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by evmar 11y ago
The Chrome team doesn't want to support multiple distinct Linux binaries, so they drop older platforms once library versions skew enough to cause this. (This page claims it's libstdc++: http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.u
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by evmar 11y ago
It is funny they were worried about whether they just got lucky with their result, then did the prediction market thing, and then didn't worry whether they just got lucky with that result! (At least the article didn't, perhaps
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by evmar 11y ago
The post (quoted above in a comment) describes some of the features the Android engineers liked. This old post from when Ninja was first released discusses "why not just improve make": http://neugierig.org/software
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Android now builds with Ninja instead of Make(groups.google.com)
98 points by evmar 11y ago|44 comments
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Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work(amazon.com)
1524 points by evmar 11y ago|392 comments
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by evmar 11y ago
It occurs to me that this is an interesting outlet for all these US megacorps with tons of money overseas that they're unwilling to take back to the US for tax avoidance reasons -- can they purchase non-US companies with that money wit
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by evmar 11y ago
It makes me* uncomfortable that Google has effectively appointed themselves as the internet police and using their power to push people around like this. But at the same time, there is nobody else (?) who is taking care of this, and I supp
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by evmar 11y ago
Taking a step back: what you're trying to accomplish is code generation -- a program that generates code. From that perspective, why would you choose to write that program using the C preprocessor, when there are so many other nice la
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by evmar 11y ago
This has been posted on HN 9(!) times, but I still enjoy rereading it. For more discussion, this posting had the most comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1174912
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by evmar 11y ago
Random note about accept-encoding that might have been corrupted by my memory: at some point in the past wikipedia was blocking Googlebot due to it hammering their servers. Some debugging revealed that Googlebot's accept-encoding head
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by evmar 11y ago
There are two kinds of blocking that are easy to confuse. One is network: whether the browser will wait for a resource to fetch before fetching another. The other is execution: whether the browser will wait for a resource to execute (wh
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by evmar 11y ago
Caveat: the slides indicate you can indicate prefetching via an HTTP header but in my local testing (and subsequent Googling) it appears that doesn't work in Chrome (perhaps it's Firefox-specific?). Edit: found the relevant bug:
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by evmar 11y ago
Does anyone know why articles like this, which often seem to involve consulting experts, always count all of China as one language? Aside from the many different languages of China[1], Wikipedia also says that "Chinese"/Hany
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by evmar 11y ago
From the post: "we expect to disable both SSLv3 and RC4 support at Google’s frontend servers and, over time, across our products in general, including Chrome , Android, [...]"
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by evmar 11y ago
I was just playing with this today. I didn't realize it was so new! I filed a bug about the extension with the related emacs mode and it's already fixed: https://github.com/fxbois/web-mode/issues/5
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by evmar 11y ago
I went down a similar route in a performance-sensitive lexer (started with naive code, spent some time fiddling with different ways to express it) and eventually used a lexer generator, which uses a combination of lookup tables and tests.
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by evmar 11y ago
(Disclaimer: worked in this area, haven't in a few years, my facts are sketchy.) Bazel is open-sourcing of the build system used to build the majority of code within Google. Chrome (in part because it targeted Windows) didn't use
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by evmar 11y ago
He wrote: > Think about the common debugging scenario where the user sets a conditional breakpoint: "break if x > y". Testing that condition is going to take 15ms each time. Wouldn't the implementation of a software bre
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U.S. judge approves $415M settlement in tech worker lawsuit(reuters.com)
51 points by evmar 11y ago|69 comments
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by evmar 11y ago
It's a little strange to call yourself "highly portable" when you only support three unix-like platforms and even exclude some popular BSD variants.
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by evmar 11y ago
I've used gcc-xml (apparently has been superseded by another tool now) when I've needed this sort of thing in the past. It has the advantage of being a real C parser rather than a jumble of regexes.
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by evmar 11y ago
In a book that opens with "Unlike The Rust Programming Language we will be assuming considerable prior knowledge", you don't need the simple ownership example.
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by evmar 11y ago
Chrome used GTK2 as that was current at the time, and when we looked into GTK3 we concluded that it'd be a pain to target both simultaneously (the point of the new major version number is that the API changed) and that as long as we we
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by evmar 11y ago
In case anyone else is wondering, the referenced chapter is https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/dining-philosophers.html I don't have enough Rust experience to see the issue. I searched the bug tracker to try to find
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by evmar 11y ago
Since we're already off-topic, let me plug my Chrome extension that I frequently use to fix pages just like this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-fix/ofafkoecd...
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by evmar 11y ago
Thanks as always for maintaining the tone of the site!
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by evmar 11y ago
The editorializing of the headline here is changing the argument. The article (titled "The Myth of Big, Bad Gluten") is arguing that gluten may not itself be bad, but rather the body's reaction. This new title implies glute
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by evmar 11y ago
I agree with your point. But as far as I know Franzen was one of his real life friends (in the New Yorker essay Franzen says he was given DFW's ashes to spread) and maybe has special insight into this particular situation.
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by evmar 11y ago
My stomach sank at reading the GP comment, to have missed the exact point the article was making. (I almost wonder if it was intentional?) But then somehow it is so appropriate to DFW that an article about him becoming a caricature of a wr
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by evmar 11y ago
Sorry for the terrible bug report. I just had a good guess: my laptop has a higher-DPI display so I have Chrome adjust all websites to ~130% larger to make them match a normal website. I can reproduce the problem from my desktop if I zoom

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