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by rictic 11y ago
Our standards were higher in the past? [citation needed] There's a trade off between development cost, performance, functionality, and correctness. Writing a filesystem with reasonable performance and that never crashes and never does
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by rictic 11y ago
Do you see sites asking for notification permission that often? For me it's very rare, and >75% of the time that a site asks for that permission I want to grant it.
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by rictic 11y ago
Of those I've only played Threes. I do not question your self report, but it's likely that there's a big difference in how we enjoy games, because for me there's an immense chasm between the quality and the experience of
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by rictic 11y ago
Service worker supports notifications: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notif... The primary use cases for service workers today are robust offline support and notifications. More g
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by rictic 11y ago
There's mods, like marathon, which add additional levels of complexity and make ordinary things more expensive so that it slows the game down some. There is a space-based end game that's planned by the developers. And there's
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by rictic 11y ago
Strong agreement that it wasn't purely about computational power, and that there were significant software advances. I just want to make the point that hardware has advanced considerably as well.
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by rictic 11y ago
My understanding is that it is much more expensive for AlphaGo to evaluate a position than it was for Deep Blue. I'm not certain, but I would be surprised if AlphaGo did not need significantly more computation than Deep Blue. edit: som
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by rictic 11y ago
According to caniuse, 12% of web users in the US are on IE 11, which doesn't support for-of.
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by rictic 11y ago
Because your brain is going to lead you into thinking that your ingroup are the smart minority and your outgroups and people that you don't understand are the simple minded majority.
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by rictic 11y ago
The latter.
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by rictic 11y ago
Yep. The hedonic treadmill* is real. There are things worth paying for, and there are things whose net effect is only to make it more expensive for you to be happy. It's very much worth it to be deliberate in what luxuries you allow in
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by rictic 11y ago
A bunch of work since 2013 has been in filling out the foundations of the web platform, so that as many new features as possible can be added by web devs first, and standards committees afterwards if necessary. This initiative is called the
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by rictic 11y ago
Google Play Music and Youtube Gaming are two of the larger ones.
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by rictic 11y ago
IPFS solves this problem far better. It marries content addressing, DHT+bittorrent-style distribution, and public key cryptography. In the low level ipfs namespace content is identified with its hash. Content may be either a file or a direc
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by rictic 11y ago
IPFS solves all of these problems: https://ipfs.io/ Data only vanishes from IPFS when no one cares about it enough to host it, rather than vanishing when the original poster stops caring.
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by rictic 11y ago
This is really cool. I'd love to see a system whereby pure computation modules were also supported in the browser via web assembly.
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by rictic 11y ago
That's a false dilemma. It would be wise to defend against every existential threat in proportion to its likelihood. The threat of nuclear war is well known, and significant resources are spent on reducing its likelihood. Until very re
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by rictic 11y ago
The newest version was actually open sourced earlier this year: http://www.grpc.io/
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by rictic 11y ago
Microsoft has publicly announced that they're implementing Shadow Dom for Edge. Chrome is implementing Shadow Dom v1 now, an experimental version is in Canary I believe. The currently shipping version has a different model for distribu
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by rictic 11y ago
Please file vulcanize bugs or give feedback here on what didn't work for you. Every componentization system will require concatting to get good performance on today's web (http2 push is close but quite here yet).
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by rictic 11y ago
This is true. But custom elements are quite easy to polyfill, especially compared to shadow dom.
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by rictic 11y ago
The wealthy will, in effect, receive nothing, as their taxes will increase more than they will receive from UBI. Two of the strongest arguments for UBI are: 1) we waste a lot of money administering welfare services. UBI is designed to be
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by rictic 11y ago
Edge and Firefox are getting native shadow dom too!
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by rictic 11y ago
Custom elements can have their own JS apis! They're not just for style. Check it: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webcomponents/custome...
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by rictic 11y ago
One common factor between the web and win32 is backwards compatibility. Committing to backcompat is awesome and important, but it does mean that every bad idea that gets wide use must be supported for a very long time.
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by rictic 11y ago
I appreciate any project that makes its strengths and weaknesses very clear and documents its consistency semantics. Reading around[1], it looks like close-to-open consistency means that all writes must be flushed before the close() call re
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by rictic 11y ago
To expand on this, custom elements are supported in Chrome and Firefox (behind a flag in FF at the moment), and there has been public support from both Webkit and Edge, as well as high quality, high performance polyfills.
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by rictic 11y ago
Yep! One thing to note, the header is likely to change at some point from X-Associated-Content to the emerging link preload standard (in-progress spec: https://w3c.github.io/preload/ )
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by rictic 11y ago
IMO this is the future: https://w3c.github.io/presentation-api/
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by rictic 11y ago
Poor form to base such scathing criticism on the author's admission of weak thinking as a youth. Speaking of probabilities, I would bet at 6:1 odds that the author would find nothing new in your comments.

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