Touche

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by Touche 9y ago
Why would they take the risk to find out information about a competitor that they are destroying?
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by Touche 9y ago
I just don't get it personally, I would think HN being about startups would be more capitalist. I mean, she did her job, she didn't to my knowledge do anything unethical. She negotiated her salary based on her credentials and the
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by Touche 9y ago
The rest of the requests were triggered by the browser, not the programmer, because they were part of the initial HTML and the browser follows the HTML spec. The person complaining about it and is technical and knows this, they were under n
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by Touche 9y ago
I thought it was fine on Android, I played many games on it that worked well even on those old underpowered phones. It was never good, but probably about 0% of flash apps were written that targeted mobile so I wouldn't have the expecta
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by Touche 9y ago
flash was obsoleted because 1) iphone didn't support it, 2) iphone didn't support it, 3) iphone didn't support it, and 4) JS replaced the non-DRM use cases (and now even replaced that).
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by Touche 9y ago
> Fuck other people running code unnecessarily, without my permission, on my computer. You gave them permission. Actually, you asked them to do it when you sent that GET request to their servers that returned a bunch of HTML that inclu
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by Touche 9y ago
I couldn't agree more. If you want to risk your life, fine, but don't take a camera crew with you.
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by Touche 9y ago
I don't recall saying that it was "game-changing", I said that it was useful for a large number of web pages, unlike webassembly which is useful for a very small number of specialized needs. Same for modules, or Intersection
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by Touche 9y ago
People have been writing client software in those languages for almost 10 years now. Object J came out in 2008! Not saying WebAssembly won't make this better, maybe even a lot better, but this is not opening new capabilities the way
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by Touche 9y ago
Moving goal post? Preloading is useful on every single web page that, for example, loads a script. Not just 3D games, but any web page with scripting.
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by Touche 9y ago
Prefetch is a different thing, and it doesn't give priority to fetch the resource. Preloading, for example, a script is exactly equivalent to adding the script tag minus the execution part.
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by Touche 9y ago
Sorry, it's not Chrome-only. I don't particular care whose idea it originally was. It's a good feature and other browsers are implementing it.
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by Touche 9y ago
Too many to name, really. <link rel=preload> is one that immediately comes to mind.
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by Touche 9y ago
Even if it causes Photoshop and CAD software and such to be ported to the web (which would be a huge business model change, so don't hold your breath) we're still talking about a tiny percentage of apps. There's no reason wh
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by Touche 9y ago
WebAssembly is nice and all, but I don't understand why Mozilla is so obsessed with this feature that will be useable by 0.01% of applications. Meanwhile they are falling far behind in a variety of features that are useful to a much bi
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by Touche 9y ago
Not saying you're wrong, but I've done 6 conferences and the 6th wasn't any easier for me to get than the 1st.
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by Touche 9y ago
Being seen as an "expert" in your field does positively affect your salary and giving talks is one way to help there. To what extent it helps I'm not sure. But that's not really the reason why I do it. I do it mostly bec
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by Touche 9y ago
I've not done nearly as many conference talks as many people here (I do about one a year) but just for entertainment here is how it usually goes for me: 1. Come up with a proposal, send it out to as many conferences as I can find. 2. W
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by Touche 9y ago
Cruft in a language isn't such a big deal as long as it is fixed. What really matters is cruft in the ecosystem. There are so many Clojure tutorials that use "use" and "refer". That's the real problem. JavaScr
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by Touche 9y ago
For such a young language Clojure seems to have a lot of cruft. 3 ways to import a module, what were they thinking?
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by Touche 9y ago
I'd wager that 75% or more of GitHub projects are things like libraries, not end-user applications. So most people using GitHub are technical users.
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by Touche 9y ago
GraphQL is limiting as well, just in a different way. GraphQL uses POST by default, which means you don't get browser caching. It's a tradeoff that makes sense for Facebook. It allows them to make changes to their API without need
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by Touche 9y ago
GraphQL uses a single endpoint for the entire API. It would be a POST to /graphql, there would be no /users/123 resource. GraphQL is a form of RPC, it's not REST.
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by Touche 9y ago
And within macro and micro tasks there are several different queues that have different priorities.
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by Touche 9y ago
Many ES6 features are slower than their ES5 counterparts currently. let, const are slower than var, for example.
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by Touche 9y ago
Thank you for the info! Very interesting. I always though it was bad CGI, couldn't imagine it was anything else.
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by Touche 9y ago
Don't make the mistake of making macro predictions based on a niche segment. I think generally people aren't "interested" in car ownership; they are interested in fulfilling their transportation needs as best as possible
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by Touche 9y ago
What do you mean by interest in car ownership?
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by Touche 9y ago
I think you're missing the point. Of course trains are better. So why don't we have more trains? Because people have opinions on trains. So instead of building train tunnels you debate it for 20 years in town halls and NIMBY prote
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by Touche 9y ago
I think it's just that people have seen Aliens more, because it's easier to jump into it and have a good time, laugh at the "Game over man" scene, etc. Whereas with Alien you are on the edge of your seat the entire time

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