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by pkasting 10mo ago
Ex-Google here; there are many people both current and past-Google that feel the same way as the composite coworker in the linked post. I haven't escaped this mindset myself. I'm convinced there are a small number of places where
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by pkasting 1y ago
Went there, can definitely recommend
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by pkasting 1y ago
The resource constraints had nothing to do with intentionally not funding "support a competing browser properly", though, and everything to do with just not funding engineering and test work at all except to build Shiny Idea That
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by pkasting 1y ago
Former Chrome team member here. Nightingale's suspicions were plausible but incorrect. The primary cause of every one of these we looked into over the years (and there were indeed many) was teams not bothering to test against Firefox b
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by pkasting 1y ago
Musk did not found SolarCity; that was Peter and Lyndon Rive. I don't know what "found the Tesla as it exists now" means. Founding and leading are distinct. Musk has been a key leader at Tesla; he was not a founder of it or a
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by pkasting 1y ago
I disagree with both the premise and the conclusion. As far as I can determine, Musk is the sole founder of only two companies -- SpaceX and The Boring Company. The former is clearly valued at >$1B; the latter is not. He is also the cofo
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by pkasting 1y ago
> selection bias for lucky risk-takers explains a lot of bad leaders For example, it explains Elon Musk entirely.
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C++20 in Chromium (Talk Series)(youtube.com)
4 points by pkasting 2y ago|1 comments
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by pkasting 2y ago
A series of four one-hour talks given internally to Chrome engineers on the new features in C++20, what can and can't be used in Chromium, and why. While some of the content is Chromium-specific, the vast majority is suitable as genera
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by pkasting 2y ago
As a 19-year Chromium dev, this rings true and highlights a lot of reasons "why don't you just..." is rarely the start of a good suggestion.
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by pkasting 2y ago
Interesting. That's a lot more plausible. Reopened the bug.
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by pkasting 2y ago
A 1.4MB binary size cost is massive. I'm a chrome developer and our threshold for what you need to explain the cost/benefit of is 16KB. To me this just isn't worth the cost.
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by pkasting 2y ago
We vendors disagree about the relative value of different standards. Adopting at different times makes life harder on web devs, but it also seems like the only route forward. Do you want any one vendor to be able to force the others to impl
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by pkasting 2y ago
Igalia is a valued Chromium contributor, but your notion that they do a near-majority of the dev work is off by an order of magnitude.
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by pkasting 2y ago
First puzzle I got had four equally good solutions, none of which violated any of those.
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by pkasting 2y ago
One particularly pernicious outcome is that some ad blockers tout their rule set sizes as a feature, and users choose among blockers based on it, when if anything it is probably negatively correlated with blocker quality -- it's not ne
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by pkasting 2y ago
> Explain to me how uBlock Origin can realistically go from 100,000 to 500,000 dynamic rules down to 30k rules(only 5k of those can be dynamic) in the Lite version without losing the ability to actually block everything? I will take this
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by pkasting 2y ago
So many replies in this sub thread opining authoritatively. Share your source. Did you have access to the data on Chrome's user growth and which marketing campaigns were the sources of which users? From my perspective, all of you are s
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by pkasting 2y ago
I hope hope hope the SchismTracker folks take a hard look through this!
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by pkasting 3y ago
Sorry
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by pkasting 3y ago
I think it's more a case of Jevons Paradox. I work on Chrome, and many of the things we've introduced have been out of a genuine desire to make some task easier or solve some problem people had. But when you make it easier to do t
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by pkasting 3y ago
Do note that the entire article is written in a humorous tone. I don't think the author is trying to take this deadly seriously.
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by pkasting 3y ago
Titus Winters is actually the person who named this "Hyrum's Law" and popularized it as such.
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by pkasting 3y ago
This may be because some people are assuming this is a rules-driven culture and some are assuming it's a principle-driven culture. (In real world examples we could also have a power-driven culture.) Understanding that a difference exis
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by pkasting 3y ago
Have you done benchmarks against other competitors? I ask because twenty years ago I used to work for Green Hills' compiler team, and we were very proud of our optimizer at the time (versus both gcc and wind river). That said, I worked
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by pkasting 3y ago
Hmm. The blink dirs seem to have a very large number of security issues relevant too, despite oilpan. Which is what we'd expect, honestly; oilpan does not solve all uaf problems, uafs are not all (or even the majority of) security prob
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by pkasting 3y ago
I don't know what you're referring to with the first two. On the third, I've been involved in some autoplay discussions and there's never been any discussion of preferencing Google or any other website; there's been
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by pkasting 3y ago
Having been in the room on a number of these occasions, a don't think this description is remotely accurate.
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by pkasting 3y ago
Quite so. And my point is not that people should somehow give Google a pass; it is that in their focus on maligning our motives, people not only fail to level serious criticisms of the consequences of our actions, but make it less likely an
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by pkasting 3y ago
As a current Googler of approximately the same tenure, I can't speak to the comments on Jeanine Banks (never met her), but I agree with every other word of this. It's frustrating to continue to see both the level of genuinely well

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