aboodman

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by aboodman 16y ago
Hacker news is an important use case of ours :) (edit to reduce snark)
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by aboodman 16y ago
There are lots of finicky details to get right about entrance/exit from apps. Hacker news is an example of one important class of apps that we hope to make work well.
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by aboodman 16y ago
This is something we're interested in too. Unclear if it will be in v1.
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by aboodman 16y ago
All of chrome is open source and the format is already documented -- other browsers are welcome to implement it, or just take the code if they want.
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by aboodman 16y ago
I think they would just post their app as "free" in the store and handle payments themselves. Or support both payment systems if the distribution is worth it to them.
726.
by aboodman 16y ago
Apps are essentially a metadata wrapper around a URL^. The payment authorization is done server-to-server. Thus you could buy an app in Firefox and authorization would still work fine, the UX just won't be as nice. ^ We are also considering
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by aboodman 16y ago
Hello, my name is Aaron, and I will be your question answerer for today. - Anything that works in Chrome can be an app. Flash apps are OK (one of the demo apps at the keynote, Plants vs Zombies, was a flash app) - We haven't finalized exact
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by aboodman 16y ago
I wonder how Scribd pulled this off wrt HR. I mean, they must have had a sizable investment in Flash engineering. Did those people leave? Did they just start doing HTML stuff instead? Back in the day when I was doing webdev, there was a pre
729.
by aboodman 17y ago
Wow, really? I guess hyperlinks aren't required for sharing, but they are so cool. The fact that on the web you can try a service just by following a link that a friend mails you makes things so incredibly frictionless. I supect that conv
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by aboodman 17y ago
Reminds me of this article on how friendfeed implemented schemaless storage on top of MySQL: http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql I always thought it was a very clever design.
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by aboodman 17y ago
The difference is that the rules are rendered using actual CSS syntax, rather than the section heading control. This makes it very easy to scan because as a web developer, your brain is already trained to parse CSS syntax easily. The contro
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by aboodman 17y ago
His customers? I think application developers are most used to thinking of users as _their_ customers. But you're right, that is clearly not what Steve is thinking.
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by aboodman 17y ago
This is what they'd say: http://code.google.com/closure/ :)
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by aboodman 17y ago
chrome extensions.... still.
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by aboodman 17y ago
I work for Google, on Google Chrome extensions. The change to the gallery was actually made awhile ago, and discussed here: http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-exten... mmastrac is correct. We always wanted the front pa
736.
by aboodman 17y ago
Mostly up to date, but I freshened some things.
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by aboodman 17y ago
This is really cool. Nice work.
738.
by aboodman 17y ago
Not due to a security risk, just a release management mistake. https://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions/msg/6247...
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by aboodman 17y ago
Picking a name for a software project is one of the few areas where a developer gets to kick loose and be completely creative, and even fanciful. Personally, I love picking names that recast old words in a new way, and think Closure is a gr
740.
by aboodman 17y ago
The point I was trying to make wasn't about C++, it was that the article starts with a question it never answers. It would be a more honest opening to just say "lots of smart people hate C++", and then proceeded with the examples. Instead,
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by aboodman 17y ago
Argh. Not a very useful article. Start with an observation: "Everyone hates C++, and yet it is really widely used. That's odd." Next, 10 paragraphs of people hating on C++. End with: actually wait, no ending.
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by aboodman 17y ago
My initial reaction to this is that while I'm excited to see innovation in this space, this doesn't look so much like synthesis of something new, as much as aggregation of everything that already exist. This isn't a single, new, interesting
743.
by aboodman 17y ago
I actually think it would be interesting if there was a standard interface between the renderer and the browser ui. This would allow renderers to compete on their own merits with their real customers (developers), instead of being shackled
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by aboodman 17y ago
I am missing why this is important or unexpected. Since most mutations are no-ops, and behavior is frequently expressed through combinations, I'd have expected what they found. For every useful mutation, there were usually other random muta
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by aboodman 17y ago
BTW, imo, the behavior of |this| is a really unfortunate design flaw of JS. The amount of time that must have been spent learning and teaching this edge case over and over to every person new to the language is ... well, it's big.
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by aboodman 17y ago
There is indeed a preference for window (really the global) object. Try these: <script> alert(this == window); function foo() { alert(this == window); } foo(); </script> |this| is basically a magical variable that by defau
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by aboodman 17y ago
Think carefully about how much work this was to implement (well) and reconsider whether you think it could have been one person's 20% project.
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by aboodman 17y ago
You have no idea. There has been a thread raging for the past week on checked exceptions. An earlier war raged over 80 vs 100 columns.
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by aboodman 17y ago
Actually, I notice the reverse problem: (good) programmers are in the DRY habit, so they habitually look for the most concise way to express something -- either in programming or spoken language. In real life, communication is lossy. You ne
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by aboodman 17y ago
CSS emulation of tables doesn't meet the requirement though. The question was whether CSS supports the primitives required to do grid layouts without coupling the CSS to HTML, effectively requiring the two of them to be treated as object

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