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My first BillG review (2006)(joelonsoftware.com)
3 points by avasthe 6y ago|0 comments
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by avasthe 6y ago
These zero information statements and intellectually dishonest marketing is what keeps rust a fringe language. > it's just that you're not used to doing things properly, and Rust forces you to do things properly. Many patterns
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by avasthe 6y ago
PS: I am not the person you were replying to in GP. But I used his words. English is not my first language. 1) Look at the CEO salary. She was not even an engineer. The C-level executives don't harm themselves in this process, but ther
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by avasthe 6y ago
It need not take such high salaried non-technical CEO, degenerate activism or doomed web startups to run something like Mozilla.
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by avasthe 6y ago
Yes. But AMP wouldn't have had much value if sites were fast enough, Google used that as an excuse or maybe a genuine strategy turned into a lock-in plan. The hipster macbook pro webshit who doesn't know what O(n) means, and the j
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by avasthe 6y ago
Wrong logic. Marketing didn't see the opportunity to mislead people till now. Although in this case, it can be all about further abstracting the URL detail from end user, as I mentioned in another comment.
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by avasthe 6y ago
Yeah. But AMP was an initiative for speeding up the web.
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by avasthe 6y ago
They are faster than average webshit. That matters to user, even if the bootcamp webshit and his accountant manager doesn't think so.
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by avasthe 6y ago
Depends. I have seen a lot of people who don't understand such things. And I have seen teachers who think using a different editor to write a program might affect output.
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by avasthe 6y ago
"Asked by marketing" or something like that. Fucking suits spoil everything. Engineers are in general, more ethical than suits.
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by avasthe 6y ago
It need not be malice. It maybe because the design people think people are too stupid to understand URLs. As other comment mentioned, Safari does it too. The trend seems to be abstracting away stuff like filesystem. Many people I know don&#
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by avasthe 6y ago
HN is quite invested in Apple that's why you would see a lot of people defending them here. Same for webdev
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by avasthe 6y ago
> Security updates are a plus, but introducing bugs through a shared library is a minus. The minus you mention is a consequence of "Move break fast things" webshit philosophy that's so pervasive these days. Depending on un
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by avasthe 6y ago
You don't know when something comes to hot path. if (std::set(itr.begin(), itr.end()).count(element)) { _____ } is it tempting for someone than something like std::find(itr.begin(), itr.end(), element) != itr.end()) ?? I don&
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by avasthe 6y ago
I don't think it is the same thing. Inserting into linked list assumes you have found the node to insert in. I don't remember exact details but in hash set with linear probing, the worst case happens quite rarely given the hash fu
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by avasthe 6y ago
He thought there would be more weight to having a completely "safe" implementation. Again, plaudits to all involved.
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by avasthe 6y ago
Why is it even downvoted? Such a downvote heavy community. Plaudits to all involved.
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by avasthe 6y ago
Yea no exceptions in C
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by avasthe 6y ago
That's your problem with open source a la GNOME There are well maintained Open Source projects that have effectively a BDFL and don't lose focus. Go language or Lua come to mind. But people like to complain "Go is Google&#x27
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by avasthe 6y ago
I don't think if mozilla wasn't free, it would have half of its today's market share. And market share is important too..
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by avasthe 6y ago
And a lot of this went for non-technical parts of the organisation, and technical talent got laid off. Fucking suits.
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by avasthe 6y ago
Seems like a lot of open source is coming from big tech these days. And OSS is more attractive to those companies in terms of not being vendor locked-in. People who are annoyed that age of commercial smalltalks is over, or shilling for orac
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by avasthe 6y ago
Since the last few layoffs and similar events, many people have told that Mozilla has become a suits’ company. Wherever these management types continue to fuckup company for their lavish lifestyle, such things happen.
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by avasthe 6y ago
> sorted std::vector But inserting into sorted std::vector is o(n log n) in worst case right? (As you have to binary search the position and move other elements). But a hash set with linear probing can give O(1) (amortized) access, while
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by avasthe 6y ago
This is taken to other extreme many times. Example: Google Chrome codebase was allocating lot of std::string and also someone used a Set to check membership of single item. [1] I mean, if you say like this, many people don't even care
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by avasthe 6y ago
Hehehe the old AOT vs JIT debate. JITs can do great optimizations in theory. But in practice they have only so much time to do optimizations. And startup time, binary distribution size, memory footprint matter too.
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by avasthe 6y ago
Oracle is a law firm, others are technology firms.
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by avasthe 6y ago
> What I don't get is the suggestion that PDF should be replaced by HTML If it is a limited subset, I am okay with it. With increasing ubiquity of mobile devices, reflowing PDF is hard. I rather like EPUB these days. Which consists
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by avasthe 6y ago
This. 100% People find the need to identify themselves as gopher or rustacean or something like that. Apparently Programmer is not hip anymore.
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by avasthe 6y ago
This. Not trolling. I don't really know why people like to shoehorn a purpose-oriented language into all domains. Eg: Julia for scientific computing, Rust for low level programming. They would be great if they focused on those "st

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