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by _greim_ 12y ago
I've always thought that it would be neat if a tech company bought a few square miles of empty land somewhere in Wyoming and build the mother of all tech campuses. Build on-campus housing and incentivize housing developers to build nea
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by _greim_ 12y ago
> IE uses a different API (XDomainRequest) for CORS... This is true and is pretty sad. I'm sure MS had various internally-focused reasons for it, but it has really held the world back. That said, it appears they finally got with the
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by _greim_ 12y ago
I use it. My work git repo isn't github, so switching between this tool for github and cmd line for work has become part of my habit field. I still go back to cmd line for more complex stuff though.
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by _greim_ 12y ago
This post really resonates with me. I'm not as prolific and don't have the ability to breeze into a new language on a whim, but seeing so many other languages gaining momentum nowadays really makes me feel restless. All the best o
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by _greim_ 12y ago
I'm not an expert but I think you wouldn't really want to do this as they both want sole control of the chunk of DOM in question.
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by _greim_ 12y ago
> Clearly the end game for self driving automobiles is far, far fewer cars in the world. [...] Of course Google and Detroit aren't going to see eye to eye on this. Arguably, reducing the number of cars in existence at any given time
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by _greim_ 12y ago
If that's the only valid reason to use "www" (as opposed to "mmm" or anything else) then why wouldn't an article titled "Why use www?" mention it? It seems like people are just looking for ways to rat
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by _greim_ 12y ago
No reason is given why you should use www. The only arguments presented here are a couple technical issues with having naked domains. But you could have w.example.com or foo.example.com and address those same problems.
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by _greim_ 12y ago
I'd like to know too. As clunky as JS is, generators make possible some pretty interesting stuff[1] that I would miss in Dart. [1] https://github.com/visionmedia/co
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by _greim_ 12y ago
Actually re-reading the article, I see this: Currently not optimizable: Generator functions Functions that contain a for-of statement Functions that contain a try-catch statement Functions that contain a try-finally s
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by _greim_ 12y ago
I actually don't want to memorize any list, unless it's a list of things that are inherently expensive/impossible to optimize in JS, in which case it's worthwhile. I just hate the idea of having to write all my code acco
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by _greim_ 12y ago
I was wondering this too. I expect/hope the answer would be "we're working on it" in most cases, but I worry it would be "it simply isn't possible" in some or most scenarios.
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by _greim_ 12y ago
Which of these (if any) are purely incidental to the current state of the V8 project, rather than being inherently insurmountable problems for JS optimization? In other words, if I memorize this particular list, what subset of my knowledge
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by _greim_ 12y ago
Would tail call optimization help in this case? AFAIK JS's iteration methods aren't recursive.
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by _greim_ 12y ago
Ha, so this explains it. I hadn't been paying much attention, other than noticing that prepending "+" to google search terms (something I did infrequently to begin with) had started to just return zero results most of the tim
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by _greim_ 12y ago
Everyone knows in theory that an actual command line is being run, and somewhere a main() method has kicked it all off, but the Java world is really dominated by enterprise tooling concerns, many levels of abstraction away from such things.
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by _greim_ 12y ago
Definitely valid concerns, but they don't strike me as inherent problems with the idea, rather technical problems that can be overcome with some ingenuity and incentive. It's the incentive that's lacking at the moment. My mac
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by _greim_ 12y ago
If billing rates were by volume of data transferred, just like every other utility, that would incentivize ISPs to maximize data flow. But as things stand they're not incentivized to increase bandwidth because they make the same money
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by _greim_ 12y ago
Listen to your sentence, once you factor out the internal contradictions (emphasis mine): > What's bad or irrational about being manipulated by marketers and advertisers? I don't see how buying something because some marketing
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by _greim_ 12y ago
I probably should have worded it as: > If neither of us refrain, the numbers become increasingly meaningless and we're left with one less way to demonstrate our credibility.
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by _greim_ 12y ago
> Would it be accurate to describe it like this: the consumers' interests are to be rational, less easily manipulated and "unhackable", and being tracked is a threat to those interests. In my view, yes. Being rational is b
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by _greim_ 12y ago
I think on the general principle of privacy. But also, the idea that the more trackable you are, the more easily manipulated you are by marketers and advertisers. Free markets work better the more consumers are rational. Giving marketers de
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by _greim_ 12y ago
It's a prisoner's dilemma degenerating into a tragedy of the commons. If I refrain from artificially boosting my follower count, but you don't, I lose and you win, and vice versa. If we both refrain, we both benefit, albeit o
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by _greim_ 12y ago
This reminds me of the orange/blue contrast thing in movie posters that went viral a few years back[1]. I wonder how much things like this are just industry fashion trends, as opposed to having a deeper, more timeless psychological bas
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by _greim_ 12y ago
If you're the sole user of the internet, then this is true.
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by _greim_ 12y ago
> they aren't creating bits, storing bits to ensure supply, or depleting their supply of bits by transmitting them to you Their value proposition is not "bits" per se, but capacity , which they do in fact deplete when the
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by _greim_ 12y ago
It may be hard to predict bandwidth usage, but electricity, gas, and water aren't perfectly predictable either, and unlike bandwidth we're incentivized to estimate them and to self-throttle to the extent reasonable (e.g. turn th
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by _greim_ 12y ago
> why wouldn't a very simplistic metering be acceptable by that definition? It would be perfectly acceptable (assuming I've understood you). I think the reason nobody is championing it is twofold, ISPs don't like it becaus
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by _greim_ 12y ago
In many parts of the US, Netflix usage saturates neighborhood cable modem networks in the evenings, making things painfully slow for everyone.
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by _greim_ 12y ago
I doubt we'll ever get the net neutrality we want until we swallow the pill of paying for what we use—like we do for other utilities—instead of some imaginary total capacity. How do we make sure transfer amounts are monitored fairly? H

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