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by nxn 15y ago
Which is not what I'm talking about either. I'm just saying it's a bit ironic to need to zoom in on a button to even distinguish any quality differences and then giving the quality award to the method that isn't suitable for scaling.
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by nxn 15y ago
So to get this straight, the author created a button image in photoshop, then created the same style using css3, took a picture of both, zoomed in, and compared the pixelated blockyness? ... While completely disregarding the fact that actua
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by nxn 15y ago
Wasn't Doom's resolution 320x200? And I'd be a bit surprised if it was capped to 15fps.
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by nxn 15y ago
Because using javascript is convenient and fits well in an environment of "just type in a URL and you're good to go"; your users wont have to install anything, you'll be able to make updates EVERYONE will get the next type they visit, and y
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by nxn 15y ago
I thought the # shorthand for functions proposal was rejected?
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by nxn 15y ago
You mean the nested versions? Just because it's not the most efficient way possible to do something does not automatically mean it's a 'performance issue'. If you're doing it once, or if it's some user based event like a button click, the d
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by nxn 15y ago
Missing the fact [].map has been around in some browsers for a while is one thing, being surprised that there was a crap language design decision made in JavaScript is making me laugh though.
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by nxn 15y ago
Ahh, I see. The thing is, I can't think of a single way to make {} be treated as false in the boolean context, so 1) I don't think you'd ever need anything more than "option = option || {}", 2) I think the example would have been better off
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by nxn 15y ago
I assume by the lack of a Linux screenshot nothing was worth viewing there. It's quite sad, but I think just about every browser I've used so far on Linux had a much crummier looking UI than it does on other platforms. When on a mac or in w
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by nxn 15y ago
Ok, sorry for using the term "not fair", I should have probably said that it's "unsound" to judge the speeds of current dynamic languages on mono/.net to the speeds of v8, SpiderMonkey, etc. The cause being that the speeds of the latter wer
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by nxn 15y ago
"At Google I/O they mentioned V8 is about as fast as it will get." from: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2669494 Yeah I know, it's not a proper citation, I tried to find where exactly that was said at Google IO but found nothing so fa
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by nxn 15y ago
I'm on Archlinux using an old and dusty Nvidia card and I have never had any problems with WebGL so far. In fact, when I often share WebGL links with others they complain about it bringing their computers to a crawl, and they're generally u
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by nxn 15y ago
"In 1997, I collected a list of languages with compilers to JavaScript. There were JavaScript extension languages: the now-defunct ECMAScript 4, Narrative JavaScript, and Objective-J. There were pre-existing languages: Scheme, Common Lisp,
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by nxn 15y ago
I have no experience with ruby, but python's advantage is in strong typing. Try and add an int and a string and you'll get a type error, JavaScript on the other hand will do it though. While maybe allowing you to write more expressive code,
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by nxn 15y ago
In my opinion it makes no difference that we have several fast engines where some are faster at some things than others. When executing in the browser you don't get to pick and chose how and where your application will be executed. If you r
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by nxn 15y ago
"Optional Parameters and Default Values" Since JavaScript will still invoke a function call even if the number of arguments don't match up, parameter defaults will not completely eliminate all the problems he lists. function(a = 1, b =
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by nxn 15y ago
>> 1. JavaScript's speed is actually not far from Mono's now. And constantly getting closer. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... <- That still looks sort of far to me. >> 3. Running dynamic
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by nxn 15y ago
Yeah, I read that Dijkstra paper a while back, I was even considering mentioning it somewhere in my comment, but lost the energy to do so due to the time. As for formal logic being used in programming languages, while that is true, I am not
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by nxn 15y ago
>> but all you need to know is that Microsoft gave up on using C# everywhere because it's damn too slow. Got any proof of that?
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by nxn 15y ago
I don't know, to me it seems there's a likely chance that Photoshop's implementation of handling large files is just better, and if Paint.NET took a similar approach maybe the performance might be more comparable. By this I mean stuff like
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by nxn 15y ago
Do you think those programmers would suddenly become "performance conscious" if they switched to c++? What I'm saying is that I don't see the point in referring to them as "c# coders" they could be using any language just as badly.
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by nxn 15y ago
>> In short, we need a language for those of us who are skilled in fields other than mathematics. The only language I ever used where I felt my knowledge of mathematics was inadequate was Haskell* . Other than that I don't see the r
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by nxn 15y ago
Hah, I think that's a neat way to visually normalize against the traffic increase trend.
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by nxn 15y ago
Hmm, saw the same ad on a billboard somewhere outside of Philly a few weeks ago. Reminded me that I should check the address to see how many pictures they'd have of people wearing headsets on their site. Fun drinking game this.
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by nxn 15y ago
I saw on slide 7 something called "Harmonizr" -- in the context of the video it seems like an ES.next -> JS compiler, but I can't find any info on it online. Does anyone know anything about this? Or is this just some term that was inven
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by nxn 15y ago
I've worked on some larger applications in javascript (though nothing incredibly large), and I can tell you if I had the choice of using any language that offered static and strong typing I'd take it in a heart beat. A small change in one p
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by nxn 15y ago
Since all of these compile down to javascript, they all suffer from at least some limitations of javascript -- the main one being performance. Yes, all browser manufacturers are trying to make it as fast as they can, but I sincerely doubt I
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by nxn 15y ago
Umm, this video didn't show or say anything that wasn't in the videos that caused the "freak out" to happen in the first place. There was no description of how the new html/js/css development platform is going to work, no mention of how it
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by nxn 15y ago
Oooh, fancy. I wonder why I haven't heard anything about a new UI kit for SC2 until now. Hopefully it will come with a new look, I haven't been digging Ace very much.
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by nxn 15y ago
Why would anyone even want a Gif replacement? Today they're mostly used for showing short clips of online videos -- when often (almost always) the full video version is a fraction of the size, has sound, shows more of the story, and has aud

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