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by ridiculous_fish 14y ago
"So why bother with a native client? What’s in it for the user?" Well, if there were nothing in it for the user, no users would be complaining, and we wouldn't be having this conversation in the first place. The author is certainly right t
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by ridiculous_fish 14y ago
As a huge fan of many big-budget TV shows and movies, I am not inclined to gloat about the death of the content industry until there's a viable replacement business model. It's easy to criticize the content industry for their abusive practi
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by ridiculous_fish 14y ago
As a point of reference, my employer provides 2x my salary in life insurance for free, and I can double it to 4x for $6.80 a month. It's a nice benefit, but it's on the same extravagance level as providing free coffee.
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by ridiculous_fish 14y ago
I'm guessing that more accidents happen in intersections than on the highway. My understanding is that Google's self-driving cars are currently limited to highways and known-course driving. I don't think it's going to do a very good job dri
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by ridiculous_fish 14y ago
Hi, ridi here! This bug is actually fixed with my changes (see the release notes at http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/release_notes.html ). The maximum history length is now 250k unique items, with an LRU discard policy. A full history would
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by ridiculous_fish 14y ago
Howdy, author here. fish doesn't have aliases, only functions. 'alias' is itself a function, which looks like it has a bug. I filed https://github.com/ridiculousfish/fishfish/issues/48 to track this. (The usual way a fish user would add t
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by ridiculous_fish 14y ago
Regarding the food comparison: Coca Cola is not behaving unethically by protecting their secret recipe. They have a responsibility to share allergen and nutritional information, but they have no obligation to provide sufficient information
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by ridiculous_fish 15y ago
You speak of the "installation barrier" as if it's something insurmountable. But why should it be? A native app zero-install mechanism seems more plausible to me than wide adoption of a hypothetical geolocating proximity web. The reason is
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by ridiculous_fish 15y ago
The rise of JavaScript mirrors somewhat the rise of C. Both C and JavaScript were initially tied to a particular platform (Unix and web browsers, respectively), both languages rose to prominence because of the dominance of their platform, a
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by ridiculous_fish 15y ago
Leonard Suskind gives a nice and accessible Stanford lecture based on this line of attack at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZDy_Dccv4s#t=27m12
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by ridiculous_fish 15y ago
True. There's a Laffer Curve of Search with a revenue-optimizing level of suck somewhere between 0% and 100%.
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by ridiculous_fish 15y ago
It may be that the web has rotted in the way described, so that it takes longer for users to find what they want. But I would argue this dynamic actually benefits Google: searching takes longer, so users spend more time using Google's servi
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by ridiculous_fish 15y ago
What the factorial example proves is that the set of recursive functions that can run in constant space is larger than just tail-recursive functions. You're right to say that TCO guarantees increase the expressiveness of a language. If we c
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by ridiculous_fish 15y ago
Actually I think this is a glibc/BSD difference. You're right that any pure function would be hoisted in the same way, but in fact strlen() is not marked pure in my OS X header (which looks to be the same as in FreeBSD). Compiling with -fno
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by ridiculous_fish 15y ago
Behavior 2 allows apps to appear to relaunch more quickly (since they were never exited).
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by ridiculous_fish 16y ago
That's a good suggestion. Please feel free to add any requested features or bugs you find to the wiki page at http://ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/docs/wiki/Bugs/Bugs . Thanks!
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by ridiculous_fish 16y ago
Hi, I'm the author. Thanks for all the kind words! I'm very actively developing Hex Fiend, which is nearing a new release. Some major new features are bookmarks, support for text encodings (including multibyte, though sadly not variable wi