
by Tloewald 10y ago
Saying that "React and friends" are the good thing you want (without Chrome) is kind of nuts. React is insanely bloated for what it is, and it's also highly dependent on the bloated browser (and especially Chrome). React Nati

More ›