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by rictic 10y ago
There is a middle ground between "all bugs are known on the black market" and "no bugs are known only on the black market."
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by rictic 10y ago
This is especially true when you're going to be serving your code over the web. It's very easy when using npm to accidentally end up shipping a lot of duplicate code. That alone has me super excited about Yarn, before even getti
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by rictic 10y ago
Along the same lines as worrying about someone redefining `Array.isArray`, someone could compile your Haskell with its own prelude, including their own definition for `Int`. There's a point at which the pursuit of purity becomes the pu
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by rictic 10y ago
This subject is one of my (very amateur) interests so I'd be happy to, but I don't think I understand our point of disagreement. Would you mind expanding on it or rephrasing it? Is it the difference between belief in one's ow
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by rictic 10y ago
My source is Steven Pinker's Better Angels of our Nature. A few of the sources he highlights on the subject: 1] War of Attrition game: Maynard Smith, 1982, 1988; see also Dawkins, 1976/1989. 2] Loss aversion: Kahneman & Rensho
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by rictic 10y ago
Doing some quick searches suggests that this is an emissions-related issue.
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by rictic 10y ago
Yep. Very similar patterns show up in the decision making and politics that drive the deadliest wars as well. Apparently it is very easy for both sides to convince themselves that they are made of tougher stuff than their enemies and that i
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by rictic 10y ago
I haven't looked into the code yet, but the service worker has almost complete control over network requests and caching. It can calculate the correct response for a url (e.g. based on this delta encoding system), cache it, and use it
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by rictic 10y ago
A number of the core jquery innovations have been implemented in the browser. document.querySelector is the clearest example I think. The big push in browser standards is the Extensible Web Manifesto[1]. The idea being that we should first
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by rictic 10y ago
I think you're over-romanticizing the problem. I won't touch the qualia aspect, but everything necessary to flawlessly pretend to understand the color green, the sound of a dog's bark, or the experience of hearing a sonic b
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by rictic 10y ago
Speculating but some new features are security features, like support for additional CSP directives, cipher suites, that sort of thing.
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by rictic 10y ago
Baseless speculation: trademarks must be defended or you lose them. This company trademarked a hashtag and got legal advice that they must at least make a visible effort to control the term. Kleenex e.g. must fight the conception that their
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by rictic 10y ago
* support for .bit domains out of the box is very very cool * is it based on Firefox? Chromium? * emphasizing the number of bits in your encryption can be the opposite of reassuring. is this encryption on the wire or of data at rest? what a
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by rictic 10y ago
I'm not certain that there were (to a modern eye) a high standard of human rights for anyone. Treatment of slaves and the lack of women's rights are well known examples, but there are a large number of historical practices that pa
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by rictic 10y ago
Eyeballing the stats at http://caniuse.com/#search=http2 I think it's more like 85% of clients support it.
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by rictic 10y ago
How do you square the narrative "units in these high rises would be bought out by investors and so no one would get to rent them" with "these high rises would attract too many people and too much traffic to the neighborhood&q
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by rictic 10y ago
I think that was tongue in cheek. There are related ideas though, like doing aggressive GC of tabs which are invisible. Browsers are doing better and better jobs of prioritizing work based on how it will affect user perceptions of performan
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by rictic 10y ago
If you've got a philosophy that doesn't involve biting any counterintuitive bullets, please share.
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by rictic 10y ago
There's a lot of features that Chrome on Android supports but that can't be added to Chrome on iOS because of Apple's policies. Important features, like fully offline-capable webapps.
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by rictic 10y ago
Anecdata: My partner can't watch 3d movies comfortably. Even the new, top of the line laser imax theater was unpleasant for him. He'll spend an hour and a half playing Job Simulator without even noticing the time pass, and with no
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by rictic 10y ago
An author can use print stylesheets to make cmd-P work as expected. Try it out in google docs for example.
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by rictic 10y ago
Manipulation and utility functions like Object.keys, Object.values, Object.entries, Array.isArray, Array.prototype.includes, Sets, Maps, and many more? Because those and more are actual accepted additions to Javascript over the past several
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by rictic 10y ago
(This is a good question, but as asked it's so broad that it's akin to asking "What kinds of things does P2P work for?" and we're still discovering more answers to it every year.)
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by rictic 10y ago
I can second that. I don't know of anyone[1] who's gotten VR sickness from a room scale Vive game. Only doing teleportation and 1:1 tracked motion has solved the nausea problem for essentially everyone. [1] Including my partner wh
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by rictic 10y ago
In 2015, Flash had the largest number of CVEs of all web technologies: https://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-products.php?year=2015
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by rictic 10y ago
(For one year, then the top sites whitelist will be removed)
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by rictic 10y ago
From a historical perspective there's been shockingly little conquest in the past 50 years. Almost all redrawing of borders have been a result of internal struggles, and only a tiny amount of soil has changed hands as a result of invad
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by rictic 10y ago
The web components polyfills have support down to IE 10: https://github.com/webcomponents/webcomponentsjs
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by rictic 10y ago
Interesting blog post on the subject: https://blog.jaibot.com/foes-without-faces/
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by rictic 10y ago
It looks like there may be better options for experimenting without the risk of getting locked in. I believe that Chrome is trying something along these lines: https://infrequently.org/2015/08/doing-science-on-the-

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