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by _greim_ 13y ago
It seems plausible that apathy would prevent people from agitating for faster internet speeds, when speeds are only slightly below the national average ( http://www.speedtest.net/local/san-francisco-ca ). It seems impla
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by _greim_ 13y ago
> Doing something easy proves nothing. Depends on the audience. Joe Random Voter, seeing his cousin's internet being super fast, will carry that knowledge back to his hometown. He doesn't care how easy it was for Google, only t
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by _greim_ 13y ago
It would go against their strategy. By wiring up all the GF-friendly cities first, people living in GF-unfriendly cities start asking "why can't we have that, too?" Thus ratcheting up pressure on the local political systems.
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by _greim_ 13y ago
> I could see canvas extended to have 3D operations. Like say draw point takes 3 coordinates now. I think that's the role WebGL essentially fulfills. It was just done in a way that uses OpenGL instead of reinventing the wheel, since
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Perhaps Dart?
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Ahh. Thank you. This actually makes more sense than the article itself!
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by _greim_ 13y ago
> P problems are easy for computers to solve, and NP problems are easy for computers to check answers for, but extremely difficult for computers to solve. [...] All P problems are NP problems Seems like a direct contradiction. Typo, or a
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by _greim_ 13y ago
It isn't that these rebuttals are unsound, it's the sheer volume of them. A tidal wave of irritation and defensiveness always seems to accompany posts that dare question jQuery. Unless the headline was changed by the mods, there&#
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by _greim_ 13y ago
My thoughts as well. Falls into the category -1st world problems.
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Agreed that fixing the root problem isn't simple. But citizens being pissed off en masse about their internet connectivity is a necessary precondition to any real change, and Google certainly seems to be trying to fan those flames.
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Then you go out and vote. The absence of true competition is because the average Joe isn't quite clued into the underlying problem of why things are slow. I suspect this is Google's way of raising awareness.
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Government regulation will arguably only paper over the problem in the short term, as it incentivizes capital to route around it, mainly by accelerating the automation of these jobs. I'd argue that the focus should be on fostering poli
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Maybe. I'll also be curious to see if politicians will go against surveillance in their campaign speeches. Although the cynical side of me asks, if a politician goes against the surveillance state, who has both the motive and opportuni
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by _greim_ 13y ago
> I'm curious to see if any candidates will run on an anti-surveillance state message in the upcoming presidential elections. The danger of this (from a politician's POV) is that it paints a giant target on your head, to the ex
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by _greim_ 13y ago
> the browser keeps being pushed as an application platform Grumpy nitpick. The browser-as-platform hasn't been so much pushed on the rest of us, as if by some narrow conspiracy. It's been pulled along by mass economic forc
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by _greim_ 13y ago
That may be, but I've often needed to be familiar with the transport layer and all the quirks of how clients and servers handle connections, latency, etc. Only on those mythical "normal days" do I sit back and trust the abstr
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by _greim_ 13y ago
I believe the mindset behind this behavior is A) they take it for granted that you're proficient in your stated area of expertise, B) they're not necessarily proficient in your area of expertise, so wouldn't be able to assess
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by _greim_ 13y ago
I love his meta-criticism of Libertarian and Leninist (and presumably other) ideologies: > [It] makes prescriptions about how to run human society that can only work if we replace real messy human beings with frictionless spherical human
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Ah. Thanks for the info.
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by _greim_ 13y ago
They'd lose a huge chunk of traffic, but otherwise nothing would stop them and someone is eventually bound to try it.
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by _greim_ 13y ago
I thought that asm.js would be a compile target for any language, not just C/C++. E.g. you could have dart2asm instead of dart2js.
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by _greim_ 13y ago
I'm sad that it's a Google-only thing and that all the other browser makers are balking. Purely in terms of the merits of the language, it strikes me as leaps and bounds better than JS. I'm also a fan of Mozilla's asm.js
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Isn't Google doing fundamental research on AI?
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Why involve Google? Aren't sites on basic, low-volume hosting plans easy to knock over, without resorting to DDoS tactics? And if you're trying to knock over bigger sites, it doesn't seem like Google would make a very good DD
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Web developers have historically tended to write shitty UA detection logic en masse, which has in turn incentivized browser makers to carefully craft UAs to break as few of them as possible. Basically, avoiding the all-too-common "this
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by _greim_ 13y ago
The word "luck" suggests a chaotic nature to the outcomes; the initial conditions being the time of day of the post, the first few up/down votes, what people are online and browsing at the moment. Of course controlling for qu
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by _greim_ 13y ago
I suspect people who dislike the idea of multithreaded programming are over-represented in the Node community. I'd even speculate that Node owes some of its popularity to being a release valve for a general thread-grumpiness that has b
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by _greim_ 13y ago
What if the insurance only covered court costs. If you lose, you have to pay the patent troll. It sounds bad, but trolls would then face a furious fight every time.
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by _greim_ 13y ago
[class*="icon-"] Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this bad for performance?
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by _greim_ 13y ago
Incidentally, you also wouldn't say "you designed a lovely picture of a house." So the parent's point stands.

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