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by opinali 14y ago
This is a good point, but a separate issue (and kudos to PDF.js if accessibility was a purposeful design point of their implementation, not just a happy coincidence... they could certainly have chosen other avenues, such as generating a Web
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by opinali 14y ago
This was just a random example. I'm sure if you take a statistically-significant variety of PDFs and benchmark rendering quality, speed and features in all PDF viewers out there, PDF.js won't be any closer to the top; Chrome's viewer will c
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by opinali 14y ago
Please take your time machine and go release PDF.js in early 2010. With good performance on the hardware and Javascript VMs of early 2010. Then I'll grant you the criticism of Chrome's PDF viewer. Otherwise, trolling... fact is, Chrome is
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by opinali 14y ago
Every cloud-based email service "scans your email" and does it a lot. This is mandatory in order to: - Junk filtering, fishing protection and other security protections; all impossible to implement without deep scanning, analysis and correl
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by opinali 14y ago
Languages that need tagged memory can implement this in software, and on current arch they will still run as fast as in a CPU that had that trick implemented in hardware. More likely faster, because the software solution enables much greate
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by opinali 14y ago
I see a huge, annoying jump into and out of Mercator.
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by opinali 14y ago
Automakers are tech companies too, just other kind of tech. And I may be biased, but driverless cars are a software problem.
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by opinali 14y ago
s/profile/timeline
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by opinali 14y ago
Read my other reply.
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by opinali 14y ago
I'm not sure where GWI gets their information, but the number 343m seems a good match to G+'s "total actives", as the last result we shared publicly was 235m but that was almost 2 months ago. The number of G+ accounts was already much bigge
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by opinali 14y ago
Not using Go here, but I configure my Java IDE to report unused imports as errors; stil not a problem because it's probably been years since I last edited import statements manually -- days can go without I even reading imports because they
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by opinali 14y ago
"they say it's impossible because only the government department that created the flag can remove it, and that department no longer exists" -- omg, real-world Kafkian anecdote...
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by opinali 14y ago
Inspired by your reply: https://plus.google.com/115308028547191805295/posts/TSpjqpVY...
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by opinali 14y ago
>> The metric system was originally developed by scientists during the enlightenment, but became the political tool it is today as part of the French revolution, yes it was brought to you by the good folks who also brought you the g
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by opinali 14y ago
"Proven" your ass. ;-) Se the other posts about "worst" -> Konami, which I show to be simple result of ranking. The thing is, when some term's #1 result strongly dominate other results, Google Finance will go "feeling lucky"-style inste
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by opinali 14y ago
This probably happens due to Konami's title "CROWS × WORST - Saikyou Densetsu", which is apparently recent and popular. If you search for "crows", Konami also appears as an answer although only the 9th result because there are several compa
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by opinali 14y ago
I also suspect that this name came from some snark from Jobs against the web. If the browser is Safari, then logically, the WWW is a wild jungle. Even more relevant today, as Apple champions the idea of walled gardens in opposition to open
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by opinali 14y ago
Exclusively due to the political costs of waging real war. Modern first-world countries have become too "soft" for war. (Which is a good thing of course.)
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by opinali 14y ago
There is a huge difference between some fourth-world dictatorships, and the US with its nukes, drones, intelligence, $700B/year budget.
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by opinali 14y ago
There's nothing special in the fact that this problem involved a cloud service, or a bundled feature that some users may consider non-essential (all desktop browsers are shock-full of such features... unless you count Lynx). Consider this:
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by opinali 14y ago
haha, laughed my ass off.
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by opinali 14y ago
Googler here. There is no cheating in the benchmark. But we noticed this, and the V8 devs immediately diagnosed it as result of an optimizer failure (not exactly a bug, but a limitation of current stuff). There's already an in-progress patc
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by opinali 14y ago
Seriously people should stop using SunSpider; it's way too old and simple (2007 design which means Jurassic, although it had a minor update in 2010). It's considered a microbenchmark suite by today's standards, doesn't mirror modern Javascr
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by opinali 14y ago
Agreed; as an architect, Niemeyer is an excellent sculptor.
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by opinali 14y ago
Graphs are an interesting case in this debate. I agree that you very rarely run into real-world problems that look like a traveling salesman or bipartite test etc. But the thing about graphs is that they are the foundation of ALL data struc
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by opinali 14y ago
Did you ever need to write an algorithm to process some large volume of data, and you had to make choices related to performance, e.g. to avoid a combinatorial explosion in some searching problem which trivial implementation would be a full
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by opinali 14y ago
The idea is good, but the questions not so much. First off, the number of questions is too small for a subject so large as algorithms and data structures; I'd rather have something in the 25-40 range. But that of course, for objective quest
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by opinali 14y ago
Th JVM's stack-oriented bytecode is a liability, not an advantage. http://static.usenix.org/events/vee05/full_papers/p153-yunhe...
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by opinali 14y ago
Try foreign and old actors, e.g. Mazzaropi (famous Brazilian comedian from the 1950'-70's), Google computes a bacon number 5... but The Oracle of Bacon returns 3, they have a bigger database.
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by opinali 14y ago
The parallel to Google is deceiving; as phrased by Mark, some reader may think that Google had a similar IPO crash. Not true. The referenced article and Google's repricing is from Feb 2009, when GOOG (then already a mature stock) had lost l

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