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by asdasf 13y ago
How did firefox get development stagnate so badly? We have more workarounds and polyfills for dealing with firefox than we do for dealing with IE now, it is ridiculous.
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by asdasf 13y ago
It actually is really important for people to point out how awful the current state of affairs is. If there isn't recognition of the problem, it will never be fixed. We need a standard browser bytecode, so multiple competing language
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by asdasf 13y ago
The bigger problem is that there are languages that make it hard to write good code. Javascript is one of them.
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by asdasf 13y ago
As I said: This whole "oh god we're the sum of all human knowledge please give us money" tripe is a bit hard to swallow when there's more information getting deleted than being created. If they don't want to be jud
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by asdasf 13y ago
Like nothing, there is no problem with it. Just leave it alone. This whole "oh god we're the sum of all human knowledge please give us money" tripe is a bit hard to swallow when there's more information getting deleted
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by asdasf 13y ago
I noticed it was both obvious and trivial to add a web page to your home screen. Is that also the case on windows phones? Is it the case on any other phone? Or are webapps treated as second class citizens still on phones?
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by asdasf 13y ago
Why do you think IE9 performance numbers indicate that claims about IE11 performance are lies?
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by asdasf 13y ago
It literally can't be an "independent reimplementation" if one person played a major role in both of them.
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by asdasf 13y ago
Yes, eating fruit will spike your blood sugar just like candy will. Notice how diabetics need to eat candy or fruit if their blood sugar gets low? There's a reason they say either one, because they have the same effect. Sugar is sug
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by asdasf 13y ago
>sugar is far healthier than sugar Really? By what definition of "healthy"?
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by asdasf 13y ago
How is delicious fruit not "sugar shit" exactly? Eating poorly gives you energy too. Energy is measured in calories. Consuming sufficient calories is not a challenge.
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by asdasf 13y ago
According to one of the people responsible for a software project that has been plagued by security holes for ~15 years, and whose website was hacked, and who hasn't fixed it... Yeah, that's definitely a problem with google alrigh
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by asdasf 13y ago
VPNs are not "sillyness", and they have nothing whatsoever to do with preventing employees from stealing data. They are to allow authorized people to securely access the network.
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by asdasf 13y ago
What is fixmystreet supposed to be an example of?
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by asdasf 13y ago
It does sort of bail on you instead of explaining what monads are. A couple of examples of monads is not the same as understanding what the underlying abstraction is. That said, it isn't hard or long to learn monads. A monad is some
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by asdasf 13y ago
That isn't evil at all, and I saw someone was actually working on doing that. For web apps that just need to expose a json api, we already just generate boilerplate code from the database anyways, we literally don't write any cod
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by asdasf 13y ago
>So when a woman who is traumatized writes an article out of anger, there is inherent value in that But that doesn't mean there is value to it being posted here. I don't think it is surprising or bad that angry rants disappear
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by asdasf 13y ago
Or it is just a crude "this person flagged too often" filter, and he was actually being helpful and was punished for it.
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by asdasf 13y ago
Unfortunately, a large subset of the people who wish to have the conversation, consider lesswrong.com to be sexist and that being "logical" and "rational" are part of the problem. I don't believe it is a conversati
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by asdasf 13y ago
That makes no sense at all. The function in question sets the memory limit for the PHP interpreter. A specific piece of software. Facebook does not use that specific piece of software.
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by asdasf 13y ago
I know, I used past tense. But the initial hiphop work was when php memory limits stopped being relevant for them.
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by asdasf 13y ago
They still write code in the language PHP. They do not run that code using PHP the software you download from php.net. The memory limits of the PHP interpreter from php.net are not relevant at all to facebook's current operations.
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by asdasf 13y ago
>Big corps like these: http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.htm... . ? No, not at all like those. Big corps like these: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/
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by asdasf 13y ago
>Microsoft Word was never designed to be an ideal tool for creative writing, programming, or any such thing. He pointed that out. And he pointed out that the industry was still foisting it on him. That is why he wants it to die. This
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by asdasf 13y ago
It is certainly not still there given that facebook doesn't run PHP any more. They wrote a compiler to translate a subset of PHP to C++, which they then compiled into a massive executable. The compiler is open source and called hipho
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by asdasf 13y ago
You said it seems clever. I explained that it is the opposite. Why did you feel the appropriate response to that information was a random crazy rant about how old and cranky you are? If the idea of learning something offends you then don
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by asdasf 13y ago
>Haskell strikes me as very clever. It is not. You should check it out some time. For purposes of this post I will pretend haskell and ghc are one in the same (ghc is the most popular haskell compiler). Haskell is built around a very
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by asdasf 13y ago
Most of what you describe applies to haskell just as it does to everything else. It is a general purpose programming language. If you want to see what packages are available look here: http://hackage.haskell.org/ Yes, si
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by asdasf 13y ago
No, it isn't like that. At all. It isn't even remotely close. Making bad analogies is not productive. It is like someone saying "haskell is safer than python, but just as productive, you should give it a try". So le
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by asdasf 13y ago
Which is why I suggested we not use terrible analogies as though we are incapable of speaking about our profession directly. My point was that if you insist on using a bad analogy, it has to at least parallel the situation you are analogiz

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