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by azakai 11y ago
The article was talking about the Bitcode design in LLVM, not the plugin situation. Yes, gcc considered making plugins hard a feature, but as for a design that separates the frontend and backend in order to make each more modular, then gcc
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by azakai 11y ago
A major difference is that web content does not have silent access to your microphone, and the ability to monitor you and send information back home. There are large security differences between what NaCl allows for web content, and what it
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by azakai 11y ago
> It's sad of course. And it's probably not good for society in the short term. But it's hard for me to get too worked up about it; it's not as though they didn't have HUGE advantages versus craigslist. They just
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by azakai 11y ago
It's an unnecessary blemish on an otherwise excellent article, imo. Could instead mention percentages before and after, then stress the absolute number to get across the 60M figure.
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by azakai 11y ago
And it isn't a coincidence, as you point out in the article, Fisher's math predicts this.
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I found this sentence confusing or misleading, > In 1961, the earliest year the World Bank provides data for, the world was within 0.09 percentage points of a perfectly equal distribution. Ever since, the gap has widened; now men outnumb
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by azakai 11y ago
That's a fair point and I agree, there is benefit to not having more buttons on the UI. It's hard to know what the right tradeoff is, between the benefits of adding buttons and not adding them. There are good reasons to prefer bot
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I wouldn't say a lot, it's just one button. Is there a cost to adding even a button? Yes. But that has to be weighed against the benefit. And a significant amount of users benefit from having the button.
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by azakai 11y ago
There are a lot of people working on performance - it's just less press-worthy than new features, so less noticed I guess. But bugs do exist, of course. Do you see anything odd in about:memory that can help diagnose your specific issue
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by azakai 11y ago
I think the reason is to make them available to users. If they were in an addon, most users would never hear about it, and even if they did, many users don't know how to install addons. There is data showing that Firefox users like the
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by azakai 11y ago
Both features have near-negligible overhead if you don't use them. But having them in the product makes them accessible to the wide userbase, many of whom don't know what addons are or how to install them. Therefore it seems reaso
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by azakai 11y ago
> To compile those numbers, realtor.com compared median home prices and the cost of renting a three-bedroom home in 382 local markets, then factored in estimates for transaction costs, price appreciation, future mortgage rates, and inter
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The author gives 3 examples of confusion by the general public regarding how software works. We, as a society, should try to educate people more on these things. But this is mostly a matter for our schools, not our software engineers. The a
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by azakai 11y ago
An article on HN just a week or two ago argued that allowing more building is one approach, and gave Miami as an example. The old neighborhoods there stay as they were, while a lot of the new influx of people go to a small set of newly-buil
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Yes, Intel has been doing amazing work here, both on the spec and on writing code for multiple browsers. Really helping to push the entire industry forward on SIMD for the web.
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by azakai 11y ago
Indeed, and furthermore, because of the sheer size of the population of China, it shouldn't surprise us to see stories about this that involve Chinese nationals. It's not surprising there are lots of great people but also less-gre
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Also, the first airline to do this will get great PR, for very little cost. I know I would pick an airline that installs this.
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by azakai 11y ago
The math might add up, but this might still be wrong. 1. Not spending $5 on Starbucks every day changes other things. For example, the person might have a feeling of "I'm being good by saving $5", and that feeling might lead
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by azakai 11y ago
I'm not sure why you feel that is the "real" reason. It is a strong one, of course, but the fact that the squared error has a derivative - and a nice and simple one - is equally strong in my opinion.
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by azakai 11y ago
Modern JS VMs have type-specializing JITs. That's how they make code run fast, basically - they detect types at runtime, and emit efficient code for that. asm.js just gives them the types, which makes things easier, but it all builds u
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by azakai 11y ago
Yes, correct. Emscripten and mandreel already produced something quite like asm.js, before asm.js was defined.
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I think that's similar to how people say JSON was discovered by Crockford. Both only use things already present in the language, but they do form something new out of them. It is sort of a middle ground between discovery and invention.
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Because realistically it is. There are some sci-fi ideas, as others mentioned, but they are long shots.
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> The users don't care. That's true, but I think it's a cop out. When Google, Microsoft and Netflix specced, implemented and shipped EME, there was no significant pushback. Of course, as you say, average users don't c
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Actually, the information said that they forked their existing rendering engine, and started to remove all the cruft they didn't care about any more. That led to a lot of new code and faster development - but it isn't entirely f
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Nice! If you missed it, there was also a similar demo but with Windows 95 just a few days ago, http://win95.ajf.me/
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I see. Perhaps you applied to a certain type of company? That's my only guess as to why your experiences are different from mine. Company size/age/field might all matter here.
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by azakai 11y ago
I'm not sure how you can be so certain? (99% of interviewers..?) I interviewed a bunch, but not for a few years. More recently, I've been on the other side of things. In all my experience: yes, some people expect a very specific a
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Oh cool, thanks for making it!
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by azakai 11y ago
> But all three of us are very reluctant to start interviewing because we all know how much interviewing really really SUCKS. Have you interviewed much recently, or are you going on what you hear about bad things in the interview process

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