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by emn13 10y ago
This is a misleading comparison. You imply that firefox is far behind chrome in terms of general quality. Although I use chrome a lot, I also use firefox daily. And the quality difference is essentially nil(1). In many relevant ways fire
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by emn13 10y ago
The sqlite website runs on an sqlite db. Even on most websites, I suspect the need for concurrent, long-lived write transactions is much rarer than people assume. If your write transactions are short-lived, then sequential execution is a re
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by emn13 10y ago
Why don't you think sqlite is a good fit for logging? Given the extensive testing including crash testing, it's plausibly more robust than plain text - because you're almost surely not using any kind of fsync's in yo
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by emn13 10y ago
HTML also defines extremely flexible error recovery that is de-facto required. There's no way a browser's getting away without it when the competition allows such documents, and there's so much legacy content around. I would
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by emn13 10y ago
As long as the average bandwidth isn't a bottleneck, it's not going to matter - at worst, you're just going to need to prefetch (and due to SSD latency, that's likely optimal regardless).
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by emn13 10y ago
Well, it took several decades, but standardized html parsing is now actually fairly robust. So you may not be wrong, but anything that breaks is probably heavily outdated and probably not worth much to anybody (because it's parsing ht
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by emn13 10y ago
It probably would make the parser simpler, however, which may well be faster. And xhtml is closer to the dynamic dom in semantics than html, by virtue of not having self-closing issues or nestability issues (i.e., you express nesting a but
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by emn13 10y ago
It's a real shame HTML5 ever became a thing. We would have been a hell of a lot better off with a simpler spec - perhaps not xhtml as is, but certainly one that keeps the simplicity of well-formedness around. Such a mess nowadays - an
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by emn13 10y ago
Ironically, if end tags were truly non-optional, html might actually compress better , because it would have less entropy (less choices). In practice, it would allow for a compression filter to represent the tree structure in a less redun
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by emn13 10y ago
That's not just politics, it's also patents.
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by emn13 10y ago
Diverse code ownership is a security issue. Even if the OS code is just as "good" as the browser code (and there are reasons to believe that's not necessarily the case), the assumptions is makes are at least partially encode
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by emn13 10y ago
Resistances do die out; they typically aren't free to acquire. However, I suppose it's likely that a mere 30 years isn't enough to extinguish all traces, especially since it's impossible to really mandate a world-wide b
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by emn13 10y ago
I don't quite understand why this is news now. It's been amply published in academic and popular media (including tech-leaning places like http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/01/a-new-kind-of-antibi
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by emn13 10y ago
Or perhaps the marginalization is felt now, but certainly once wasn't - it's an artificial, unnecessary and divisive perpective. But I can imagine that just like misheard song-lyrics it's something that people pick up on, an
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by emn13 10y ago
By comfortable environment they mean where you can say what you want... as long as it doesn't offend any of their unpublished list of vague rules, then you'll be publicly shamed, with no recourse nor explanation. That's a re
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by emn13 10y ago
Well, that depends on the context. You're totally right in general, but for the purpose of order-of-magnitudes of maximal clock rates, the speed of light hardly varies. I can't find any normal, plausible processor material wit
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by emn13 10y ago
So, what you're really saying is that it's quite accurate, there are just details and more details but in the end - as long as we use a single clock - signals need to be able to travel from one end to the other in a single clock c
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by emn13 10y ago
And too tricky - assigning to arbitrary properties on a DOM object can have arbitrary side effects if ever you happen to overload a predefined property (on any browser).
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by emn13 10y ago
Because templating languages are without exception bug-breeding grounds that no human being can actually use without producing errors, which the browser then sometimes proceeds to auto-correct (html being html), which leads to a kind of &qu
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by emn13 10y ago
The alternative being templating which is several orders of magnitude more complex. Fortunately, it saves you a few characters here and there.
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by emn13 10y ago
It's not true in some cases, sometimes. It's still quite easy to cause performance problems listening to scroll events, because even if scroll is partially asynchronous, the webpage itself is not - the browser will wait to render
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by emn13 10y ago
Security catastrophes are unlikely to be sufficient to make companies take security seriously. After all, the PR damage seems limited (it's hard to blame someone for not understanding something you don't understand yourself), and
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by emn13 10y ago
Hmm, is that really true though? If so, ideally, people would choose an institute that teaches them as well as possible for as little as possible money. But that's not at all what people do: they prefer prestigious schools that (hope
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by emn13 10y ago
<--- hrugh.
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by emn13 10y ago
Well, what once was not, certainly now appears to be. It's been used so much, I think it's fair to say it has become a word. Moans and koans to contrary will be accepted, however. And hey, if you're lucky its existence wil
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by emn13 10y ago
Even by the most lax standard you couldn't call the app store open; and that's kind of what's being shuttered here. The technology wasn't ever particularly interesting (not a bad thing), but the distribution model was
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by emn13 10y ago
Even if it turns out to be leaky, it could still be a big deal: I think it's fair to say that the greatest cloud risk isn't actively and persistently hostile providers - mostly because that sounds like an almost hopeless task. A
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by emn13 10y ago
But they asked during pregancy what their medicine use was up to three months ago . For a relatively mundane task like taking paracetamol, I think it's reasonable to question how reliable memory is at that point. Especially since th
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by emn13 10y ago
Also, what they're correlating is memory of paracetamol usage, not actual usage. I'm not sure I remember if I used paracetamol the past 3 months. It may well be that more severe pain (or other) symptoms are more easily remembere
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by emn13 10y ago
"even if there are people of color working there, they’re clearly not (a) in positions where they feel comfortable speaking up or (b) their input isn’t valued" O Rly? To rephrase: you're not a proper, well behaving minority u

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