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931.
by ori_b 6y ago
I've been on android all along, but I think this just convinced me to give an iPhone a shot for my next device.
932.
by ori_b 6y ago
When people talk about the death of corporate research labs, they're largely talking about the death of fundamental research -- places like PARC, Bell Labs, etc. Corporate research to take fundamental discoveries and find better ways o
933.
by ori_b 6y ago
I can't think of a single instance where that happened. Do you have some apps generating broken messages?
934.
by ori_b 6y ago
Since you are ditching compatibility here, you can also ditch the browser engine.
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by ori_b 6y ago
Acid test is basically baby's first step. JavaScript api coverage, canvas, wasm, webgl, and all the other stuff is becoming table stakes, too. A 2005-level browser is probably tractable. It gets much harder from there.
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by ori_b 6y ago
So is the number of people that realistically care about Firefox.
937.
by ori_b 6y ago
Web standards are hideously complicated to implement, and browsers are hideously difficult to charge for. That doesn't make for a viable business. Unless they become a volunteer based effort -- which is unlikely, given the hideous comp
938.
by ori_b 6y ago
And a great reason for users to resist it.
939.
by ori_b 6y ago
This is a big reason that I think wasm is a step in the wrong direction. It's basically nudging people into making things even more opaque. How, for example, would you go about blocking ads in this kind of app?
940.
by ori_b 6y ago
And when you run into a bug or design problem in a dependency of a dependency of a dependency? It often takes less time to write some code than to understand someone else's code. Most programmers I've worked with get lost easily w
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by ori_b 6y ago
Basically, it's the only browser out there even trying to handle modern sites that's not mostly funded by Google or Apple (Firefox revenue is mostly coming from Google, and there's Safari), and which runs on rarer platforms.
942.
by ori_b 6y ago
Forcing a default case is a big step back towards dynamic typing.
943.
by ori_b 6y ago
Maybe a shell is the wrong tool for that job, and hiding the modes that the language is operating in complicates things.
944.
by ori_b 6y ago
Consistent behavior when piping through all commands. A lack of modes of operation to consider. Simplicity.
945.
by ori_b 6y ago
The last 5 years have been the hottest years on record, so...
946.
by ori_b 6y ago
> How will they determine what counts as "news"? the same way that they decide who to pay.
947.
by ori_b 6y ago
Double map it, like a JIT does. Once writable, and once executable. Put the pointers into different shared objects so that ASLR puts a randomized offset between them and you can't discover the write pointers from the execute pointer, a
948.
by ori_b 6y ago
More isn't necessarily better. I'd rather have a simpler and more restrictive model with fewer performance, accessibility, maintainability, and security issues.
949.
by ori_b 6y ago
> I also don't understand how cross-origin has anything to do with it either. Either your sandbox works, in that case cross-origin isolation shouldn't matter, or it doesn't work, in which case cross-origin isolation is not
950.
by ori_b 6y ago
C is definitely bigger than people assume.
951.
by ori_b 6y ago
Someone has to make shovels, houses, clothing, etc. The people who find the cash also end up spending it on other things. It doesn't matter that the money isn't initially earned for useful work, as long as it gets spent on useful
952.
by ori_b 6y ago
> No it wouldn't. Dockerfiles are stupid simple. A bunch of ADD/COPY commands to add files, and a bunch of RUN commands that are basically wrapping shell scripts. Yes. And the code sitting beside them starts to make assumptio
953.
by ori_b 6y ago
> But on the other hand, is a dependency on having Docker available really worse for portability than having a dependency on having a reasonably standard Unix environment? I often need to run it somewhere other than docker -- possibly
954.
by ori_b 6y ago
> I don’t know about the Linux VM stuff being part of a browser JS project, maybe I’m misunderstanding that part but it does sound crazy. A bunch of stuff I see comes with a dockerfile these days. While I get building in docker for repro
955.
by ori_b 6y ago
> Setting up and managing keys, spinning up new repos, etc. would suck up an inordinate amount of time. The claim was 5 hours per employee per week. I found that it took far less than 50 hours a week when working at a 10 person company
956.
by ori_b 6y ago
Yeah. That's why it's about as successful as Dart.
957.
by ori_b 6y ago
Did you spend 5 hours per week per employee managing permissions in git?
958.
by ori_b 6y ago
What happens when you have a mix of new and old binaries being incrementally rolled out?
959.
by ori_b 6y ago
Do you index the web yourself?
960.
by ori_b 6y ago
What kind of privilege separation does this implement, and how does it prevent confused deputy style problems?

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