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by icambron 13y ago
Can someone explain why the "Quick Fix" even works? It seems like if having the DOM updates separated by one statement triggers two reflows, so would two consecutive updates. Or more generally, what does "batching DOM updates
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by icambron 13y ago
Can someone explain why you'd would use this instead of LXC? Is it just that Google built this before LXC existed, or are there differences in what it's useful for or capable of?
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by icambron 13y ago
I'm not so sure. There are only a handful of popular ad-blockers, and on most people's browsers, they update automatically. If PageFair's techniques can be defeated, they'll be defeated systematically and simultaneously
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by icambron 13y ago
Counter-nitpick: A newspaper can be Arabic in that it's chiefly in Arabic; i.e. Arabic is also an adjective for describing things relating to the language. "Arab" is an ethnicity and an adjectival and demonym for a region.
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by icambron 13y ago
> or more commonly lack of interest in learning how the admin UI works. If this is even possible, the admin UI is not usable enough. "Man, I wouldn't have to use this ridiculous XML configuration system, if only I had the pati
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by icambron 13y ago
> And it could be just as violent even if it's was a 1/10 of the current size. While the number of people actively shooting other people is in relative terms small, to the extent it does happen, it happens because we have a lar
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by icambron 13y ago
Er, right. Reading back through the thread, I can see how that was confusing. My fault. As you've now surmised, I was just complaining about the military's special status vis-a-vis the shutdown, for which "that's a lot o
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by icambron 13y ago
I didn't even mention volatility or stability. I was challenging your assertion that risk was agnostic to direction. It is not.
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by icambron 13y ago
"...and thus can continue being asked to die in its name."
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by icambron 13y ago
Risk is very explicitly directional. E.g. Wikipedia has it as: > Risk is the potential of loss (an undesirable outcome, however not necessarily so) resulting from a given action, activity and/or inaction When was the last time you
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by icambron 13y ago
All the other jobs being furloughed are also jobs. Why not prioritize them instead? It seems crazy to say, "yeah, those people we hired because we actually want them to work should go unpaid first, and the people we hired just as a job
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by icambron 13y ago
Which is also in the article: >But 1.4 million uniformed members of the military will stay on the job and will be paid, thanks to a last-minute bill unanimously passed by both houses and signed by Obama on Monday night. Which goes to sho
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by icambron 13y ago
Which I think says something very sad about our national priorities.
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by icambron 13y ago
arg, too late for me to do it
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by icambron 13y ago
Yeah, the product positioning here is awful; it's like someone just went through the marketing copy at the last minute to strip out its ad-centricity. My very cynical guess is that it went like this: #1 Wait, couldn't the ad desig
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by icambron 13y ago
I totally agree with you that there's nothing wrong with it. But which is correct is exactly what's up for discussion.
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by icambron 13y ago
I agree. The big(gish) script they injected is just fixed overhead, as is the CSS for positioning the canvas. It's just stuff we're used to having in separate files. The actual non-boilerplate part is this: {\"type\":1,\
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by icambron 13y ago
> Who cares about what you think? He probably does, to begin with. That you might disagree with him about how much code is warranted here does not make his comment unconstructive.
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by icambron 13y ago
The thing is, these lights are actually more complicated than our old-fashioned web servers, because while they too have to communicate with other systems, update their codebases, maintain state, and so on, they also have to do all of tha
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by icambron 13y ago
The parent isn't arguing for local by default, just against global by default. Insomuch as you buy into the arguments in that link, the answer is to do neither (i.e. you must always use "var"). Most of those arguments are act
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by icambron 13y ago
"JavaScript Done Right" requires actually doing it right.
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by icambron 13y ago
It sounds like you're defining "hardcore gamer" as a competitive professional or semi-professional gamer. If so, I guess that's fine, but irrelevant to whether Valve will sell a lot of controllers. That's just not a
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by icambron 13y ago
Are you suggesting that most hardcore console gamers use a keyboard and mouse? I don't think that's true... Edit: Rereading your comment, I guess you might mean PC gamers who are sitting on their couches. I don't think that&#
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by icambron 13y ago
I've always assumed it's pulling the dates from the commits, not from a separate log of git pushes. And of course those can and should have whatever date they were committed in hem.
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by icambron 13y ago
Er right, the analogy is bit confusing for me too; let me see if I can clear up what I meant here. > I don't think it makes any sense at all to treat each page as a separate household on private property. It's certainly true t
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by icambron 13y ago
Sure. We do measure that, and there are a great many studies that do just that. The results so far, as I understand them, are "no, the current law does not produce a net positive", but there's nothing to suggest that such mea
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by icambron 13y ago
I don't think anyone's arguing about fairness. The idea of copyright is that it's suppose to allow us to enjoy more artistic works by incentivising artists. The degree to which it's successful in doing that compared to t
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by icambron 13y ago
> I'm not so sure about that. If it's not pushing to request record 334, why is it pushing to request record 335? For the same reason that it's OK for me to push in my door, but not to push in yours. Or why it's OK fo
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by icambron 13y ago
One thing I guess I don't understand is why Nvidia's own drivers are closed source to begin with. What do they gain by it? Is it that open source drivers would make their hardware easier to reverse engineer? Is it that the drivers
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by icambron 13y ago
I'd like to fix up the analogy a bit. The problem isn't that you're asking for a random ISBN numbers; it's that you don't have a library card. The library's electronic catalog won't let you log in without

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