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by aboodman 15y ago
As of this writing, the "newest" chrome is either 12, 13, or 14, depending on which stability channel you're on. Woo!
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by aboodman 15y ago
Totally agree, hence the "mostly terrible". I was just brainstorming about how to achieve the guarantee "shortest URLs on Earth" if that was one's goal.
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by aboodman 15y ago
I didn't understand this UI at first. URL shorteners are very common and they always have the same UI: Enter long URL, get short URL. This UI has an extra step that is small and somewhat hidden, so I kept missing it and wondering why nothin
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by aboodman 15y ago
Did you investigate requesting the files directly from the filesystem, like "file:///home/monkey/.js/google.com.js". You'd need to tell users to enable file access for the extension though chrome://extensions/, since that isn't enabled by d
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by aboodman 15y ago
Answer: the inner class can only access constant locals :(. So you have to put any mutable state in members. Blech. This might work for some cases, but would be a huge pain in the ass in others.
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by aboodman 15y ago
I am not super familiar with all the details of Java inner classes, but why can't you get most of the way there by doing something like: DB.open(new Runnable() { public void run() { // ... do stuff here ... } }); You
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by aboodman 15y ago
The article has an example of saving $189 (about 50% of the published price of the ticket in question), and a post in this thread had an example of saving 500 euro on a transatlantic flight. So it's not always trivial amount of money.
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by aboodman 16y ago
Autoupdate is a responsibility that application developers should take seriously. If the latest version is not better than the previous for users, they will leave. That is as it should be.
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by aboodman 16y ago
FWIW, I got stuck on this too.
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by aboodman 16y ago
I am amused that the examples on the README are all https, where gosh wouldn't be needed in the first place.
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by aboodman 16y ago
No weight as far as I can see, but I guess it could be happening above my level. I am but a lowly engineer.
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by aboodman 16y ago
No. The first car was reduced by 80%. "The company claimed it could run, even if driven briskly, for 200 miles, but after just a morning the battery power was down to 20% and we realised that it would not have enough juice for all the shots
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by aboodman 16y ago
Chrome has taken the same approach Firefox did: We can't prevent this from happening so we try to provide a good way for other software to do it, so they don't do it in terrible ways: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/external_exten
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by aboodman 16y ago
It's a bit difficult to implement sync of arbitrary data in a Chrome extension now. The extension developer has to setup their own storage and implement their own sync code. Either that, or some developers just store their data in the bookm
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by aboodman 16y ago
Totally agree. I had so much fun playing with that stuff way back when. Sad it never (or took so long to?) caught on.
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by aboodman 16y ago
It's an internal tool. Relax.
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by aboodman 16y ago
Engineers don't typically design and configure their own systems. There's a hardware group that does that, and engineers are just presented with a menu of choices. Off the top of my head, I'd say that clean Chromium builds take my linux mac
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by aboodman 16y ago
The 'standard' engineer configuration is a linux or mac workstation, a linux or mac laptop, and a 30" flatscreen. You can get additional hardware with manager approval, which, in my experience is typically a quick rubber stamp when within r
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by aboodman 16y ago
I wonder if it is based on Chromium.
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by aboodman 16y ago
We already do this. Note that the public blog post does not contain the character "9" anywhere in it. It's only bloggers that insist on referring to the versions :)
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by aboodman 16y ago
> I wonder how many dupes would be eliminated if the search defaulted to Open and Recently Closed bugs. As of this writing, 42 out of 259 would have been eliminated: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=66071#c21...
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by aboodman 16y ago
Here is an example of a real-world performance bottleneck that was discovered by the closure team: http://pupius.co.uk/blog/2007/03/garbage-collection-in-ie6/
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by aboodman 16y ago
Time in web applications is not used looking up array lengths - it's used in IO, layout, and DOM manipulation. If iterating through arrays was found to ever be a noticeable issue in practice, the Closure compiler could just be modified to e
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by aboodman 16y ago
Valid, just doesn't do what you think. function foo() { var x = 1; if (true) { var x = 2; var y = 3; } console.log(x); console.log(y); } foo(); // 2, 3 (vs 1, undefined if there was block scope)
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by aboodman 16y ago
Chrome stable releases are every 6 weeks. The releases are overlapped though, so we are testing v n+1 in beta while v n is in stable, and we are starting new feature development for v n+2 while v n is in stable. Chrome 8 just went stable, a
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by aboodman 16y ago
Agree - haters gonna hate. I really enjoyed the simple, lingo-free derivation.
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by aboodman 16y ago
This would work reasonably well. It is still circumventable by "attackers" (eg by replacing or patching firefox.exe, modifying /etc/hosts, etc), but the bar is higher. On the other hand, it also requires Mozilla running and maintaining a se
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by aboodman 16y ago
> Does Mozilla offer any officially blessed way for third party applications to install extensions? Yes: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Adding_Extensions_using_the... > Why is it even possible to silently install extensions in t
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by aboodman 16y ago
And yet, he is still a top search result somehow. I wonder if other forums are not being as dilligent with rel=nofollow, other legit factors are helping his ranking, or if it's all seo.
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by aboodman 16y ago
To make this discussion more concrete, imagine that you have an API that accepts a JSON blob over HTTP/POST. The blob is expected to be something like: { "name": "bob", "age": 42 } Your code needs to handle the case where t

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