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811.
by gambler 10y ago
The fact that this architecturally clueless comment is at the top for an article about caching makes me wheep for the future of the web. Packages inevitably create a tangle of complex problems that page/document model avoids. That is o
812.
by gambler 10y ago
I was joking about this very idea all the way back when they started floating rumors about drone delivery. (And yes, Protoss carriers and Red Alert blimps were sort of an inspiration for the idea, and the reason was funny.) Hm... And this
813.
by gambler 10y ago
>And if I can't create something that fits well into that model then what should I do? Create a native app on a proprietary system instead? Use Java, of course! I heard you write it once and it runs everywhere. And it doesn't
814.
by gambler 10y ago
And then some fronted developers wonder how/why anyone would browse the Web with JavaScript blocked. This is why. (Plus malware. Plus privacy. Plus performance issues.) Thankfully the blog renders without JS.
815.
by gambler 10y ago
>Browsers are stuck optimizing an outdated model Well, you can always switch to Java applets, Flash or Silverlight. Oh, wait... >parsing and compiling JavaScript on the critical path is madness. You know what's madness? Pushi
816.
Alan Kay's Apple User Group Talk (1987) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by gambler 10y ago|0 comments
817.
The Case for Using Images(insideofthebox.tumblr.com)
2 points by gambler 10y ago|0 comments
818.
by gambler 10y ago
The oncall routines were terrible, though, I agree. Luckily I was in a strange situation and was able to avoid them. I would think that Amazon of all places would automate anything they could.
819.
by gambler 10y ago
It's not just Facebook. All current hyper-centralized platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc) slowly screw up the Web in many subtle ways. The biggest one is that they are designed around consumption and production of content at th
820.
by gambler 10y ago
"Some of Deepmind's recent papers are tricky to reproduce. The Paper also omitted specific details about the implementation, and we had to fill the gaps in our own way." So, I'm not the only one seeing this issue. It s
821.
by gambler 10y ago
Also note that DeepMind went even further than that, there is DeepMind health division aiming at using this technology to help doctors and patients directly. Thing is, there is plenty of existing AI research that could hypothetically re
822.
by gambler 10y ago
Since I don't know what exactly you measured, how you did it, on which devices, and for what use cases, I cannot comment on specifics of what you said. I tested various variations of this approach for extreme cases (large pages, many t
823.
by gambler 10y ago
You should actually try it before making such statements. It scales well enough. Also, we could use getElementsByTagName instead of querySelectorAll. But that's not important. The point is that there are approaches to handling "co
824.
by gambler 10y ago
>You've solved one set of problems (and fixed the major problem that the original had no separation between library and user land code) My original followed the structure outlined in the article's example. It runs the exact
825.
by gambler 10y ago
> (1) It doesn't let you have multiple progress bars that all advance at their own rate. It does. > (2) It doesn't work at all for custom-progress-bar elements added dynamically to the document after the timers for the fi
826.
by gambler 10y ago
Could you provide some specific example of something that can be easily done with custom elements that cannot be easily done with other existing APIs? (I'm speaking about user-facing stuff, not some implementation detail.) Edit: Here i
827.
by gambler 10y ago
My sentiment exactly. The thing they show in "live demo" can be done using existing DOM APIs, with less code. Shadow DOM seems useful as far as isolation of styling is concerned, but it's really weird that it's not part
828.
by gambler 10y ago
DNS is a rotten system. From censorship, to ddos attacks, to squatting, to privacy issues with whois, to messed up financial incentives. It's a shame that DNS is a critical part of the internet infrastructure. We should work on gettin
829.
by gambler 10y ago
> Is it really not worth spending the extra five minutes it takes to set things up in a way that is reusable and standard? HTML is standard. Even more importantly it has rich and standard semantics. Your homebrew protocol based on JSON
830.
by gambler 10y ago
>And no, this is not me expressing my liberal bias. It's one thing to have opinionated headlines like the Huffington Post Yes, this is you expressing your liberal bias. Huffington Post is Breitbart of the left. They just use a s
831.
by gambler 10y ago
You sound like you have not often worked with legacy code or software architecture teams who choose the "right" tools for you. In large companies you rarely choose the tools you use. Also, when you feel that you need to learn tech
832.
by gambler 10y ago
Well, yes, if you could make a completely artificial, controlled environment that presents a problem well-suited for the current flavor of AI, the AI would probably be able to beat a random animal at solving that problem.
833.
by gambler 10y ago
Because we're traumatized by bouncing pie charts, video backgrounds and parallax scrolling? Many people are eventually forced to use or worse - implement websites with stuff like this even when they really don't want to. Also, bec
834.
by gambler 10y ago
I don't see much utility in spending time learning a skill that has no basis in reality (Kung Fu). As judged from events on TV and random videos uploaded by BJJ practitioners to YouTube?
835.
by gambler 10y ago
Many people tend to forget that Gracies were partly responsible for organizing UFC1 and that self-promotion was very much the goal of their involvement.
836.
by gambler 10y ago
As far as I'm concerned, the only useful service Facebook provides is event scheduling. I don't have a Twitter account. Most of the "needs" they fulfill are either entirely imaginary, or aren't fulfilled in any sens
837.
by gambler 10y ago
Asimov thought there will be robopsychologists. Maybe he was right. Although, his robots had a common foundation laid out by the Three Laws of Robotics, and they didn't consume gigabytes of data to learn.
838.
by gambler 10y ago
Normal software is split into logical modules and layers, which you can understand on their own and then use that to reason about code at higher and higher levels. Many ML models do not offer anything comparable.
839.
by gambler 10y ago
The test were done in a simulation. Also, if you want to run high-G maneuvers, you can always control a drone from the ground.
840.
by gambler 10y ago
You realize that this system uses machine learning? And that AlphaGo was custom-built to play Go? AlphaGo has several handcoded training features, uses Monte-Carlo tree search, and was primed by a huge human-made dataset. It's not like

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