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by macrael 14y ago
A stunningly reductive question deserves to be responded to in kind :) I don't know much of this history, but was integrating Chrome's processor model into WebKit feasible at the time that WebKit2 was built? What were the reasons for not do
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by macrael 14y ago
Wikipedia says WebKit2 has been part of Safari since Safari 5.1 which I believe was released with Lion, or so. So it absolutely is in production. The major difference here being that WebKit2 is part of the webkit project, so as the renderin
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by macrael 14y ago
So, I'm pretty sure this is a correct history: 1. Google builds a new process architecture into Chrome as a product differentiator. (It was a major part of Chrome's initial marketing) 2. WebKit 2 is built (mostly by Apple?) to bake the same
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by macrael 14y ago
The argument is essentially: "It took up lots of engineering time and effort to maintain compatibility with other platforms, so this allows us not to worry about other platforms and only focus on our own and that will allow us to move faste
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by macrael 14y ago
Our ways of thinking evolve just like everything else on this planet.
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by macrael 14y ago
Clockwork Orange
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by macrael 14y ago
I'm not a very serious climber but have friends who really are. Apparently the lessons from reading this book: http://americanalpineclub.org/p/anam are that the vast majority of climbing deaths are due to one of two reasons: 1. Belaying o
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by macrael 14y ago
You might want to consider renaming this project. The NS prefix is reserved by apple for framework classes. The entire purpose of prefixing classes in Cocoa is to prevent namespace collisions between different organizations, which using NS
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by macrael 14y ago
Why are you using that theme? It's shitty to use someone else's design without their permission. (on the off chance that you've never heard of the Svbtle network ( https://svbtle.com ) it is a design that was created for an invite only netw
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by macrael 14y ago
The app detects if you take a screen shot and notifies the sender. So, if someone abuses the trust you have given them in sending them a photo, you know.
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by macrael 14y ago
Are there serious arguments against Thorium? Or is it just early stage waiting to be a bit more experimented with before going mainstream?
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by macrael 14y ago
I don't understand why the crash happened when visiting Gmail if the bug was in Chrome Sync.
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by macrael 14y ago
It's worth watching the then head of OS X talk about private API's at WWDC a few years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd97us27eSg It's definitely a different philosophy from Microsoft's, but it's not like they don't take their API's
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by macrael 14y ago
Exactly? No one should use that theme.
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by macrael 14y ago
Using the svtle theme while not being part of svtle comes off as really slimy. You are ripping off someone else's work and there are no two ways about it.
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by macrael 14y ago
What are some examples of things that WebObjects did right? Are there still published docs for it?
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by macrael 14y ago
If you haven't seen http://evening-edition.com/ I highly reccomend it. It is bite sized world news published every weekday at 5 pm in a few different locales. The news is all written by a journalist, and they track some of the same storie
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by macrael 14y ago
I still feel like detailed commit messages and fine grained commits are just too much busy work. I think that there must be a better, more automatic way. I'd love to start with a system that just let you easily drag back and forth history.
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by macrael 14y ago
How do you determine the highest possible volume that doesn't introduce distortion? My sense in trying to find the right volume ratio for listening to an iPhone in my car is that it's best to not turn the iPhone volume all the way up, usual
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by macrael 14y ago
Well, I have read Atlas Shrugged. Twice, actually (even the 40 page speech at the end!) and I think Ayn Rand's philosophy is crap. I think there are good parts of the book: taking pride in your work is great and I like how her characters ge
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by macrael 14y ago
I think there are a bunch of different levels of expected privacy, and I think the problem is that text messaging has a very high level of expected privacy and what's app does not live up to that. Text messaging is one of the most personal
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by macrael 14y ago
WhatsApp is insecure, right? Did they ever respond to that? If any major company implemented a chat protocol that sent messages in plaintext today, I imagine they would be crucified. What can we do to get WhatsApp to adopt security?
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by macrael 14y ago
I think it's fascinating how much money people are willing to pay for hardware compared to software. It's hard to convince people to pay anything for software, but these kickstarter projects are getting lots of people to pay hundreds of d
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by macrael 14y ago
When I commented the two other comments replying to yours were taking it seriously, so I decided to take it seriously too. Text is a pretty bad medium for hearing tone, sorry I misinterpreted yours; for some reason the "the cynical side of
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by macrael 14y ago
This kind of thinking is poisonous. I know it's in good fun and it's fun to look for connections in things, but it is actually preposterous to think that Amazon would purposely disrupt wide swaths of highly paying customers for much of a da
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by macrael 14y ago
The content is that Atebits 2 exists, which is exciting. Atebits 1 created some much loved software.
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by macrael 14y ago
Lately I've been writing a lot of ruby on rails
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by macrael 14y ago
I've recently switched to coding in a proportional width font (right now I'm using Verdana) and I'm never going back. I've yet to be bothered by things not lining up perfectly like things can in fixed width fonts, and overall my code feels
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by macrael 14y ago
You are welcome to try! This really is an application of number theory, and the likelihood of there being a sufficiently long pattern in truly random data is actually pretty slow.
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by macrael 14y ago
Read the end of the article. He definitely thinks this is the future of programming.

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