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by bengoodger 11y ago
I've seen this argument repeated ad nauseum over the past 15-20 years. I think it depends on what you want. Yes to some having consistent elements of UI make some users feel very happy about using your software. Most probably won'
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by bengoodger 11y ago
As someone with a lot of these pricy adult sets I find the presentation in this article weird. Lego described as a "victim" of aging consumers etc. vs. this being a deliberate calculated strategy by Lego to go after the adult&#x2F
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by bengoodger 11y ago
When I moved here ~12 years ago one of the things that surprised me the most was how comfortable companies were at flat out deceptive marketing. The lesson I learned very quickly was to assume any claim made on any package by any company wa
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by bengoodger 12y ago
This is a great book. I had the good fortune of working with Karl and a couple of the other Subversion founders (Fitz and Ben) early in the Chrome project at Google. This book served as an invaluable resource for the team to learn about ope
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by bengoodger 12y ago
Having just raised the ceiling in my house, there are a variety of things. Taller walls tend to come with taller windows. Not just more glass... sometimes whole extra windows (transoms) which cost almost as much as the much larger ones belo
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by bengoodger 12y ago
Furthermore, Chromium's now spent the vast majority of its life developed in the open. You would probably find today's code unrecognizable if you traveled through time from 2008.
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by bengoodger 12y ago
Good luck waiting out the gold rush, it's been a part of the California way of life for more than a hundred and fifty years.
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by bengoodger 12y ago
The lemon law is not quite as cut and dried as the author of this article states. If you're not happy with your car you should not make this judgment for yourself. Consult an attorney. You can be outside the 18k miles but if the proble
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by bengoodger 12y ago
You're right that traditionally Control4 has not been hardwired - but note they're moving into panelized lighting control now, and my assumption was that system would only be controllable from their frontends unless you reverse en
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by bengoodger 12y ago
It will be interesting to see how much of this relies on the presence of existing hard wired systems, many of which are controllable over the network (e.g. Lutron, many security systems, etc). Writing to other peoples' APIs has not typ
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by bengoodger 13y ago
I used to be more religious about this sort of thing... but the religion falls apart even on OS X when you realize that even WebKit implements its own copy of the native controls that can appear in web content - so that they can be transfor
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by bengoodger 13y ago
This is nothing like XUL. It's just some abstraction layers written in C++. The hygiene from the Chromium side is that it allows us to share some code with abstractions we already have for the web platform. Chrome UI on Windows, Chrome
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by bengoodger 13y ago
The easiest way to try the ChromeOS UI on another platform is currently on Windows 8, where if your regular Chrome build is set as the default browser it will run the ChromeOS desktop environment/window manager in Metro mode (you have
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by bengoodger 13y ago
It's a single product, composed of multiple projects/targets building different dlls/executables. That was my understanding of the point of a "solution" (vs the old days of VC6 when there were only projects and work
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by bengoodger 13y ago
Chromium is an extreme case of this. When we started we wanted to live the VS way of life (IDE tools and the like), so we had a Chrome.sln and various projects. Eventually it became too much. It would take minutes to load the sln, and woe t
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by bengoodger 13y ago
Desktop window manager integration seems to always be tricky. I've personally sunk months of my life in getting a variety of custom window frames to work "well enough" on various Windows flavors (for Chrome on XP, Vista, 7 an
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by bengoodger 13y ago
"Culturalism" aside, the additional CVR transcript the OP gripes about Gladwell omitting does little to support his claim. Gladwell's segment: FO: "Don't you think it rains more? [..]" Omitted: FO: "Captai
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by bengoodger 13y ago
It's not limited to Java. We have a rule in Chromium where if your class name contains the same word twice you have to do a shot.
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by bengoodger 13y ago
This is optimizing for the wrong thing (developer convenience vs. user experience). People like using tabs in their browser more than windows. This also ignores the other important benefit of mparch: sandboxing. The browser needs some eleva
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by bengoodger 13y ago
Observation by police officers? I already see plenty of people texting while driving. The first hint is that they're driving like they're not paying attention. When you pull up alongside them you see them glancing down repetitivel
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by bengoodger 13y ago
IMO only when this is treated like DUI will it be taken more seriously. It sounds radical, but the activity is easily avoidable, seriously diminishes your focus and can have horrible consequences.
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by bengoodger 13y ago
The Herald is in no way the "Fox News of New Zealand." It's Auckland's major newspaper. I don't find the reporting more or less dense than most other msm tech coverage frankly. I lived in NZ for 20 years, and don't remember any news sources
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by bengoodger 13y ago
The comparison is misleading. I'd wager few new MB S sell for $70-80k. A better comparison in performance, price, equipment and size would be the mid-size equivalents, e.g. E-class, 5-series (GT?), A7. It's possible the Model S has sold mor
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by bengoodger 13y ago
BTW you can see the remnants of the code that supported this feature for popups still in use for things like HTTP Basic Auth dialogs: http://www.pagetutor.com/keeper/http_authentication/index.ht... The feature went through several iterati
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by bengoodger 14y ago
I've only written a small amount of dart so far, but speaking as as a cranky C++ developer with not much recent experience with web development, having a thicker standard library is very useful. Specifically the platform has grown so much
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by bengoodger 14y ago
It depends what you're interested in. "Market vs. Usage share" is a debate that rages every time these numbers come out. It's really apples and oranges. For me, market share is an interesting piece of trivia and usage share is a snapshot of
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by bengoodger 14y ago
I don't believe communities in SV would sign onto this. One important reason is the lack of core infrastructure like a centrally planned transit system. The thing to remember about the bay area is that it's not one city like NYC. It's a num
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by bengoodger 14y ago
There's definitely a mindset on Chrome that: - any feature, no matter how small, has some cost (code size, testing, cognitive complexity, etc), and frequently contributes in some way to making the product and/or other development slower. -
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by bengoodger 14y ago
I won't speculate on why people make the technology decisions they do - and in this case I'm somewhat distant from the WebKit team. I am pretty familiar with Chrome's multiprocess webview harness. This is one case where approx. 2 years ago
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by bengoodger 14y ago
I don't see how the fact that Chrome was secret prior to its 9/2/08 launch matters much here. It's existed publicly for ~4.5 years at http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/ and all of the code is pretty actively developed [1] &#

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