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by tumult 17y ago
The Nexus One (and Droid) are high enough resolution that I wonder if they benefit from any subpixel tricks. I definitely don't see any major kerning problems on my Nexus One. With hinting on (including the patented/smart auto-hinting) in X
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by tumult 17y ago
What reasons do print, TV or radio news have to cover this? I can't think of any. It takes more than a single sound bite to explain what ACTA is, and there are plenty of easier and well-tested ways of getting people worked up when consuming
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by tumult 17y ago
I guess the BBC is unaware of the 50 cent party. The people expressing anger at Google are paid by the government to do so.
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by tumult 17y ago
"Some other guy who other people say is right said something similar. Here is a link to a talk he once did."
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by tumult 17y ago
Maybe he wanted to. If that was his goal, I think he failed. Scheme: First-class functions, tail-call elimination, macros, hygienic macros, write and parse the AST directly. JavaScript: First-class functions.
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by tumult 17y ago
It's not entirely our fault, the language was designed to work like one thing (scheme-like), but look like another (c-like). The baseless assertion rears its head again. People keep repeating this, and it's not true. JavaScript is not Sch
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by tumult 17y ago
Your anti-Google rage is absurd and also very visible in previous comments you've made in other threads.
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by tumult 17y ago
I thought TCP, IP, DNS and some others ruled the internet. Must have been mistaken.
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by tumult 17y ago
This is just my personal opinion -- after TeX and real typesetting, typography on the web is so hideously ugly that when confronted with the prospect of a mostly-text website, a disheartened shrug and some basic HTML just to get the charact
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by tumult 17y ago
it's useful for the genius!
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by tumult 17y ago
It is. # cell phone subscribers by phone type is not mobile web users by phone type.
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by tumult 17y ago
"Hi Dad. You'll have to buy one of these http://images.apple.com/ipad/specs/images/usb_connectors_201... for the iPad, unless your camera has built-in uploading. Look on the box for a WiFi icon." "Hi mum. Plug your iPad into iTunes and cl
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by tumult 17y ago
Imagine the legislators running a distributed version-control system, exchanging diffs, pull requests, etc., with each contribution able to be logged and credited to an author. This whole thing is actually a merge of two branches in the hea
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by tumult 17y ago
Language Shootout, not Interpreter Shootout. You're playing directly into the Turing tarpit.
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by tumult 17y ago
V8 is implemented in C++, so should you count it as just a really bad C++ benchmark? The Lua benchmark uses features Lua can use. JavaScript does not have that feature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
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by tumult 17y ago
JavaScript has multiple critical blunders in its specification that offer no advantage to the programmer, but are very difficult to optimize.
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by tumult 17y ago
I was going to copy and paste some choice dumb quotes from this, but apparently I'm not allowed to select text or something on NYT, since they use JS to remove my selection as soon as I make it. I added nytimes.com to my HN filter. Sorry if
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by tumult 17y ago
No speed loss in Chrome/Chromium, Firefox or Safari. Fast as ever.
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by tumult 17y ago
Partially coherent rant laden with unnecessary expletives and irrelevant tangents. There are many good arguments against using an Apple product as a platform; none were covered here. The article could be summarized to "I bought an iPhone wi
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by tumult 17y ago
Look again -- V8 is faster than the regular Lua interpreter, not the Lua JIT, which is much faster than V8.
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by tumult 17y ago
The people who claim JavaScript is fast because of V8 have probably never used a fast language and platform in a situation where speed is important. V8 is fast compared to other JavaScript engines. It's very slow compared to most other lang
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by tumult 17y ago
Eich's original LiveScript. We have something else, JavaScript. It does not have sexprs. It doesn't have continuations. It doesn't have tail call optimization. It has mutable array operations, but immutable string operations (got it backwar
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by tumult 17y ago
JavaScript programmers who have never used Scheme frequently repeat this patently false claim. Scheme has nothing in common with JavaScript other than that JavaScript has first-class functions.
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by tumult 17y ago
When an apology that admits you made a mistake cannot be used as evidence against you in a lawsuit.
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by tumult 17y ago
Yes. Also, if your livelihood comes from the judicial system, it's in your best interest to keep it active.
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by tumult 17y ago
Not at the time. I remember people chuckling aloud the first time they saw it. "Hah! Clever!" Steve Jobs even repeats it multiple times in the original iPhone keynote to demonstrate. I still don't think they should have a patent for it.
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by tumult 17y ago
How is this relevant?
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by tumult 17y ago
Right, I think it is sloppy of a hospital to allow people to walk in and cause that kind of damage. I think not allowing outsiders into the ICU could be a good move for many.
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by tumult 17y ago
Yep. In general, we too often use our powerful weapons with disregard, and it's coming back to bite us in the ass.
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by tumult 17y ago
I know someone who contracted MRSA after randomly scraping his knee. Almost killed him, and it came out of nowhere. Some hospitals have MRSA fatality rates over 20%. Scary as shit! Antibiotics abuse has screwed us, I guess, along with the s

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