aboodman

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by aboodman 14y ago
This is exactly what browsers do already. If one event handler has an error, that event is aborted. But the event loops continues, and js will continue to run.
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by aboodman 14y ago
Out of curiosity, why was the syntax in the current draft chosen over this?
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by aboodman 14y ago
If the reason you don't want your extension discoverable is because its an internal extension for an enterprise, then you should be aware that you can add trusted sites via enterprise policy. So this won't be a problem for you.
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by aboodman 14y ago
Chrome is designed to guarantee that web content never cohabitates in a process with chrome:// URLs. Unfortunately, in this case that code was buggy. There's nothing fundamentally different about Chrome's approach here than what you are adv
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by aboodman 14y ago
There are a lot of answers to this question: 1) From a UX perspective, we prefer to have the majority of the UI within a tab. We don't want to build up an entirely separate UI hierarchy outside tabs. 2) We tried putting native UI within a t
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by aboodman 14y ago
Wait until you see the other one. There are a surprising and depressing number of ways to get a browser to run native code on legacy operating systems. Yes, plugins should go away. No, that won't stop this kind of thing :/.
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by aboodman 14y ago
The biggest icons in that UI are 'Move To...' and 'Copy To...'. Casual users do not want to think about raw files, let alone how to move them around the filesystem. That is why all modern operating system don't expose these concepts. You do
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by aboodman 14y ago
Jeez those toolbars are ridiculous. When the content part of your UI is 60% of the window, something has gone very, very wrong.
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by aboodman 14y ago
In the post, the author addresses this: ...what if the user has a high-end machine with 16GB of RAM? Then paging isn’t an issue. But this improvement will still be a big deal on such a machine. This is because garbage collection and cyc
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by aboodman 15y ago
> Of course they do. But the average car is only driven a few hours a day. If you take the total fixed costs of a car and divide it amongst dozens of people, it's much cheaper than ownership. OK, without the actual numbers it's hard to
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by aboodman 15y ago
Someone needs to pay for the fuel. Someone needs to pay for the insurance. Someone needs to pay for parking, the technical development, the maintenance, and the infrastructure. Guess who that someone is? You. In the fees you pay for this se
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by aboodman 15y ago
It isn't entirely the having to manually drive that people don't like about driving. It's also the time and cost to run, park, insure, maintain, etc. Driverless cars won't help most of this. No matter who is doing the driving, walking a few
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by aboodman 15y ago
To Linux! Quickly now!
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by aboodman 15y ago
If you follow the link to the report, you can clearly see that it is considered a bug and is being worked on.
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by aboodman 15y ago
Reducing the typical permission level, and the resulting warning fatigue, is our team's highest priority right now. For example, the new permissions API can be used to request permissions at runtime, rather that install time: http://code.g
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by aboodman 15y ago
Is it just me or does 0.4% of the tax base on Nasa seem really reasonable. If I had had to guess, I would have put it way lower.
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by aboodman 15y ago
My point is that there is nothing* preventing any native app from including code to update itself. Over time, I believe that more and more native apps will do this. For example, Firefox is moving in that direction now. * Except for in the c
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by aboodman 15y ago
All software can update. There is nothing fundamentally different between a web apps' ability to update and a desktop applications' ability to update. If you need any proof of this, just look at Chrome. Once you run software on your compute
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by aboodman 15y ago
The CSP changes primarily address the XSS issue in extensions. Many of these vulnerabilities come because extension developers run code from untrusted sources. CSP blocks that in most cases. Separately, we implemented web_accessible_resourc
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by aboodman 15y ago
From the same paper: Starting with Chrome 18, extensions will be subject to a CSP that enforces some of these bans [13]. Our study partially motivated their decision to adopt the bans [1], although the policy that they adopted is slightly
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by aboodman 15y ago
manifest version 2 is not backward compatible, so most extensions should not update yet. When Chrome 18 is deployed to the stable channel, we will update the docs and begin slowly encouraging developers to transition. In the shorter term, d
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by aboodman 15y ago
I prefer it. I have experience working in good IDEs. For many years I did .NET development, and Visual Studio is very, very good. However, over time I realized that even with all their awesome features, powerful IDEs were a net-loss to my p
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by aboodman 15y ago
I program Java in emacs. I work with many people who do. Of course, it's hard for me to say _objectively_ that I'm productive, but my peers seem happy with my work.
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by aboodman 15y ago
Hm. CDC says the number is 1 in 300: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/us.htm
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by aboodman 15y ago
Note: Though I work on Chrome, I'm not on the UI team, so this is really just my personal opinion. I don't have much say in these areas. Hastebin should change their shortcut keys to something that isn't already in use by the platform. Ov
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by aboodman 15y ago
<meta name="author" content="versionindustries.com" /> I would love to know more about how this was produced. Like what level of decision Louis himself was involved in. The writing is great and the design is clean. I want to
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by aboodman 15y ago
We don't. The most effective teams I have worked on at Google have a healthy balance of experienced and inexperienced engineers. Senior engineers are in extremely high demand at places like Google and Facebook precisely because of the point
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by aboodman 15y ago
Experienced developers will always lean strongly on writing as little code as possible. Every line of code is a liability.
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by aboodman 15y ago
5 and 8 to me are the really important ones wrt granparent's question. It is a lot easier to avoid and eliminate debt when you are ruthlessly focused on a few key features.
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by aboodman 15y ago
Self-taught-programmer here. I've done a lot of pondering about how to teach programming because I tried to learn several times myself, both on my own and in classes. I bounced off each time, until finally sticking. I always wonder what mad

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