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by ootachi 15y ago
HN's pro-Apple bias. The "slide to unlock" patent is just as bad as anything Yahoo is doing.
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by ootachi 15y ago
HN's pro-Google bias.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Evidence: All of the people here who can't find work. And there are many.
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by ootachi 15y ago
There are simply very few positions for programmers throughout the country. That includes the Bay Area. As much as everyone wants to believe it isn't true, it's true. There's very little demand and way too much supply. Programming is a losi
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by ootachi 15y ago
Go is not suitable for developing a performant web browser engine. The GC alone ensures that.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Google's ego knows no bounds.
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by ootachi 15y ago
If causing crashes isn't backfiring, then I don't know what is.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Google is rich beyond the dreams of mortal men (quoting patio11). Money can buy access to source code. Not an excuse.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Google could run Flash in a VM. Or they could re-implement it (as Mozilla is doing). Or they could buy it from Adobe (they're Google). Or they could pay Adobe to write a version that uses the sandbox. Or they could just stop shipping it. Th
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by ootachi 15y ago
Exactly. Saying "that wasn't a real exploit!", as the Chrome security team often does, is counterproductive at best and childish at worst. Security exists to protect users, not to boost Google's ego. When there is a hole, it doesn't matte
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by ootachi 15y ago
Yes, Go suffers from this, and badly too since its GC has to stop all threads due to data sharing. Rust fares better here, since its GC is per-thread.
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by ootachi 15y ago
You can do this natively in CSS with Firefox. Unfortunately, WebKit has yet to catch up. (Contrary to popular belief, WebKit is not ahead in everything.) Instructions: http://css-plus.com/examples/2010/05/how-to-add-a-gaussian-b...
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by ootachi 15y ago
Polymorphism doesn't have to add runtime overhead. You can achieve polymorphism without RTTI through code duplication, as C++ templates do. (You can also use uniform value representations, like C void *, although this is limited in its appl
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by ootachi 15y ago
The second richest company in the United States is not deserving of the ignorance defense.
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by ootachi 15y ago
ARM is by far the easiest ISA to do this with: since the vast majority of instructions begins with an "always" condition code, and the condition code is a nibble (0xe), you can pick out ARM instructions easily.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Decades of user research has shown that users really care about fast bootup times. Your use case is the minority. Why do you think that fast start is Google's #1 selling point for Chromebooks, for example? (Not that Chromebooks are successf
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by ootachi 15y ago
I can't take this rant seriously when it dismisses the importance of fast startup. "You shouldn't care if your system starts up slowly" is just untenable.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Can we please not equate Google to Gandhi? Google is a corporation every bit as large, and every bit as purely self-interested, as Microsoft.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Why would you debate putting it on your CV? It'd look a lot worse to look like you were out of work for that time. Besides, a startup that wouldn't hire you because you worked as an engineer at a failed startup would be insane. I'd be more
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by ootachi 15y ago
Please don't use local storage. It's synchronous and will hang the entire browser or tab while the script is loading: http://paul.kinlan.me/we-need-to-kill-off-the-localstorage-a...
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by ootachi 15y ago
I think there's room for two large open source C++ compilers (GCC and Clang), just as there's room for two large open source Web rendering engines (Gecko and WebKit), two large open source general-purpose scripting languages (Python and Rub
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by ootachi 15y ago
Nowhere near comparable. IBM succumbed to competition for PCs . There is still no competition for a PC operating system. The PC manufacturers can have a race to the bottom all they like, and Microsoft will still continue to rake in the pro
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by ootachi 15y ago
Long hours are the key to profitability, as Philip Greenspun put it: "From a business point of view, long hours by programmers are a key to profitability. A programmer probably needs to spend 25 hours per week...Thus a programmer who works
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by ootachi 15y ago
If there were many jobs available for qualified software developers in the US, which there are not.
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by ootachi 15y ago
I love my job, but I've been putting in 14 hour days nonstop for months now and I'm starting to get burned out. According to you, my job must be a crap job (or I'm a bad coder), otherwise I'd be loving all the overtime, right?
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by ootachi 15y ago
In other words, get out of programming and go into sales. I've been saying this for a long time.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Very few startups these days are building a technology that isn't cheap to reproduce.
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by ootachi 15y ago
I thought the reason annoying generic stock images of salespeople smiling and wearing headsets were so common is that they did increase conversions, a lot.
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by ootachi 15y ago
"Google has plenty of employees already" With an attitude like that, it's no wonder employees are leaving Google for Facebook.
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by ootachi 15y ago
There is an article on how to do it: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Disabling%20third%20part... It mentions: "Some websites (e.g. Microsoft's Hotmail, MSN, and Windows Live Mail webmail) use third-party cookies for purposes that are

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