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by ootachi 15y ago
"then nothing can ever go wrong." What about the key "_proto__" (forming "__proto__") [1]? That will screw up your dictionary badly. It's not so easy. Which is why you want Harmony Maps and Sets in the first place. [1]: https://developer.m
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by ootachi 15y ago
Brendan Eich cried foul about Dart because other browser manufacturers, and web developers themselves, said they didn't want it, and Google did it anyway.
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by ootachi 15y ago
They showed an "unwillingness to support subsequent standards for those features", by blocking the creation of a standard in the first place. Stop being obtuse.
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by ootachi 15y ago
"Have they shown any unwillingness to support W3C standards once published? No?" Unfortunately for your argument, the answer is indeed no. Apple is unwilling to support standards for touch events, due to its patent war against Android. Sour
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by ootachi 15y ago
NaCl is specific to individual processor architectures by design, much like ActiveX was specific to Windows. Prefixed WebKit features are certainly not consistently well-documented. CSS animations, transforms, etc. had to be carefully rever
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by ootachi 15y ago
Firefox nightlies have all of these features as well. Good to see Chrome following suit.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Replace "Opera" with Firefox and "Firefox and Chrome" with IE. Do you still feel the same way?
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by ootachi 15y ago
You're implying that nobody in particular controls WebKit? That is patently false. And the distinction between a browser engine monopoly and a browser monopoly is irrelevant to this discussion. We're talking about browser engines here. Furt
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by ootachi 15y ago
So because we don't have enough browser competition, we should have one browser monopoly? Your cure is worse than the disease.
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by ootachi 15y ago
First of all, NaCl is now Pepper-only, so it is no longer compatible with Firefox. Firefox uses the NPAPI, not the Pepper API. Pepper is itself an instance of Google not showing interest in working with the other browser manufacturers. The
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by ootachi 15y ago
So should Google be working with other browser manufacturers or not? It seems like there's a double standard here.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Firefox could have implemented ActiveX, of course. The spec wasn't a secret.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Google could have implemented it. Firefox Mobile Nightly (which is essentially a completely different browser from the currently-shipping Firefox Mobile), for example, implements the necessary support to run Flash on Ice Cream Sandwich and
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by ootachi 15y ago
It's not really possible to compete with Chrome just by building the source. For one, Google has an exclusive OS deal that can't be replicated -- which is the main point of this article.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Recently Google has shown little interest in working with others; witness Dart (which essentially nobody but Google wants) and NaCl (which no other browser manufacturer wants).
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by ootachi 15y ago
-webkit prefixes have basically the same effect. Apple has been constantly encouraging the use of -webkit prefixes ever since the iPhone came out. Notice all the discussion lately about other browsers having to adopt -webkit prefixes. This
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by ootachi 15y ago
Not to mention that he's asking them to work for free, on a "side project", before they earn the privilege to apply for his pay cut. Kind of insulting, really.
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by ootachi 15y ago
And people don't believe me when I say that even talented developers can't find jobs these days because there aren't enough positions.
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by ootachi 15y ago
You could always download an alternative browser, such as Opera.
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Dave McClure (2010): Design and marketing trump engineering(500hats.typepad.com)
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by ootachi 15y ago
Yeah, that rubbed me the wrong way too. Engineers are completely overrated; your best bet is to hire no engineers and outsource to India or odesk, or if you absolutely must hire engineers, hire them for rock-bottom prices and fire them if t
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by ootachi 15y ago
I'm not sure about that. Google Music's sync client is horrendous, as were Google Desktop and Gmail Notifier. I wouldn't trust Google to be able to make a client on par with that of Dropbox. (Remember, Dropbox engineers actually reverse eng
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by ootachi 15y ago
Of course, if this is true and all the local startups fail (which is likely), we're headed for another 2000-era dotcom bust.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Original post, without the blogspam: http://chrome.blogspot.in/2012/02/german-federal-office-of-i...
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by ootachi 15y ago
But that world you describe is the startup world.
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by ootachi 15y ago
There rarely exist engineers that are a massive blow to the company if they leave. Engineers are easily replaceable in all sorts of ways.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Rust has typeclasses as well.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Valve is a case study in what sorts of evil shenanigans you can get away with if you manage to build up an unassailable sterling reputation in your target demographics (gamers, in this case). The majority of gamers still think Valve can do
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by ootachi 15y ago
The depressing thing is that I suspect someone will actually take him up on his "offer". Isn't that pretty much illegal anyhow? Unpaid interns are not supposed to actually create products. Edit: It almost certainly is; part of the condition
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by ootachi 15y ago
"In fact the economic advantage has already largely dissipated and it's already not cheaper, which is why you don't hear anybody talking about this anymore. The whole "we're all gonna lose our tech jobs to the cheap foreigners" scare is all

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