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by evmar 14y ago
(Copy'n'paste of reddit comment:) While it's true that the Windows API seems to be the best thought through, I was surprised to learn that the implementation may randomly fall back to synchronous IO in unpredictable ways, which (depending o
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by evmar 14y ago
Regarding spellcheck: I noticed the application contains the typo "bolierplate".
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by evmar 14y ago
The project was a group effort, but I will take credit for the synonyms part in particular. There's more background on it here[1] and I'd be happy to answer questions. [1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/helping-computers-und...
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Show HN: free-text surveys with automatic analysis(plus.google.com)
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by evmar 14y ago
Midori, because it uses WebKit, was surely vulnerable to the same SVG vulnerability and has no sandbox.
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by evmar 14y ago
I think the blame ultimately lies on the Python side, for not giving clear guidance that switching /usr/bin/python is a bad idea. (But Arch definitely deserves plenty of blame for making a bad decision where the Python guidelines allowed t
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by evmar 14y ago
Have you seen Plask? ( http://www.plask.org/ ) What are your thoughts on it? I guess it doesn't target OpenGL, but I imagine it's pretty fast already...
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by evmar 14y ago
I know this opinion may be unpopular, but: people have been successfully writing xlib apps for literally decades. There's no reason to use xcb for that type of app, especially if you're just trying to get a GL window on the screen and you
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by evmar 14y ago
I think the bug was maybe fixed (I haven't seen it in a while), but Ubuntu ships an ancient version of Chrome (looks like Chrome 18, while I'm using Chrome 23).
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by evmar 14y ago
Here's what your site looks like to me: http://i.imgur.com/frnJd.png Google Chrome 23.0.1262.0 (Official Build 155673) dev / OS Linux
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by evmar 14y ago
The GLX library (which is implemented in terms of Xlib data types) itself is implemented by the nvidia driver (it speaks some other driver-internal stuff to the nvidia kernel-side bits) -- as you mention, rendering is client-side these days
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by evmar 14y ago
HTML5 context menu API: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
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by evmar 14y ago
In my experience it was a perpetual pain point. Do you namespace all your field names with a common prefix based on the outer type name? Or do you just get lucky and not have the names collide?
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by evmar 14y ago
Linux users might be surprised to learn that their passwords are often readable by random code, just by calling the public API: https://github.com/martine/keyring-dump
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by evmar 14y ago
I think the time spent on writing a summary for each paragraph could be better spent editing the paragraph to its essence, such that a summary isn't necessary.
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by evmar 14y ago
(Eight years at Google here.) It's changed a lot over the years and has certainly disappointed me many times, which any xoogler can also tell you. But every time I've considered leaving I've been unable to imagine some other work that giv
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by evmar 14y ago
These posts have been reminding me of Malcom Gladwell, in the unfortunate way: an collection of interesting anecdotes that together would make an interesting story instead are blown up into a broader statement that doesn't seem to follow.
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by evmar 14y ago
Wow, I somehow missed that the original article was about interviews despite it being all over the article. I think I read it earlier in the day but only came back later to comment on it and forgot that important part. :( Thanks for bein
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by evmar 14y ago
Google Consumer Surveys ( http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home ) achieves a similar end for a surprisingly low price, and they've figured out all the boring details like how to poll a representative sample of the US internet
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by evmar 14y ago
It's funny to contrast to Noisebridge, which seems to me must surely be illegal by all sorts of codes. I wonder if the equivalent authorities in SF just have more important things to worry about.
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by evmar 14y ago
For what it's worth, you can make the Arabic translation "more native" by adding a "dir=rtl" attribute to the text area, though it's still not quite right. Or you can leave in in LTR mode and put an LRM (in JS, "\u200e") after each word to
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by evmar 14y ago
For what it's worth, I think you gain karma by writing comments that contribute to the discussion. Your comment could have been something informative, perhaps supporting the point of "the guy was a genius", but as written was little more t
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by evmar 14y ago
Another way to look at it is that an interface wraps a type by adding a pointer to an extra data structure, which identifies the type and functions on the type that implement the interface. Since interface{} has no functions, all that it c
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by evmar 14y ago
Many web fonts seem to look bad on Windows, I think in part due to many websites being designed on Macs. This one looks particularly bad on Chrome, but Firefox isn't so bad.
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by evmar 14y ago
Blender is trying its best to work with you; crashes are seen as rare bugs that Blender needs to work around. Arbitrary web pages can run arbitrary GL commands and if they can cause your GPU drivers to crash (e.g. lock your whole system) th
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by evmar 14y ago
It would be amusingly relevant to the subject of the actual post if that feature was implemented in Chrome so you could conditionally turn this off just for the browser where it's broken. :)
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by evmar 14y ago
I am the author of some of the related code in Chrome. It's a Linux Chrome bug caused by text-rendering:optimizeLegibility. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=55458 It's unlikely anyone else will fix it, either. Linux Ch
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by evmar 14y ago
This appears so far to be a teapot tempest -- just an item in list of potential options. For what it's worth, Oregon is much closer to implementing such a thing, with much hand-wringing over the real privacy issues but also (according to on
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by evmar 14y ago
You're implying that if nightly builds of a browser with a simplified UA broke a website that the website owners would fix their code, but that is unlikely to happen. Most websites, particularly the sort with bad UA sniffing, have a high c
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by evmar 14y ago
Google (like many tech companies, I think?) promises their employees that patents will only be used defensively. The only related example is that Motorola Mobility recently began a patent suit against Microsoft and then Google acquired them

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