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by ootachi 15y ago
Python is much harder to make fast due to its highly dynamic nature. (Yes, Python is a much more dynamic language than JS -- see del(), locals(), code objects, etc.)
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by ootachi 15y ago
Why was that a good decision?
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The Rumors Are True. I am Leaving TechCrunch.(techcrunch.com)
22 points by ootachi 15y ago|11 comments
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by ootachi 15y ago
Firefox Nightly on Linux lags, but it works.
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by ootachi 15y ago
I really really hope he loses his best employees for this rant. We shouldn't encourage this kind of behavior. Receiving this email would be enough to make me immediately start looking for other work.
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by ootachi 15y ago
10 seconds was all it took to refute your claim: http://www.intomobile.com/2010/12/03/angry-birds-android-1-m...
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by ootachi 15y ago
Square sounds like a terrible place to work, then. We should stop giving startups free passes for demanding ridiculous hours out of employees in the name of equity, when they usually end up screwing their employees out of it anyway.
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by ootachi 15y ago
"Because Google X is a breeding ground for big bets that could turn into colossal failures or Google’s next big business — and it could take years to figure out which — just the idea of these experiments terrifies some shareholders and anal
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by ootachi 15y ago
A combination of CSS transforms, opacity, gradients, and -moz-element ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/-moz-element ) allows you to do this in Firefox. I prefer Mozilla's method over WebKit's since it gives you more control: -moz-elem
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by ootachi 15y ago
Constructive dismissal is legal in California.
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by ootachi 15y ago
The company didn't hire you to work as a 4-share employee, they hired you to work as a 4-share employee with significant upside potential . That is how early startup employees are compensated for the increased risk and lesser salary they t
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by ootachi 15y ago
As mentioned, there's a very simple solution as mentioned below: vest monthly. IMO startup employees, especially engineers in this market, should start demanding it during negotiations -- it's a very simple way to defend yourself as an empl
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by ootachi 15y ago
"But that seems foolish because at any time they could be fired and be left with only their vested shares." You've just hit on why startup equity for employees is very, very risky.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Founders only need to exit once. There is surprisingly little incentive for a founder to avoid screwing over employees.
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by ootachi 15y ago
"Render this thing in just this spot" is pretty well handled by absolute positioning, at least.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Wrong. The first jailbreak was done because the iPhone trusted the restore mode commands coming from iTunes. The protocol was totally reworked so that the iPhone would only run some canned scripts. This did nothing to improve device securit
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by ootachi 15y ago
I really doubt it. To be blunt, Apple is an existence proof that security on consumer products doesn't provide business value in proportion to its cost. Keeping users safe is seldom worth investing in.
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by ootachi 15y ago
"Unless they're downright critical or enable jailbreaking", you mean.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Well, the recommendation at the end of the post was "outsource your engineering". I suspect that, instead of ridiculous wages becoming "increasingly more common over time", offshoring is what companies will do instead of continuing to pay e
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by ootachi 15y ago
"We know that the right place for right now is somewhere in social media." Really? This seems to imply that every startup should be about social. People thought that Google would never succeed because search was cornered by Yahoo and AltaVi
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by ootachi 15y ago
"Will users forget they can just type a URL in, and instead install everything through their friendly neighborhood web app store? (Don't laugh.)" Who's laughing? All but two of the Web browser manufacturers (Opera and Mozilla, both of which
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by ootachi 15y ago
"if all you need is a mark, the Python convention to add an underscore in front of your private method or variable works just fine, as does the convention to make constants uppercased. I've seen quite a bit of JS code use these conventions
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by ootachi 15y ago
Don't forget MobileMe, Ping, and Final Cut Pro X. Even OS X Lion, to some extent (Mission Control). All of these happened under Jobs' watch.
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by ootachi 15y ago
I don't think it's fragmentation. It's Chrome on track to achieve market dominance.
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by ootachi 15y ago
It always did in JavaScript from day one, given host objects.
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by ootachi 15y ago
It's GC pauses. WebGL demos very often run into large GC pauses, unfortunately.
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by ootachi 15y ago
Many reasons: Apple clearly sees iOS and its locked-down environment as the future and Mac OS X as the past. Given that, we can conclude that the overall openness of Apple's offerings will decrease as they focus their efforts on iOS. Xcode
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by ootachi 15y ago
Apple is definitely actively trying to prevent jailbreaking. The first jailbreak involved hijacking iTunes restore mode commands. They completely redid the protocol to try to thwart this.
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by ootachi 15y ago
That didn't stop Apple from going after bluwiki a couple of years ago for something as simple as reverse engineering the iPhone file transfer protocol. "There's nothing they can do" is never really true when you're talking about huge corpor
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by ootachi 15y ago
Yeah, I was confused with the H.264 encoder (and the MP3 encoder). My mistake.

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