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by aboodman 15y ago
Beautiful work. Seems like this would be great for teaching kids to program.
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by aboodman 15y ago
The example (and code) are below the fold on a 1440 laptop. I didn't even realize they were there. That is absolutely the most important thing for a library. First page, right after the name. A functional example of what it does. That huge
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by aboodman 15y ago
Put a working example or at least a screenshot on that first page. I don't have time to download a zip file and blah blah blah to see what you made. Make it easy.
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by aboodman 15y ago
I thought it was interesting that Apple, who is usually so finicky about things being just so, apparently didn't filter or edit this data set. To me, it took away from the experience, and kind of muddled the emotion I expect Apple - and the
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by aboodman 15y ago
Hm, I would have expected them to be minimally edited. Lots of misspellings, typos, and weird grammar. I know you want it to be authentic, but that doesn't preclude basic editing.
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by aboodman 15y ago
Pixar has a big tribute up now: http://imgur.com/IH2nl
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by aboodman 15y ago
I interpret it this way: As programmers, it is easy for us to get wrapped up in the act of programming, and to forget about the point of programming: to solve problems as quickly, cheaply, robustly, and maintainably as possible. Software de
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by aboodman 15y ago
http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam
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by aboodman 15y ago
You recall incorrectly. Chrome does not send the URLs of pages you visit to Google for indexing, or for any other reason. Please see the privacy policy. It answers these questions quite clearly: http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/
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by aboodman 15y ago
If you can do this reliably, you should start a business. Common knowledge is that hiring programmers is insanely difficult. If you have a gift for it, you could make craptonnes of money!
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by aboodman 15y ago
aayra (who replied to great-grandparent) works on Chrome security team. It looks like all the bugs that are still closed are WebKit bugs (css, svg, etc), and we don't open them until the other WebKit clients are updated.
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by aboodman 15y ago
Of the 15 bugs there, 9 are open now. I'll poke someone more knowledgable and ask them to explain why the others have not been opened. I could imagine that it's that the process for unlocking them is manual and easy to forget, or it could b
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by aboodman 15y ago
What? Firstly, there are several improvements: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/09/new-stable-release-of-chr... Secondly, Firefox's new release is the same as Chrome's. Every six weeks, like clockwork. More releases, less big features in e
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by aboodman 15y ago
I think the release managers usually unlock security bugs for a release once most of the population has been updated. So check back in a few days to a week.
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by aboodman 15y ago
Sorry, I don't know. I use a Nexus S as my primary phone so that's what I test on.
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by aboodman 15y ago
Use an actual device, not the emulator. The emulator is super slow, but with an actual device you can have 30s iteration times. Edit: I know 30s is still nowhere near ideal. Hell, on Linux Chromium (a massive project) we have faster iterati
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by aboodman 15y ago
The first Culture novel was printed in 1987, and he's still writing new ones. I don't think you can really say yet whether they'll stand the test of time :).
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by aboodman 15y ago
Sorry for slow response. I sure wish HN would mail me when people comment. Sure, the updater can break itself. But in practice, you rarely update the updater because the majority of the features you might want to update are in the app, not
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by aboodman 15y ago
> What if an update silently breaks the update process? Hrm! This is part of why Chrome uses a separate application (Google Updater) to do the updating. Even in the worst-case scenario where we update to a version of Chrome that
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by aboodman 15y ago
I'm not sure I follow, but Chrome does allow developers to request those privileges separately. This developer just requested both.
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by aboodman 15y ago
There is. This extension requests the permission.
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by aboodman 15y ago
Thanks. I did actually look for something like this, but I was looking for it under 'about'. I still personally think the resemblance (not just the monochrome, but the overall look - the layout, the individual entries, the top nav, the bott
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by aboodman 15y ago
The design of this website is uncomfortably close to Khoi Vinh's subtraction.com.
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by aboodman 15y ago
XMLHttpRequest was pioneered by Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 in 1999. (Notably, it was in the form of an ActiveX control.) Mozilla first shipped an emulation in December 2000. Popular ajax web applications were shipped as early as 2000 (Ou
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by aboodman 15y ago
You mean like how XMLHttpRequest failed since it was IE only? Or the DOM?
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by aboodman 15y ago
Sandboxing is important on normal desktop browsers because downloading native apps off the internet and running them is incredibly unsafe for normal users. The more that can run in the browser's sandbox, the better for users. As for compari
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by aboodman 15y ago
We don't have to ask ourselves. Apple products are cloned everyday, particularly in Asia. Yet Apple is still killing it, even in China. How can this be!? It turns out it is hard to successfully clone Apple products. And even with a perfect
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by aboodman 15y ago
It annoys me that the tech community always focuses on software patents, as if hardware ones are automatically more legitimate. The original purpose of the patent system was to improve consumers lives by: a) Incentivizing innovations that w
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by aboodman 15y ago
Hey, really cool trick. Thanks for sharing!
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by aboodman 15y ago
What do you do with all the third-party software if you tear Java out of Android? I guess you could have a cross-compiler to <other-language> and run it automatically on install, with an option to run it at development time. But tha

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