emn13

178 ms·

1441.
by emn13 14y ago
Also, I'm not sure it was very wise of Mike to assume the data was truly incompressible. It's unlikely someone would manage to compress it (certainly for just 5k), but if you truly believe you have a source for billions or trillions of bit
1442.
by emn13 14y ago
I don't agree - Patrick was (ab)using the discrepancy between file content size and file store size. For a single compressed file this may not be very relevant (hence its omission in the original problem description), but the changed rule
1443.
by emn13 14y ago
The problem (mostly) isn't the renderer, it's the content. It does actually need to be a reasonably reflowable html page, as opposed to too many manual line breaks, excessively indented blocks, etc. For code, that's just not easy.
1444.
by emn13 14y ago
I actually like long verbose names. Unfortunately, plain JS names are often long, verbose and unclear, so that's not a win. (e.g. document.querySelectorAll - that should have made some reference to css; and "all" should be implicit as i
1445.
by emn13 14y ago
Sometimes the API is more convenient. Also, it's so widely used that it's often easier to find samples and documentation on how to do something with jquery than it is without using jquery, even where the plain javascript solution isn't rea
1446.
by emn13 14y ago
Even though it's almost certainly possible and even practically achievable to compress the required data into the 1MB of space, doing so without using more than 1MB even in temporaries might be impossible. (To get this close to the bound yo
1447.
by emn13 14y ago
it's not TB of ROM. It' much, much more: 2^(2^20) addresses... Even if you're faking it and the addresses aren't real (inevitable with those numbers), you're still just cheating and storing data in a multi-megabyte dynamic (not ROM!) pr
1448.
by emn13 14y ago
That analysis sounds like nonsense. His options #1 and #3 are a false and (and misleading) dichotomy. (#1 being continue as is, and #3 being cut the cord) Of course apple wants to ship its own mapping stuff once it can. But there's no r
1449.
by emn13 14y ago
I'm pretty sure you can't say that so categorically. If you can distort the market (specifically: have a monopoly), then in principle any means you use to do so might be illegal. Using a brand might qualify - at least I'm not aware of a
1450.
by emn13 14y ago
Not CSS3... anymore :-) Unless I'm seriously mistaken; the webcast is using the (fairly old) linear gradient syntax which was removed in FF16. Or am I missing something? Spec: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-images/#linear-gradient-type In
1451.
by emn13 14y ago
It's so hard to say: maybe it'd have taken a while longer. On the other hand, maybe the alternative solution would have been simpler, allowing later developments to progress more quickly. It certainly took years to clean up IE-specific ht
1452.
by emn13 14y ago
According to that link, he didn't invent them. They're not claiming he didn't play a role in building them. Titling the article as a "Myth" smacks of about.com linkbait.
1453.
by emn13 14y ago
There's a big downside here too: by publishing lots of very big and crufty (and ill-thought out) API's, they make it very hard to come up with alternate implementations. And once devs are locked into those API's, it's very very hard to por
1454.
by emn13 14y ago
It's an accident of history that's it's primarily used for Json and not Xml, but you can hardly argue that the API itself was an accident. Frankly, the importance of json in this matter is pretty minor anyhow: if it hadn't been around, you
1455.
by emn13 14y ago
I doubt Markdown, BBCode or anything similar is a good idea here. That's just introducing extra complexity - and what for? The point of markdown is that its simple for humans to read and write directly, which isn't applicable here. The do
1456.
by emn13 14y ago
The locking options can be controlled - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclien... Is there some other locking issue?
1457.
by emn13 14y ago
How are they any worse for error reporting? Also, unless I'm mistaken, if you want to, you can enroll a bulk copy into a custom transaction for maximum control and essentially replicate the table-valued parameter behavior.
1458.
by emn13 14y ago
Not just that; it might well be slower. It's definitely possible to saturate a network connection with a bulk operation like this; less wire overhead matters. I suspect it's mostly just necessary to permit the delay between data generation
1459.
by emn13 15y ago
Important detail: only in combination with an arbitrarily large HTML file, and only with arbitrarily many user interactions (i.e. the user needs to manually increment the state). As such it's a pretty meaningless type of turing completeness
1460.
by emn13 15y ago
it's not just CSS3; there's some javascript too.
1461.
by emn13 15y ago
For some weird reason his javascript only sets -webkit- prefixed CSS properties; it's quite likely this would work in firefox (and possibly eventually IE10), were it not for this.