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by j-pb 6y ago
The exact same argument could have been made for Blink and WebKit, which didn't turn out to be true.
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by j-pb 6y ago
Blink is exactly a good example on why starting out with SQLite would have been a good idea. Blink is a fork of Webkit, an engine soo much better than the alternatives, that it almost over-night became the de-facto standard. Did webkit ruin
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by j-pb 6y ago
WebSQL would have been a spec, could have been a living spec too. Start out with SQLite in all the major browsers, and then gradually have them diverge. Blink and Webkit started the same way. Independent implementation does not mean "i
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by j-pb 6y ago
Yet years later there is still no good solution for that space and IndexedDB is a total clusterfuck. I'd be far more worried about the mess at the core of the web, css and rendering, than about exploitable bugs of SQLite. The fact that
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by j-pb 6y ago
Mozilla also killed WebSQL because the existing implementation was too mature... I don't know what they're driven by, but it's not pragmatism.
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by j-pb 6y ago
So basically everything that would allow web apps to become capable enough to provide a viable alternative to their App store. If they really cared about privacy they'd auto-generate their new privacy labels based on a websites api acc
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by j-pb 6y ago
That feels like RDF with extra steps ^^' Wouldn't that be the simpler approach? Decomplect the blobs from the metadata? Have a simple triple based graph format, and blobs as simple hash-blob pairs? I mean you even had tuple spaces
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by j-pb 6y ago
I expected another abomination like DOI. I've seen librarians proudly announce that they've made software archivable by giving git commit hashes a DOI shudder . Replacing a for all intents and purposes unforgable id with a short
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by j-pb 6y ago
I think so. Check out the demos in your browser: https://nphysics.org/all_examples3/ Also check out the fluid simulation engine that is a sister project of nphysics: https://salva.rs
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by j-pb 6y ago
The reason is that it creates completely unexpected bugs, like deadlocks. Static function coloring based in asyncronicity is a feature not a bug. Making it "dynamic" is like saying: "Yeah we've decided that if you just t
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by j-pb 6y ago
That description sadly applies to every apple product, software or hardware wise, except for iPhone hardware maybe.
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by j-pb 6y ago
Who broke the build scripts?
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by j-pb 6y ago
They lost me at the UML diagrams. Nothing good can come from a waterfalled system like this.
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by j-pb 6y ago
Which has nothing to do with race, and is heavily rooted in "light" vs. "shadow" mythology. In India it's the other way around, Asia has Ying and Yang. Changing these words is a feel good thing, that does nothing to
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by j-pb 6y ago
My university tried to teach in German. Complete insanity. We where puzzling way too long what "Reihung" or "Rahmenwerk" mean.
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by j-pb 6y ago
I wish you could get it with a marble sized trackball instead of the trackpad :D
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by j-pb 6y ago
PeerJ has actually quite a few publications, one of them is CS ;) https://peerj.com/computer-science/ the dropdown on the top left allows you to switch between them. I think MathJax is certainly a step in the right dir
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by j-pb 6y ago
"Do you think there's any place here for education/advocacy? For instance, everyone who makes web pages knows to provide alt text for images." That's not a culture thing, this is by the mechanism of <img alt. You
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by j-pb 6y ago
"The way a tool is used is the way that is encouraged by the tool." Knuth is one of the most perfectionist computer scientists out there, and he still got it wrong. The market economics are simply not in the favour of people doing
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by j-pb 6y ago
I was using the builtin viewer of chrome I think, could also have been safari. Using the original TeX source for the screen reader is significantly hindered by the fact that TeX isn't a markup-, but a programming language. TeX is turin
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by j-pb 6y ago
Well you could mark every div with an individual tag, and then have a realllllyyyyy big css file. ^^'
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by j-pb 6y ago
Single column layouts often work semi-acceptably for text only, when not purposefully tampered with. However if you try to select the text on page 2, you'll see that the layout engine didn't actually place the formula into its own
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by j-pb 6y ago
That sounds a lot like EPub, where you have html and CSS. It's an interesting idea, but a counterpoint would be: Why all this work for a dying medium? Paper is on it's way out, and there are so many different screen formats (inclu
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by j-pb 6y ago
As I already wrote. PDF already has exactly that. They separate they have a view layer and a text layer. But it simply doesn't work, because people can't be bothered to get the text right, once the view layer is acceptable. Also T
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by j-pb 6y ago
You'd be surprised. I've spend hours debugging other peoples references, bibliographies and journal dictated styles. Also if you think that all of academia has MONTHS to work on papers, with our current publish or perish culture,
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by j-pb 6y ago
Almost no documents properly support ctrl-F. You'll get at best single word search, but you won't find coherent sentences. There are arbitrary line-breaks caused by various styling and layout packages (most columns are broken). Th
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by j-pb 6y ago
bUt MuH TypESeTtInG! I think you're absolutely right. But people seem to value a specific flavour of aesthetics over easy to understand and reproducible research. I guess that's maybe partly caused by the publication pressure, onc
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by j-pb 6y ago
Whelp there goes any chance I'm going to consider any M$ products to replace my Macbook as a main dev and work machine. Looks like the only viable remaining ecosystem is a linux laptop...
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by j-pb 6y ago
I bet one day these damn panels are gonna kill a crew. Non haptic controls in critical systems like cars, planes, and rockets are an insane fad.
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by j-pb 6y ago
Off the top of my head, magazino.eu and knowrob.org

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