aboodman

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   by aboodman 13y ago

   I was responding specifically to the comment that if v8 team continues optimizing in response to asm.js as they have been, perhaps there is no need for NaCL (or asm.js). I don't think that will ever be true.
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   by aboodman 13y ago

   I think that part of the value people see in things like NaCL is not having to rely on JIT magic to figure out when to optimize 64 bit math. You get direct control over what is going on. It may be true that in certain edge cases the JIT can
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   by aboodman 13y ago

   Sorry I meant type "tags" in the sense of modifying the language syntax to have required type annotations. I understand nan-boxing and similar techniques, but they seem to imply at least some runtime overhead to test the type of t
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   by aboodman 13y ago

   Do you have any pointers to how value types can be implemented efficiently without adding type tags to the language? I can see how that would work in simple cases (say within one function), but it seems that there would be many cases where
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   by aboodman 13y ago

   64 bit integers are one small example of something you can't do no matter how fast you make JavaScript.
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   by aboodman 13y ago

   Congress is not doing what it was 'designed' to do. The Hastert Rule ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastert_Rule ) was only introduced in the last 30 years or so, and has never been followed as dogmatically as
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   by aboodman 13y ago

   Cooking properly frequently requires lots of heat and creates smoke. Peek into a commercial kitchen sometime. I suffered a childhood of sad, grey, rubbery steaks until I grew up and learned you're supposed to sear them. Same with many
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   by aboodman 13y ago

   draw.io is by far the best web-based diagramming app IMO. I use it frequently.
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   by aboodman 13y ago

   Did you investigate using the identity API? http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/identity.html
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    by aboodman 13y ago

    "in 2007 web-apps were server side" !? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail#April_Fools.27_jokes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_maps#2005 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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    by aboodman 13y ago

    Chrome supports a single process mode [1], and has in-process APIs [2] for manipulating the DOM via C++. I would be surprised if it wasn't already possible to make use of these from the embedder side if you're in single-process mo
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    by aboodman 13y ago

    Alas, the system UI (button bar, switching, etc) are not included in the updateable components :(.
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    by aboodman 13y ago

    I will try to carry on somehow.
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    by aboodman 13y ago

    Why does the fucking kudos dot auto-kudo on mouseover!? Dustin seems like a smart guy, and the article makes sense and everything, but then my mouse casually tracks across that dot and it starts-a-throbbing, and I'm like "oh crap
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    by aboodman 13y ago

    Well, given that NYC is ~10x the population of SF, SF is doing pretty well!
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    by aboodman 13y ago

    Isn't a more likely crime of convenience that you hand your friend your computer, he types "gmail.com" to login to his mail, but he automatically logs in to your gmail, and then he realizes he can do pretty much anything on
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    by aboodman 13y ago

    If you actually _want_ someone's password and you have access to their account, there are many things you can do, all equally easy. The more interesting argument here is the "crime of convenience" - where someone didn't
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    by aboodman 13y ago

    They've removed the "that's what she said" joke. Hilarious.
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    by aboodman 13y ago

    Chrome contains millions of lines of code, not counting WebKit. Almost all of that is C++ and was started 6-7 years ago.
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    by aboodman 13y ago

    If by "these days" you mean ~6 years ago, then the answer is "yes, you'd start with C/C++". At least, that is what the Chrome team did.
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    by aboodman 13y ago

    I interpreted it as: they removed an API (or reduce the functionality of an API in a way that) they thought was only useful to weeds. But it turned out that there were legitimate uses for that functionality, and it hurt more than just weeds
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    by aboodman 13y ago

    This is an overly simplistic analogy. No platform developer, when faced with weeds would say "let's torch it". What really happened in my opinion is that they tried a weed killer. However, as in real gardening, it turned out
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    by aboodman 13y ago

    Both are responsible, and responsibility can add up to more than 100%.
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    by aboodman 13y ago

    #define ?
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    by aboodman 13y ago

    > In before michaelochurch. heh.
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    by aboodman 14y ago

    How should the browser determine if the popup is useful or not?
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    by aboodman 14y ago

    Firefox does not provide a fine-grained permission model for extensions.
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    by aboodman 14y ago

    Google is a big place. There can be multiple people working on similar ideas (see Chrome OS and Android). If the projects are small it would be common for them to not even know about each other, at least for a little while. If you tried to
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    by aboodman 14y ago

    What do you ban? How do you establish identity for an extension? Remember that the bad guy can just change his ID each time he installs. Soon you are shipping blacklists with hundreds of thousands of entries to every client (or sending the
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    by aboodman 14y ago

    It is not possible to stop this in the general case. All user-level software on legacy (e.g., Windows, OS X, Linux, etc) operating systems effectively has the same permissions to persistent storage. There's no application-level isolation, s