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by avaer 9y ago
Are long-winded quarrels and dysfunctions unique to node core, or is node core just transparent in documenting the making of the sausage?
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by avaer 9y ago
Or it could mean there is plenty of interest, but people don't agree this project is the right way to fund it. That answer rubs me the wrong way.
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by avaer 9y ago
The burden of proof isn't on the claim there is no practical usage. The default hypothesis is no usage. The burden of proof is on the claim that non-speculation uses are greater than the speculation uses.
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by avaer 9y ago
> anyone who is attracted to you because of those things will be toxic company It's naive to believe there exist people that don't judge humans and places by aesthetics. We just have different parameters. Maybe Babushka dolls d
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by avaer 9y ago
If you call a function with a different number or type of arguments, or an object that has different keys, or even keys that you added in a different order, bets are off and the optimizer might not be able to reuse previously optimized vers
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by avaer 9y ago
Indeed, it heavily depends on what your JS engine thinks your data types are, your allocation patterns, and more. If your engine thinks you're using floats to index into a typed array that might be slower than using floats to index int
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by avaer 9y ago
In case it wasn't clear, when I said prefer typed arrays over objects, I literally meant Typed Arrays [1]. These are not like arrays _or_ objects. They're faster than either, since there are less corner cases and type ambiguities.
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by avaer 9y ago
I have some experience with this stuff, and my go-to advice is: - Never construct or mutate objects in a loop or recursive call. - Preallocate the max of what you'll need at load time, then index into it. - Prefer typed arrays
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by avaer 9y ago
That you don't hear about the ten years of failure before the success says more about what sells biographies than it says about the founders.
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by avaer 9y ago
> I suspect the root cause is simply that building a successful operating system is hard. It's hard but not that hard; tons of experimental OS-like objects have been made that meet these goals. Nobody uses them. What's hard is
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by avaer 9y ago
There are some universals, but fewer than you'd think. Virtually every culture condemns killing people for your benefit, death cults, and molestation. But there are cultures where bombing is partiotic, killing yourself to avoid shame i
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by avaer 9y ago
The thing is, the crowd that gets their news from Snapchat would agree with you that most news is garbage. Which is why they get it on snap. I love HN as much as you do, but the stories here equally pander to a demographic. It's just c
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by avaer 9y ago
If my profits depended on retaining users on my platform, I might use an algorithm to optimize the headline mistakes for maximum pedantic debate.
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by avaer 9y ago
Getting rid of the commute for work that doesn't require physical human labor.
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by avaer 9y ago
Google's entire business model is tracking users as they use the internet in order to target ads. Every AMPed page is contributing work towards improving the effectiveness and appeal of Google's product (selling ads), by adding da
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by avaer 9y ago
We're already there. You can get a lot more accomplished by not spending time on Facebook. But for many people, vicarious living and social media validation are some of the few things that bring them joy in their lives.
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by avaer 9y ago
Not saying that's true, but if it is, wouldn't that mean AMP is not a desired product? I fully support a "faster page spec" that search engines incentivize, just like I support a ranking boost for using HTTPS. But AMP is
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by avaer 9y ago
Sounds like the perfect use case for a nice standard CORSy web prefetch API that all browsers could implement. And this would work for at least as much of the web as is currently putting effort into AMP.
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by avaer 9y ago
For Google, the hijack is the prime feature; AMP is the PR vehicle that makes it swallow. AMP could have been done without the huge exception, but then Google couldn't profit from it.
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by avaer 9y ago
> Is it free speech to just be mean to someone? Yes. But thankfully for internet platforms, they are not bound by free speech. > If toxicity on a platform gets so bad that people don’t even want to post a comment, they don’t even want
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by avaer 9y ago
It's just an anecdote, but back in junior high I literally ended up teaching my computer class with a silly programmable pacman game; it looked very much like the ones in this post. Long story short, the teacher rolled with it and so d
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by avaer 9y ago
I actually don't know any great coders that learned to code through these kinds of games. They might move the programming-is-interesting gradient, but I don't think the hard part about learning to code is the text. The hard part a
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by avaer 9y ago
I really hope this ends up paid and expensive. If you're paying for it, it's a powerful tool for you to steer discussion and truth towards what you'd like on your platform. If you're not paying for it, it's a powerf
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by avaer 9y ago
Can you imagine what the headline of this article would be if he supported the talking points in the memo? Or if he did nothing? The headline of the article would still be "Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google's CEO".
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by avaer 9y ago
I actually think staying away was the smartest thing you've done! I can't think of a worse reason to invest in an asset and market one doesn't understand than fear of missing out.
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by avaer 9y ago
> This topic is harmful to people and we shouldn’t discuss it It would be so very refreshing to hear a company just say "let's not throw incendiary memos around at work; it upsets people", instead of feeding the fire with
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by avaer 9y ago
It's not about Firefox-only vs standard, but about control. When your extension does not or cannot work anymore due to lockout by browser consortium agreement, the control isn't with the user or the developer -- it's with the
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by avaer 9y ago
The internet could really use a non-profit lobbying for the _open_ web. We already have actors locking browsers down for (according to party line) the user's own good. Yet it seems Firefox is on the path to becoming Chrome, and not eve
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by avaer 9y ago
It gets the clicks, shares, and comments. The incentives are stacked for both the social and traditional media to ride the outrage straight to the bank. And Google has no choice but to clean up the mess with the right signals. I don't
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by avaer 9y ago
I'm not sure it counts as satire when you're openly being the thing you're satirizing, and that's the entirety of the joke. It normally wouldn't be a question of import, but this is a scam satirizing a scam, and acc

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