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by drgath 16y ago
"or whether or not they'll be consistent across their platforms" Are you referring to other devices running Android? I don't think Google's stance is anti-h.264, it's anti anything that isn't royalty-free (forever) in the web stack. And I
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by drgath 16y ago
"Facebook is Google five years ago, and Google is Microsoft." Ouch.
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Google Has Given Up On Social(businessinsider.com)
5 points by drgath 16y ago|2 comments
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by drgath 16y ago
While I do use my mobile's alarm app often, I've always been hesitant to use it as my -only- alarm. There are too many things that could go wrong when compared to a good ol' alarm clock. When I need to catch those 6am flights, I set multip
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by drgath 16y ago
The static page was put up to handle the massive load hitting the blog.
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by drgath 16y ago
The main difference... Engineers learn to build. Scientists build to learn.
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by drgath 16y ago
"JavaScript could have been a number of languages, the fact that it happened to be JavaScript, is more a result of a externalities than the language itself." If you are looking for The Perfect Programming Language, you are going to be waiti
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by drgath 16y ago
I think you over-estimate how much people within Anon actually care about public perception of the group's activities. As long as they are making headlines, that is all they care about. It's like the kid in high school who you could dare to
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by drgath 16y ago
JavaScript had everything to do with its own success. It was a language written specifically to be run inside the browser. People should rush out to code in any language because of the capabilities of that language. It is silly to focus on
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by drgath 16y ago
Wow, lots of hate. I guess I'll be the first to say... Nice work JavaScript. Congrats!
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by drgath 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1974213
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by drgath 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1974241
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by drgath 16y ago
I see what you did there.
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by drgath 16y ago
"$0.5Bn" (Allegedly) That's just per quarter. So x4.
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by drgath 16y ago
"Except cash." Like Twitter & Facebook, they have access to all the money they could ever want. Plus, Groupon's revenues are through the roof right now, right on par with Facebook's.
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by drgath 16y ago
A $5 billion buyout for a company with $2 billion revenues is not a good offer.
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by drgath 16y ago
With $2 billion revenues that are likely to continue increasing YOY, it looks like an embarrassingly low offer. http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101203/exclusive-groupon-annual...
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by drgath 16y ago
Via an email thread at work: "My little brother (23 yrs old) recently got a code tattooed on his forearm (picture attached). He’s framing this tattoo to everyone in a very mysterious way, to the point of being arrogant. He hasn’t told any
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Ask HN: Pic of an MD5(?) tattoo, time to decode it(s89997654.onlinehome.us)
6 points by drgath 16y ago|3 comments
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Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript, a cross-platform object scripting language(web.archive.org)
7 points by drgath 16y ago|1 comments
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by drgath 16y ago
I've been programming ever since I was a kind in the 80's with the Commodore64. In high school I was all about BASIC and C++. Then in college I got into Java & PHP. While I enjoyed it, I never really thought of programming as a career
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by drgath 16y ago
"The JS community is struggling with designing libraries that work as well on the server as well as the client." Disagree. YUI3 was a library written for the web, but it was so well designed that it took one YUI engineer hacking around for
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by drgath 16y ago
You and everyone else.
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by drgath 16y ago
Yes
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by drgath 16y ago
The point wasn't that Google can't make the technology, of course it can. The point was that Google can't create the product. Besides, Instagram isn't even a key part of the post. Swap in any other hot startup of the week and it's still t
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by drgath 16y ago
FYI: YQL supports JSONP callbacks, so check it out if you come across something that doesn't support JSONP, or doesn't even have an API. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
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by drgath 16y ago
If you are wondering what "C-grade" support means... http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/#define-support "Summary: C-grade browsers are identified, incapable, antiquated and rare. QA tests a sampling of C-grade browsers, and bugs
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Yahoo demoting IE6 to C-grade status in Q1 2011(yuiblog.com)
1 points by drgath 16y ago|1 comments
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by drgath 16y ago
it's the code word
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by drgath 16y ago
Hopefully this will cause GMail to take a look at their own performance. Loading some labels/searches takes 20+ seconds or it just times out. I do like that they left console.log() on in production to give you a glimpse at how quickly it l

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