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by mantrax5 12y ago
A well run company acts as one person. That's what a brand means. For good or bad, in the mind of people companies are allocated as a "person". We give personal characteristics to brands, so we value companies that act predic
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by mantrax5 12y ago
"That's not who we are at Mozilla". That's Mozilla talking about a Mozilla decision. Do you people suffer split personality or something? When a company changes its mind about such things it's the worst of both worl
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by mantrax5 12y ago
How dare they describe a good way of getting even white background on photos so others can use it for a nominal (or no) fee? This kind of attitude that any patent is only filed so to be used for a lawsuit is part of the problem. What&#x27
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by mantrax5 12y ago
One easy way to know is to run it a few times and observe the behavior. This is why JIT runtimes need a "warm up time" to get really fast, say V8 for JavaScript.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
> While this makes little sense on the surface, I suspect the folks at Apple are far from stupid. There's likely a solid reason behind this move, and instead of doing the easy thing by saying "b-b-but their headphones are crap!
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by mantrax5 12y ago
In the spirit of being honest as requested, all of these are so vague and context-sensitive, basically they amount to nothing. You'll have to do a lot more work and be more specific than this generic wishlist, if you want people to rea
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by mantrax5 12y ago
That's the interesting question. Because the answer is: nothing.
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It would be if Beats branding on Android smartphones even worked . HTC had a stake in Beats at one point, and a year or so later they sold it. At a loss. And they didn't sell more phones because of it.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Unpaywalled (there's honestly nothing interesting, so I feel ok posting this, 99% filler): Apple is closing in on its largest ever acquisition with the planned $3.2bn purchase of Beats Electronics, the headphone maker and music streami
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Beats is an empty brand, there's nothing in there that I can see is valuable to Apple. Apple can make similar headphones and slap the Apple name on them and there you go. Beats not needed. Apple usually purchases companies for their pe
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by mantrax5 12y ago
> "Including a machine identifier and timestamp in the generation of your UUID guarantees uniqueness, so long as each machine is careful not to generate two UUIDs 'simultaneously'." That's a pretty big if there,
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Indeed, thanks for clarifying my overly dramatic point with a more proper definition of the Birthday paradox. Yet, even once corrected, 50% chance for collision in a set of 2^64 UUID (which can occur way earlier than 2^64) is way too much f
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by mantrax5 12y ago
That's not as much as you might think in computer systems. Now, if you want to mark your product SKU with an UUID you have an outstanding chance it'll be unique amongst other UUID SKUs in the scope of every shop selling your SKUs.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
UUID aren't sortable by order of creation (on a per server basis which is useful in distributed algorithms), and while you'll hear a lot of talk about meteors, lightnings and winning the lottery, you do risk collisions (yes, whe
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by mantrax5 12y ago
The interesting thing is I have "action" and "submit" name inputs in every single form I've ever coded. And I also .submit() forms via JS. And I never had this issue...
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I know this argument doesn't make sense at first blush, but it does at second: 1. People don't like metered Internet (which is odd given we don't mind metered water and metered electricity). 2. ISPs want to keep advertising u
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Who is that someone? Distributed systems don't need any particular speed of interconnect to work. In fact, it's one of the benefits of distributed system designs.
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Here: http://www.curiositiesbydickens.com/wp-content/uploads/cat-w... The idea that the Internet will bring the long tail of products and services is bullshit and shows scant recognition of how economics works. If
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by mantrax5 12y ago
> Just as positive feedback from lead users signals that a new product will likely succeed, positive feedback from harbingers signals that a new product is likely to fail. Straight from the "creepy similarities" department: ht
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Yeah, so refactored PHP makes a PHP app 20% faster. But you might actually not like to hear Node's V8 engine is between 50 and 150 times faster than PHP in synthetic benchmarks, and about 20 times faster in more diversified applica
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Marketing is a huge part of the success of a new paradigm. App.net was "marketed" with a practically blank home page ("one login many applications" - which applications?), and a nondescript niche Twitter clone on one o
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Remember rev="canonical"? It was to save us from the tyranny of bit.ly and co. Geeks rallied behind it. Remember Open ID? It was to save us from the tyranny of Passport.NET and co. Geeks rallied behind it. Remember Diaspora? It wa
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I see, so XML has few tradeoffs other than complexity. So I'm sure given your insistent questions, XML has a native representations for: - A ring buffer. - A decimal type. - A complex number. No, it doesn't. It's all up to th
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As the joke goes you can write COBOL in any language, and you're the proof. In JSON a more typical format would be: {"id":10,"name":"orange"} Now why you need an id and a name is another smell,
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It's easy to argue with strawmen like you do, but query and schema support was never the problem of XML. The problem was that XML is a markup language, and JSON is an object notation. It's right in the name. And this results in di
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Noted. Sorry for removing this, I indeed said that, but I thought it's redundant so I removed it.
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Thanks, bookmarked.
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To have a meaningful "victory", you want to have one of those: 1. A generic JS JIT that runs generic JS faster than another generic JS JIT. 2. ASM.JS JIT that runs ASM.JS faster than another ASM.JS JIT. What we have here
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by mantrax5 12y ago
This is the most responsible and humble disclosure of a fake leak I've seen in my life. Even though this guy/gal started it all, if we felt a little more responsible about the effect of the words we say and write like that, it&#x2
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I tend to model and see all communication (at all levels) as message passing and not as resource/state snapshot passing, but the web has worked fine with the latter concept so far. So React's architecture certainly provides value

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