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by othermaciej 14y ago
MPEG-LA? No. But MPEG itself is working on a royalty-free profile of AVC called WebVC: < http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/meetings/geneva11-1/geneva_pres... . That may not have happened without VP8.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Wow, I didn't notice that the thread continued for so long after I posted. The things you cite are pretty much all because I would never give 0% probability to a future event. Who knows? Things change. But I think it is quite unlikely that
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Apple very rarely takes positions on technologies that we don't currently support. Here is a past comment conveying a personal opinion from a WebKit engineer though: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/plugin-futures/2010-April...
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Coal mines still employ a great deal of human laborers, even the few that are highly mechanized. And it's still difficult, dangerous and not very pleasant work. Most coal mining is still done underground and even surface mining is quite dan
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by othermaciej 14y ago
I have a different writing style from Brendan, but I don't think there is any significant substantive difference between what he said in this thread and what I said almost 2 years ago. (Although, the fact that PNaCl is still an experiment a
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Seems like a bad idea to me. How will my browser do things such as autofill usernames and passwords, allow links to be opened in new tabs, block third-parties from tracking me with cookies, or allow me to globally change my font preferences
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by othermaciej 14y ago
I've expressed my personal opinions about NaCl here on HN before too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057611
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Safari also completely disallows keyboard input in fullscreen mode, which majorly mitigates the vulnerability.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
I believe you are committing the "Yes Minister" fallacy: "Politician's logic: We must do something. This is something. Therefore we must do it." Direct government subsidies create deadweight loss, and by hurting the competitive position of
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by othermaciej 14y ago
1) I read a lot of economics blogs and I see many economists who are against "government picking winners and losers" in the form of subsidies; but favor, e.g. revenue-neutral carbon taxes. There are strong economic reasons why the two are n
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Most economists do not accept that direct government subsidy to businesses leads to an economically efficient outcome, even in cases of negative externalities. Many economists would say that Pigovian taxes or creation of markets in the exte
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by othermaciej 14y ago
And that is why the concept of "derailing" is BS. The position of the speaker as member of an oppressed class means that you must accept their claims on faith. To question them in any way is "NOT ok". Adopting this policy means that no rati
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by othermaciej 14y ago
FYI, we already have bugs tracking this. It can't hurt to file dupes but it's also not required.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Speaking as one of the people who worked on adapting khtml into Wbkit, no, it was no comparable with Mozilla or IE at the time. It took a major effort to get to shippable performance, web comparability, standards compliance, and quality. Ch
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Safari does have a 'readability'-esque relayout engine - that's what the 'Reader' button does.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Yeah, achieving many of the scrolling effects they want often requires sites to do scrolling entirely "by hand", which degrades the quality of scrolling.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
First amendment law is pretty clear that there is no "heckler's veto" - the angry reaction of others does not make speech unprotected (except in the case of "fighting words" that are intended to and likely to cause imminent violence).
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by othermaciej 14y ago
A judge will only overrule a jury verdict for proven gross misconduct (mere incompetence or confusion is not enough) or because they judge that no reasonable jury could have decided as the jury did, given the evidence put forward. It does n
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by othermaciej 14y ago
OS X apps are not generally statically linked. They are dynamically linked. But Apple almost never breaks binary compatibility of the public APIs.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Her apparent point was that there is no way to design around it, which is false. The claim was not about obviousness or validity of the design patent, but rather that it's really dangerous because there is no way to design around it. Which
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Let me give you some examples from the current post that strike me as BS: "But, in contrast, here's the Apple design patent, D504889, about those rounded corners -- how do you code around it? A tablet in the shape of a parallelogram?" But t
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by othermaciej 14y ago
I saw the same factual coverage of post-trial jury interviews on, e.g., The Verge, without GrokLaw's implausible legal analysis that this would cause the verdict to be thrown out.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Does anyone see groklaw as a credible source any more? They used to have good reporting, but all I've seen since the Apple v Samsung verdict is spittle-flecked ranting.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
This reminds me why I hate comments. They tell you what someone once thought the code did. They don't actually tell you what the code does. You should always trust actual code and actual measurements above comments. The original author of t
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by othermaciej 14y ago
This code is actually not that specific to GC - this particular spinlock is used by our custom malloc implementation. It's just that our GC creates a different concurrency pattern than most other workloads for the allocator.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
I am the one who originally added this sleep call to WebKit, when we first imported TCMalloc to use as our custom allocator. It was indeed there for a reason, but that reason is not applicable to WebKit's allocation patterns. TCMalloc was d
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by othermaciej 14y ago
I am skeptical that this is actually a true story and not a parable. The alleged regular people consumer statements do not ring true.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Key phrase of your comment: > This means where an argument comes from has a lot of bearing on its validity. That's a more polite way of saying what I said.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
As of Safari 6 on Mountain Lion, scrolling is threaded and nonblocking on Mac, but it doesn't yet work for all pages. So yes, you can scroll ahead of what is painted. The most common exception is pages with fixed positioning.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
The concept of "privilege" as used in social justice speak is merely a tool used to discredit people who are in the wrong demographic/social/cultural categories without having to address the content of their arguments. And pointing this out

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