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by mpakes 17y ago
It does seem to be improved, but on my system (new-ish MBP running OS X), Chrome and Safari startup is nearly instantaneous, and Firefox still lags. I don't know how it compares on Windows. Still.. bravo to the Firefox team for making a bi
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by mpakes 17y ago
After using Chrome for 6-8 weeks, I can't go back. Firefox has so many things going for it (history, extensions, compatibility, etc, etc).. but I can't handle the slowness. The JavaScript performance deficit is bad enough, but the outrageo
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by mpakes 17y ago
Did you mean backend developers? I struggle to see what fun a frontend guy might see in building a URL shortener.
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by mpakes 17y ago
The source for Cisco's IOS has been in rogue hands for quite some time. The Chinese network equipment manufacturer Huawei was caught selling routers in the running IOS with only cursory changes back in 2003. Identical CLI, identical featu
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by mpakes 17y ago
4 pairs in 2 years? Are you chewing on the wires? Do you let your pets use them as toys? Do you regularly drench them in liquids (battery acid, maybe) ? I can only conclude that you must work in the most hazardous of environments. I've h
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by mpakes 17y ago
Yikes. The app store is already flush with mediocre apps. Adobe is really opening the floodgates with this one. I might be the only iPhone user who feels this way, but I'm totally pleased with Apple's decision to not support Flash within M
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by mpakes 17y ago
Fascinating take on things from the perspective of academia. I've always held the same distrust of the term 'Software Engineer,' given that software development is rarely as rigorous and disciplined as actual 'Engineering.' I love Dijkstra
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by mpakes 17y ago
Yes, it's initially surprising, and then it gets terribly annoying. If you look around further, you'll notice that it gets a LOT worse than that particular example. While developing Twitter support on an iPhone app, we discovered that some
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by mpakes 17y ago
Good post. Two resultant things that bother me: 1) Many people avoid constructively criticizing others' work primarily because it is so frequently mistaken for negativity. Criticism is a necessary part of continuous improvement. I find
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by mpakes 17y ago
I strongly disagree. Proper terminology is incredibly relevant. As stated in the original article, pass-by-value and pass-by-reference have well-known definitions within the computer science community. There is no ambiguity here. When w
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by mpakes 17y ago
I really wish this existed. As a person hunting for a good place to live in SF, such a resource would be really handy. I've considered posting an 'Ask HN' looking for potential housemates, but didn't want to pollute the stream.
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by mpakes 17y ago
FreeBSD setups typically use the BSD Ports collection for package management, which compiles from source + patches (vaguely similar to Gentoo Linux). There doesn't appear to be a mainstream UI for BSD ports. (Curiously, the Mac OS X equiva
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by mpakes 17y ago
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this problem, and I independently arrived at the same conclusion. I know several agents and have spent a lot of time discussing the politics around the system. This is absolutely NOT a technical prob