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by philbo 9y ago
Is it possible to develop CLJS without needing the JVM yet?
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Showing how poor performance affects user behaviour(philbooth.me)
1 points by philbo 9y ago|0 comments
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by philbo 9y ago
> There were hundreds of people against it. Engineering is not a democracy. The technical merits of an argument are more important than how popular it is with arbitrary commenters on GitHub. > Many voiced their refusals, they were als
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by philbo 9y ago
Please no. On the one hand you have a reasonable request, well-argued and politely-put by a respected engineer, who is long-standing contributor to the IETF and W3C. On the other hand you have a student who thinks 418 is fun.
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Syntax, Predicates, Idioms – What Really Affects Code Complexity? [pdf](cs.huji.ac.il)
2 points by philbo 9y ago|0 comments
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by philbo 9y ago
In geological terms, people have been predicting the end of the world for a very short time.
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by philbo 9y ago
Those numbers aren't precise because the experiment was not allowed to run to conclusion. From the post: "It's of note that these conversion rates, are likely lower than their eventual steady state rates because I ended up ac
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by philbo 9y ago
This is purely a personal preference but less visibility is precisely why I prefer to work remotely. I don't want to be visible, I don't want a promotion, I don't want a presence. I just want to crack on with fixing/impl
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by philbo 9y ago
As a JS programmer with some Clojure experience I can confirm that the JVM is absolutely the biggest turn-off for me personally. Lisp syntax, immutable data structures, laziness, all splendid. The build/runtime environment, not so much
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by philbo 9y ago
Invariably for questions like this, I think the answer is that you need to go out and see what else is available. Get your resumé up to date, send it to organisations that interest you, attend interviews. Just going through that process sho
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by philbo 9y ago
I would upvote this question except no, it isn't. Sorry, JavaScript, but you are the complicatedset !
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Microsoft Unveils Surface Laptop and Windows 10 S to Rival MacBook Pro(theguardian.com)
6 points by philbo 9y ago|1 comments
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by philbo 10y ago
I've read similar complaints to this before, yet when I look at the documentation for WebExtensions it seems like there's plenty of scope to do what's wanted. In this case, what is wrong with the history [1] and omnibox [2] A
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Planet-sized 'waves' spotted in the Sun's atmosphere(nature.com)
1 points by philbo 10y ago|0 comments
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by philbo 10y ago
> then you'll only select for people who have nothing better to do with their time 1-2 hours on a practical assignment vs 3 months cramming suggested by the parent comment. Which of those has nothing better to do with their time? &g
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How Firefox Sync keeps your secrets if TLS fails(medium.com)
2 points by philbo 10y ago|0 comments
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Snooze Tabs – Firefox Test Pilot(testpilot.firefox.com)
2 points by philbo 10y ago|0 comments
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Test Pilot No More 404s Graduation Report(testpilot.firefox.com)
1 points by philbo 10y ago|0 comments
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Test Pilot Tracking Protection Graduation Report(testpilot.firefox.com)
1 points by philbo 10y ago|0 comments
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An Overview of Mozilla’s Data Pipeline(robertovitillo.com)
3 points by philbo 10y ago|0 comments
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Three sites where NASA might retrieve its first Mars rock(nature.com)
2 points by philbo 10y ago|0 comments
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The web sucks if you have a slow connection(danluu.com)
1269 points by philbo 10y ago|598 comments
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Arctic 2.0: What happens after all the ice goes?(nature.com)
2 points by philbo 10y ago|0 comments
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Cosmic test backs 'quantum spookiness'(nature.com)
1 points by philbo 10y ago|0 comments
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Milky Way being pushed through space by cosmic dead zone, say scientists(theguardian.com)
3 points by philbo 10y ago|0 comments
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by philbo 10y ago
If it was me, I'd definitely leave. I can remember multiple occasions over the years where, in hindsight, I hung around somewhere longer than I should have. I can't remember a single time when I left somewhere too early. If you&#x
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by philbo 10y ago
I posted this because I just watched a documentary about the earth's core on the BBC and the stuff about the implications of the south-Atlantic anomaly fascinated me. It's a few years old but worth a watch if you have an hour to s
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South Atlantic Anomaly(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by philbo 10y ago|1 comments
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by philbo 10y ago
True. As ever, it makes sense to A/B test these things with your userbase. Their behaviour is more important to your own sites than any research or personal preference.
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by philbo 10y ago
It's worth balancing this against other research showing that users often don't like the experience provided by progressive image rendering: http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2014/09/17/progressive-

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